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Big League DopeWell Scrmabled((Continued From Page 8.)and played with that team duringthe 1910 season.From Syracuse Alex was drafted by the Phillies in the fall, 1500 | abeing the fig1 ire, he recalls.Hence in 1911 Alex went south]](with the PhiUiea, starting his ex-tensive major league carreer.Fralse for Pat Moran.Alex holds a warm spot in his heart for Pat Moran, with whom his service brought him into contact.''He was the greatest manager 1 ever oiayed for. Not because of what he did for me but because of what he did for a lot of players,”Alex bolds.Moran, in his belief, got him |. away - o a start with the Phillies.It was like this. In 1911, when the Phillips started north from Bir-lt;* 4mingham, the first string players w*nt nhead and had a three game |1series with the 1910 champion Athletics. The rookies, in chargeof Moran, played a series of gameson their way north.Upon the arrival of the rookiesin Philadelphia, the first stringershad dropped two of the threeo-amoa tn thft Athletics and Manager Dillon asked Moran if hehad anything that looked like a pitcher.Moran referred to a “kid” named Alexander who had looked good in exhibition games, and on Moran’g advice, Alex got his chance.A lex recalls that he worked fiveinnings against the champion Athletics. including such players asEddie Collins, “Home Run” Baker, Bender and Plank, hurling nohit baseball and allowing one waiu He has since felt that Mor-an was responsible for the chance and that if he had faltered, hismajor league chances might havebeen slim.In that first season, Alex recalls that he duplicated his record made with Syracuse the year before, winning 28 and losing 10 games. His closest year in the majors was the second one, when he won 19 and lost 17 games.his mamnrv serves him. heAs his memory serves mm, had a record of 393 games won in the majors, keeping his percentage over .600.Alex appeared to he eager to get into a uniform and start shooting them across the plate,anaerer Doanabout a cap and details of the training schedule terminated theiuterview.Win Try KittenbalLHence ve scribe was unableget in a lot of questions as to some other of the star’s major league experiences. For example, the record he holds of pitching andwinning eight doubleheaders in the majors, to set a record for suchperformances. Or about the worldseries of 1926, when Alex won three games for the Cards against the Yankees and the thrill of being called to the mound in the seventhinning of a series game that sameyear with the bases loaded and whiffing Lazzeri, after Haines had encountered rough going. Or about his record of 30, 33 and 31games won in the years of 1915, 1916 and 1917, before he was called into the army.Alex is slated to enter a new realm of sport tonight in Muscatine, when the House of David ninemeets a local all-star team recruited bv John Downey, in a kit-;enball game at Jefferson field.Will the veteran of three world series be able to dish them up to pposing batsmen in the same daz-sling fashioo which brought 13shutouts in 1916?That’s another question.
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Muscatine Journal and News Tribune
Muscatine, Iowa, US
Tue, May 16, 1933
Page 11
Full Page
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Michael W.
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