The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-04-29
ley LUCKY BALDWIN,

(By LUCKY BALDWIN,
The Creamdales OF Mobile are here for
a three-game series which viii start at
$3.50 o'clock this afternoon. The Cream
dales have strengthened their team since
its appearance here last year, the most
recent addition to the club being Kirke
Williams. who pitched for Pensacola
against Meridian. The other members of
the Mobile pitching staff are Merit Cooper.
a southpaw who was with the Florida
state league last year; Stanley Dixon,
who was in the Delta league, and Sid
Dixon. a Mobile senli-pro who is said to
have lots OF curves.
Manager Phillips has announced the
following lineup for today: passenger,
eb; Yost, 2b; Diamond. 3b; Stone. IS;
Jackson. If; Therrill. CT: Kelly. RI; Phil
lips, C; Dixon. p. This is not the batting
order but is the lineup of the team.
There has been. and still is, a lot of
talk about the kind OF baseball Jack
Ryan pitches. Jack beat Atlanta to 3
and BANKED both Meridian and the Gu
bans. The accusation was made that he
used the emery ball. so-called. He
did. some Of the time. Against the At
lanta club he used it almost all through
the game because Cliff Markle, who
pitched the first game for Atlanta had
used IL throughout the game and nobody
thing they wanted TO and he would de-
the same. He didn't kick but Atlanta
debut not until after they had seen
that they didn't have a chance to hit
Jacks stuff.
Against Meridian Jack pitched the
emery bali" for three innings and then
used curves and straight fast ones in
combination. His control was so per-
feet thai Meridian couldn't see what
was coming and all the hitters were beef
ing about emerye balls when the only
thing that had them guessing was just
bluff and control.
AS for the Cubans, Jack used the
emery ball about once out of 10 pitches
The remainder of the time he was using
the spit-ball which is still permitted in
the American and National leagues and
under the most recent ruling will con-
tinue to be permitted as long as the
present crop Of spitball hurlers continue
in the big show but no new artists of
the moist ball can enter the major
leagues.
Ryan has pitched 80 innings since COM
ing to Pensacola and has never hit a
batter in that time although SO men
have faced him He has given just two.
bases on balls in the 80 innings, one be-
ing to Fred Smith, third baseman for
Atlanta in the second inning of the Sum
day game OF the Atlanta series, and the
other to Rodiguez in the fourth inning
Of last Sundays game.
And yet they say Ryan doesn't know
where the ball is going
Ryan has the most perfect control of
any twirler that ever pitched a game at
Maxent Park. If he didn't have more
than one Albanian would have walked.
What gets my goat is that Atlanta
KICKED about the emery ball after Marlxle
used IL all through the game which he
Pitched against Sneed. Markle won his
game but when he went to New Or
leans the Pelicans battered him for Is
hits because his emery ball was barred
But Ryan doesn't need the emery ball
and just to prove 1t the big Irishman
is going to show all of his dear friends
the next time he works that he can beat
any clubs that comes-except perhaps
some Glass A or Double A clubs-and,
use nothing but splitter or a curve with
speed and control.
ITS control that wins" Ryan tells his
young pitchers and they know 1t. Ryan
has speed and control and he knows
enough TO use his head. which can't be
said of every ball player and can't be
said of lots of other people In other
walks of life-me for instance, or /
wouldn't be writing for a living.
So here's the finish. i started to tell
you that Ryan Is too good a ball player
to pitch dirty ball and it's wise man
that remembers it. Another thing is
that Capt. Leon of the Cuban club is
just smart enough so that-although he
had agreed that the emery bah was all
right--to make holler TO the grand
stand that he was getting bad deal
Atlanta did the same thing-talSing adj
vantage of the fact that some Pensacola
fans always knock the home team Dust
as some knock the home merchants).
Meridian did the same thing and Man
ager Reflogle told Nelson TO dust OFF,
Ryan. meaning to hit him in the head
with a pitched ball. Nelson knows it
and so does every player who was close
enough to hear the conversation. Jack
off I'll knock your whole ball club back
TO Meridian" And Nelson didn't do any
busting off.
Ask Nelson. He's in town.
Last Sunday at the Cuban Pensacola
game somebody made the remark that
Ryan was a dirty ball player. Jack
heard II. After the game he asked the
man who was reported to have made the
crack and that man promptly denied it,
The reason l am writing this is so as
10 get II off my chest. / hear all the
grabbing there is-pl say a lot of the
Grabbing. The fellows who do most Of
the grabbing haven't spent a cent &c
make a BAH club. Some of them have.