The Washington times., 1924-02-13

Charley Root, but Urban ShOcke
Bill Bayne, Dave Danforth, Ra
pected to return in bulk from Il
Hankerino SEVERED returns a
is Pat Collins.
when all recruits are catalogued as
duplicates of Christy Mathewson,
Mordecai Brown. Nick Altrock. Ed
die Plank, Ed Reulbach and other
wizards Of the pitching knoll. How
many will reach this mark remains
to be seen, but the Browns have
combed the minor fields, semipro
lots and even collegiate grass to i'm.
prove the pitching staff for George
Sisler.
Without covering further space,
Urb Shocker will head the list. Hav.
ing settled his grievance out at
Sp0rtsman's Park, Urb should add
another lap to his record of enter.
ing the "20" column of annual
victories. He had 20 in 1920, q
in 1921, "a in 1922 and 20 in 1923.
Last season Urb stored his uniform
on September z. Had he covered
the last month Of the campaign
he probably would have added four
or five victories to his record.
Vangilder and DanfOrth get the
next rating i'm value. Big Van
won 10 in 1922 and grabbed
only 16 games last summer.
With Sis around to urge and
press Elan there should be
big Improvement i'm the Cape
Girardeau pitcher.
With Ban johnson instructing his
umpires not to pay so much atten-
ton to the complaints from the
Datters in regard to the rough
ball, Danforth should be winner
regularly. He won 16 and lost IA
In 1898.
After winning IA and losing in
1922, Ray Kolp threatened to burn
up the league. Ray, when coached
properly and used against certain
teams in the league, has everything
to win more games that he loses.
He dropped down to sig in 1928,
which means that Ray probably
will do more pitching and less
talking in 1924.
Dixie Davis is another of the an
cient class. Dix has been around
for-well, he's going to celebrate
his thirty-fourth birthday next DC
tober and he hasn't many more
summers left in his arm. The
change from Fohl to Sisler should
make new pitcher out of Dix.
Pruett and Bayne remain ques'
tlon marks. 1t will be impossible
to figure Hubert and his fa1eaway
until he gets into action against the
big leaguers. Hubert finished the
1923 training course in rare shape.
There wasn't a single kink in his
left whip, but after pitching a few
games he developed a sore arm and
did not touch a ball after August z.
Bayne was brought up too
early, although he won eighteen
and lost eight in his first pro-
fessiOnaI year back i'm 1919 with
Tulsa. He was but twenty years
Of age when he arrived at Sports
mans Park. He will be given
every opportunity to develop into
q regular by Sis, and IL he fails
he will be placed out in the Pa.
Cific Coast League.
Bayne has a wide curve, a treach-
erous twiSter for a left-handed hit
ter, and a year of steady employ
ment should fit him for the 1924
Browns.
Now for the youngsters. George
Lyons heads the class because he
has been out in the Pacific Coast
League for three years. If he isn't
ripe now he never will be and Sisler
is confident that he drew the best
pitcher out West, although the
Cubs picked Jacobs and Blake, the
Reds drew jake May, the Pirates
bought Kremer and the Superbas
called in Harrison.
Among the raw material there
are several youths who are highly
touted. Wilson, semipro from the
lots Of Kansas City had a record
in the Kaw neighborhood. Win
gard, who quit the University Of
Alabama campus for the semipro
circuit down South, is hailed as
another wonder. He's south
pawer.
Bill Friel believes he put one over
on the Giants when he claimed Olin
Voight, a right-hander, via waivers.
Voight was with the tail-end club
IN the Western League, but Friel,
while directing the Tulsa Club, was
favorably impressed with the lad.
The Giants purchased Voight and
then tried to send him back to the
Colorado Grizzlies but Bill was will
ing to spend and risk his own
opinion.
The others should be used for
practice pitchers and materal for
minor leaguers. Blaeholder, Payne,
Grant and Meme have been tried
before. Tom Rich Is a lanky right
handler who was shared from Cleve.
land, Tenn, in 1922, but refused to
report last spring.
One young catcher IL bound TO
attract attention. He is John l..
Simmons, Of Washington, ID. c.,
who won the world amateur title
at Cleveland last summer as the
best player in the organization.
RegO from Los Angeles and
Johnny Schultz, home boy, are
the other new catchers.
With a place open for a third
catcher the competition is going to
be spirited. Look out for Schultz,
who not only is q catcher, but a
wicked hitter!
Friel issued an important an
nouncement from his sanctum at
Sportsman's Park yesterday. In
talking about the unsigned docu-
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