Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-09-17
DOUGLAS CAN CLAIM
TITLE IF It GOES TO
GIANTS, SAYS SCRIBE
Fails to Hand Pitchers Now on
Staff Ability to Take
HOnOrS.
BY GEORGE
Special Correspor dsnt Of Great Falls Tribune
Cnnurizht 1000 Ru The Great Falls Trtbune-

New York, Sept. 16.-The champ
ions of the American League, whether
Yanks or Browns, will face as mouse
colored a pitching staff as ever ven
tured into the worlds series games
since John It. Brush gave to the own
ers the rules intended to provide for
real world competition and not a show
to extract a few more dollars from the
public wallet. That is assuming thai
the baseball weather van continues
to point straight at the Giants as the
National League winners.
Viewed in most favorable light, the
scout who would give three cheers and
a prickly cactus for the Giant pitching
staff would be accused of trying to
throw his boss into bankruptcy. There
is not a pitcher on it who ranks high
er than little Casino.
Phil Douglas. poor old Josey. really
pitched the Giants to a p%ennant. Bull
lied. villified and pleaded with. slow
to think and burning with hate over
some of the things which had happen
ed to him, he wrote a letter and the
letter suggested he might go fishing
and if he did the Giants could not win.
He went fishing in another way and
the Giants seem to have won. But
tnth GUuIu uOL udfC WOh L IN a Aot
pitched IS winning games to four de-
feats before he left. The rejuvenated
Stengel. whose return to life merely
indicates how little life the National
League possesses, the 100000 infield.
which has performed so per cent off
all season; the outfield, which is made
up of one player and two promises
none of these would have anchored the
Giants in the haven of world series il
the remorseful Phil hadn't pitched them
there. From a sentimental standpoint
they owe Phil something even if there
is nothing coming to him from a strict
" moral and s~portsmanlike standard.
Giants May Repeat
As the world series %approache:
thought must be given to all of this
At the moment it looks as if thu
Giants would embark in the post se9
son games with another Of those I'm.
fortunate. combinations which has leC
70 the slaughter from New York il
the past.
Who knows, on the other hand. but
these pitchers who went TO the shop:
for repairs and turned up witl theil
arms freshly strung for the fray may
not be kind Of puzzling TO the opposi.
ton. If they did win it would due tt
the surprise and shock to their rivals
Any team which would find itself
wabbIy and nerve shaken after facing
the pitching staff of the New Yorl
National League club would attribute
it to the fact that they had never seer
anything quite like it before. Hence
the shock.
Nehf. who is as good as the Giant:
have when it comes to skill ant
knowledge of pitching. is wearing away
like a grindstone. Never the strongesr
left handler. he has found the physica
strain of pitching a tax to his energy
and his vitality this year. He car
barely win so per cent of his games
This is winning ball, of course, but i
is not championship ball
RYAN No Alexander
Ryan who has struggled through a
! games this wear with a percentage O.
! 500 and probably will finish the sea
son at the same pace, is a fine man.
nered. hard working and faithful youn:
. fellow. But he is no Alexander.
Jess Barnes. who like Nehf is wear.
ing awav never thicker through thar
a gingerbread wafer. he cannot stant
too much pitching in succession. II
there had been a trade in sight il
would have been made. Barnes Is also
a 600 pitcher and a modest, shrink
ing 600.
These three. who have been mention
. dare the stars Smoked glass is not
needed 70 look upon them. They vii
not harm the naked eye.
There is also Jonnard. This young
man came to the Giants. vas SEM
! hence. and recalled. He has won si1
games but not six full games.
He NAV be one of the shocks.
Then there is Scott. Last spring
/ Scott thought he was through. He
| tried out with Cincinnati and after tht
! doctors had rummaged around his
! pitching arm for awhile they told hin
| that he needed rest and the Cincinnati
! club gave it TO Independently. His
arm got better and the Giants tool
him. He has won five and lost tive
hut II is hoping a lot to ask him TO d,
that we'll in a worlds series.
Maybe he is a shock.
There is also McQuillen. McQuillel
| can't be much of a shock because b
has been pitching too long.
Virgil Barnes and Hill are left. Vir
rille looks more like a shock than Hill
The latter is a cool bird. If he lean
ed over a tea Kettle it would be ice
tea. Yet he is not a great pitcher.
The Giants will miss Phil Douglas
the worlds series. Phil thought he ha
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