Evening star., 1924-08-24

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Vance carries every symptom of
being the biggest thing in pitching
that will sit down next Winter and
read about what took place the Sum-
mer before. He is iikely 10 be as big
a man in his home State of Nebraska
as Charles w. Bryan. no matter what
is the outcome of the November cleo
= tions.
Adolfo LuQue, the temperamental
Cuban finger. led the pitchers last
season with 81 games Won and s lost.
His teammate on the Cincinnatis,
Eppa Rixey. won % and lost Is in
1922. Burleigh Grimes won % and
lost IS in 1921 Alexander the Great
= won 81 and lost II in 1920. Jess
Barnes won 25 and lost in 1919.
Those are the best National League
records since the war, and Vance
should win 80 and lose not more than
in 1924.
Third Season With Robins.
This is Vance's third season with
the Brooklyns. Robinson grabbed
him from New Orleans after half a
dozen other big leaguers had passed
up chance to get him. In 1921. his
last year with New Orleans when his
record was 21 won and IL lost, Julius
Heinemann, the Soft-voiced head of
the Pelicans, said he could not under
stand why some manager from up
North did not take his pitcher away
from him. Robbie did.
There is one of the greatest
pitchers in the country" said Heine-
mann to the writer. "why. if 1
owned one of those big clubs up
; North 1 would give myself $4,000
right out OF my own pocket to take
that boy away from New Orleans and
win big league pennant. Vance is
the best pitcher there is going. and
he has not even started yet"
In his first season with Brooklyn
O Daz1y looked good, although he did
not sem to be any world beater. His
record was IL won and lost. The
following Spring the base ball re-
porter of Northern paper sat gloom
lily in the stands at the Spring train
ing quarters of the Brooklyns at
Clearwater, Fla. looking out upon
an alleged ball game.
Vance Is Golf EHthusiast,
reporter. ''What'H he amount to this
year? Look at him. Off with his
: uniform and beating it for the golf
course with less than an hour of
practice. Some lemon Vance will be
for the Brooklyns this year.
That season Vance won 1S games
c and lost Is. He could hardly be
called a lemon doing as well as
that with a team that was not going
any better than the Brooklyns. But
no matter how many games the team
kicked away for him, Dazzy kept on
pitching the best he knew how. He
also kept on playing golf, and why
shouldn't he?
The red-haired thrower of loves
darts has pitched % complete games
this season, which is another achieve
ment in these days. He has pitched
only two part-time games all year
There are some pitchers who have
taken part in about 20 part-time
games and have not pitched more
than two complete games.
Leading Hurler in Strikeouts.
Fance's strikeouts are almost as
much a part Of his pitching as win
ming games. He will not pitch up
TO the strikeout record of the Ma
'tional League, made many years ago
by Amos Rusie. when the big fellow
struck out 345 batters in one season,
ihut he will very likely strike out
more batters than any other pitcher.
The Brooklyns probably will not
win the pennant this year, because
the Giants seem to have the Indian
sign on them nearly every time they
hook up, but they are likely to be
serious contender next season-if
Vance doesn't neglect his golf game.
Copyright, 1924