The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-25
NO CHANCE:TO
PRY CLEANER
FROM PIRATES
Barney Dreyfuss Not willing to
Break Into His AH-Star
Pitching Stat.
BY JOHN B. FOSTER


New York, Jan. 25.-There are
five clubs in the National league
aching until they scream to get
GlaZner, the Pittsburgh pitcher, it
became known today. In Pitts
burgh they think he is the coming
time anybody says trade" and
pitchers" in the same sentence to
Barney Dreyfuss, the Pittsburgh
magnate pulls his hat down over
his eyes and wishes them glo-
rioGs Fourth OF July.
The pittsburgh team, which has
not changed a player to date, in
spite of the fact that as far back as
last October its owner was ready
to make reasonable and suitable
shifts, ripped over the course in
1921 a seeming winner. Suddenly
it crumbled and fell in a heap, or
approximately that, because it fail
ed to win the championship and in
Pittsburgh second place does not
count for much when the baseball
populace has blown itself betting
that the team will win the pennant.
Take the pitching records of
five of the Pittsburgh pitchers,
Adams, Glazner, Morrison, Cooper
and Hamilton, and see if you can
find anything as good in the Ma
tional league that belongs to any
other one club. The Giants, who
beat them out, failed to do as we'll
by a mile from a pitching stand
point.
hn ~
ed on the Pittsburgh team co-joint-
ly had an earned run average of
2.9S which is little less than
three runs per game, and will al
ways stand up as one of the best
marks ever made by pitchers in
the history of baseball in view of
the slump that was raging every
where else. The significance of
PittsDurgh's strength lies in the
fact that every proposition which
has been made to Barney Dreyfuss
TO trade something that he might
like for something that he has, also
has included in it a request for one
of these very good pitchers on the
Pittsburgh payroll. Glazner won
IA games and lost five in 1921 and
his earned run average was 2.77.
A statement was made the other
day by some chap that Glazner is
lucky. II he is other folk would
like to buy some of his luck. ANY
ball player who is making his first
year in d major league and who al
most leads that organization at the
nnlsh of the season is possessed OF
the same kind of luck that leads
some folks straight to a gold mine
in the desert
The success of the Pittsburgh
pitcher bellies the argument that a
lively ball had so much to do with
the games of the 1921 season. If
only one of them had pitched well
a lively bail might have had foun-
dauon for its presumable exist
ence but all of the Pittsburgh
pitchers did we'll and held their
speed to something like normal. 1
That was because they were irving
all of the time.
If the Pittsburgh pitching staff
can duplicate its performance in
I922 Dreyfuss again has a chance
to win the championship with his
team; He knows it, too. That is
the reason why he won't talk with
anyone when a pitcher deal is sug-
gested TO him
Glazner cannot be bought for
100000 unless Dreyfuss is ready
TO quit baseball. The Pittsburgh |
owner reckons him as the nearest |
approach to MathewSon that the |
club has ever had, and of course he |
is the logical successor to Babe |
Adams.
When it is ascertained that the
poorest pitcher on the Pittsburgh !
staff finished with an earned run /
average in 1921 of 800 some idea.
may be had as to the strength nos
sesSed by the Pirates on the pitch
er's plate because most of the clubs
did not have any pitchers who were
not 800 or worse
What Pittsburgh wants is a third
Oaseman and second baseman
BaTnhart looked good in 1920 but
n 1921 the conclusion was reach
I'd that he was too light for a third
)aSeman- Yet he will go back to
bird if Dreyfuss can't improve on
lim.
IIerney, who played second base
ant hit quite lot but he is nat
lrally slow and he won't speed nm
my because he is too far beyond
he meridian.