New-York tribune., 1912-04-28

glance in the opposite direction he vvo,I.
operate on the ball with the piece Of ,;n
Then he would calmly call the attent;o, ~
the umpire to the cut and have a new III
substituted. ''
The umpireS finally discovered the s,,,,.
and whenever that player, or in fact s,, sn.,
other member Of the infcld, found obicct;n!!
to a ball, they made it point to subst;,",.H
a sphere equally old if not older This 6n,i
ly broke up the practice.
IN regulating the ground rules there is Otto.
a chance to get the best Of the deal oi snI
rival managers never fail to take advantsa"rlI srI
Of such chance. On a team in one ~ ,SS'
major leagues were a number Of left hand
hittcrS Most Of them were Of the slrgaa..
type, who hit the ball mile to right fsG SI'
1t was whenever there was an overaaa,
crowd, requiring ground rules, that the NAV
agcr got the best Of the deal He made !,
point always 10 have the ropes stretched -
right field and put the overflow in that So"
ton. \ hit Of two bases was always aIlouoa
on balls hit into the crowd. 1t is casv to'sot
how the home team, with many lcft.hanJod
battcrS. proftcd by such IN arrangcrno,,
y (f,lf
have been easy outs, went for two hsso.
On the other hand, the visiting tcans
which as a rule had left field htters. worlj
hit the ball a mile in tha, direction. only 70
see it gobblcd up.
THE waste ball is & trick Of the catcher 70
thwart the stealing o' second. third ~
home, or TO break up the Int and run T.,
squeeze play. Any time 'ha ..,,hcr divine,
that any Of these PLAY = 'o be tried h.
calls for waste ball. i waste ball is one
delivered 50 far outside ,n. plat. that +, /,
practically impossible for 'h. latter to n,
il. unless he fairly throw, his ba, at the ball
Thus the catcher eliminates the batter from
the play and thereby makes r. easier to in.
tcrccpt the opposition.
THROWING the "bcan ball ], a stun,
practiccd by some pitchers The ex.
preston is used to designate ta,, ball tina,
narrowly misses the batter head The in.
tent is to intimdatc the batter and keen
him from hugging the p'.'.. Usually the
pitcher, seeing the batter Step back after he
has hurled one at his head, -,rycs I'D curve
on the outside that it !, 'most impossible
for the batter to hit iron ne point where
ne +, standing The rc,' - Easy: a strke
out or pop fly usually routing.
WHEN the bunting ga.' first came into
w vogue a bat slightly ..,'cncd On one
side wa, used by the play,c. Ii they wer-
forced to shift to some o'... play, another
bat was thrown to them ''.w the bench.
The rules Of course prov.. that the ba,
must be round Just as soon the umpire,
discovered that a Aat-siici .., was being
used they made q careful in ... ton Of every
bat. Thi, practice soon "..' into the Dis.
card: for if the batter got aa.v with q Der.
fec, bun, by using bat slightly iattcno
the umpire would not a,'o" ae play.
II the American Lcagu, Fl. ampirc> have
"a boy t. take care oi grr hat contain,
the ball, to be used during '.a game. It's
surprising how hard it + q, gct boys who
will not help the home ',.w. Oi cour4
there /, some difference IN 'he ball, con.
,uncl in the grip. Any tin. 'ao home team
+, ~ bat the boys make T. . ,.'D, 20 pu. tie
be-, balls into play, and ...a the visitors
are ,u, up they turn IN e.. inferior ba.>
Naturally the umpire, ;ui .' necessary o.
get new boy about ever 'Hr. game.
THE fan, 81, q rule atrm, .... The position
of the umpire ], hari enough, On what's
apparrn, Co. them from III. -'...- but .her
are really ID l0, ot thing 'G.' 'ase place with
which they are No., familiar The conto,
,,-,,.'',- resolve. itself rr.. . battle # W.,