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Gen. Biddle Improved.

Cen. William p. BiddIe. commandant of
marines. caught severe cold at the
Presidents reception to the Army, Navy
and Marine Corps last Thursday night,
ana was threatened with pneumonia. His
condition has since improved, however.
and now he IL considered to he out of
danger.
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GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK, February 28-Flour-Easy.
Rye-Dull.
Wheat-Owing to weakness abroad and
IN the northwest markets. wheat was
rather heavy this morning, at &c decline.
The principal buying was for foreiKu ac-
count. May, 96Aa951k.
Beef-Steady.
Pork-Stesdy.
Lard-Easy; middle west. 9.6a9. q
Raw sugar-Firm: muscovado, 50 test,
$50: centrifugal. So test. $50: molasses,
50 test. 3.05; refined. steady.
Petroleum-Steady.
Coffee-Spot, quiet.
Molasses-Quiet.
Hay-Steady.
Butter-Steady, unchanged; receipts.
13,OO3 packages.
Cheese-Steady, unchanged: receipts.
$50 boxes.
Eggs-Barely steady; receipts, 1880
cases: refrigerator nrsts. 141<a15: Sec
onds. "A.
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The Safest Investments


William Rrskhagen, saddlcr. at 905H
7th street northwest. today filed an as
signment for benefit of creditors. He
lists his debts at sSS9.o7 and estimates
bis assets at $755.
Richard A. Curtin, the assignee app
piled to the District Supreme Court q
nix a bond for the performance of hid
duties.
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BOOST STOCK LEVEL
Spectators Taking More
Cheerful View of Outlook.
BID FOR LEADING ISSUES
After Selling Off in First Hour,
Trend Is Steadily Up.
GARY CONTRIBUTES TO BOOM
Steel Corporation Chairman Says No
Railroad Has Cancelled Orders
Following Rate Decision.
BID FOR LEADING ISSUES
GARY CONTRIBUTES TO BOOM

NEW YORK. February 2S.-A majority
of the active stocks opened today with
gains from last nights close. Lehigh
valley and Minneapolis. st. Paul and
Sau!te Ste. Marie were the strongest. with
gains Of a point each. U. S. Rubber
gained 11a, American Agricultural Chem
ical q. q. S. Steel and Reading y and
Toledo, ST. Louis and Western pre-
ferred q.
Stocks moved upward in response to
active buying, much of which was CEN
tered on a few specialties. Pacific Tele-
nhone advanced 3 points, DiStillers Sc
eurities IL and Missouri Pacific l. Later
the active stocks became heavy in tone
and receded to about last nights close,
with ST. Paul selling point under yes
terday's final figures.
Speculation More Cheerful.
Speculation reflected more cheerful
vcw today, when the stock market seemed
TO have recovered largely from the ef
fects Of the freight rates decision. The
undertone was good through the MORN
ing. Fluctuations were narrow. but most
stocks made gains. Selected stocks were
pushed up steadily, American Agricultural
chemical rising > points and Wabash
preferred, Brooklyn Transit and Inter-
torough-Metropolitan preferred point or
more
The Improvement which the market
showed in the second hour was due in
sarge part to the utterances of Chairman
Gary. who stated that general conditions
showed improvement, and that none OF
the roads had Cancelled its orders with
the United States Steel Corporation since
tie rate decision. Bonds were steady
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LONDON MARKET.

LONDON. February 2s-American Sc
curities opened steady and about I'M
changed today. During the first hour
light buying advanced the leading shares
fraction. vt noon the market was
steady, with prices ranging from I'M
changed TO y higher than yesterdays
New York closing.
Only few transactions occurred in
the afternoon and the market closed
dun.
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LIVERPOOL, February 2e.-Closing:
Wheat-Spot dull: No. 2 red western win
ter. no stock: futures, quiet March, Is
01sd May. Is s7td. 49,
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Naval Orders.
Naval Movements.

The Foote. Shubrick and Worden have
arrived at Savannah.
The Wheeling has sailed from Puerto
CorteZ for Ceiba, the Helena from Shang-
hal for Marking and the Patapsco from
New York for Norfolk.
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Records for Twenty-Four Hours.
ARMY NAVY
Army Orders.

