New Britain herald., 1929-05-16
BY BOB KATHERINE NEA Service Sport Writer

Experience has shown that il doesn't pay to take too seriously all the sugared comments passed out from the baseball camps during the spring training period. Especially about rockies.
 That is to say. 1t seems better 10 reserve hnal judgment until June. Ut least, as 1t has been demonstrated in previous years that tho fellows who look like Cobbs and Jehnsons in March often end up the season in the Thres-Eye or some lower league by May.
 Nearly every major league club has had its bloomers. The Giants had two notable ones in Jimmy O'Conneil and Wayland Dean. who together cost 31.5,ooo and neither one was worth the least part of it.
 Dudley Branom h1xled for the Athletics and Paul Easterling joined the bleomer ranks last year while at Detroit. One doesn't have to go any further back than this past March to recall that number of youngsters who were expected to play important roles this summer are-wsll. where?
 The season has been under way long enough to offer the conclusion that Ad Liska, the 21-year-old sub- marine chukker with the Washing ton Senators. isn't destined to have the tag "bloomer" fastened on him. On the contrary. Liska seems we'll on his way to earning the distinc- ton of being the best young pitcher to reach the ma jors this season.
 At the Tampa. Fla, training base of the Senators, Liska was pointed out with great pride in March.
 There's . young feller that ts Eo- irr to bA heard of." the judges or baseball talent said. He's that I.iska, who won 20 and lost four for Minnea polls last season. Pitches un- der-handed all the time because he hurt his arm the other way and either had to quit baseball or else throw that way. He looks great"
 Manager walter Johnson. one Of the greatest pitchers baseball ever has known. also boosted LisIa.
 He has impressed me more than any youngster have seen in years' he commented.
 It has come to pass that no one was wrong. Or. at least. isn't yet. Liska has pitched almost perfect ball for Washington. In his first three trips out. he allowed only 10 hits in 25 .-3 innings. One Of his games vas a two-hit affair against Cleveland. He lost that, and was credited with losses in the two other games, because the Senators made only one run for him in them. His first victory. even though he didn't finish the game. was against Detroit.
 Bill McGowan, veteran American league umpire, was roaring sleefully about Liska after the two-htt game in Cleveland .McGowan officiated at the game.
 That kid has one of the most puzzling deliveries I ever have seen, ne said. Tt is hard to get next to.
 "It's a lot different from the way Carl Mays pitches. Mays sweeps very low in his swing and . batter can follow the ball easily as he seems to hesitate just . little at the bottom of the swing and then push it in there. Not this Liska. He whips the ball. He doesn't swing low and he hides that ball so nicely that batter doesn't zee it until it is almost up to the plate. It sweeps up and hops.
 Joe sewell has just about the best pair of eyes in baseball. And those eyes. and the fact that he crowds the plate and is little fel- low. make him hard to pitch to. But sewell. as well as the other players. were topping 'em. The inhelders get plenty of work when Liska works.
 'Liska looks like a great pitcher. His delivery has a nice hop and ts a fast one. His curve isn't 50 bad. either. If he keeps hiding that ball the way he did against Cleveland, no club will beat him easily.