San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-08-26
QUICK SWAPS
.1llAKE EDWARDS
OF PITCHERS.
Buck-passing Managers
= Getting Complaints
From Hurlers.
IT'S DIFFERENT GAME
Bravery in Crisis No Long
er Pitching Asset;
They Jerk En-.
IT'S DIFFERENT GAME
Nv GEORGE CHADWICK.

Copyright by The San Antonio Light
New York. Aug. 25.-Pitchers in
major league baseball are complaining
against the newly-adopted custom of
taking the hurler from the box the
minute he walks n couple OF men or
allows a pair of hits in a row.
Baseball has developed into queer
game since il became the custom not
TO use pitchers day after day through
r. nine innings-which really is base
ball-but to pitch them according to
the score.
Thus the manager" says the dis
gruntled young pitcher, doth make
towards OF us ALL"
Take the first fifteen days of
. August. for example. There were IL
!, Instances here two pitchers were
fused in the same game BY managers
lin the National League and 30 in
stances in the American League. On
five occasions the National League
managers broke out with three pitch
ers; on four they used four, and
twice they used six. In the American
i League there were sixteen occasions
when three pitchers were sent in;
six when four pitchers were used,
and three when five were used.
Is there any wonder that young
pitcher loses his grin, expecting to be
h,u'ed from the boz at any minute?
The Young HurIer's Lament.
"The managers won't give fellow
chance any more" said a young
National League pitcher to me. "They
take him ont the moment there are
two runners on base. How in the
thunder is a man ever going TO be
pitcher in this league or any other
If he can't pitch n nine-inning game?
IF | get one man on first / begin
p to worry. ! don't know what the guy
who runs the team will do il l get
two on bases, and I'm more worried
over that than ! am over losing"
% That apparently is the consensus
of opinion among young pitchers at
least. Signs of the managers deter
mination to put new blood into the
game Mt the first sign of crisis were
3 no ed at the beginning of the sea-
son. The season began on April II.
Between then and May in the Ma
'tional League there were 2S instances
In which manager used two pitchers
sin @ game. There were Is instances
sswhen three pitchers were used. eight
- instances when four pitchers were
used. and once when five were used.
In the American League there were
80. "a instances when two pitchers were
~, trotted out. On fourteen occasions
~ three were used. on five occasions
~ four We're sent in and once six were
= thrust into the game.
4 pitcher walked off the diamond
:. one day at st. Louis. head down.
VTnuttering to himself. As he passed
.-rsome of the opposing players they
yelled out. in cheerful sympathy:
"Out again."
Could This BE TOney?
- "Out again." he replied. ayes,
s-swho in kingdom come can ever play
4 a ball game for that fathcad? He
> won't let you go nine innings. He
has ruined more pitcher than it would
take to patch Texas from Dallas TO
!. Ell Paso."
The despoiIer of pitchers is a we'll
known major league manager.
a man who played ball in 1884
stood in the press box in New York
=" b few days AGO.
"They can't play hall as well as
we did" he said. "That team in the
field hasn't got pitcher with CON
fidcrce enough in his own ability 10
pick oranges in winter time. The
minute they get two balls on the bat
Ter they begin to have pGlpitation of
tho heart. And when they get man
-,.or first they watch the bench and
- not the batter. They don't plav ball
with any braYerv any more. They
pass the buck from one pitcher to
another and III" guy who gets in last
is scared stiff for fear the loss of the
game viii be charged to him. And
probably il will be. 1t amt a mans
game it's the game Of who gets
TAGGED last"
Firnres tend to bear ont his conten-
= tions. There are only three pitchers
in hig league baseball todav-Ehmke.
Grimes and Alexander-who have
pitched score or more of complete
& nine-innin" rames and not one who
: has pitched %.
- Never Expect To Finish.
al never expect to finish n game. ="
said one pitcher recently. and n star
~ pitcher. too. "The man work for
won't LET me. He hasn't any con-
,~viction of his own and is a gambler
bv instinct. rot a baseball manager
He wants fresh decl, whenever the
80. cards break n little against him and
- tho fresh decl, is new pitcher. He
~ hasn't pitcher on his nine with q
nine-inning reputation. If the leat
against you gets too big. your team
!. Instead of pitching in and trying IL
m reverse matters. expects you r. b,
!. taken out, and plays on the defen
y. siye "
Three ritchers recently were warm
ing m Th"v were down in the cor
ner Of the field.
~, whitley. you s-goin' to pitch .
another player asked.
"Nv custo- arv an res'lar fivt
inni"' WIS WbitN7''- reply.
rs e. 80 r. -,:-I - . ,,;tcher