The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-19

u was discovered by sharp ewes on the
pchch and then Murnhy and his asso.
| clates invented something entirely new
IN baseball. They put electric wires
Underground. connecting the club house
WIN inc coacher's S box at third base
! ana purled In the ground n small wood
en- poA containing a "buzzer, \ Ger
IaIn NOISY, obstreperous PLAYER was sta
toned at third base with one foot di
: rectiY over the box conranlng the
pu2zer and as the signal sounded he
couid feel the tapping under his foot.
Whereupon he called code word warn.
ing the batter what the pitcher was go
ing to pitch or what the opposing man
aeer had ordered from the bench.
( Not regular player on the Philadel-
/ pnia team batJed under 300 per cent
while the "buzzcrr was i'm operation.
and several Of their pitchers and catch.
eers were. among the leading batters Of
inc National league. Opposing teams
knew that, III some wav, the Philadel-
phians were getting the signals. but
] now they could not discover until one
! day the Cincinnati team was watching
10 sec whore the signals were coming
| from and they saw that one player
J stationed near third base no matter
now, he moved, always kept one foot
IN the same position.
| In the middle of the game. one OF
the Cincinnati team. wandering appar-
emily amlcssly toward third base, made
sudden rush, pushed the guilty Phil
| adelphian out of the coacbers' box and
dug up the device which was winning
games for Philadelphia. The discovery
created big sensation in baseball and
aroused vigorous protest against such
unsportsmanlikc methods. But instead
of stopping. the Philadelphia club
moved the buzzer 10 their bench. and
q m n l-
league action.
Not satisfied with having that much
advantage on tho home grounus, the
man who planned the thine followed
his team around the country, renting
windows overlooking the grounds in
| each city and Wi e wagging signals TO
| the battcrs. He WAS caught AT Brook
! lyn by some of the BROOKLYN players,
and trounced, and after that the method
! OF spying gradually was abandoned
Plttsburg, however. tried the same
thing year later, using an ingenious
deVIcc; a semlDhore arrangement fas-
tened 10 the center field fence which
was raised at right angles for fast
ball and straight up for n curve. The
arrangement was not In use for a week
before the keen eyes OF the opponents
discovered II and began changing sig
mails so rapidly the spies could not fol.
low them. After seventeen battcrs had
been hit by pitched balls in four davs
and some of them hurt because they
expected one curve when another was
being pitched the scheme was aban
doned
The defensive game of all teams is
ordered by The manager either from
the bench or from his field position
and the manager who also is a player
has an immense advantage over tho
bench manager in that he can reach hls
men more readily and moreover without
signal, sign, or spoken word his play
ers can tell from the position he as
sumes where he wants them TO play and
how he expects the play to be made
Observe the New York bali team. Ne
TO TenncY. Deyln crccps Forward if
teen feet inside of third base Tenncy
moves forward almost twenty-five feet
the entire outfe)d advances, while DOYLE
and Bridwell remain as they were
There Is man on first base, another
on third, one batter out and New York
has ono run more. than the opposing
team. ANY one who knows the game
knows the batter is not a fast man auc
understands the entire plan OF
action, If the ball IS hit 4,
Tcnney, TO DeylIu or to tho
pitcher, 1T Will be thrown 10 the plate
| 10 prevent the runner from scoring
| from third base. If il is hit either I,
| DOYLE or 10 Bridwell. the other vii
cover second base. take the throw auc
| attempt by quick throw TO complel,
| inc double play and retire tnc opposing
| team,
| The batter makes base hit, The run
uer scores from third, the man who WA
on first reaches third. and gain runner
are Oh first and third bases, with ou'
out, and the opposing team needs /
| run TO win. But the iufeid. lnstca,
Of playing the same way, gets n sig
nal from McGraw, and while Tcnnc'
and Dcyllu remain as before, Doyle anC
| Bridwell move forward onto the grass
| twenty-five feet nearer the plate thar
| they were before. The fan may nc
| understand but a fast man is comm!
to bat; there is but a slight chance %
double play being executed success
! fully, and the Giants driven 10 the de
| fensive. are signaIed by their manage
| to close up the inner line of defcnS
in the desperate hope that the ball vii
Il he hit straight al one of them who ma.
| cut of the runner AT the plate and saw
i the day. McGraw has issued the order
\ and whether it wins or loses the gam
he accepts the blame.
H There was q game PLAYED in CincIu
H natl in 1909 which Chicago came nea
II ll1osing after having saved II three time
bv magnificent GeneralshIp, McLeaI
the heavy-hitting Cincinnati catcher.
one Of the most dangerous of batter
| when his team needs runs, and fou
/ times during the game he came 10 ba
when a safe hit, 1t seemed. would wi
fhc game for Cincinnati, and each tim
| Chance. on the bench, raised his han
| with four fingers up and the thum
| turned in, which was his signal TO CIV
| Mclean "A base on balls and not allo
! him 10 hit and to rely upon Totirln
: the next batter. who was nor so dangc
n Gus as a batter, Three timcs Rculbac
purposclv pitched four balls wide. n
h lowing Mclean to take first base, nm
each time the succeeding batter faile
10 hit, so Cincinnati could not scor
n The other time Chance showed mp for
h fingers, lust MS one OF the umpire
n passed between bIm and the field. an
Rculbach missed the signal. and thnl
ing Chance bad not signalcd at all h
broke curve over the plate for
strike. Again Chance flashed four IN
GERS and again the umpire obscured III
n view. and Reulbach drove over n
N other strike.
Moran, who was catching. was angr