The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-22
WHO WILL STICK?
Too Many Good Pitchers on the
Savage Team.
No One Knows Who Are the
Best Five.

Who are going to be the permanent
pitchers on the Savage team this sea-
son? Who are going to stick and who
are going to slide?
With the opening game less than "a
hours away and with nine candidates
for the box rubber position, local fans
are finding this the sphinx question or
the hour.
About the biggest trouble the aver
age team has is that of getting SUI
ficient number of good twirlers, and 1t
is a rare case when a manager mas
that he has about twice as many
mound mel as he can use, and that
all of them are almost too good TO
let go.
However, this seems to be the pre-
dicament of the local team, and II
Jimmy Jackson is as much up in the
air as most of the fans and WOuld-be
critics are, then about the only way
he can reach a decision is to shut his
eyes and draw straws, making the
short straw represent the ones he Will
keep and the long the ones he will
tell to move on.
No Dope Out.
Jimmy is not saying anything about
what he intends to do just yet, but he
admits that all of his pitchers are
promising men. OF the nine, three are
lefthanders and six righthanders. The
lefthandprs are Clunn, Cam and
Dashner CIunn is in midSeaSon form
and is going so good that there is a
likelihood of him being called upon
to pitch in tomorrows game. Cam
has found his control and this means
THAI he is hard to beat. 1t has been
admitted all along that Cam has as
much stuff as any lefthander needs,
and it was figured that if he could
work up a good control he would have
a place cinched. DaShner is well
known to the fans and his highly eff
ficient spit ball makes him tormid-
able man.
Then, in the right hand column are
Wideman, Sanford, Higgins, Ridge
way, Nelson and Grover Wideman
and Higgins are both youngsters, but
Wideman has the art of making them
break and his control is such that
he can split the middle of the plate
Higgins has as much smoke as Grow
er, and Grover is conceded to be the
smoke pitcher of the league.
Nelson in Form.
Nelson has been fooling everything
that faced him for the past two weeks
and has been crying for work. He
is the only man who has pitched a
full nine innings in a regular game,
and his last inning was as good as his
first Sanford is also on his toes every
time he is called upon, and what
Ridgeway can do is we'll known.
OF the nine mentioned above, only
five can be kept. OF course Jackson
will keep five who, in his Judgment,
show the best promise, but it is al
most like getting nine new dollars
from the mint and choosing the best
five in the lot.
When asked this morning whom he
would work tomorrow, Jackson said
he did not know. And furthermore,
the players don't seem to know. And
worst of all, the fans who have
watched them closely and who usually
claim to know everything about the
team that is to be known admit that
they can't dope out what pitchers
ought to be used, which of them
should be retained and which turned
loose.
Leave Tonight.
Some time tonight, before the hour
CT 12, the team will leave for Wichita,
and tomorrow afternoon the big race
will start. Wednesday afternoon the
players posed for their action mugs,
held a stiff practice and then wound
up with n shadow exhibition.
This afternoon the players put on
the new uniforms and wore them in
practice just to get them used to the
field and to get the players used to
them.
The lineup for tomorrow's game will
be: Tallion, II; Cochran, 3b; Jackson,