The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-06-25

ST. LOUIS, Nc. June E+.--MCHraT
Ind the National league have coActuueu
II Aaparate peace, no winner peths
q N.ned h,it when we come to that QueS-
{ Hon. we must again refer 70 the reply
Of Irwin Cobb after some one aS>eo
; him who was going to WIN inc wax.
- .rWho won the San Francisco earth
auske:" no answered.
1t seems TO me too much was maze
over the whole niNup aaJway-tne NC
Gray row not the War-a1thouSh am
not generally 10 favor OF taking punch
at any umpire that you happen 70 ttuSu
undor the xrandstand- There ought 10
be closed season on them some une'
on reviewing the McGra~-Byron jam;
think you might consider the LORD
the winner, but then you can haroIS
3 fairly give the decision to the only en-
frant who absorbed punch and WAS
knocked down.
You certainly can't hand the decision
TO AcGraw. for It cost HIM five hundred
Iron men and sixteen days away from
bis team. Maybe Mac thought tne
punch was worth the price, but know
plenty Of birds who would let him
whang them all day for SIS. and maybe
cut me IN OF II.
{, -s 1t is impossible TO proclaim the VA
tional league the winner. judging oy
what the baseball writer's are saying IN
tho New York papers about It. they
feel they have been thrown down in
the settlement. and it looks II. They
the settlement. and II looks as IL they
we're.
After scrutinizing the whole layout.
have just discovered the real victor
Tyrus Raymond Cobb. 1t will be a
Of what he thinks. You see. Cobb al
WAYS blamed the New York writer's with
he Giants. for putting him in bad with
the fans for the row with Herzog. n
sriend told me Ty was wearing quite q
Smile. He said:
well. McGraw finally had 10 back up.
And he turned down the baseball writ
hrs who stuck 10 him aad made me
look bad. or tried 10. l always said
that New York ball club is crazy
NcGraw did one good thing for the
game l understood since Byron got
hit in the mouth he doesn't sing any
more.
They used t9 talk about Al Demaree
around the league when he was with
Philadelphia AMI knock his dinky curve
bail. 1 mean most OF the Knocking
VAS done on thu bench and very little
with the bats. especially By the Giants.
He'd never win a ball game II Pat
Moran didn't load the oleachers behind
the pitchers box with fans in their
shirts. declared g member OF the Gil
ants who could name certain number
and you couldn't tell whether he WAS
talking about his batting average "t th''
size OF his collar. This remark was
.
still with the phillies. and 1 was yet
with the Giants. Al had just put our
Boys away.
The claim soon spread around the
eaRue that every ,lne pemaree started
1t home hr had the right kind Of the
background in the center field hlsacherS
ands that the spectators in that section
should Se, equal credit with HIM wh.u-
ever he Won. because his style OF pitch
Ing blurred into that background eN-
celiently.
Now l have been locklug at pitchers
md studying aboGt NJ Denlarce. When
Al first came u the Giants. McGraw
remarked:
aasn't anything but his glove and lot
sf cigars" He is as great smoker as
he is persistent pitcher.
But Demaree Just went TO work de-
termined to make good. and every
chance he got ne took Old Opportunity
Ind garneness that kept him Gotn. and
ae 20, To winning ball games with the
beaten boys always hollerinE:
We should have made million runs
,ut there today. That fellow hash
anything but a prayer and his glove.
fou can't even see his curve ball bend"
After departing from the Giants. Al
took a particular delight In dumping
-~nis old gang. and the walls were loud
and angry. They couldn't understand
was beating them. So it has always
been with Demaree-and ali ball play
SIS The twir!erS that beat them
haven't anything.
l can tell you something about it. If
Al had the stuff Marquard carried when
DE first came TO New York and the
Demaree noodle. he wouldn't have lost
L game yet in my opinion. This pitch
ar. Of whom it Is commonly believed In
the National league he has gone along
,r nothing. uses the most valuable as
set OF any twirlcr contantly-narnely.
ais head.
In the pInchaS. you can count on
Demaree working a batter right. OF