Evening star., 1925-09-29

in the last four years.
a year ago Harris left-handers
were dominant factors. Tom Zach
arv won two of Washington's games.
and Mogridge won another. Mosrld2e
also shouldered the early burden in
the last game. which eventually was
pulled out by Johnson in The twelfth,
the only victory going to 4 Nashing-
ton right handler.
The coming series, however. prom
ises 10 be right handed series. Of
course, left-handers will take part,
but both Managers Mckechnie and
Harris will give preference to their
right handed boXmen. Pittsburgh
has such strong lineup Of right
handed hitters that the Pirates are
poison" to left-handers.
Ruether Due For Work.
Unquestiona bly, Ruether, who has
had a most successful season in his
| first campaign as an American
Lacquer, will be Harris third pitch
ing choice, after he has pitched Cove
leskie and Johnson. Ruether and the
Pirates will need no introduction.
The National League champions are
familiar with his pitching style, and
Dutch has some idea of what the
individual Pirates can hit and can't
hit. Some National League left
handlers are convinced the Pirates
can hit anything a SouthpaW can
dish up but the fact that the an
cient Philadelphia left-handed spit
ba Her Clarence Mitchell was able TO
beat the Pirates three times this sea
son shows that they are not abso-
lutely invulnerable against southpaw
hurting.
The dope. however favors Pitts
, hurch To beat either Ruether or
Zachary despite the fact that both
of these left handlers have splendid
world series records. Zachary has
had an off year, though he has picked
up late in the season. However, his
failure to win half of his games with
q championship club shows unmis-
takably that the sturdy North Caro-
linian is not the pitcher that he was
in 1924.
Dutch a Sturdy Hitter.
Unlike most pitchers. Ruether
swings a mean bat. and his hitting
may be a pronounced factor. He has
| been banging away at about 800
batting clip this season, and in two
games of the 1919 world series he
! blazed away for an average of .667. He
won the first game of this series from
the White Sox in easy fashion. but
Judging from later disclosures Eddie
Cicotte, his opponent, was not par
ticularly anxious to win, nor to keep
his 'knuckle BALI away from Rue
theirs bat.
Pittsburgh has one of the best young
tina nders to come up since the war
in Emil Yde. However. Yde has had
considerable trouble with his arm in
the latter part of the season and it is
A question whether he will be right
for the series. His record this season
has been similar to that of Ruether.
written the Washingtonian had won
Is games and lost s and Yde had won
i games and lost 9.
While Nehf and Bentley were heat
en- in the last two games of the 1924
series. MCGraw proved that the way
to stop the Washington attack was
TO stop the three lefthanders, who
then appeared in the middle of the
lineup. Rice, Goslin and Judge. That
will be Yde'S Job if he is called upon
TO do regular work in the series
The Pirates picked up rather use
full veteran late in the season when
they purchased John Red) Oldham.
former Tiger southpaw. from the
Pacific Coast League. Oldham has
won three out of five starts for the
Pirates. and also has been useful as
relief pitcher. He is an especially
good man to put in to hold a lead for
several innings. l expect to see him
favored over Tom Sheehan for relief
work.
tCopyright. 1925.t