Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1923-01-03

N ing on tho subject
XII of Baltimora base
/6H% bnll stars for whom
/E the various major
0N league clubs are or
AH& fering tons or dough.
" Ny want 90 say mat
~ n ono Of tho outg'Rnd-
TN stars of that claasy
organization ts a
Dolavnso hoy. "Ja~k" ogden. PREM
Tor pitchor az rho minors during tho
1921 soeso, 10 tho lad IN question. Al
though he ~ genonlly halted 90
Philadelphian. uKObably because no
attended Swarthinoro College. JACK
was raised on farm ut ClayTnont
Ills first experience ns a 1Rll player
was with Chcstcr Hugh School
While tho Orioles wore making 'heir
four J-onnant winning nghte, lag
Jack" was for three seasons tho main
cog Of the pitching department. Ills
great speed was for q long time dis
cussed by players. fans md baseball
writer's NJ beinR ON "A par with IN"
only Waite. johnson u WIS with
great difficulty Tint Johnny attained
tho knack % throwing n curve bail
n took him many months ~ proctine
to acquire the foat. Another obs'ania
that stood I'm his path wr,s his strssks
" witness. practice makes porfoot
In an old edsge and A certainly holds
good I'm this case.
had many opportunltlep 10 watch
Ogden devolop. worked behind him
In hia hlsh school days and / worked
hohlnd him when DO was tho pitching
lce az g,vasthmore Back On 1916 and
1911 he was tho University az Pom
sylvatdas most feared opponent on
tho diamond worked thrce her'i
close games that Jack twirled against
tho University Of Pennsylvania, and
he won al three. Whom Jack was
given briar trial ny Tho New York
gianta anil turned down bcauso n,
larked n ourve tall AMI moro partiou-
larly besatae hs couldn't control his
| fast ball. no WAS diabeartoned pit6b-
| or. but determined that some day no
would nvengo himself by trimming
John Mc'lraw's Giants
mot ogden ono day at Magyar
| Fails and while w0 woro wafChlB
tho MALI Of the Mist" Jack told mo
hla baseball troubles. lIs would ask
| me. how hia curve was breaking. and
| n he waA improving IN HIS control
| would try and encourage hlm th'
bost ! could. although his control WA
| terrible and his curyo bail was wha'
tho players call n wrinkle. Jack a
| that timo was u member ~ th'
ROchcHtor Colts. and IA no us.-l e
say 80. They are some cOlts Thel
only won games when the other club
had had days yos very bad ones"
Tho Rochcstes club needed monel
20 pay tho salaries IN 1919 and a th'
closo OF the season. ho WIS sold q
Jack Dunn for $1,000. Today h'
would bring tho baltimore club arOuu'
$40, 900. When he Joined tho Balti
moro club. no was different pitcher
For three years he was the hardos
man in the League 20 beat. There ar
many fans who cl. I'm anybody Coul
WIN pitching for a club composed q
500 hitters. and most Of Thorn close &
tho 400 class.
This all sounds very good when ST
Ing In the bleachers. but Il Is a fac
that 20 per cent OF his games VOL
hard battles. remember one par
tlcular occasion that Ogden was pre-
; pared 10 win a game from the iOwl
J Syracuse olub. Baltimore had wo
about a dozen IN row while u
salt city aggregation hadn't won
qamo IN three wceks. While We weT
going ovcr tho ground rules with "a
two captains at the hOmo plat
Maizel slh to Ogden, Pretty sott e
YOU. wish was a pitcher. l could bes
this gang with my left hand OF
) den became very neoved and didn
. hesitate 20 give Fsrltz call for n
o romark. as Jack claimed every tin
G somebody told him ne had cine
: club TO beat. he invariably wJu hit
3 all corners OF tho lot. You can imal
Inc what ogden thought OF the Sir
/, when Manager Jack Dunn waved hi
Z TO the club house before tho first 81
Z ming was over.
/ During the 1921 season the Bait
o more club tied tho worlds record I
= winning n straight games. umpl
ed 20 OF these games. including q
twen,y-seventh. and also the gar
they lost TO Buffalo tha1 stopped the
from breaking tho worlds recOrd. o
i den won about 10 OF those games al
u [ must say, showed me tho best pltc
> Ing Lever worked behind. He used
! binding fast ball, a fast brealxi,
y curve, almost perfect control. so
"a head work. and plenty OF confiden,
y He brought into service every esse
70 tial required to mako a great twirl
20 Jack Ogden Is one OF the game
!. twirlers that ever stepped on
:. mound. He has fer years been trout
~ cd with acute indigestion, and ha
seen him collapse on tho iield numl
Gus times. When ne pitched TN
= out of four winning games IN tho Il
isville series for the minor leag
championship, no was carried fr
the field In tho second game no w,ol
cd. Incidentally u was the socC
game OF that famous series that S
tho greatest pitcher battle OF
career. Bon lineup was on the !
n for Louisville and Sir Jack was
Baltimore selection.
: l never saw such wonderful cul
balls. such dazzling speed and mary
Gus control as came across those c,
" ners that day. Ogden went TO
he mound, heTalded as the greatest Dit,
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