Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-10-06
.MAYER LOOMING UP BIC
DAMON RUNYON CALLS
ATTENTION TO PITCHER
Believes That }. ErSkinc Mny Cause
BOSTON Rcd SoN Trouble
in SERIES.
ny DAMON RlxYoN.

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BOSTON Rcd 81, Trouble
in series.
Try DAMON RUNNoN.
NEW YORK, October 5.-ln 1914. J.
Erskine Mayer won twonty-one games
and los, nineteen for sixth place club
over in Philadelphia. This season. up
to the last accounting. he has won
nineteen and lost fifteen pas,imca for
the championship OUTFIT led ny Pa,
rrNIoran.
4 Toss on, ! Erskinc's overland work
and where would philadclphia's pen
naut be?
l, is difficult TO see how Tho experts
can overlook J. Erskine in the ante
morton statements True, the loud
cries over the exploits Of =. cleveland
Alexander have drowr,cd out nearly all
other sourd connected with the rhila-
deiphia club. but even after they get
through talking about Grover YOU
rarely hear the name III "lrksomc"
Mayer. They mention George Chal-
lncrs. he Harlem hurricane ahead Of
Maycr ana cvou Epna Joptha RrNey.
the weE-known college cry, has been
noticed before ErSfinc.
Tic Way Cause Trouble.
M"yer has no! been been soins Wen ro 81
t.
low the rhils, but tho last time the
club WAS in Brooklyn he seemed 20 he
all right again. and a pitcher with his
record is not to he despisod in bear.
fight Wild Bill Donovan. manager of
the Yanks. made the statemen: some
DAYS ago that he would not be sur
did not cause the Red SoX a lot of
trouble. basing his assertion on the
showing that Jack WARRIOR used to
make against the Boston club.
loN CT \
oitchinC STYLES. but Mayer has much
more stuff" on the ball than Jack.
He is stronger physically and younger.
He worked in fortyeight games in
1914 and In forty lone this year. up 10
he last edition Of the records. George
chalmers has been making n strong
finish, hut George had none of Mayors
effectiveness carly in tho season;
when Ersl<ine and .Alexandcr carried
the club along.
Good lief, chambers bother tho Rcd
of eood left-handcrs. He has tw," left
handlers all right. but neither has as
vet produced records that qualify him
for the good class
Rixcy Swccpcr-Ip
F.rha Jcptha RiNey. the elongated
from an educational institution
couple years ago by Charley Risler,
the National League umpire. is cred
tied with eleven victories and eleven
defeats in the averages which are be
fore US. He figured in twcntY-niu"
games in this past season In l"li
he was out twcnty-tour times ana pro
duccd lust two wins against eleven
defeats showing that he was used
chiefly as a swecper-up of pastimes.
lie has never stood out 10 any cX-
tent in point OF ability among the left
handlers of tho National League. Now
and then he would have good day,
but generally he was regarded as easy
picking Wi'hal he dispiayed enough
= "A Fl,.l
. managers in carrying him along ana
some day he may he very great
pitcher H. is ono OF tn" tallcst men
In the game. and drops tho ball down
on the h1ttor from way. way mp yon-
, der. Some baseball men contend that
a pitcher can he altogether too tall for
effectiveness, but tn" average manascr
likes en- just as tall as h" can get
II the sox give The philadelphia
risht handlers sound heating RiY%yy
he will probably represent Moran's
very last line OF defense. Fat has an
ner, bu, Baumgartncr is no, likely 10
be started. Neither is George Nc
ouillan regarded as "a possibility in tho
series. while Al Dcmarec would loo an
other long shot. Alexander. Mayer and
Alexander is the logical sequence OF
Pats pitching experiments for the first
Alexander sets by in his opening
start
Phiny Fingers Different
Even If he is defeated. "AHck" will
the box, but .ht. DECISIVE defca, will
mean genera, - 1i'F III MoranS plans.
II you have ever paid any particular
attention 10 Tho Philadelphia Fingers,
sou must have noted that they have a
style somewhat different, from the
pitchers VINO might ho called Ihiladcl-
rhia trained have this distinctive style.