Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-08-01
MAMAUX IS The Big PIRATE
Sandlot Hurler with Wealthy Pa
Has Them Ali Guessing.
BUT HoNUs Is STILL KING
ny FRANK @. MENK E.


ny FRANK c. MENKE.
NEW YORK. July 3i.-The big gun"
OF the battleship Pirate is Al Mamaux.
The hurler whose volleys have caused
havoc In the ranks OF the Pittsburgh
foes didn't cost Barnegat a jitney
Mamauxs papa is quite wealthy and
Albert played ball on the sand lots-or
SCOT lots--of Pittsburgh just because he
liked the game. He got to be quite a
star among the amateurs and used to get
his name and picture in the paper quite
often.
One day Barnegat. who reads the pa
pers read about Albert and his labors.
Seek him out and hook him to a con-
tract" ordered Barnegat OF one Of his
scouts.
Albert was duly hooked. Money was
no object to him. What induced him to
sign was the assurance OF the scout that
IL Albert accomplished much in the big
leagues he would get his name ana pic
ture in many papers.
Likes 20 See HIS Picture.
One thing that Albert loves TO look at
il his own likeness In the news organs.
And he loves to hear those organs peal
forth his name. So Albert signed.
At the present writing the newspapers
are calling the 20-year-old Al Mamaux
the second Christy Mathewson.' while
the base ballers who know AL quite In
timately refer to him as the most con-
ceited man In base ball"
Mamaux ranks near the top among the
National league pitchers, despite the fact
that the team averages OF the Pirate is
only around the 800 mark
Grows BETTER with Age.
The Grand Old Ruln"-Honus Wagner
reminds many folks of wine. The grape
Juice grows better with age-and Wag-
ner seems TO be doing likewise.
Honus isn't oloutins as many safeties
as he did in the old days, but ne Is hit
ting with more telling effect this year
than ever before IN his long and honor
able career.
In other years Honus used 10 swat EN-
out ever and anon. THIS year he saves
up his swats until the swat means a run.
And then the run" lands the ball into the
farthest corner OF the lot,
Although the wonderful German is not
as fleet as OF yorc, yet he SEEMS to cover
shortstops In the game today.
Times without number. the Pirate
veteran has cut off hits this year A
dozen times at least he has made SEEM
ingly. impossible stops and throws from
difficult positions.
Wagner Is over forty. He's far beyond
his prime. lie has passed the border
line between baso bah youth and base
ball age, yet he ranks today as he has
ranked for nearly twenty years-one OF
the greatest ball players in the game.
After Thousand strilSeOuts.
Grover Alexander hopes TO achieve his
l.OOOth strikeout this season. The Philies
phenom accumulated 7so strikeouts up
70 the close Of the 1914 season.
Il expect 10 make Il i.OOD before the
1915 season ends, he told hts teammates
in the spring
And It looks as n Alexander the Great
viii make good.
In his first twenty-five games this
year Alex famed ils sRtsmen. That's an
average Of nearly seven strikeouts pei
game. The work ot~Alexander In his first
twenty-five garaes brought hts totaI
strikeouts 20 953. leaving him only sew
enty-seven 20 go before the season closes
Alexander ought 10 work at least eight
, cen games more. II he averaged only
, five fannings per game IL would put him
well over the loo mark.