The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-24
NEW PITCHERS EVEN
UP WITH VETERANS
Dell Of Dodgers a Sensation.
as Are Faber, Morton and
BOland in A. l..
COMPARISON OF RECORDS
~ WILLIAM n. HANNA.

ny WILLIAM n. HANNA.
Young pitchers in the ma jor leagues
whose work has been as strikingly good.
measured by victories and defeats, as
pitchers Of the seasoned. veteran class
are as numerous rs those of the latter
class. The young. IL not entirely new.
nioundmen have not suffered any so
far from not having the experience OF
their elders. They will not OF course
be the equals Of their elders until they
have stood the stern test of time. but
young pitchers OF the present year who
have started promisingly are Faber OF
the White SoN. who is young If not new
Boland of the Dc,roits. Dell of the
Brocklyns and Morton Of the Clevelands.
Another newcomer who is going nicely
n as II he would be of lasting big
league callbre ~ stroud OF the Giants,
but as yet he hasn't made any such
record as the others.
Older pitchers who have been the most
successful IN running up victories and
Keeping the reverses scattered and few
are Alexander. Dauss and Fisher. Two
other veterans who have pitched a good
deal more effective han ineffective base
ball. hut VINO because OF slim hitting be-
nina them or poor support-the breaks.
to use a much overdone word-have not
doomed up prominently among the win
ners are Walter Johnson and Jef Tes-
reau. These two, win or lose. are among
the best Of the year. Incidentally the
Giants pitching for the last two weeks
has been as God as any club could
reasonably ask for.
Faber VI the White Sox has outdone
all the others In one respect. He has
beaten six different teams. This IL a
wider range of victims than any of
the others has found. He has put the
Browns. clevelands, Detroits. Washing
tons, Athletics and Red SoX 90 the mat.
everybody except the Yankees. whom
the White Sox haven't met Yet. He was
beaten. = to /, by Detroit. and since then
has won seven traight His most no.
table success was the seventeen min
game In which he relieved Russell in
the eighth inning with the score a tie.
That was a hard game TO pitch. Most
Of those Faber has been in haven, been
hard. His team has won by one sided
scores and he has been supported By
strong hitting. The pitcher who beat
Faber was Boland. the meteoric young
ster OF the Detroits. Boland has con-
quered Chicago. Cleveland and 81. Louis.
but lately has been aking the small end.
First class and clean cut work has at
tended the pitching OF young Guy Morton
OF the Clovelands. Nobody's twtrling
stands ~ more impressively than Nor
tons. He has toppled -. Louis, Detroit.
Chicago and Philadelphia. Winning
scores OF his have been . to q. , TO /.
|, . to I. ] 20 o and 3 to o. Four of those
!, signify good pitching IN hard. close
games and sparse hitting by opponents.
Morton. the figures tell. Is hard to score
} on. and is hard to think of a better
qualification for a pitcher. One OF his
: TWO defeats was IN the thirteen inning
5 game with the Red SoX. and then he was
not scored on until the thirteenth.
Dauss Of the Detroits. who won SIX
> straight before McHai. and the other
Yankees came along and fe,led him.
has had liberal scoring and strong hit
ting as supporting factors In winning
his games. He has been In nine games.
IN which Dctroit's run and hit returns
were respectively II and 20. Contrast
those figures with those made In Walter
Johnson's games The WASHINGTON
wizard also has been In nine games.
and IN those nine his club has produced
for him the a~ttenuated total OF % runs
i, and =" h'ts. Dauss mas outdone John
son AZ = winner. although In the for
mer's games 80 runs have been made
j., by opponents, to 20 against the Wash
, inGtons IN Juhrson's g. mes. Never
thc'ess pnuss is a fine pitcher He
wins, and that's the main thing. II he
can win without having to go the l,mi;
- much the better for him
Fisher Of the Yankees, beat the Wash.
y ingto"s and Athletics twice ea'h and
. the Red SoN and Clevellnds before ths
Browns brought him back among tbs
mor'als. Oddly enough, the two de
9 feats which have come TO the phillies
y master Of the mound. Grover Alexander
o were inflicted by recruit p!trhers
q stroud OF the Giants vas one, Dale II
q the Reds the other. The sterling
/ Quaker has won from such high grade
opponents as M~athewso0. Rudolph, Nj,
u cuillap and poak The clubs he ms
! beaten are New York. Boston. PITTS
burg and 81 Louis He didn't pitch
against the Brooklvns and he hasn't met
Q tho tubs.
> The work of Mr. Whlzser Dell Of ,hs
q. R~rooklyus is worth noticing, Mr.. Del
l.. is another re ruit against whom an.
tagon!sts have found scoring a feat AT
l ;ended with difficulties. with Dell o.
the heetling crag the home plate is .
long way of for the other side. TAX,
his last six games. Runs for oppo
nents were as follows 3. New YORK
I, Philadelphia ;, Boston o. Ph!la
delphia l, Cincinnati; 3, ST, Louis
Thirteen runs. or . l-6 TO n game
Pretty nice work,
There was so much rain and cold
conditions under which clubs couldn''
show their best form. last week tha'
] the fluctuations in standings weren''
!, nearly as good an indication of wha'
each club was doing az would have beer
the Ease with the schedule fully carried
out. For instance the Giants. Brook
lyns, Reds and Pirates In the Nationa
League pla aged only three games each
whereas the Cubs and Braves playet
five each. In the American League tn.
Washing'ons and Clovelands p'ayet
only thee ea"h and the White SO,
played six.
There easily could have been dlfferen
standings and percentages with a les
disrupted schedule, although the Chicag,
clubs wadc the most Of their chanres
The Whit" SuX won five games am
lost one, the cubs won -four and los
enc. and, by way OF n notable coinci
a dencc, they climbed to first place 81
!! the same day, In New York and Brook
iyn the cubs were IN bad shape tempo
rarily because Of erratic pitching The,
appeared TO have greater capabll'tie
/, for the future, more strength In m
rough, than any other y, l., club tina
has visited here this season except tn