The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-01
PITCHING STARS
BLINK; SH0CKER
And BUSH BEST
Hoyt Jones, Mays and Other Hope.
fuls Stumble, National League
Hasn't Even Hopefuls.
By JOHN B. FOSTER.

New York, Sept. Met a pitch
ing star of the season of 1921 is apt
to come up to his form in 1922, ac-
cording to the opinion of six major
league managers. Some of the
pitchers will be good, passively so,
and that is alb Faber of the White
Sox has not a ghost Of chance
to do what he did last year and he
has a better team behind him.
Hoyt of the Yankees started out
with the firm determination that
he would lead the major league
pitchers and Immediately hitched
himself up in double team yoke
and tried to go it alone. That put
an end to his aspirations. He could
not see advice with the Lick tele-
scope and would not take orders
until he was threatened with more
than moral persuasion.
Sam Jones was picked by those
who knew the value of pitchers
to lead the American league. The
public could not see him because
Sam was with the Bostons last
year. and could not shine with so
much drab paint around him. He
has not shown this year although
he has been basking in the shadow
of Babe Ruth's diamonds. He has
pitched some good ball but has had
lot of games kicked away from
him and has helped it somewhat
himself by limping toward the
close of the contest.
Mays is but a shade He is no
more to be compared with the Mays
of 1921 than French fried potatoes
with picked cabbage. He has not
broken even to date and there is
not much hope that he will. To do
so he must have one continued
round of success topped off with
whipped cream. 1t looks as if he
will get buttermilk.
Coveleskie, the pitching Pole who
has long held Cleveland in the lime
light, started as if he meant to earn
the BOBBY prize. He has been do
ing better and has caught up with
himself and now has a few more
victories than defeats but he can't
be the 'Covy Of last summer. 1t is
| not in the Cards.
Bush Pitches Good.
The players who shone better
than a mere glimmer last year
and who have fought along to shine
lot better this year are Shocker
and Bush. 1t has been claimed
! that the latter has been put in easy
I, spots by Higgins. If he has it has
been a good thing for him and, a
good thing for the Yankees because
he has pitched better baseball than
most of his rivals who have wor-
ried more about the tips they would
have to give to the walters than
they have about their work. Nor
| ton of Cleveland is a pitcher who
has done remarkably well for one
who had been counted into the hos
pital
The National league has not a
good. star pitcher in the circuit.
There are some who are above
medium and that is about all that
can be said for them. Nehf and
Rixey have run quite a race for
the left hand leadership and one
of them is not over strong physic-
ally and the other is likely to have
a streak of wildness that will lose
him a game. Y
Reuther started out as if he
meant to be second Rube Waddell
AMI then got the Brooklyn hook
worm and slumped. The Brooklyn
hookworm has stopped many a good
ball player.
Brooklyn swatted the Giant fly
again on Thursday. Killing the
flies is all right but it is little
late to think of exterminating the
Giant fly. The Giants have too
many easy marks ahead and they
are still almost week in front of
the Cubs, who are second, and never
likely to overtake New York unless
the champions are suddenly over
come with premature decay and
crumbling of the bones. Fossils
crumble to dust when they are ex-
posed to the air but the Giants are
not quite up to that yet.
Yanks Pick Up Game.
The Yankees did better because
they picked up real game on St
Louis and that is always an ad-
vantage to them at this particular
moment as the more they can &C
cumulate to go west with the better
it will be TO rthem. To feel that
they have something in the base
ball savings bank they should lead
by at least three games before they
got away from the white lights fol-
good.
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