The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-03
COMPARE PLAYERS
MAN 0vERsHADOWS
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HasebaII ia . Business with the One -and Only q side Issue wtth The
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uafi,E R r prrosessiefsai baseball with cci- ieke ball, and this is the way that he sizes it-up:
 Baseball as played by college stu dents suffers mulch in comparlston win the games as played oy protesslonals' Anvbody who has followed profes. sion and college baseball closely must have marked the wide dinerence Tn s1Slaffty between the two-that IS, tax ing the best college DasebaIl an1 s.te best professional baseball as expound- ed by the teams of the big leagues.
 It isn't that the college players are lacking in intelligence as applied 70 Siffsrence is that baseball is a business with one a side Issue with the other;
 Rating the playing of tne malor league teams at, 100 per cent: the cot, ,r ielding' 50 per cent. in batting. 50 per cent. in pitching and ss ES per cent In base Funning. ,.,.
 The college fielding IS WlLnln q99iaI q99i.la ter as good as the big league heiding but the batting. Is only one naH as good and the base running only one- third as good. In short. the coiiege game is weaker in batting and base rTInningg than in fielding and pitching
 The college player knows less or the inside game, the offense of basebatl than he does of defense, as compaFeo to the best professionals
 These figures are the estimate or DaVil Fuitz. who formerly played with the Philadelphia Athletics: than whom nobody Is better gnasiiiiisd 1S ,lez expTess wss a arst-cias college player. a nrst- class professional player and ne mas had opportunities to acquire kno~leuee . of the professional and college game 7"Sylth the college man, he gays, ''baseball is more of a conscious enort The professional. on the other nand. though an intuition born of experience. Long training along certain lines makes the game second nature Wlth him" .xo..,ona, rlav the game more inteHigently than the col He does in so far as 1t Is business with him. His life is given up to It: in that calling. He comes Tn dally contact with the most advanced base- ball that Is played. and he becomes leEe man knows about. but hasn't the ability to perform; for instance, tn z saueeze- play and the hit-and-run play.
 ~But why haven't me thase eOiieSe 1Ssvs" me"
 want of opportunity. The coiIege man plays baseball about two month and af half in the year. and then meets Sh Moreoyep. 0Teth the teams that his team meets are. as rule. of the same base ball grade as his own"
 And when it comes to learning the weak and strong points or ,hd ms ,ost opPonT nr them you must remember that he goes against a particular opponent not mare than three times in the season so at the most. The professional has the advantage of playing against the same even teams for six months at stretch" ..t. ho.ho. had the natural mental ahIlfty of the professional, needing only the experience to bring It out. Fmltz said: .,- with inc same experience and the same r,aiystcal ability he would make bet ter player as soon as he overcame a certain nervousness in executing the game grew accustomed To the eNelte- ment and the surroundings.
 "CoileRe base running is good way hAhInd the professional game" contlnu mat it Is further behind than It should he i've seen college teams that never attempt to do anything, In base run ming, seen them stand still on the bases when the opposing catcher was weak i in throwing and the opposing pitcher didn't know how to hold them close "AEain the opposing basemen didn't 1 know how to touch man sliding tC 1 a base The chances consequently | were all In favor of the base runner vet he made no effort to take advant' | age of the percentage In his favor | The college player runs fast enough but he is slower than the professional
 In getting a lead and doesn't slide a' | skillfully.
 T know that when was in college 1 never attempted to steal as I shoulC 1 have done though l always could ruI fast and slide we'll" (Fultz was ont | of the best sliders professional base
 ball ever had.) T didn't realize unti
 later that many a time in colleg 1 games 1 could have tried to steal anl