The Washington herald., 1921-03-23
The New Army

The New Army
There. . new. soft voice on the winds to.
That .inss Of the Great outdesr,;
OF Sports vsst companies under way
For the felds and the hills and the moors
OF all the miliisns Who dream again
OF the suns first goldsn smile,
By Aeld and forest and stream again
To fnd life worth the while.
Ranking Pitchers,
What is the true measure of a
pitchers worth-his ability to win
ball games or his ability to pre-
vent rival teams from getting. esrn-
ed runs? 49, -.-1 ,.,FN~Es r..
Babe. Adams, for example. WIS
No. ., in the matter. of allowing
earned runs. -,..-~. =.
His average wass Els per same.
Just back of Alexander. d:
But he was No IL when #: came
to games won. and lost. with apsav-
erase of. 5s7. the result Of seven
teen Victories and thirteen defeats.
Art Nehf. of the Giants. was No,
20 when it came to the earned run
allotment where his marx was .a;o3
- - Z, se.r.--s : s.. ss=sf- y
But he was NO. 81 when 4it came
to a winning average, withitwenty-
one, victories and. twelve defeats
And these are only two samples
from many others. Nehf was hit
much harder, but he won more
games .sand--lost' fewer than Adams
did. s.--2-- ~. ~
.Nshf was working with a some
what better team. That, meant
quite a BIT. - = -. =. = -,
- Matty,. system.
The earned run allotment looks
to be the fairef test. in one way.
But take the. case of Matty when
he was at his best and had five
orSsfx run lead he always eased up
and Ioafed along to, save his arm.
Why throw his arm of with the
score s. to J In his directionl. The
main idea" he used to- say Sis ito
win the ball game. Never mind the
rest; of it" Which lis also true.
Possibly the most effecffye way
Of settling, the argument was adopt
ed by Alexsnder.FI ~ .s,''-jj :. =.
Working with weak elpb he
was No. in the way of. allowing
carried runs and No. '2- in the ma tier
Of games won and lost. Ss'sig
This combination left no-sreat
doubt as to the name OF the best
pitcher in. the National Leagne, for
1890. s. +s I. 2, 80 80 y
. Anothsr' Revision. > !. -
Out of the South the wild news CAME Z
Hefthward sstt on . wire of Aams - !,
News that echoed from coast TO coast, =. !.
Startling many . startled host; : .,,.... (
Sweeping on as the spring wind trssds =
whsre only the pitchers shock THAR heads
And this Is the. nsssass that gees tin
{" 'B.ss' SasA lose. another four pounds,
- 'a Another Record. .'t
Down at Palm Beach, recently
Walter ]. Travis, lowering above
the border line of so. went around
the course in sixty eight strokes.
This may or may not be record
combining both age and score, But
there. are other details. ~
Mr.NTravis took up golf when he
was 35 years old. He had never, hit
practice shot, before that date.
Twenty-Five years later he turns In
a sixty-eight. s.s'f
You can write that combinat ton
down as a-record beyond compare
a record plus an inspiration for all
who have come to the fairways of
middle. age in search of game that
will last -f viE--' 1fs .
A sixty eight at so-and we here
by take all bets offered ,that he Will
be good for a seventy-eight at 10.
The co-ordination Of mind and mus
Gle and the control Of nerves is still
more important than untarned
power.
IF Yale Harvard and Princeton
hadn't been afraid to meet Calf
fornia.. writes a far Western critic,
'pne of the three could have trans
ferred or cancelled games scheduled
for October 20. the date Sofferedj BY
the California team" But transfer
ring or cancefing games already
= in good faith 10. hardly
4 procedure that even California,
for battle, would indorse.
There might have been some room
for the ysquawk sif- California had
offered back I'M December to- come
East. But the oflcial zen Was
never issued until the Ohio state
had stirred up new
dreams ef eonausst.