The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-10-01
|SOUTHPAW MOUND
ARTISTS COMING
INTO HERITAGE
eft-Handers Will Figure Promi-
nently in Series Starting
Today
BATTERIES ARE STRONG
Little Choice Between Firing
Lines of White Sox and
Cincinnati Reds

Chicago, Oct. 1.-Southpaw pitch
ers, who for years have given way
in the baseball world series hall OF
fame to right-handers, this year bid
fair to prove the stars of the cham
pionship contests.
With the exception of one or two
years-notably 191S-right hand twirl-
ers have been the mainstays of their
clubs for thirty seasons and seldom
has southpaw pitching brought the
! worlds champion title to any club.
This year, however, the Cincinnati
Reds virtually have southpawed their
way to victory and two left handlers
have shared with the veteran Eddie
Cicotte, the burden of bringing an
other American league pennant to the
Chicago White Sox.
Discards Won for Reds.
Two southpaws-Dutch Ruether,
last year considered not good enough
for the big leagues, and Slim Sallee,
twice discarded-are the twirlers
chiefly responsible for the Reds vic
tory in the National league and it is
on these men that Cincinnati will de-
pend largely in the fall series. Eller
and Ring, the two star right hand
ers, have long done their share, but
Cincinnati fans are betting on Rue
ther and Sallee.
For the White Sox, Eddie Cicotte, is
of course, pitching staff by him
self, but Claude Williams has won
many games with his southpaw slants
and Dick Kerr has more than held his
own. .
So it seems probable that the series
this year may find Ruether-Sal-
lee battling with Kerr and Williams
for premier honors.
Southpaws Not Favored.
Left handlers have held little promi-
nence in world series pitching with
the one exception of 1918 when the
southpaws had more than their share
of glory.
Babe Ruth won two games from
the Chicago Cubs, while Tyler and
| Vaughn did most of the hurting for
the national leaguers. ..
| 81, Delving back into the early records
of baseball, it is found that hereto
| fore, the pennant winners generally
| have depended on right handed pitch
ers.
From 1889 to 1894 there were no
prominent left handed pitchers on the
winning teams Baltimore, the cham
pion in 1894, '95 and '96, had only
one first class southpaw, Esper. From
then until 1901 the right handlers carr
ried the burden of pitching. In 1901,
| 'O2 and '03 Tannehill and Doheny
helped Pittsburgh. Mathewson and
McGinnity, right handlers won the pen
nant for the Giants in 1904 and '05,
while in 1906, 'O7, '0S and 10 Pfeister
was the only left handler with the
champion Chicago Cubs. Leifeld aid
ed Pittsburgh in 1909, but the right
handlers did most of the work. The
same goes for 1911, IL and, '13 when
Mathewson was the mainstay of the
Giants, although Marquard and Wiltse
gave material assistance.
Tyler Helped in 1914.
| In 1914 two right handlers, James
and Rudolph, and one left handler,
Tyler, won for the Boston Braves. In
1915 Alexander and Mayer were re.
sponsible for the Philadelphia vic
tory in the National league with Rixey
the southpaw, losing a majority Of
his games. Marquard and Smith
helped Brooklyn in 1916, but two
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