The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-09-15
h. their heads than. they did with

with their heads than they did with
They talked Of ways to win ball
games most Of, the time they were to-
gether. Jones himself worked all his
waking hours. He even dreamed Of
slant effort always reduced his weight
thirty. or forty pounds every season.
Jones Is not the .onl ymanaEer who
studies baseball. all his waking hours.
There are a lot of them, but. Jones had
the men. who studied the game. too.
They helped him and Understood him.
+ Figures Out Trick PLAY.
came back from n winter vacation
with an idea which he thought he
might be able to work three or four
times In q season. and II It broke even
it might win a couple Of bail games
for him. In those days a game OF
tyo might decide the American lea.
que pennant. The play Jones doped
out was this: In a game where. the
Sox needed a run to tie. or win in. any
Of the late innings. and they got the
bases full by. any means, the idea was
to trick the pitcher into. forcing in
the run IL possible. You. can see al.
ready how seldom the play was likely
to come, UP. but that merely illus
trates how endlessly Jones studied
baseball when he would spend a lot
OF time devising a trick which could
be worked so frequently.
Given that situation, with the bases
full, and. n run needed badly, the
batsman was to be governed a good
deal by the number of outs. If he
could score run with a fly or .inield
out. he was not to let any balls that
he liked to go. But IL there were
two out the batsman waste use all his
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necessary. to get three balls called.
When that situation was accomplished
the runner on. third was to. start with
the pitchers arm: on the next ball as IL
attempting to steal home and keep
right on going. This would trick any
except a foxy pitcher into forgetting
the count and playing for. that run
ner by pitching where the catcher
could tag him. That was Jones, idea
in evolving that play.
Donahue Misses Opportunity.
He explained 1t to all his PLAYERS
and they worked 1t a couple Of times
on the spring training trip. It was
In st. Louis. and the score was tied
near the end Of the game. Three
men got on with two out. George
Davis was on third and Jiges Donahue
was next at bat.
Donahue. while waiting for his
friends in one;-of the front boxes, As
he walked to the plate Jones twice
called to him from the bench. to warn
him of the opportunity. !" AS events
proved Donahue' worked the pitcher
for three balls without knowing why.
On the next ball pitched Davis came
In from third as fast as he could and
was tWo-thirds of the way thererwhen
the ball arrived. It was low and.ort-
side just as Jones had imagined the
pitcher would. deliver. IL, and Davis
would have been forced in. but Dona-
hue reached out and tried to hit, the
ball. He missed 1t and the side went
out. st. Louis eventually won the
game. -:
When Donahue was called down for
it, he said he thought it was a squeeze
play. n his. manager never forgave
him for forgetting. Donahue. was or
dered to sit on the bench at all times
during a game when no. in the field,
q bat. or on the bases. and this Incl
dent was the beginning of the es-
arrangement that existed between
manager and first baseman as long as
they were together. :.