The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1909-07-29
FANS MISS SOME THINGS
But WON'T MISS THIS
BIG GAME FOR PURSE SUNDAY.
THEN MAYBE GAMES WILL BE
ARRANGED WITH MlNCo.


dill team for a purse Of goodly pro.
portions. unusual interest has been
awakened in the game in Ardmorc
and 1t is likely that the purse will
be doubled and even triplcd before
the game starts.
Following the game with Madill an
effort is being made 10 get the
Minco team here for series of three
games. and +, could be- arranged IT
the management OF thr ball park
would do the right thing They are
allowed 20 per cent of the proceeds
Of each game. but are unwilling To-
make any concessions that Ardmorc
may gc, the series Of games with
the Min,o team. with such a crowd
as would attend this series the rail
way people would more than get
their money back. The Blues team
is in the hole as result of the
seasons games. ArdmOre fans want
to see the Minco series here and
the general opinion seems to be
that the park management should
couccdc point for the best inter
osts OF all concerned
The game Sunday will be a draN.
ing card and Madil will send over
couple of hundred or more to
roo, for their team. and it takes the
grand stand and blcachcrs to help
win "a game the same as the players.
II is seldom tha, spectators at any
game -ct glimpse OF the brain
work behind the movements of the
players and even to hardened fans
the game looks haphazard says
Hugh Fullerton in the American
Magazine. They criticigc because
they DO mot understand They soc
ouiy tlo individual what hc does,
Wu,r. the bah is hit. or caught
OF thrown and the intent and pur-
pose OF j., an is lost, without think
ing how much thought may have
been wasted ON the play that the
individual attempted to carry out. or
how well planned the game may
have been.
They imagine, most of them, that
the players are individuals VINO walk
TO the plate, hit or miss the ball,
make safe hit or 20 out, and they
do not know that behind. the way
the man hits, behind the movements
OF the base runner, behind the po-
sition he men axe, are hidden a
code OF signals and series of or
dcrs 10 be obeycd without question
for the general good.
They scarcely imagine that games
are planned before they are started,
or ,ha, as soon rs pitcher Is
named the manager and his advisers
map out scheme of action and
plan an attack upon the weakest
point OF an opposing team.
They do not realize that as soon
as Marquard of New York OF PITS.
ter of Chicago is named to pitch the
opposing manager orders bunting
game. or thai as soon as catcher
is known 20 have a weak arm or
to throw badly, or a pitcher who
does not watch base runners care
fully is elected 10 perform battery
duty for the day the opposing man.
agcr signals steal" steal" steal,
70 every fast man who reaches q
base.
Listen to coacher, Doc" Mar
shall Of Brooklyn, for instance, OF
the line at first base running al
and down, paving the dirt, actinl
like madman. and perhaps one no
deeply vcrsed in the game imaginei
he Is trying TO rattle" the opposing
pitcher or spur his own men /,
greater efforts. 4 hundred of th'
words Ct phrases may mean nothing
but somewhere among them the bas,
( runner hears Careful, Harry,
7 which tells him Marshall has seei
a signal for a fast ball flashed tn
, batter a signal to hit and is warnin
the runner 70 start as soon as IN
( ball is pitched. Or he may catch
"Now we're at EN-" and leap fol
, ward to save himself from bein
b forced when the batter bunts a sa,
Y rifice.
a So the most interesting part OF IN
4 game, the brain work, the genera
i ship OF baseball is hidden undc
[ those coops behind first and thir
4 base where the masters of baseba
c use fingers, eyes, head, feet. hand
d cap strange phrases and sensele'
words, all OF which are in the cod
r, to direct their wonderful puppet
s The public never gets a chanC
20 find out what Is behind all N
r running and throwing and battiu
/. unless someone tells and then It
/. imDosSiblc In tell even the half