Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-17

I designer to get his hands on it, This
batting end is fat and chubby and is
chopped off ABOUT where most bats are
it is rather a heavy little swatter. as
its chubbinesS keeps up it's weight.
Cy Seymour, the heavy-hitting cen.
ter gardener of the New York Giants
and who stands in the cleanup posi-
ton of McCiraw'S club, uses a medium
length Walloiing club and a handle OF
medium thickness. He takes good
quick swing that is capable of planting
the bail on L line over the infielo
There is not a fan in the country
that has not heard of Hans Wagner
and those VINO have heard of him have
ilsn heard of his clouting ability, fol
he has long been one of the heaviest
| aitters IL The world. Wagner. as most
all other players of any importance
has his bats made in Louisville. He
uses d stick with straight taper and
a har die of the usual thickness and of
medium weight. Wagner bats right
handed and steps into the ball with
terrific force.
Larry Lajoie is the closest rival of
Wagner. and III many fans minds ont
does The great Pirate shortstoo at the
plate. Lajole'.s sWatter is trihe long
I or than that of Wagner and slightly
thicker. The Cleveland leaders bat is
Il coed, Solid shape, with weight
enough to make the ball go when hit
Ty Cobb, who for the last two sea-
sons has been attracting The attention
of the public by his heavy hitting, uses
longer stick than either Lajoie OF
Wagner His piece of ash has long
handle If medium thickness and is
thick at the batting end, with a blunt
fiat end.
'"Tacks" Parrot is the owner and
user If the longest bat used in pro-
fessional hall. as his AN goes the full
limit. Parrot plays down in the Texas
League with the Galveston club, and
as he says, there s plenty Of room
out here to swing a long bat. and the
only reason | don't have a longer one
made is because they wouldn't allow
me to use it," Parrot is a weIl-known
old-time player and is a hitter of some
renoWn. From the tip of the handle tc
the tip of the other end of the ba!
uScd by "Tacks" the tape gets a good
chance to stretch, the stick being 4.
inches long.
Charlie Hickman, the heavy hitting
outlielder Of the Toledo club, uses the
lightcst bat made. as his walloper tips
the beam at "a ounces. The bat is OF
medium length, but loses weight in the
handle, which is remarkably slender
being only q tritlc over an inch In
thickness at the thnnest part of the
handle.
The big Indian catcher of the St
Paul team holds the record of having
the thickest bat. as his wand is as
thick as the rules allow
The wood that the bats are turned
from ut the Louisville factory comes
from the billy regions of Kentucky
where they raise the ash that is re-
dulred for the making of smuggling IL
tenslls. The wood is always grown on
the north hillsdes, as the atmosphere
on that side has a better effect on the
trees and enables the grain to be more
perfect. The north side of a hill is be:-
ter for bats, and also The north side of
tree. and in ordering the very finest
Of bats the players sometimes specify
that they want the north side of the
tree that was grown on the north side
of a :iiH
The wood is all second-growth ash