Capt. Willis C. Metcalf is relieved from
detail in the quartermaster's department
and is assigned to the 42d Company,
Coast Artillery Corps.
BY direction Of the President, and
upon the application of First sergt.
James Dorgan. 115th Company. Coast Ar
tillery Corps, that soldier will be placed
upon the retired list.
First Lieut.. Arthur T. Dalton, Goth In
fantry. is relieved from treatment at the
General Hospital, the Preside Of San
Francisco, and will return to his proper
station.
Second Liuet Stanley NJ. Rumbough.
18th Cavalry. is relieved from duty at
Fort Sheridan, Illinois, and will join
Troop A Of that regiment at Fort Myer.
Va.
Capt. William F. Hase, Coast Artillery
Corps, will proceed to frankfort arsenal,
Philadelphia. for the purpose Of confer
ring with the authorities Of that arsenal
on certain matters now before the Coast
Artillery board.
The leave of absence granted Mai.
Pierce c. Stevens. paymaster, is EXTENDED
fourteen days.
The following named officers of the
Medical Corps will report to the examin-
ing board at the Army Medical Museum
building for examination for promotion:
Capts. Reuben B. Miller. William Il.
Eastman and James F. Hall.
Promotions in the Coast Artillery Corps
are announced as follows: Lieut.. Col.
Samuel E. Allen. to be colonel: Maj.
John W. Ruckman. to be lieutenant col
onel: Capt. James NJ. Williams, to be
major; First Lieut.. William Z. Murray.
to be captain 127th Company: Second
Lieut.. Abney Payne, to be first lieutenant
127th Company.
Capt John c. Macarthur, 18th Infantry.
detailed in the quartermaster's depart
ment, will repair to this city and report
to the quartermaster general for duty
in his Office.
Maj. Arthur W. Yates Is relieved from
duty in the Office Of the quartermas4er
general Of the army, and will proceed to
ST. Paul. MIMI, for duty as chief quar-
termaster of that department. relieving
Mai Daniel W. Arnold, who will proceed
to Chicago for duty.
Naval Orders.
Lieut. Commander T. D. Parker, when
discharged treatment Naval Hospital,
Mare Island, Cal, to home and wait or
ders.
Chief Gunner A. S. Pearson, to duty
as assistant to the inspector of ordnance
York and New Jersey districts, New
York. n. Y.
Chief Machinist NJ A. Thormahlen
from Colorado TO naval station, Guam,
M. !.
Naval Movements.
The Foote shubrick and Worden have
arrived at Savannah.
The Wheeling has sailed from Puerto
Cortez for Ceiba, the Helena from Shang-
hal for Marking and the Patapsco from
for FIJI
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Saf alveg Qu1sk, 3z&d Def ounCe.
NBua1, Ska8 per cent.
~ fsts q discount In the open market for
sAoee bins q Zxa3 per cent.
- rate Of discount In the open market for
U0oomonth bills II 2&a2 1916 per cent.
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For the District of Columbia. unset
tied tonight, Wednesday probably fair;
continued cold. lowest temperature to-
night 26 to IS degrees: moderate north
westerly winds.
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Minimum temperature past twenty
four hours, 81 year ago, %
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Eastern Live Stock.

Kansas City. Cattle - Market
steady; native steers. s5.00@6.75.
Southern steers. s3.25@5.O0; South
ern cows and heifers. $2.500f.00: ma
tive cows and heifers. s2.25G6.4O:
stockers and feeders. sS.0o@4.s5:
bulls. s2.75a4.50; calves, s4.00@6.25:
Western steers. s4.759G25; Western
COWS. $2.50@4.50.
Hogs-Market sc higher; bulk OF
sales. $6.35@G.55; heavy, s645G6.6O-
packers and butchers. sG.40M6.55.
lights. s630@6.55.
Sheep-Market strong: muttons.
s3.50@425; lambs. sG.00@6.S0; fed
wethers and yearlings. s3.2595.75;
fed Western ewes. s2.25@3.75.
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time that catcher throws the ball back to the
pitcher until he delivers 1t again. a batter
should never take his eyes OF the pitcher
All Of the grooves" of batters are carefully
catalogued. Every hitter In baseball. with the
possible exception of LaJoie and Wagner is sup
posed TO have what is known to the profession
as groove" certain real or imagined weak
ness Some pitchers work to fool batter, and
others aim at his groove" Young and Powell
are OF the second type. and It is this style OF
pitcher that always try to make pitch to the
limit. as they have to depend absolutely on
their control
The catcher is obviously included in the
guessing match which always results when a
batter faces pitcher. l recall funny instance
OF Hal Chase making Ira Thomas look like
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New York Metals.

