Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-01-03
PILOTS ON LOOKOUT
|. FOR FORKHANDERS
Brown of Washington Count
ed Among Best-Red Sox
Pick Up Pair.
BY GEORGE CHADWICK.

N 1 ~ SAs1S,
M Major league managers are
1 Y playing for a southpaw
year in 1882. Every now
and then that lefthand tidal wave
of managerial ambition gathers
momentum and sweeps forward
DIS the time approaches for the
base ball season to begin.
Bobby Quinn, owner of the Bos-
ton Red Sox, wandered around the
lobby of a hotel here and shook
his head sadly because he did not
have any lefthand pitchers.
Must you have them?" he was asked.
well I haven't got them. Every
other club has some I haven't PEN
nys worth"
That must have keyed him up to
trading. Inside of six hours he had
Michaels, promising left-hander from
Buffalo, for whom he was willing to
exchange Winsett and Smith. He felt
so good over it that he kept on trading
and got Weiland, a southpaw, from the
White Sox for CASTOR. When the
southpaw bug bit Quinn, it bit him
hard
THE White Sox have their lanky left
l. handsr, Pat Caraway, the willing
worker who couldn't win in 1881
but never became discouraged. If he
can throw the ball as generously t2f
Manager Fonseca as he threw 1t for
DOME Bush, he will earn the reputation
of never having had enough
Cleveland stands pretty pat on It's
southpaws and northpaWs, with the
Manager Peckinpaugh sure-tire
southpaw pitched and he would reach
for him so quickly that he'd sprain his
wrist. Detroit isn't southpawing very
much, but the Tigers still have Hog
sett.
The Yankees have one of the best
southpaws In base ball-young Vernon
Gomez, who has become great since ne
reformed his teeth and increased MS
zeal for eating big meals.
OF course, the Athletics have the
cream of all the southpaW zone, and
when the work of Robert Moses Grove
er his value is realized. The calm as
surance with which he enters bail
game and pulls the foundation out from
under the other team is one OF the
grandiose things of base ball.
THE st. Louis Browns have three
l. southpaWs who have possibilities.
They are Coffman, Herbert and
Stewart. Stewart displayed his wares
10 good advantage In 1881, and if Her
bert homes his pitching hand sharp
enough, he will be great pitcher next
season.
Some folks think Brown Of Wash
ington is one OF the eagle birds OF base
ball, and in season when two left
hand pitchers led the American League
he finished fifth.
In the National League, observe Ed
Brandt Of Boston. They all want him.
Sherdel is cunning.
Brooklyn has Bill Clark and would
give more than a half interest in the
bat boy to get another like him. The
Cubs have pulled Henry back. They
let Teachout get away They retained
jake May and Sweetland. Cincinnati
has its southpaw shelf, on which Rixey.
the veterans, is the most-sought volume.
The others are less so.
THE Giants have q bunch of left
l. handlers who shine like Is carats
in platinum setting. Bill Walker,
Carl Hubbell and Jim Mooney may try
to southpaw the National League be-
hind the fence in 1882.
The PhillieS have uncertain south
paws in Bolen and Milligan. Pitts
burgh thought 1t had the southpaw
wonder in Wood, who stumbled in 1881.
French, less wonder than at first ex-
pected, has developed into pitcher
who can work.
ST. Louis has Bill Hallahan. 1t has
taken over Teachout, but Branch hickey
thinks Teachout can do something bet
ter than pitch-at least such Is the
story-and he Is going to make him
over into a ball player, who will be so
good that Rogers Hornsby will gnash
his teeth.
Hallahan Is one Of the most enter
tanning pitchers in base ball. He goes
on inning after inning, leading the
fans from one uneasy seat into an
other. Just when they get ready to
clamor, Take him out" he strikes the
side out with three men ON bases.
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