The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-18

| tb iet Dali. Crash. Tinker smoke
snc sphere terrific blow and like a
neld. high, higher, until. soaring far
Oyer the heads Of the crowd it Struck
| 1ne sign above the right field seats and
5He crowd went wild. Then, like sol.
uhers attacking preached wall. the
Sn9ehlpIons rushed to the assault and.
peiore the inning was over. thev had
maac SIX runs and their waiting game
., Chance had calculated from the first
tnat Donovan was pitching with too
great speed, and that no human being
could hold such pace through nine
innings, and during ali the time that the
crowd thought Detroit would win. the
leader OF the champions was sitting
watching every move, waiting for the
lhrst sign that Donovan was tirinp or
peglnnIng 10 lose his speed AT the start
oI INC seventh inning he thought he de-
eecVed signs of WEAKNESS, but the Smil.
ing Ilger was strong. After Holman
scratched that hit at the start of the
elghth. Chance saw Donovan lower his
pltching arm as if weary, and he is
sued his order-and after Tinker drove
that, home run he ordered, "Take a
crack at the first one. Like gen
eral. he had found the breach and or
aered the charge, and his men leaped
10 the plate and began the lombard.
nent that brought victory.
IL IS seldom that spectators at any
game get glimpse Of the brain work
behind the movements of the PLAYERS
and even to hardened ''fans" the game
looks haphazard. They criticize be
cause they do not understand. They
see only the individual, what he does,
where the ball is Int. or caught, or
thrown. and The intent and purpose of
II ali Is lost, without thinking how
much thought may have been wasted on
the play that the individual attempted
10 carry out. or how well planned tine
game may have been. They imagine,
most OF them, that the PLAYERS arc in
dIvlduais who walk to the plate, hit or
miss the ball, make a safe hit or go
outi they do not know that behind the
way the man hits, behind the move
ments of the base runner, behind the
position the men take. are hidden Il
code OF signals, and series of orders
TO be obeyed without question for the
general good. They scarcely imagine
that games are planned before they are
started, or that as soon as a pitcher is
named the manager and his advisers
map out scheme of action and plan
an attack upon the weakest point of
tine opposing team.
They do not realize that as soon as
MarQuard, OF New York, or Pfiester OF
manager orders n bunting game. or
that As soon as n catcher known To have
a weak arm. or to throw badly. or n
pitcher who does not watch base run
ners carefully is elected 10 perform bat
terry duty for the day the opposing man
ager signals ''steal, steal, steal, - TO
every fast man who reaches base.
Listen TO a coacher. ''Doc' Marshall,
of Brooklyn, for instance, or the line
at nd
paving the dirt, acting like madman,
and perhaps one not deeply versed in
the game imagines he is trying to "rat
tle'' line opposing pitcher. or spur his
own men to greater efforts. a hundred
cf the words or phrases he uses may
mean nothing, but somewhere among
them the base runner hears Careful.
Harry which tells him Marshall has
seen signal for q fast ball, flashed
the batter signal 10 hit and is warn
ing the runner 10 start as soon as the
ball is pitched, Or ne NAV catch "Now
re at en- and leap Forward 10
save himself from being forced when
the batter bunts 4 sacrifice.
Sometimes. however, tho best laid
and most carefully planned campaigns
60 sadly amlsS and one Of the instances
Of this was the miscarriage or plan
Chance once laid to beat ST. Louis
Sallee. sThe String Beam a tall ran
gy pitcher who IS about nineteen hands
high and left handed, was pitching a
strange game. Regardless Of who was
batting he pitched the same way To each
man, curve over tine plate. another
curve either on the inside or outside
corner, two fast side arm balls high and
outside, and then a curve low and over
the plate His pitching. although mo-
notonous, was effective, and FOR an odd
reason,
Chance had q theory that Salee
lacked control, in spite of the fact that
he was showing almost perfect control,
so he counscled a waiting game and
told his men to take two which
means they were not 10 strike at either
of the first two balls pitched As Al
consequence Sallee had the batter Gin
the hole, all the tlmc-that is, had
The advantage, and when they finally
were compelled 10 hit, they were forced
TO hit his curve so they did not do
much hitting.
BY the middle of the game Chance
realized Sallce was going 10 be Wild
and right there the game ceased to be
baseball and became a guessing match.
Chance, seeing Bresnahan S plan of
pitching, expected him 10 change il. So
he stuck 80 his original plan Bresna
han knowing Chance expected HIM to
change, decided not 10 change. and
waited Tor Chance to switch his plan
Of campaign, The game was almost
ovor before the Champions, made des.
perate began hitting the first ball, and
then Brcsnahan changed on every bat
ter, outguessing them all inc time.
II was Just like men matching heads
and tails. each manager sticking TO his
own plan. Bycsnahan turning heads ev-
crv time and Chance tails, each eX-
pccting tho other TO change.
The man who perhaps, is past master
of directing ball clubs from the bench
Is John McCloskey, who has managed
many clubs As many of his campaigns
have been poorly executed by inferior
PLAYERS, he often has failed. but if ever
he gets a team together that can and
will carry out his orders. that team
probably never will lose a game.
One of McCloskey's s most brilliant
plans was conceived when he was man
aging the st. Louis Cardinals. He had
m idea his team could beat Reulbach,
of Chicago. by bunting and he sent
the first Seventeen men 10 bat with or
dcrs to bunt or push the ball down the
in6eld, no batter being allowed 10 hit
the ball hard until after two strikes
II 10 s,,..