New York.-Standard copper-Spot.
s1212A GIBBS; July. sl2.15912.s5.
August. September and October.
s1217h@12.3711. lake copper. s12.75
@1S.Oo; electrolytic. s12.62la @12.75:
casting, s12.37h @12.50.
Tin-Weak; spot. s43.25@43.75:
July, s42.25@42.eo; August. s41.500
1900; September and October. SALE
Q4175.
Lead-Firm; s4.459A55 New York;
$4.40Q4.421s East st. Louis.
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Eastern Produce.

Chicago. Butter-Steady; cream
cries. 20M24c; dairies. 1sq22c.
Eggs-Steady at mark. cases includ-
ed. 54i1Hc; firsts. 1f&c; prime
firsts. 15kc.
cheese-Steady; daisies. 13@131zc.
twins. 12@12hc; young Americas
1874 9l314c; long horns. 13A914c.
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Sheep.


prices paid by Denver Jobbers F. o.
B. track Denver).
Colorado upland. per ton. .16.00G17.00
Nebraska upland. per ton .15.00@f 1900
Second bottom, Colorado
and Nebraska, per ton .13.00@14o0
Timothy. per ton ....... .14.50G15.50
Alfalfa, per ton ..........1 10000 11.5O
So. Park. choice. per ton. 5000 1900
San Luis Valley. per ton. .l3.00@l4.00
GunnIson Valley. per ton. 10000 1900
Straw. per ton ........ 1000 500
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six nickels in game last sum
mer Thomas formerly played
on the Yankees. and. at the time.
Chase's sign for the squeeze
play was given by putting his
right hand to his nose. Ira had
seen him give this many times
when they were team mates.
But on this occasion. Chase
was playing on the New York
club. and Thomas was catching
on the Philadelphia team. It was
In the eighth inning with the
score tied. and a New York run
ner on third base. champing on
his spikes to get home when
Chase stepped to the bat. One
was out. Hal" went through
the usual preliminaries of knock
ing the dirt out of his spikes, FIX
ing his hat the firmer. as II he
expected to take long run and
didn't want to be called back to
get the cap. and splitting on his
hands. Then he put the first
digit OF his right hand to the side
OF his nose.
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his pitcher shoot over a fast
one. He tried this on me in
the first worlds series.
so they say that you are
the best base runner in the
American league" was hlE
opening line. We'll. you are
not up against American
league catchers now, young
fellow. Let's see you steal a
base If you get down"
! paid no attention to him.
although he evidently hoped
that l would turn around and
reply, so that | would be
caught off my guard. And
not in conceit, but. as a his
torian. / relate the sequel. ]
did get down TO first base.
and by pretending l was go
ing to steal, made him signal
to Overall to waste two balls.
Then. when he had to put a
strike over, | went down.
Sometimes a catcher will
Oyernlav hfs mart in This re-
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a sort of instinct which some players have and
others never attain.s-At man seems to do 1t by
Intuition and often cannot tell just what con-
crete hypothesis leads him to reach certain
conclusion But believe me. 1t is great art for
a ball player to have. a great art. and one to
be cultivated
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early innings Of the first game,
Sweeney had his hand split open
with one of Ford's eccentric spit
ters. The Highlander was never
the same again. He did not pitch
the wonderful ball he is capable
of in that series. He had no con-
f1dence in the numbering Mitchell
to handle his "spitters," to think
fast; in short, to outguess the bat
ters.
Some catchers have a very busy
habit of talking all the time 20
annoy batter in an effort to dis
tract his attention from his work.
John King. of the Chicago Cubs.
known in baseball as a bad man
with batter, "chewed" incessant-
ly during the worlds series in
which we won the championship
from the Cubs. He seemed to
want to distract attention from
the pitcher. A favorite line of
his was:
Now. let's try him on a fast
one"
II is sort of an tInWrftten Ia ~
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that he could throw He simply ourguessedL
me and caught me in the arms of Morpheus
He had wet the ball, while walking away from
the plate with his back to me, after getting it
from Easterly. thus giving no hint that he was
going to throw splitter"
Young invented this trick and applies it oc-
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sure | am, replied Chase. ana
he repeated the old sign very de-
liberately.
What" exclaimed Ira. you're
not giving me that sign, thinking
I'm not jerry to it?"
That's right, Ira," answered
Chase carelessly. II had forgot
ten you knew. but 1t goes any
way"
This conversation was carried
on while Plank was paving
around in the box and preparing
to pitch. AS the tall southpaw
wound up. Daniel started in from
third base. Plank delivered a
perfect strike. and Chase half
bunted and hals hit the ball. which
allowed Daniels to SCORE. Hal
had beaten Thomas at his own
game He had given a sign that
Thomas knew, and which the lat
ter did not for a moment think
had been passed out seriously.
Therefore Ira did not signal for a
pitchout as he would have done
I. Il,
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ing right. He has almost clairvoyant ability
to outguess pitcher.
In some games | have been able to guess
right almost every time that the pitcher has
thrown the ball to me and yet have not beep
ahl tn
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What are you going to do. Hal" asked Ira.
frame up something here?"
Thomas did not expect to find out anything
by the question. but wanted to drag Chase into
conversation to get his mind off his work
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Working In combination to outguess the bat
ters. catcher will often help pitcher out
by talking incessantly. hoping in this way to
distract hitters attention from his business.
Street of the Washington club is one of the
