The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-11-16
GIANTS have GREAT
PITCHING STAFF
1920 Twirling Corps to-
BE Sl,e Best McGraw'
Ever Commanded.
STRONGER THAN
IN 1905
In Toney, Barnes, Nehf,
Benton and Douglas
New York Has Five
Aces.

I Aces.
John McGraw. manager Of the
Giants says that his pitching staff
/ during August. 1919. was the great
lost he ever has commanded There
was no Mathewsou on the STAFF. hut
( there FIVE men. each Of them a star
+ 80 the first magnitude Even Noran's
/ hivh class quintet Of Eller, Ring.
( Rutihcr. Sallee and Fisher could
not obtain precedence over Fred
/ Tonev. Jesse Barnes. Artie Nehf,
Ruhe Benton and Phil Douglas.
+ While Douglas Is a fellow who is
/ likely tn break out at any moment
! on" cannot deny his natural ability
/ with the possible exceptions of
! walter johnson and Grover Alexan-
der no pitchers in baseball have bean
| equipped nv nature with a better
! pitching physique than Douglas
/ Those big. hulking shoulders enable
/ him To serve the ball with "A ufcas-
ure ~ speed thatNfew pitchers can
I generate
n is with this staff that McCTraw
Intends 10 oUcu the ts20 season, and
! If now je his attention 70 build up
team which viii he worthy OF such
pitchers
Prior ~ 'he end Of The 1919 cam
I ra ',tr the. greatest pitching staff that
ne Giants ever possessed was that Of
frt champions OF 1908 and 1876.
Though McG~aw's later champions
haN more pitching stars than this
ra ( aggregation no Giant pitching
ualr over had success or ever could
he depended on to the extent ~
NAthcwson and McGinnity.
Matty In His Prime.
Big Six in those early wears was
ittst in his prime. while MCGinnitv.
/ who reached his crest much later in
}fo than Matfv. also was at the
height OF his career, IT was in those
wears that the fans used To come out
to gee the youthful college wonder
Mathew son, while McGinnity was ac-
curing national fame as an iron man
, hy pitching double headers regularly.
In 1904. between them, Mathew
son and Mct'innity won So games
and suffered only 2 defeats In 1905.
| HcGraW's second championship year,
+ this pair won r games and lost "a
/ No manager ever had two pitchers
going the way Matty and Iron Joe
were breuzing along IN 1903. Nc
| fsinniiy had the league that year with
/ 3S Victories and only defeats Mat
| ~ had 80 Victories and ! 2 defeats.
| In 1905 Matty had 81 victories and
| defeats and Nee unity q victories
land Is defeats
| These men topped off their brill
! liant two year feat by making mon
/ keys out Of the Athletics in the
worlds series Of SOS, when the
! Athletics scored only one run off
/ them in forty-four innings. Two runs
were made off Amcs in the only in
ming he pitched Matty won three
shutcuts in one week, McGinnity and
ADes lost one game to Bender. 0 to
3, but Joe came back and pitched a
To shutout over Eddie Plank, a
But McCiraw had other sterling
pitchers on his first cham pionship
com binations Leon Ames and George
Hooks wiltse were sterling young
sters IN those days Dummy Taylor
/ taken over from Chicago in 1904,
rounded out powerful quintet
Ames stood specially high in 1905,
when he won % games and lost 8.
lthe best season this hard luck Twill
s.. G. ever put in with the Giants.
II Matty and Marquard Win.
practically with two pitchers. Math-
ewson and Maruuard. In 1912, when
the club repeated. JEFF Tesreau be-
came regular pitching star OF the
Y t.flampforsrtff lsgi3. frafa anSs 1919
the team OF 10 had the most pro-
flcient staff. IT was the best New
York pitching corps since that of the
1906 club That was the season that
Al Demaree had his sensational year
with the team, and MeGraw was able
to work MatheWson, Marquard. Tes-
rnau and Dcmaree in rotation Art
Fromme was procured in a deal later
in the year, but he proved quite a
great disappointment here.
The 1917 champions also were well
fixed in pitchers, but their STAFF was
not as formidable as that of 1904 o5.
or that of 1913. Schupp. Perrit. Sal
lee and Benton were the four regu >
lars Of the star, with Tesreau and
, Anderson filling out
II is hard to pick out the star OF
the present Giant staff as all five
regulars are topnotchers. big FREQ
Tuney. the McGinnity OF the present
era. comes nearer To being the ace
Of the staff than any other when he
is right
He collapsed from the heat after a
b game In ST. Louis last August when
ne was nee3ra nlo9t and WASH, the
same after that In that great sis
: game series with The Reds on the
Polo Grounds In late August, how
ever, Toney beat Jimmy Ring in a
fourteen inning game by / to o.
Barics and Nehf Star.
The two former Boston stars
( j vSs" Barnes and Art Nehf--fitteG
r"ud"vfuiiy wcll into McGraws staff
Barnes was recognized as a brilliant
worker in Boston but he has ever
s exceeded the fondest expectations
since donning New York uniform
In 1918, before being called into
thv army. Jesse won six pUt of ssse,
games. and last season he won %
games and lost 9. He was the only
National league pitcher to turn in rs
= Victories. Between the spring OF 1913
and last season he won 81 rume s for
New {ork and lost / O. percentage
, of .71H
Art3e Nehf. the crack lefthander,
WIN ccAt Mctiraw 100000 and four
players Last August did not show
hiS }ruc worth when he first joined
the club His arm was n little sore
At The tiQe Of his transfer to New
YORK and for several weeks he didn't
do himself justice. But rs soon came
around and iu the Ia st month of the