Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-11
Gainesville, Fla. March ].

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N,N in the league is better for
NJ, ,s,I IN the pitching department
~ t,rtiIId tW,iId hin Donovan, of our l'hiis-
than M''u .,on,itatively. But qualitn-
hat Is, .,.oIl u that's different. At any
lively "em eomuontitative analysis of the
rate. q Zinc staff shows that there Is
. ot o, hnr o" Il is wealth OF material
Whel.e bn seen. Wild Bill himself is
remains W chat some Of the young toss
uncertalmo noing TO do. They haven't been
tr' are @ enough to show whether they
here ITns stuff or not. But there is one
hve tnv a made fine record around
who nIohin nIS In recent years and who
PhiIaut.,pdo ~ do we'll. This twirler Is hob
ous9t, " orc q Of the thousand of "lefties
IN easSy" ea.,S was last seen in a Marshall f..
DGV'u u,oiform, Possibly, to the. aver
e,,''tb y. ton that doesn't mean much, oM,
~, Philadelphia nine had iast oHncn sIl
,.n' ,.st season. 1t won many gaipfs p;,,n trn,n
~, ~, .snecd Id clubs, aided by ErSklne
sgn,rP ror who. it may be remembered,
Mnooriv did some regular hurling lot
70. pbillies. Mayer finally was lct OUT
,ne ,bS Ounkcrs. and, IN the course o OF
M,uond @ events. landed on the VI. r.
Slan,U"cl IaT Sinh, He was tried few times,
snt did not make good
W nord did make good, hence 1t can
Jaw pM,,,rcd that David Mt least has n
oe no' % stick around awhile with the
rGsn,' n,n" oyen though he was never with
fnlls;i i,s ,earue club before. But 1t was
malorI, II II were a fault, for he had
nS ,.noe ,"" 70 20 South with the Athletics.
,,.nor , cnum[ no decided he would rather
noN' ,S oround Philly than take n chance
Y.'' " ,oising the temperature on CONNIE y
bench. .. ,lo. ord 10 twontv-
l,o renrs old. He was born and al.
.n,rs u.rs lived in Philadelphia. He learned
'SI nIoT baseball on the lots like most OF
M 70 p,%b "tbsr Youths of our city. Several
.ae ,asrU % oro he began playing with tn,
stsSM.nondrnt clubs in the vicinity of
n,nIIntsaolnhio ,nIt and has been doing this
lr0. ls,.'Si sincc He hurled only two games
w z. Smith last season. but both
~ ~ ,bcm we're noteworthy performances.
", Jcfcntcd the Athletic laniganS.
o. ~ and then trippcd the fast Fleisher
guy ImOnc the clubs David pitched for
~, H"U season were the North Phillics.
S,",son @ nrd yineland. Before the death
~ Iock Lamp, the ex Athletic catcher
oui,SoSsd O" The North Phillies and was
.T" 70 give David lot of pointers
,b;cb 1 he picked UP in his brilliant
u"Sr U";or league career. Roy Thomas, the
%'T n% Pbijly ontficlder and cx -coach of tho
T";rprsity of Pennsylvania baseball
,,.,0 .,, has bccn at Stptson for the last
Sa sa.", years, ar, and it was under Thomas
s", David developed most rapidly.
. David has not cut loose hero yet, hut
\. has shown a good deal at that. lie
las shown so far very good curve and
sharp breaking. fast ball. lie pitches
with an easy delivery, using his whole
body TO catapult the pill to the batter.
Although he weighs but 135 pounds.
David has n lot of speed. Like many
M. handed pitchers. David has a free
STYLE at bat and drives the ball deep
when he hits it.
Another SOuthpaw
Another Pennsylvania left handler
with the Pills is Howard Crandall. He
Is tall youth, more than six feet. to
be more exact, and weighs 175 pounds.
His home is in Cory. Pa, and last sea-
ton he worked with the Franklin. Pa.
cub. Crandall was discovered by
Jimmy Hagan, master of ceremonies at
he phillic>' Office In the Real Estate
Trust Building.
The discovery took place at the time
Bert Galla. formerly of Washington.
Bumped to Oil City. Jimmy was sent to
look for Gallia and arrived at Oil City
n time to see that club play Franklin.
He was so impressed with Crandall's
work that he forgot Gallia and caught
the next train home, all enthused over
the young Southpaw's work. Thus it
came about that Crandall became n
member of Donovan's happy family.