Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-06-18
BARRY BANKS ON
HIS SOUTHPAWS
Ruth and Leonard Mainsiays
Of SOI Pitching Staff.
BUNT GAME is PERFECTED
Opinion OF Boston Fans That Pitching
Will Hold Up and That 8arry's Stat
Before October viii Have Set ub
Some New Acknowledgements Reger
Grafton.

Baseball sharps who had expressed
early doubts are willing to admit now
that the Red Sox, under Jack Barry,
are every hit AS formidable as under
tarrisan. The secret of Carrigan's sue
cess was In the good pitching which he
obtained throughout the la game cam.
paign and the spirit of team fight and
eamenesS. There's no way of telling
right here whether Barry's pitchers
viii hold their stuff through the sum.
mer and fall. but you can write It down
that the tenn fight and gameness are
there rs of yore,
1t is the opinion of Boston fans that
the pitching will hold up aud that Bar
rvs staff before October will have set
some new records. Ruth and Leonard,
two Of the best southpaws that any
one manager ever had In the American
league, won three-quarters Of the
games put into the Won column by the
worlds champs in the early spring.
Griffith, Jones and even Mack claim
their teams are not particularly vul.
ncrable before opposing southpaws.
BE this as 1t may, any A. l.. fan vii!
admit that the Tigers. White Sox. In
dams and Yankees hate to see a left
handler on the rubber for the foe.
lnft
most as much as a big three compos.'
ed of two right handlers and lefty. In
the National league the left handler "a
not held in such high repute. but that
is unGuestionably due to the fact that
many of the dangerous hitters In Te
ner's circuit are right handed batters.
while Eddie Collins. Joe Jackson. iris
Speaker. Ty Cobb Sam Crawford, Bob
Veach. George Sisler and Frank Baker
of the top A. l.. fight of swatsmen are
left handed batters
With all respect in the world for
Alexander of the Philies and johnson
OF the Grlifmen 1t Is good Rostonese
dogma to assert that Babe Ruth Is the
biggest drawing card in the pitching
line that the game has seen since
Christy Nfathewson's heyday, and, in
deed the opinion in Boston fl that the
Ruth person is due for n wider ponu
larity than any one since Rube Wad- |
dell. And how they would turn ont to
see the kube In action,
80 much for the Red Sox ace. Az
for the manager himself. to date Barry I
has held up his end of the argument /
in the age old controversy as to wheth. (
er or not a big league manager could /.
play one of the mid diamond positions \
and get away with 1t. None can find I
any fault with the way Barry has run
his team, and his fielding game has
been simply immense. He Is q little
under weight. is Worcester Jack. but
ne has tough job, and it's new one
live him time to work into the roll-
Tine and he'll get back his surplus
flesh, He is not rugged athlete I'm
any sense Of the word and needs n
safeguard in the way of extra flesh.
The bunt game has always been the
soul OF the Red Sox attack Mt least
since Jake Stahl became manager Of
he team. Under Carrigan 1t was de-
vclopcd beautifully, and Bill said that
10 attributed much Of the Red Sox sue.
,esS in the recent worlds series to the
superior utilization Of the hunt as IN
volyed in the one run, sacrifice hit
game
But YOU ought to see this 1917 Red
Soy crowd bnnt that American apple
Manager Wilbert Robinson snd when
ne had his Dodgers in Boston that bn
.ould not remember seeing team that \
)unted SO well az the Red Sox did IN
he spring series between Brooklyn and (.
he worlds champions.
Every man on Barry's team bunts
we'll" said Robby. in all those games
we played with them | remember only
)nce where a man attempting to sacrs
Ice for Boston did not GO through with
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