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COBB AND STANA6E IT WAREACH PICKS A WINNER AMONG TIGER RECRUITS.Whetiiey and Boehler, Both Formerly With Springfield, Are the Likely Youngster®.' Ty Cobb and Oscar Stan age, star members of the Detroit (American league)• j team, are engaged in a controversy as to which of the Tiger youngsters will prove the best pitcher this year, and the funny part about it is that each of these experts Is picking a former Springfield player to outshine the others and neither Cobb nor Stange picks the same man, Cobb picks Charley Wheatley as his choice. Wheatley broke into the Central league with Zanesville last summer. He sprang a sore arm, 'a nit Charley O’Day, Springfield manager, was able to purchase his release for |6G0. O’Day- later sold him to Detroit for a price that was reported to be $2,600.St an age picks' George Boehler as the best of the youngsters signed by Hughey Jennings. Boehler pitched for Springfield in the Ohio Slate league year before last. He wasn't considered good enough for the Central league last spring and was farmed' to Newark In the Ohio State league, where he won twenty-seven and lost seventeen games. The Tigers purchased Boehler about the same time they secured Wheatley, and both are expected to do good work this year. The following story concerning these former Reapers appeared in the Detroit News:-Charles Wheatley or George Boehler?Which one of this pair will be the better pitcher this year?“The season will see'an interesting duel between these two young hurlers. Neither is new to Detroit. Both came during the fag end of last season and had short trials. To the man in the bleachers Wheatley looked the better of the two.“They will start this year on even terms, at:d not alone wilt it be Wheatley against Boehler, but judgment of T. Raymond Cobb against the choice of Oscar Stanage. The world’s greatest , ball player declares Wheatley is the pick of the recruit hurl- ■ ers; ihe leagues kingpin catcher says Boehler is the best recruit pitcher he ever saw.Hard to Decide Here*“A man could be baseball wise, as wise as you find them outside the game, and lie would hate to slack his judgment against that of Cobb or Stanage, The great Tyrus is a good judge of bail players, but his judgment oil pitchers is exceptionally brilliant. Stanage is unanimously picked as the wisest backstop in the league.Cobb’s chief study is on pitchers. Ills own. success demands this. Ty must know the strong and weak point of each hurlcr Intihately. He studies them constantly. His success in hitting and base running depends on It. There is not a player in (he league who knows ‘as much about the pitchers as Cobb knows. And Ty thinks Whealjey will be one of the stars of the league this year. He picks him as the best recruit Hughey Jennings has secured in several seasons.Stanage on Boehler.“It Is Stallage's job to judge pitchers. If anvone should know what a Detroit pitcher has in his repertoire the Titanic Oscar is that judge.j “Stallage caught both Wheatley and Boehler last autumn. Boehler was thepitch or he picked. He says the recruithas as much stuff as any youngster heever saw.“Cobb likes Wheatley's delivery. Charley has a side-arm raise ball that Ty thinks could be developed into one of the mcst effective deliveries in use. Wheatley is a heady pitcher and can get a good curve. He uses one of those Tex Covington smiles and twirls steady ball.Boehler Need* Education.“Boehler Is shy. In the minor leagues he was known as a ’home’ pitcher. Outr-side of his own lot he carried little effectiveness. In the major leagues with careful tuition this fault, could be worked out. Boehler has lots of speed,. curves and a good overhand delivery.“These two players over whose merits the Tigers' best critics arc at odds belonged to the same club in the last two years, and to give the matter another queer turn Red McKee, the catcher whom Detroit got from Indianapolis and who will be tried out this spring, also belonged • to the same team. McKee has caught both pitchers.]ifMRS. J. R. KEENEWidow of Famous Turfman Will KeepRacing Stables,NEW YORK, Jan. '30.—Acting on the advice of several friends of her late husband, Mrs. James JR. Keene, widow of the noted turfman, has decided to keep up ' Ids racing establishment. Whgiber she will allow any of the thoroughbreds to enter racing meets Is uncertain, but it was learned from a reliable source today that the stables will be kept up and the season’s production of yearlings are to be sold as usual. Miss Elizabeth Dalnger-field, who for some time has been in charge of the establishment, will continue
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Thu, Jan 30, 1913
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