Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-05-02


when he was with the Baltimore
club. recently spoke of the science of
base-running and incidentally of the
liability of player being injured by
spikes.
Base sliding is not dangerous
when the player knows how to do it,
and spikes are not dangerous when
the player knows how to handle the
man that is coming in. The great
success in saving yourself in base
running Is to slide when you start to
do IT, Never hesitate. The man who
starts slide and tries to stop Is Il
/ gOnpr sure. II he doesn't break an
ankle he is lucky. The bage-runncr
/ should throw all his strength into
| the slide and he won't get hurt.
Il recall that we always had half
a dozen files in the Baltimore club
house to sharpen our spikes with.
The diamond there was especially
! hard and rough and the spikes wore
/ down easily, so we had to sharpen
! them every day. But we did not let
/ the opposing club know that was the
reason.
TWO or three OF them would come
out to the clubhouse and they'd find
the crowd sitting on the benches, Ill
Ing away At their spikes, the rasping
noise filling the room as though It
were II machine shop.
Look out for us today, was al
ways the admonition, and. of course
they weat away pretty well deter
mined TO take no cha@"cs with rs on
the bases.
AS II matter of fact there Is hard
~ any chance of an inticld2r being
spiked If he plays the game right and
the runner is only trying to get to
the base. No matter how base run
ner gees into beg, he cannot hurt
the inheider II the latter Is In the
right position. McGraw, as often rs
every opponent on the field tried to
get MN, was never spiked until Dick
Harley handed II to him when he had
no reason to do so. McGraw always
made the base-slider carry him into
the bag.
: The only man who has a chance
to get hurt by spikes in baseball, If
he Is playing his game the way he
should. Is the first sacker. He must
keep his foot on the bag, and he is,
therefore, bound to get nipped more
or less.
But nobody wants to hurt first
baseman. In present-day baseball
don't know of one of them who Is Mt
all offensive. They are almost al
ways, for some reason or other, good,
big-hearted chaps that nobody would
purposely hurt. or them all in the
American League. | know of but one
who might invite trouble, and that is
Jiggs Donahue.
/ "Donohue and ! had several rows
last year and we told each other pref
, ~ plainly what we were thinking. I
guess. But Jiggs proved himself a
man, every inch of him, after the
season was over, when he came to our
hotel during the world series, talked
to the boys. advised them and en-
couraged them. We buried the
| Ratchet after that.
Nobody wants to hurt first base
man. It's a sort of unwritten law
that, as the poor chap must keep his
foot there, It isn't lair TO cut him.
Matty Mcintyre. for instance, would
have played all last year II he hadn't
turned his ankle to save Bob I'm
glaub.
| "KIpp Kellcv opce orrered IN bct
lack Crooks 81 that he could give
him the hail he fen feet owav from
the bag and mako II without being
toucbed He was so c,ever In dodp-
ing one way when the fielder expect.
cd him IN ro tho opnosite thew cou,d-
nj touch him. Crooks declined to
Take tho bcgt He know KeIlev
could do II
| "Fomous as KelIey WAS for his