The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1922-12-13
FUNNY Things
IN B, B. MARKS NJ | :

q "a 60, &c. n
(By Hens3oL u EIrrell)

New York, a. Only four
,Ritchers IN the Ssssehal League pitt
hbetter bah7aS eason than
g. Adolfo ELudpes the Cuban
sl1aYsef Of the Cincinnati Reds. At the
same time, only three pitchers pitch
ed worse ball. n
Sounds rather contradictory, but
rit. remains fact under. the system
Of giving the pitchers a double rat
ing. t1
In. average runs allowed per game
which is perhaps the real way to
judge ability, Lnque was fifth with an
average of only 3!31 runs q game.
But the Senior won onlyr13I games
and lost 23. which from the old gam
es won and lost system, made him
twenty-third on the list with an ayer
rage Of 1851. .l 4. ~ ~ n q
Hard luck, it might be called for
the senior. He is one Of the Several
fine pitchers who haves never taken
the spotlight because 10 teams Seem
able to get runs for them = 81 3fs s +
Johny Couch, is a good exampletof
the contrary. Couch is Il young team
mate Of Luque, q He won I6 but aof
S525 games and finished third on the
list. But he was 9th on The list in
allowing runs. ss =: e:Sl ts 7 81 al:=
Ted Kid LeKis, European middle
weight chamro successfully de-
Tended his title recently by winning
a 20.reuna decision from Roland
Todd. 60. :. 81. ..z.s:
Except for Lewis holding and
carelesness once Of twice with his
head, il was q clean, hard-fought
contest. one Of the London papers
said in discussing the bout. q The
result WIS "a sore disappointment TO
Todd, but It might easily have gone
the. other fwayn Todd knew how to
make more use of himself. z
It would seem that it wasEa clean
fight, but dirty, and that Todd would
be = good fighter, il he knew how to
fight. ii
Faint echoes are still heard sof those
brave words that floated up from
the southern training camps, last
"A rma Boy you never saw such q
spring:
arm Thirty games for me next yeari
thirty gamesW .5:It.fsi 35t s.f 81.
Eppa Rixey, the Cincinnati Red
.hurler, was the only N National Lea
que pitcher stoz win 25 games and
Lefty Cooper, Of the Pirates and
Dutch Reuther, Of the Robins, were
the only others to get above the 20
mark. &: & l5.5 II. sssss$;s7sss
Jack Britton had a lot Of rosy
things said about him for sticking
ii, the ring 20: years and holding the
Welterweight title until he was 50
(officially. .s=3 s$.s.Ss
IL any more Of those kind words
are. available they should be cast in
the direction Of Babe Adams, the
great old man Of the Pittsburgh Pi-
rates. & I
Babe went through his 18th season
in baseball in 1921 at the age of "a
and he won eight out Of nineteen
games and he allowed only an ave
rage Of 1879 runs a game ~ d
Adams has taken good care of
himself and he = we'll preserved he
looks no older than some of The
isparsely covered heads that appear
on the big college programs AS
age 90" ~ 5ssss''ssi /
Bill Stevenson, I ormer, ,Prinseton
star and former matt tionaE quarter
mile champion is now, "a student of
Oxford and he is going just fassbig
over there as he wassin his eeantry:
In. the recent relay events ata0 Oxford,
Steyenson's work was the big fea-
.ture OF. the victories on Balliol, which
finished first in the two-naile, first
;in the mile and second in the half
mile royals, sisss E.5s,a#. s9Esas. q
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