The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1919-12-22
ADUeTS Defeated FOR INDEPENDENT TITLE BY REX OTHER SPORTS
CONNIE MACK CONSIDERED
BEST MAJOR LEAGUE BOSS

the denunciation of American ball
players who think they can come to
Cuba at the expense of Cuban capt.
tai and then fail to fulfill their part
of the contract by not playing the
kind of ball that the Cuban fans and
promoters who put up the money have
every right to expect of them.
Actions Of this sort. especially In a
foreign country. are not only a dis
grace to American baseball but they
are construed by a foreign populace
as a blot on American honor. The
Cuban papers devote pages to the
feats of our American big league stars
and the Cuban baseball fans. which
consists of a far greater proportion
Of male population than in the case
in any city in the United States, are
as conversant with the names and
ability of our big league ball players
as are the bleacher occupants of any
big league baseball park In America.
They know what can be expected of
them and cannot be fooled. There
fore when a Cuban capitalist puts up
the money to import "a team of big
league players from the States. ana
Cuban fans pay prices ranging from
20 cents for bleacher seats and stand
pIlNl sl.dp IOT DON seats u
see them play. our ball players are
simply obtaining money under false
pretense unless they fulfill their part
the public here knows full well they
are capable of playing.
The AlI-AmeI Icans won only three
of the ten games played against the
Cuban team, two OF these by the slen-
der margin of l to o, through the
excellent pitching of Jack Quinn. of
the Yankees, and their big league
intield. consisting of Pipp, stock, Sick
inS and Witt, looked like ''sandlot-
Irrs' compared TO the fast work of
the Cuban infielders. In addition to
which. well-knCUn hitters like Pipp.
Burns. Stock and Witt were almost
helpless before Cuban pitching AS a
result the attendance at their games
ell of and. to avoid the censure tina I
would fall upon American ball players
md American methods in general by
continuance of the farce the
American WAC brought the team here
1t the expense of Cuban capital vol
unfairly released Senior Linares. the
financial hacker of the enterprise.
from his contract obligations with
instructions to put a stop to the
comedy" and snip the whole team
oack home.
Happily for the reputation OF Amer
lean baseball and for the future of
our national game in Cuba, the play
ing of the Pittsburg team here this
year was in direct contrast to that
Of the "All-AmeTicans." The Pirates
took the game seriously here and
played real big league baseball. and
they had to play it to win. So will
any other American big league team
which tackles the Cuban teams on
their own soil.
OF all the great pitching records
II Is question il any equals that
made by Charles Babe" Adams OF
the Pittsburg Pirates
The 1909 world series hero has
Just completed his fifth consecutive
charged against him while on the
rubber. and in that number of years
he has accepted 251 chances.
TIC go back a little longer we also
find that in the ten years he has
pitched for the Pittsburg team) he
was out of major league in 1910
has had but ten errors charged
against him and half that number
was made in 1910.
In six of the 10 seasons he has
clean record. and during the past
seven years he has made but one
error Truly a remarkable per-
formance
Here is his complete record as a
pitcher: