Evening star., 1923-09-02

Take Chle of the Cleveland Club.
He has won twice as many games as
he has lost. He has pitched over
thirty. He came from sand lot
team around Cleveland and he has
some of the points that should helm 10
make a pitcher talked about, but YOU
don't hear him discussed much. The
klds don't gather at the knot holes
! to look him over. and yet that young
man stands today for about as good
as there Is in the American League.
Shocker Has Reputation.
National League managers will tell
you that Shocker is the best pitcher
, IN the american League. They gain
! their opinion by conversat ton and es-
| umatlon. Shocker hasn't done as
well as Chle He may be NOR.
talked about, but no one ever claimed
that he was a second Ed Walsh.
Who will you find in the National
TO pitch for the Long Branch team
back in 1913. when the Giants wera
wont to go there to play Sundav
games. and they baited him even
then. In most respects he has tho
best record of any pitcher TODAY in
baseball. He has won four times a
many as he has lost But look When
! he began: Back in 1913 at Lone
I Branch, and he might have been play.
. ing some years in Cuba even b4fo,n
: time between drinks for pitchers T..
| make an appearance. then what does
6abe ADAMS Is as good as the sec
ond best in the National League, and
he was winning world series in
1909. Where are the pitchers? Alex
ander, who began when MathewSou
was in his prime, Aldridge. Scott and
BentOn-all old timers-are in III.
stage light in the National and Their.
is only one kid, Morrison of Pitts.
ha ia
them.
Not One Since War.
Wilbert Robinson. who manages the
Brooklyn team part of the time each
year and shoots ducks the remainder
| was the first to direct attention to the
exact period in which there have been
no freshly discovered Mathewsons. John
sons iounss. Waddells, Benders or
PlankS
Not a really great pitcher has been
developed i'll the major leagues or
| minors since the war he said.
And" chimed in smart base ball
man, not really great pitcher was
developed during the war"
! 'Oh yes, there was" Robby began
and then blurted out. Il don't know, by
golly, but you are right. l was going
! to say Schupp. l helped pull that kid
along. What a record he made the first
year that he made good Less than one
tdI llSu VII game LOT Tie StdSOH. lTTedI
tarpon. what "A cuSs he would have been
if he had stuck to that for two or three
wears But his arm went bad. But say.
there amt been a swell pitcher, has
there. when YOU come to look EN- over.
Reen lot of morning glories, morning
squaSh blossoms. I'd call some of EN-.
Do you know what ailS EN-? Don't want
/ TO work. Pitchers amt pitChin' for the
sake of pitChin'. They're pitchin to get
away with it and hang on to a summer
job with gravy trimmings, as long as
they can
Where are the pitchers? Never
mind about the stars of yeSteryear.
! The fans have their hands 10 their
Year and tine years to come. They
can't be found with telescope or field
glaSs-and base ball needs them.
Base ball has had Babe Ruth with his
ability TO hit the kind of pitching
with which he is served. and it has
made much of him.
And it is true that great pitchers
haven't always been great drawing
cards. That is because they do not
play every day, and it is seldom that
a manager will tell in advance who
the pitcher will be. Many a time
quite n throng gathered on Saturday
in New York to see MathewSon pitch
and as likely as not he didn't. but got
the assignment the following Mon
day, which was an off day in New
York a rule.
Yet there was that interest in the
work of a pitcher like MathewSon
two or three days straight. because
the fans would continue to go until
he did pitch.
Copyright. 1881