Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-10
RUETHER KEEPS
ROBINS IN RACE
Veteran Southpaw and Rookie
Vance Have Won 20 Games
Between Them
INDIANS DEFEAT YANKS
By JOSEPH T. LABRUM

by JOSEPH l.. LAbnOM
CTANDING in fourth place with n
~ golden opportunity to get higher in
the percentage table Is Brooklyn. fifth
last year and not counted by the ex-
ptrts rs first division prospect during
1922.
There are two good and sufficient
reasons why the Dodgers are standing
so high this year. contrary to expcc :
tations, and they are Ruether and
Vance. One is n veteran with varied
career and the other rookie up for the
first time. Between them they have
won twenty. three of the forty games
counted in the right side Of the Brook
lyn ledger.
The veteran, Ructher. has fourteen
triumphs to four defeats. while vance
is credited with nine and six. Shriver:
another rookie. Is the only member OF
the big hurling staff to stand even IN
the percentage of games won ana ioSt'
he having turned In two WINS ana the
same number Of rcverses.
Walter Henry Ruethcr. called Dutch
for short wherever baseball Is played
is having his most successful season
since he started to ply his trade as
pitcher. The husky southpnw IS the
sensation of the senior circuit In sea ;
son that Is getting its sensations from
younger pitchers. A.,
burly pilot of brooklyn. in bringing hll
the latent talent out of Rcuthrr Is one
of the outstanding features OF the Dls
fellows success. Dutch has always
been known as rccalcitrnnt. but TINS
wear he Is as gentle as the genteHt
lamb. The scribes lay part OF the plane
on Robinson and the remainder on 'hr
fact that Ruether joined the ranks oi
the benedicts Just before the season
started md had been on his good be-
haviOr ever since.
Has Had Varied Career
Ructhcr has had one Of the real
varied careers of baseball. lie hnllS
from Almeda. Calf, where he starIeu
his pitching days as q schoolboy. HiS
work attracted the scouts and 1t WASH I
long before he was hurling league ball.
Five teams had Ructhcr enrolled MS one
Of their members during his career on
thc stones of the Pacific. All five had
trouble keeping him within the bounds
of what a baseball PLAYER should 40.
Ruethcr pitched for Portland, Sacra,
mento. Salt Lake, Los Angeles ana
Spokune before hc started ms major
league career. In 1913 the Pirates TOOK
him South on the spring training ]annt
but n week or two after the season
Dutch was given his walking papers, a
one way ticket to Los Angeles ana
good sized meal.
In 1917 Ructhcr staged n comeback
md started the season with the Cubs.
lie lasted in Chicago until July - OF
that year when he was taken over by
the Reds. For four seasons under Eat
Moran Ructhpr pitched off and on, Fat
Moran finally throwing up the sponge
and trading him to Brooklyn for Mar
In 1910 Ructhcr had his biggest year
i'm the big leagues. winning nineteen
md losing six games. During that
spacc he started no less than nine series
and won every time. Last year
Ructher hurled in and out ball, at one
time being suspended for breach OF
training rules. lie won ten out OF
twenty three games.
should Win Twenty. five Games
This year the big fellow should be
good for twenty five victories. and II
he succeeds in turning in that number
and Vance continues his sensational
work and one or two other brooklyn
pitchers show II reversal of form, the
dodgers should fight their way up even
further In the race. Vance was a
stnr with New Orleans last year in the
Southern Association, and has con-
tinued to be lumnary with the fast
set.
The Dodgers were defeated ycster-
day in n thrilling game by the Cardi-
nails. When the ninth rolled around
The score stood three all The Dodgers
rallied in the vnal frilme pushing two
counters across only to have the Cards
shove across three.
The Phillies struck another snag in
Cincinnati and the Reds roinped away
with the third straight win OF the