The Washington herald., 1921-03-17
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most of our new ones. Cheeves Is
big fellow. You remember Jack
Powell. He's more like Jack Powell
than any other ball player I re-
member-powerfully built. tall ac-
tive. a lot like Powell in action.
He'll be another johnson or an
other Matty. What 1 like bess
about him Is that he Is anxious to
get instruction, and he never for
gets a word you tell him. He sees
everything and says nothing. Quiet,
unassuming. and no talk at all.
He never opens his mouth. He's
good listener. He's just 20 years
old-February 12-and he has more
stuff and less lost motion or effort
in action than any new pitcher I've
seen in q long time. Pitched two
games last year and won two.
Right handler.
Pitchers Aplenty.
"Of course, in Alexander think
we have the best pitcher in Amer
lea. You can look II up in the rec
ord book, but as remember IL Alec
has been pitching ten years ana
has won 2s3 games. That's an
average of over 20 games a year,
and any pitcher who wins over
twenty is a wonder. l was down
in Philadelphia in 1917 when Alec
made a record-nnishing his third
year in a row winning over 20
games a year.
Next year he was in the service,
fighting in France-a sergeant In
the artillery, up there with the big
~
lot of ffghting.
when I was in the service / was
up in the Bellecourt Woods at 2
o'clock one night and q fellow
came in and told me Alexander had
Just gone through with his guns.
I tried to see him, but he'd gone
along and you can't. wander around
looking for a fellow at the front,
kilometers south of the Verdun
line. ! didn't meet Alec over there.
Another pitcher Of ours who saw
q lot of fighting was York. He was
| a sergeant in the American army
Has three stripes on his sleeve
That's some record. Wounded!
| Well, I don't know. Never heard
| him mention 1t IL he was, and he
sure doesn't show any sign of it,,
| York is a southpaw. like Fuhr
| Jones, Vaughn and Tyler. Our right
| handlers are Alexander, Speed Mar
tin, Bailey, Cheeves, Weaver, Fsee-
man, Hanson. kenney (a Chicago
boy) and Cobel. There won't be any
weak spot in our twirling staff
| Nor in catchers, either. with XII.
lifer, O,Farrelh Daily, Gomez (of Los
| Angeles) and Meyers, of Chicago.
| We have thirty-eikht men al
| work in Pasadena. Davy Robertson
Isn't there and isn't likely to be for
| some time. The former Giant sen,
4 In; word that he'd skip spring train
Ing. We mean business this year
/ and nobody's going to skip anything
4 and come along and get his train.
/ ing losing q lot of ball games early
/ in the season. / notified Davy that
| be is suspended. That doesn't NEAR
he can come trailing In. when hs
gets ready. He's OUT! " he's eyej
in again 1t will be when I get ready
to send for him."
| Aside from the daily morning bal
i practice, which was fairiytlight dur.
ing the Cubs first week. the player,
have been getting q lot of wori
well calculated to take of fat. Mr.
Wrigley's mountafnf i on Catalin,
were tilted up by some volcanic ac
.tion few thousand years ago. an,
they, haven't aattened out mucl
since. Every afternoon the squa,
climbed for two hours.
Some wicked Golfers.
4 The golfers in the bunch ar,
Alexander. .Killifer. Vaughn, Martin
and Tyler. Alexander has shot tn
nine-hole course at Catalina in 81
which is q pretty fair performance
The course il up and do&n q coupI
of steep little mountain valley,
Speed Martin. who has been playinl
only ., few months. drives tire
msndous bal and 50 does Kiliifer.
l,shot around the course with ther
few times and saw both max
drives of fully 900 yards. which put
j-them fairly, in the Babe Ruth ciasi
! Usually there Is . stake Of q fe,
balls. and SSpeed Martin is tn
. "slicker"