The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-12
WHITE SOX BOSS TELLS SOME LIVE
 BASEBALL STUFF
eBv Jimmy Callahan.)

If the fans who sit in the grand stand and bleaehers and watch oase- ball games only knew the real 1acts If a lot of things that happen on the hail field it would prevent a lot or -ensuring of ball players. It seems a bit incredible, but many time play er ar manager gets "in bad with tne public for doing the right thing. It has happened lots of times on the field in Chicago. +
 For instance, we'll suppose that a team ha. a pitcher on the slab who IS just a trifle weak hearted. He Is go- ing along at a lively clip and poSslpiy his club Is leading by one run aions about the seventh inning. up .o tila. time he has had the opposing pa.ters at his mercy and has made hlmself ex- tremely popular with the fans They applauded him after each lnpins,
 Rut the manager and the other play, are m his side know that in crltlcai times that pitcher is liable to go so nieees. Perhaps he is weak Tn noio- ing runners on the bases or per maps z. he loses control of the ball when ro,,nIe of men get on and put him m a tight place.
 wen suppose he has shut the other side out until the seventh. when the frst, man conea up, and slams out base Init, The next batter gets pase nm h S- hall hard. right at the manager of the team and he drops it or boots It. NOW, that manager knows the pitcher IS weak-hearted and loses his conndence in such conditions and he takes nm out and sends in another Who IS COOP headed in such clrcumstaHceS.
 Can't you see what the fans are likely to say to the manager! He was the one that booted the ball and mace the tough situation and he's yankine the pitcher out of the game. Ihey re likely. tos holleEo R phim itp take nlm- self out and let the pitcher stay. HOW eyer. they don't know the inside rac!s s,s inc case and think the manager IS inc one who is wrong. But the crowd ;,, the stands doesn't know the olspo- sftion of the ball players It may know a. lot of other things, but the mahaser knows perhaps that this pitcher may be more upset over couple 0L er.ors eors h. is right in taking him out In this
 1-emember an instance of last sum- n,er that illustrates the point l was coaching at third base. Harry Loru vas on first, with one out, ana w needed two runs to tie tne scoae. rt,, the hit-and-run play. Pat Dougnerty made a line hit to right field and Loro Ier~ed, it to third, The fielder nned ball to second base, and just as grau he'd Lord and stopped nlIn at thiru, eho second basernan fumbled and pooteo the hall This would have let Lord come home, but neither of- us saw it, and the crowd yelled its approval ana roasted me for holding him at tniro. tnl. Al fine same time the umpire sent me 10 the bench for using my hands to push Lord back to the bag, ana tne crowd thought that Manager DuHy had taken me off the coaching nne for pulling a bone-headed play
 How much worse I would nave LOOK ed to the fans if I had waved Lord to vo on home and then the second oase- nan had handled the ball perfectly ana thrown him out by 10 feet at the nome plate. That would have been bone, for his one run would not even have tied the score, and by getting put out at home, the chance to get the two runs would have been spoiled
 T have seen a crowd jeer at an out- fielder for not catching high long foul fly that he might have caught easily. But this was the situation: The opposing side had runner on third base and the score was tied, with none or only one out. Had the outfielder caught the foul ball. it would have made two men out all right, but the man on third would have raced home with the winning run after the hall was caught. When it wasn't caught the runner had to stay on third and there was still a chance to save rhe game