The sun., 1919-02-02
Pfeffer, Grimes, Smith, Ca
dore, and Vanguard Keep
Robbie Smiling.
CHENEY, ACE IN HOLE
Dodgers Also Have Mitchell
Mamaux and Miljus to
Call Upon.
BY sHORTsTOP.


Robinson, the rotund manager OF the
Brooklyn Dodgers Almost every day
that Robby wandered out 10 Ebbets
Field he received notice that some
pitcher had signed up with Uncle Sam.
in fact Brooklyn almost had enough
pitchers In service to supply the entire
army and navy.
When the war closed Big Ed Ptsffer,
Rube Vanguard and Burleigh Grimes
wore the wide blue pants OF Uncle
Sans sailor lads while Lieut. Leon
Cadors Sergeants Sherrod Smith, Clar-
ence Mitchell and John Miljus were
headed for the Rhine In a garb Of khaki.
Larry Cheney. Al Mamaux and Dan
Griner did their best to help the SOL
diers get across by making ships.
Cheney was not in the same category
with the others He is a family man
and stuck to Brooklyn until Labor Day,
when he complied with the work or
fight order and got Job with a Staten
Island shipbu!ldlng company.
Robinson is likely to reap a reward
next season for the patriotism OF his
pitchers. AS Robby lost pitcher after
pitcher. he had TO replace them with
other material. Now that he Is likely
TO have the whole staff back 1t looks
as II the rolypoly manager from Balu-
more will be able to piece together one
Of the ablest ffinging corps In baseball.
Every Man a star.
Under the new twenty-one playing
limit 1t is figured that major league
teams will carry about seven pitchers.
Robby can fill out his staff with seven
men, all of whom at one time or an
other were stars, or near stars. in their
Cadore, Sherrod Smith. Burleigh Grimes.
Larry Cheney. Rube Marquard and Al
Msmaax.
For a pinch hitter. utility outhelder
and first baseman and extra left handed
pitcher Robby may carry Clarence
Mitchell. Many a manae<r would spend
Happy winter II he could contemplate
starting the season with such a staff.
Perhaps the best part OF 1t for Robby
Is that nve OF these rneD-PtefYer. Ca
dore, Smith, Grimes and Mamaux-still
are comparative youngsters. At least
three Of them have the best part OF their
career ahead OF them.
Judging from the work of Burleigh
Grimes, the young sptball pitcher pro-
cured in last winters deal with Pitts
burg. he Is likely to blossom out as the
star Of the stan Grimess pitching was
one Of the features OF q rather dismal
bad start when he went to Pittsburg in
1915 and he had losing streak OF four
teen straight league games before he put
over a victory for Brooklyn last May.
Burleigh. however. evened UP this ac-
count when he won ten straight games
for the Dodgers last season. the highest
run OF the year. The winning streak is
all the more commendable when II is
realized he made II with n second divi-
sion team. After Grimes got started last
season he was almost unhittable, and in
the matter Of earned runs. as well as In
games won and lost, he stood right up
with the best in the league.
Robbie Heard a sigh.
Last spring when Ed Pfeffer quit the
Brooklyn training trip Robinson sighed
The big fellow was in better form than
] ever saw him. He would have breezed
right through the league with the stuff
he as showing In the spring"
Pfeffer was one of the best pitchers in
the league before he went to war, and II
hardly is likely that he lost any of his
effectiveness while serving in Cntie
Sans navy. He is only 20 and still
should be on the top OF his form. Pfefrer
had his best year In 1915, when Brook
lyn won Its pennant He won twenty
five games and lost eleven, for a per-
centaEe OF .69+. There is no reason why
the big fellow will not go as strong this
year.
Leon Galore is a youngster who be-
gan TO reach his prime last season. He
still 10 in the army, a Lieutenant con-
nscted with the Ninety-second Division
the negro unit. but as the Ninety-second
II slated for early return to this country
Lieut.. Galore may be released from SER
Vice in time to go to jacksonville with
his teammates
Galore. Brooklyn boy. Is regarded
by Robinson as one OF his biggest assets
in the upbuilding Of the Brooklyns The
young Lieutenant pitched several
games for the Flatbush clan last sum-
naer while he was on his vacation, One
game resulted in a shutout, while in
another he held his opponents to two
rune.
Sherrod Smith, the lefthander who
gave Babe Ruth such a battle In the
longest worlds series game ever played
In the 1916 series. may not be on hand
when the season starts unless the base
ball people are able TO procure a release
for soldier ball players now In Europe
who have Jobs awaiting them. Smith
was one OF the first ball players taken
In the draft and was assisting in the
watch In the Rhine" when last heard
Of.
"dy
Smith has been a good pitcher in the
National League but never was the
pitcher he should have been. He had an
abundance of STUFF and used II fire..
quently but not on all occasions. Smith
always gave one the impre ssion that
some day he would go to the very ton
or the class among lefthanders.
Sherrod is now 2s. and the year of
may have done him good. He still NAV
rise to the heights won by his fellow
Georgian, Nap Rucker. also a Dodger.
who for years was the lefthanded star
OF the National League.
The veteran, RUDE Afarquard, did soma
good pitching last season after a poor
start and still il very handy man 10
have around. And despite the fact that
5tuoe came Into the National League
eleven years ago he still is in his late
fwenties. Marqusrd will not be thirty
until next May %. His sturdy left wlna
may not have the cunning of 1911. 1912
md 1913, his three great years with thu
Giants but II Marquard was put on the
open market he would have no trouble
landing Job.
MamauI an Enigma.
larry Cheney IL beginning to show
the wear and tear of a long career In
the Dig leagues, and he was at tho font
OF the class in earned runs last wear
t'ut Larry Just missed getting an even