worst takers in the business. and is called in
some strata of baseball "Gabby." From the
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spect, and remark dropped by him will give
a batter the key to the situation which will
enable him to outguess the pitcher. thing
Of this sort happened to me in Chicago one
day last season. with Walsh pitching and
Payne catching.
Payne dropped remark. which set my mind
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of baseball to let the first one go by to get
look at the style King would say:
He liked the looks of that Let's try him
on another" Then up would come curve.
A favorite trick of his is to get the batter
into an argument and have
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hit are not likely to occur often In
game with Walsh pitching He
is spit ball pitcher entirely. He
uses his splitter" and a fast ball
with no curves On this occasion.
Payne signalled for either a spit
ball or fast one. I don't know
which. Walsh shook his head in
reply, and Payne gave him another
signal to which he again shook his
head -s'es's's's.a'se~s
You don't want this one?" Payne
mumbled In his mask. but loudly
enough for me to hear as he gave
another signal Walsh nodded as
sent
Now here is what passed through
my mind. after listening to the hint
carelessly dropped by Payne. Two
were out at the time, q man was
on third base, who. If he scored,
would put us ahead. and the count
on me was two strikes and no balls.
My flash Of thought must have been
instantaneous. ] try never to pay
any attention to the monologue of
q catcher hut pavpa io pot,,r,lI,, ,
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eleventh. and 1t fell off and smashed. Krause
pitched without confidence in his catchers
judgment to outguess the batters, and he lost.
The same thing was true of Ford in the
post-season series with the Giants. In the
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verse English on 1t. 1t was a case of him out
guessing The veteran Cleveland pitcher
is as different from Walsh, in his style. as white
is from black. ICY" relies curve and
fast ball, using splitter" Young had
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You can't get one by me-" his
manner appears to challenge. He
is simply. bulging with Confidence.
He is the one hitter and the only
successful one ever saw who appa-
rentIy doesn't try to guess what the
pitcher is going to throw and really
doesn't care. Pitchers have never
been able to discover any groove"
that he is concealing. He simply
wades in and hits at any kind OF
a ball He is one batter in thou
sand. -----r..------s------ ----.-----..-s.-.--.
Tyrus Cobb. the Detroit star. is
the exactly opposite type of hitter.
He is thinking all the time he is
at the bat, figuring, planning. to out
guess the pitcher and the fielders. in
baseball parlance ito cross his op-
ponents, a legitimate procedure. If
he thinks that the third baseman
expects bunt, he will hit 1t out.
He never chases bad ball. and he
makes a pitcher work to the last
uotch., He worries many of the
men in the box by his festlessness.-
and because he is constantly guess
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Toss one up here and hurry up about it.
I'm not particular"
He seldom let's the first one go past him.
He gets his poise, takes couple OF short
steps. wades into the ball. and bang!
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working and which led me to forecast what
was coming. This cue and the resultant con-
ciusion drew. based on the hasty hypothesis
OF Paynes remark. resulted in a timely base
hit The conditions and circumstances of. the
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coming. Thus Chase double-crossed Ira A
ball player is trying to outguess the pitcher
from the time he leaves the bench until he
sits down again. He doesn't terminate his
engagement at the plate AS soon as a bats.
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two strikes and one ball on me In
a game in Cleveland. He walked
out of the box and part way TO
the catcher to reeeIve-.the. ball.
Easterly, catching. signed for an
offering that did not coincide
with "Cy's" idea of the exigen-
cies of the situation. The old
fellow shook his head twice.
which Immediately forced me
to conclude that 1t would be
neither curve nor a fast one.
Oldring was on first base at the
time, and | guessed that "Cy,
must want to waste one, think
ing he was going to try to steal.
When the ball came to me about
chin high, at once concluded
that my diagnosis was the cor
rect one, and I let II go. But.
when about two feet in front of
me, 1t broke across my letters. a
beautiful strike. and ! had not
even taken my. bat -off~my shoul.
der. ICY" had dis1ed up a spit
ter from somewhere In his as
sortment, and -diGn't even know
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catcher In only Few instances
does the pitcher give the signals.
So much faith have some pitchers
in certain catchers that they pitch
altogether a different brand of base
ball to other men This is particu-
larly true of Krause, the Philadelphia
left handler. who pitched such sensa-
tiotnal ball in the season of 1903, and
of Ford. of the New York American
league club, who was the thrill of
the league last season with his
double breaking spitball Krause had
no confidence in any catcher except
Ira Thomas, and Ford could not work
harmoniously without Ed" Sweeney.
These catchers did all the thinking
for the two great twirlers, and their
work in the box was purely me-
chanical.
Krause raneed ten straight VIC
tories in row before he fell, in
a ten-inning game with the st. Louis
team, then. as usual, in last place.
The secret is this. Thomas was catch
ing him for the ten he put on the shelf.
Lapp was behind the bat for the
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Grain.
Grain.
Of. o. B. Denver. carload price)

