El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-09-30
SEVEN PITCHERS PROVE IRONMEN'
PLAY WELL INDOUBLE HEADERS
Success Long Pitching ay Point Way to Other Sue
cesses Is Belief-Veteran Scout Irwin Says Giants
Look to Be Best Team Because of the Many
Victories Won During the Year.
By MONTY.

FEW YORK. Sept 3O.-out of
M seven pitchers who have at
L tempted the Iron Man trick
his year-pitching both ends Of double
leaders-four Of the ambitious ones
von each time Should not this prove
tip to various managers next year2
In the seven double bills where the
effort was made. there were Il games
tltogether. The successful Iron Nan"
managed TO win eight Of those Il
games in sets of two each. In the
-hree double headers where the Iron
Nan" failed 10 sweep the field. each
Ilready had captured the opening set
20 making II victories out Of Il pos
sible. And in the case Of one Iron
Mans" failure, the iron citizen was
Believed by a mate near the END OF the
second game and the mate triumphed.
Thus. in a total OF "A games where
ron Men figured. u OF them resulted
n success for the side possessing the
IRON Man. Where is there a team that
would not be satisfied with a winning
record OF l. out Of 142
Warming Up Helps.
Judging from the experience OF
-hese various aspirants for double
brackets this year. il would not be at
an surprising next season TO see a
whole flock OF Iron Men The events
y this year seem - indicate that
pitcher is in better shape after having
5een warmed up by the first game Of
The Phinies have contributed the
.arEest proportion Of the Iron Man"
,rop, with two successful performer
-TrOVer Cleveland Alexander and
steamer Al Demaree. AleXander's ef-
Tort was made after Demaree had been
successful and followed less than a
week after AIS triumph. Each Of
hem had one shutouL Demarees be
ne in the first game and Alexander in
ne niEhtcap- Demaree crushed Pitts.
burg 10 0 and 3 TO . Alex the Greats
ne showed shutout ball after under
going the strain Of previous game
His feat Vas against Cincinnati and
the scores returned were : TO 3 and
20 @.
Giants and Braves Have Them.
Two other clubs tried 10 exhibit a
pair Of Iron Men-the Giants and the
Braves The New Workers put forth
Rube Benton and Poll Perritt The
Poll was successful but Benton lost his
second game Boston's two candidates
were Dick Rudolph and Lefty George
Tyler. Rudolph lost his second game
after winning the first Tyler was
taken from the box near the end Of his
second start and the relief twirler got
credit for eventually winning that con-
test
Besides Perritt and the two Phillie
paragon the only successful Iron Nan
OF the year is Dave Davenport. the
elongated finger Of the Browns. Long
Dave performed his feat against the
Yankees. That was the first Iron Man
trick Of the year and really set the
style FOR the others to follow
Says Giants Are Best Ever
Arthur Irwin. the veteran scout who
rsed to play shOrtstop for Providence
back in the eighties and later was man
ager Of the Giants, declares that the
present Giants look like the best team
he has ever seen He says they can
thrash any other club in the world
How much stronger than the Red
SoX are they" he was asked.
In answer he declared
They can give the Red SoX a handi-
cap OF two runs per game to start with
and then win more than half the
games
That's going pretty strong, but the
old scout seems TO be sincere in his
statement.
Red SOx FavOrites.
It is a sure thing that the Red SoX
viii be heavy favorites for the worlds
series. judging by early Wagers made
in New York Whether they face the
Phillies or the Dodgers, IL makes no
difference, they viii be rated as the
contender for supreme Iaurels.
II the Phillies should get into the big
jambores- they would be regarded =