Evening star., 1915-05-27

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player. decries the age of the pinch
specialist When I ran a ball club
grooved he the other day, the nine
men we started the game with were
expected to be good in pinch"
Wyckoff of the Athletics made Sam
Crawford strike out three times in sue
cession the other day. The assertion
that no other pitcher has done this
is likely to pass unehallenged for two
reasons. One is that the mania for rec
ords probably doesn't take in that de-
tail; the other is Crawford's batting
ability.
Judging from standings. Connie Mack
when he started in to rebuild the Ath-
letic machine should have reversed
the procedure, kept Collins and sold
| the rest of his team to Chicago.
The presence in the base ball arena
Of Clarence Rowland, Roger Bresna-
han, BIZ Donovan, Lee Magee and Pat
Moran reminds us that first year man
ayers have fitted in and out of first
place this season with considerable
tenacity and frequency.
| The release of Bill Rodgers by Cleve-
! land leaves Dave Bancroft the only one
| of that reputed-to-be great outfield OF
| the Portland Coast League team re-
] manning in the majors. Rodgers hit
well enough with the Indians, but ii
=! was discovered finally that he was
| troubled with a weak arm. was slow on
| the bases and helpless against certain
| kinds of pitching. These things, one
| might suppose could be discovered by
| highly paid scout, but IT seems not
| Sid Mercer has dug up the fact that
] Shortstop OMara of the Brooklyn Ma
tionals got so mad at Manager Wilbert
Robinson because the latter benched
| him that little OMara threatened to
chastise Uncle Wilbert. When Wilbert
was asked about it he said: 'Oh. ] guess
there is nothing to It, The boy is
crazy to win and ! don't pay any atten-
| tion to remarks made upon the bench
anyhow. Sull. II he hit me, and heard
| about 1t. ] suppose I would be vexed.'
/ Billy Reidy. former pitcher for the
Brooklyn Nationals and the St Louis
\ Americans. and later player and man
| ager in the Coast League, is reported
! as near death and in need at his home
~ Cleveland Friends have attempted
/ to interest players who once knew
Reidy in a plan to raise fund to send
| him to hospital where he may be
comfortable until the end comes.
In my mind there are really two
parts to a ball game" says Herzog
| There is the first half and the second
| half. and they must be played differ
emily Play for all the runs you can gel
| In the first five innings A manager doe.
nor how his pitching will hold up. The
| chance taking, therefore, and all tho
run producing efforts Of a club should
he exerted in the first five innings Il
the game Is close and pitching is o
| very good order II is best to play fo
that one run and every scientifi,
! means of getting II. One run yer!
often is big thing near the end OF 1
game and not so much value is place.
on ii at the start"
A new record for an extra -innint
game was made in Cuba Sunday. Ma.
8. in the opening of the Amateur Ma
tional League, when the Athletics AM
Progresso teams played twenty innings
the score being TO in favor of tn
Progresses. The previous long-gam
record in Cuba was eighteen innings
made by the Havana and Almendare
professional teams. An odd feature o
the game was that the Athletics score
seven runs in the first two innings. onl
to be tied In the ninth and fnall
beaten out. NORM started the game 10
the Athletics, was batted from the bo
and youngster named Coma succeede
him and held his opponents runless 10
! eighteen innings