Neither Loses His Head and Each has Wonderful Control of Ball
March 19, 1915 Age 24
St Louis Globe Democrat Sun
SAN ANTONIO. TEX. March l6. Sallee and Doak are the easiest of the Cardinal pitchers to catch, said Frank Snyder In reply to a question. “It’s just as easy as sitting in a hotel gallery in a rocking chair and talking to your best girl.
“Control Is what does it. I caught Sallee all last year, and I never saw him lose his head or get excited. He’d just swing the old wing along as easy as dusting off the vases on the parlor mantel. I remember one or two bad innings he had, but he didn’t take It out on the catcher and he didn’t lose his head. A catcher doesn’t have to be jumping around when Sal Is in the box. The receiver can just stand in his tracks and never get out. He knows where every ball is going when he gets the signal.
Doak Keeps His Head.
“How about Doak,” I asked.
“Doak has the same perfect control and he never loses his head. His spitter was pretty hard for me to handle until I got used to it, but after that it was easy. Get a couple of guys like Sal and Bill on the other end and it’s a picnic to work behind the bat.
I asked him about Perritt. –
“Poll was just as easy as Sallee and Doak when he was right, but when he wasn’t right he was hard to handle. Polly used to get sore sometimes, too, and then it was some job to take care of him. His spitter was harder to handle than Doak’s because it was wetter.
“Remember the time at Robison Field someone started to steal third and I couldn’t get the ball there?”
I remembered it. Frank got the ball and started to throw and it slipped out of his hand while the runner made the steal.
“Well, the ball was a new one and it was as wet as a thunderstorm. I should have caught the runner by a mile, but the ball slipped out of my hand.”