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A STRIKEOUT PITCHER. Hailed as "the strikeout king of the Central League," Theodore Goulait of the Springfield, O., ' club has gone to the Indianapolis " club of the American Association, leaving behind a record of 10 games won and 3 lost and 153 strikeouts in 130 innings) which is close to a world's record. Goulait, on his record, is the pitching find of the season, and he will probably be in the majors within a year. His record is bet ter than that of any member of Connie Mack's "big three" and he is but a green kid. When Charley O'Day resigned as manager of Springfield to ac cept a similar position with the jinx-ridden Indianapolis club, he took alorig Goulait, to burn up the Am.erican Association. Goulait was turned over to Springfield by Indianapolis this season. Upon his initial appear ance he was knocked out of the box in 3 2-3 innings, looking one degree better than nothing, but in his next and in subsequent games "he went like a gasoline-fed fire, having been knocked out of the box but once. June and early July witnessed the boy winning eight games in a row. Dayton and Terre Haute are the only clubs to make as many as 10 hits off him, and seven runs is the largest number scored against him. The tabulated version of Gou lait's work with Springfield js in teresting. It shows that he pitch ed 16 games, averaging almost 10 strikeouts to a game, that he struck" out 17 of the hard-hitting Youngstown team, and on July 18 fanned 16 South Benders, walked 10 and allowed one hit. Goulait is a little fellow, as pitchers go, being but 5 feet 8 inches and weighing only 160, but he has more "stuff ' than most big leaguers. His curve is big, with a fast break, and his fast ball is hard to hit. He has a change of pace, and the only thing he lacks is control, which is fast coming to him, to make him desired by major league scouts. In two games he was injured and forced to quit. o o Resourceful Lucy. Walter was eight years old. He had been very naughty. In point of fact, he had emptied a bottle of red ink over his mother's white Pomeranian just for fun, of course! Now the price had to be paid for the enjoymerit and father was taking a hand in the game. Little Lucy, Walter's sister, was in the room at the time of the conflict. Tiud, thud, thudl fell father's hand, punctuated by Walter's waijings. At last Lucy could stand it no longer. Bursting with indigna tion, she stamped her tiny foot on the floor. "Tread on his corn, Wal !" she cried. "That'll stop him!" An- -o o- He Does your father object to my staying late? She No; he says it serves me right for being in when you calL