Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-02-22
Honolulu, Feb. p. 'OS.
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There are good hiucrs and hard hit.
lurs in baseball. writes \. II. c. Nit
,huIl. in the Boston American. Some
times the words are synonymous,
sometimes they are not The good
litter is not necessarily hard hitter
hard being used in the sense OF
driving the ball away from the bat
hard, hitting it with great force.
There are good hitters who do not
send the ball away hard. but who arc
Proficient with the club because they
are sl,ilful and make many hits--bc.
cause they make big averages. The
hard hitter, however is likely to be a
GOOD hitter because the forciblc i'm.
Pact of bat against ball often drive.
the bail with such speed that IL gCts
by the Holdcrs. Little men produnn
their share of hard hitters. As with
the big men, II may be because Of a
hard swing or because Of an accurate
swing that meets the ball squarell
and thus makes every ounce Of exert.
ed muscle tell Willie Keoler Is an eN
ample of a player who Is a good hitter
rather than a hard hitter. lie beats
ont good many inGeld grounders
with his speed in getting to first base,
and he taps many safe hits to ungard
ed spots. Fred Tenney is another VIII
makes fewer long hits than hits iii
between" just over the infCldors anu
just inside the outfielders. George
Stone, the American Leagues champ,
ion batsman in 1908, is a forociOua
hitter He swings hard though there
Is no great length in his swing and
from his crouch gets so much weight
into his swing that when he meets a
ball flush It fairly huns. He makes
many a line drive through the d!a.
mond; his sQuarely met grounders 20
with such force that they are difficult
TO handle. and when the ball lifts IL
force is likely to carry it over the
ncldcrs head. There is no harder hit
ter in baseball than Mig Clark, the
ball-breaking catcher Of the Cicyc
lands. He Is a powerful bat,man.
lie times the approach Of the ball
from the pitcher beautifully, makes
the bat meet il so as to get the great
est resistance and just far enough
from the end of the bat TO impart a..
the force of the swing. Wagner, q
fine batsman and one OF those free
hitters who connect with any kind oil
ball. Is another Of whom it may DC
said that he sometimes hits ball tou
hard for distance. The ball, having
been reversed by the bat, may -
straight as bullet, but having start
cd at at a downward slant describe
ground. This naturally robs 1t OF
some Of its speed and converts into o
one-base hit what would have been q
two-baggcr or better had the bali gov
mp a tribe. as it left the bat But In,
Dutchmau lands so hard tina, what
would be an out for ball struck with
less force. but in precisely the sam
way. becomes base hit with him
WagnJr's Eard.hitliag proves IL iur
thcr shown by the way his curylr'
hy balls carry when there Is any sort
Of solidlty to the hit. A threo,aI9rte
iupact-thc ball being struck below
outfcld fly and a sure out If made b!
anybody putting less force in tha bio"
than does the burly Teuton. Wagner
however. does not always take a ionr
swing. lie can SHIFT his style am
chop a ball, but he generally get
force and therefore makes more hit.
of balls hit on the handle than mos
pIayers-that Is, ball hit on thu
landle by him is more likely to e,
safe than II made by less robus
slammcr. Laioie Is an easy hard hit
ter. so to sneak, He does not wrencI
l,msclf when he swings Every par
OF him IS under control and adjuste,
to what he wants to do. He is nevc
out of position, but with all the appa
rent ease Of his swing there Is soycrit,
in it because ittis 50 accurate. Cob
of the DetrOits is a slashing hitter
He sends many balls along the grounD
and with sizzling speed. Sam Craw
ford Of the Tiger team hits hard an
drives the ball for long distances, S
does Harry Davis Of the Philadelphi