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ALEX STILL PITC AT 46OOOOOQOOQO O 000Veteran Finds Slower Sphere Big Aid to Moundmen oooooooooo o oocCALLS MATTY, JOHNSON BEST _I_BAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 9.— ! (INS)—Baseball in the past few ^ears ha* became a hitters rather ban a pitcher's game, but the ;ilcher is coming into his own j in, according to Grover Ckrve-and Alexander, one of the greatest them all.Alexander was here today with s the House of David nine.•'The lJveaing-up of the ball a few years ago.” he said, “took away the advantage the pitcher had over the batter, so that the tendency was to elugfests rather ban to duela of skill between pitchers. But the pitchers seem to have things definitely m hand this season, and to be coming into their own again.”In his third season with the bearded House of David team. Alexander appear® to have lost no whit of his prowess. Though the team dropped an exhibition game with the Seals 4 to S here, Alexander retired the side on strikeouts In one oi the two innings that he pitched.Tall, sunburned, rangy, at 46 he looks So. His eyes srparkle like a boy's.Who do I think is the greatest pitcher today? It's hard to eay—I haven't had a chance to watch many of them—but if I were naming an All-American nine I would probably pick ‘'Lefty Grove of Connie Macks outfit. He has the old-time fire.And time? opinion,Matty—Christy Mathewson. Johnson played for more years than Matty without suffering a let-down. They were both great.“But I’m not one of those who look entirely to the past and disparage the present. There are names in baseball today as great as any that have ever been, and with pitchers coming into their ! own again, there will be men to equal even Johnson and Matty.” There are those who name Alexander as the greatest pitcher of all time, and with reason. But be w^ould not mention himself in the same breath with Mathewsow and Johnson.“I'm glad to be out here on the Pacific Coast.” he said. *Tm interested in watching the Coast league. I haven't seen enough of the majors thlo season to draw’ comparison® between them and Coaat league, but I've played against Portland, Oakland and San Francisco, and found them plenty strong.”“Why do so many boy* from the jcoast make good in the east?” he ! was aaked,“That * because the coast teams go after the young players. They take them practically from the rand-lot, and develop them The majors don't go In for that on j such a scale. They prefer to let I the young fellows make a name in smaller circuit® and then bring them east. So there’s more of a chance for a boy to break in with a coast team and then go to the major® than there is for him to majors directly.”andthe greatest pitcher of all Its a toss-up, in my between Walter Johnson crash the
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Santa Ana Daily Evening Register
Santa Ana, California, US
Sat, Sep 09, 1933
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