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Noted Hurlers Of Other Days Still PitchingQuinn, Rixey, Alexander, Vauglm, Benton Play Seniipro BallBy GEORGE KIRK SETCHICAGO, July 14 (UP)—Forget about Hubbell, Harder, Gomez, Dean and the other pitching heroes of the hour.Let’s all talk about five of base* ball’s greatest pitchers who haye been shuffled down the scale until they are now toiling in the semipro ranks, 4he last stop before the final exit.The zip may be gone from their fast balls, the gold curve may not break as sharply as in other years and muscles may kink up and refuse to obey the mind, but Jack Quinn, Eppa Rixey, Rube Benton, Jim (Hippo) Vaughn and Grover Cleveland Alexander are still in the harness, pitching baseball.■ Quinn is 49, Alexander 47, Benton 46 and Rixey and Vaughan each 43.What wouldn’t a major league magnate like Tom Yawkey of the Boston Red Sox give for a pitching staff composed of those five in their prime? A quarter of a million dollars easy, and maybe more. They’d win the pennant hands down for almost any team in either league with all five of them going at top speed.Three of this quintet will be at Logan field, Chicago, for a Sunday double-header between the Logan Squares and the Duckworts of Cincinnati. Rixey and Benton pitch for the Cincinnati club and Vaughn is with the Logan Squares.Quinn, the marvel of them all, who pitched his first major league game the year Lon Warneke was born, is still winning games for the Duffy Florals.Alexander, whose rubber arm may never give out, is still with the House of David team, which tours the tank towns. ‘'Alex the Great,” world series hero of 1D26, pitches an inning In each game, sometimes as many as seven a week. Alex promises to keep pitching as long his legs hold up. His arm never bothers him.Any one of this quitet in his prime could probably command a salary of $10,000 this season, and an Alexander pitching as he did in 1915 would be worth $50,000 to any club. Alex’s salary with the House of David hardly makes both ends meet Vaughn gets $50 per game with the Logan Squares, and Quinn about the same with the Duffy Florals. Rixey and Benton probably drawabout the same as Vaughn and Quinn. And these old timers can’t pitch a nine-inning game more than once a week.
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Salt Lake Tribune
Salt Lake City, Utah, US
Sun, Jul 15, 1934
Page 11
Full Page
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