Omaha daily bee., 1912-01-21
sHORTSfOP HARDEST ToPLAY
he Must Work Rapidly and Watch
Several Moves at Same Time.
BE USED TO HAVE LESS WORK
Defensive End of Position 4. Of sach
Importance that Psor Mating Is
Overlooked In one who IL
Good at short.

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He Must nave speea.
The shortstop used TO have much less
work 70 DO than Is reauired ~ we moo
No. rscss.srv for a man nlsy,ne short
"a be able TO 20 far after ground balls,
either TO his right or his left. lie must
be able to 20 TO the right far enough
after hits which are too fast for the
third baseman to get In front Of. and he
must have the speed 70 meet the second
baserhan half way in taking balls that
are hit over or close to second base. not
TOO fast to be reached. The shortstop
mast be able to come In fast on ball
hit slowly past the pitcher or one bound
Inf slowly out OF reach over the pitchers
head. lie must possess. ABOVE al
tninss strong throwihs arm ana an ac-
eufete sim, OF course. "ttnoue ,ne
suons arm the snoftseop fnust piay
Closer 70 'he plate. ior man VINO mas
NeAk arm or ammo, se' ,ne pau swsy
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Besides all this. the shortstop has TO
cover second base on ATTEMPTED steals al
least half the time. when a runner 10 on
first. and, As a rule. he has farther TO 90
and poorer line on the bali a. Il comes
10 him than the second bsser,an has.
when there Is a runner on second the
shortstop "a expected 10 hold him as close
TO that bag as possible, so as to keep him
from scoring on q single and give the out
fielder q better chance 10 throw the rum
ner gu. at the plate n he tries 10 70 home
on q hit. II il no easy task 10 keep one
eye on the pitcher 10 see when he Ia go.
ing to deliver the ball. another on the
runner, TO watch how far he Ia leading off
second. and at the same time watch for
the cAtcher's signal 50 that he viii know
what kind Of ball Is going 10 be pitched.
All this and more the shortstop must
dc IN q successful major league team.
In those teams which play the up-to.
date base bali the snortstop IL expected
not only 10 get the catcher,s signal him