Of. o. 3. Denver. carload prlce.)
Wheat, choice milling PER 100
lbs. ........... 1877
Rye. Colo. bulk. 100 ibs... 1876
Nebraska oats, sacked ..... 1.s0
Corn in sack ............. LA
Corn chop, sacked ...... 1.45
Bran. Colo, per 100 lbs. 80. 1.30
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reticent man. and his remark surprised4me
Walsh had refused to pitch until he had re-
ceived certain sign. This made me think
that 1t was not going to be splitter" or
fast one. evidently the first two signals given
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by Payne. He can't intend to waste
a ball. reasoned, because the man
Is on third. and he doesn't think
he Is going to try to steal. Then
1t struck me.
Can 1t be curve?" asked my.
self surprised. But he never
throws one" ! argued in my mind.
Then l remembered the surprise
betrayed in Payne's You don't
want this one" The remark. mum
bled In his mask, had supplied the
key. took chance. 1t was a
curve. and l called the turn. 1t
was the first and last one Walsh
ever threw Inc, and probably he
would have slipped it over, had it
not been for Payne's poorly sup
pressed surprise. That cost Walsh
the game. 1t must be Remembered
by the reader that all this giving
of signals and reasoning took place
in about minutes time. A ball
player must think fast
Old "Cy" Young, one of the
Solons of baseball, crossed me once
fr, almost tho ea,n- ,va,, ,,,ftt, -
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There is a great diff
ference in pitchers. Some
are easy to outguess.
and others are as bad as
a jig-saw puzzle. and I
never worked out one
of those In my life. l
know some men who
have mannerisms in the
boy which hefraY defin-
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blind man in center field could get those signals !"
. All right Eddie he answered. That's what
.ney re Tor It's a stall. We open : series in New
YORK Monday. and they may be tipping signals
there
instead Of covering up his signs with his legs
as any good catcher will. when he crouches be-
mind the batter, Thomas displaying his signals
30 that coachers at both first third base could
see them. learned In due time that the pitchers
were giving the real signs. and that Thomas had
oeVised this scheme to throw any observers with
Spy glasses or other artificial aids on their guards
might add that, result, in the following series
iour OF the New York baters were hit with pitched
balls and badly hurt
All this means that. every time a batter faces a
pitcher in game of baseball In the big leagues,
there Is duel of wits In fact the batter is pitted
against both the pitcher and the catcher as the
incident related above will show. The acueness Of
the duel depends the amount OF wits enlisted on
each side Some are not very keen
But. although in the vernacular of baseball. IL
Is called outguessing the pitcher it is really out
whiting the catcher, for the receivers almost uni,
versaly decide what kind of a diet shall be served
to the batter Occasionally pitcher disagrees and
snakes his head Successful men behind the
bat In the big leagues have made a careful wo
study of batters heir
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itely the sort of ball TO be de
livered. These little physical
eccentricities are true indices
and often cost men, who would
otherwise be successful pitch
ers, many games. 1t may be
the twist of the wrist in throw
ing a curve ball. or some motion
'-the--foot~ peealiar-to-a ..spit;
ter" that divulges the essential
secret This tell-tale sign is
-.fatal to a pitcher, when players
get on to 1t, and 1t usually does
not take his opponents long to
discover and associate it with
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bat in the big leagues have made a careful
study of batters, their grooves" and man
nerisms. and 1t is on this knowledge that a
pitcher depends. Therefore. in the majority
of cases. 1t is the batter outguessing the