The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-07-05

y f-l-LlGENl patrons or The ErFat
Amt aCau game approach Nlie
epidemic OF baseball articles IN the
magazines these days with fear anu
trembling T h <
growing popularity
DAshn NJ NJ, OF the pastme
sc,Itrns which absOrhs the
TX leisure time OF 80
- large proportion
a., the masses has mace II of late al
increasingly favored theme with tho
headquarters and the chrome artists
IS wei. as the poets. and tne result
has been something appalling.
p II thc Word.painIers aud other ar
lists referred 10 would preface their
. baseball actions BY few visits 10
the locations or the scenes which they
are attempting 10 portray or wohld
else submit their copy before puD'
ucation To some intelligent ONCE boy
who understands the game. The result
would not come vita such = shock 10
the reader who scans the production.
II may be out OF order TO call attcn-
It!ou 10 these facts when there Is SO
lnuch i've stun going around. out tae
spirit mas moved the writer. SO htsS
eues.
read a college baseball story The
|oiher day IN current monthly II
Lu.d ~ = college pitcaer VINO had dis
covered by mathematical oaIllstlcs
how 10 start the ball for the batsmah .
Knees ana make 1T break w around
The catcncrs shoulders To Win with
even this amount OF stun, he had 10
ppu OF: tr.ple play In the ninth VITA
one man out
Tho cover Of this magazine was
cmblemaCC OF the contents Ii pro
fessed 10 depict a bali park The
pitcher was the centerpiece and MAS
sketched in the act OF delivering the
bah Had he slipped he would nave
fallen sQuArely on the neck Of tas
4 shortstop who stood Immediately be.
nlud him with his left foot carefully
1tiiXed 10 second base
SOr.e little time ago waded
hrougA a similar article 0y ChicaSo
writer. though this was not supposed
3 hcll3A bat was alleged 10 be Oh
cXpos- OF the secret science OF paly.
In il ne told now IN the world series
me cubs shifted with regularity TIER
entire Oulaeid and iu1eld TO conform
TO the delivery OF the pitcher, and
The particular brand OF ball he was
about 90 serve up Shifts ot 80 feet
were prescribed for each Of the Cub
PLAYERS ia such circumstances, the
stance bciRg governed by the surrcp-
utous intention OF the pitcher an
shooting a curve or fast one
All lnis is very well. for the Cubs
got away with whatever they tried,
and therefore anyone who writes
about them has q license 10 attribute
20 theta any novel headwork which ne
deems ftung That no such shifts
lcok place Is. however, certainly known
by any Intelligent man who saw the
series or any games thereof The Ilg
ors we're somewhat mystiied il IS con
ceded. bat they weren't al any time s.
befuddlcd that IL the Cubs had been
shifting around with every bal, pitch
ga they wouldn't have read that SORT
Of sign language before IL had beer
presented three times, and acted ac
cordingly.
Most OF the magazines are publish
"a IA New YORK. and this accounts foi
the tact that mOsJ Of the baseball
magazine stuif-Duth OF the Intentional
or sem.-hctional features the New
York Giants That there are othe'
teams IN league ball Is something the
magazine editors have apparently yet
Ito learn and once in while they rise
10 a dignity OF actually licking some
ming that comes from that selt-cen
tered community. three-ffths II which
are bur recently, SO they tell us, oul
OF the Storage