Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-04-21
never Waste
FIRST BALLS
Advice of Veteran Catcher
w no Is Coaching
Yankee Pitchers.
STAR HURLERS DON'T
Tom DAILY Points Out That MathewsOn,
johnson, Walsh, Bender and
Others Always Get the
Batter "In a. Hole"
(By Frank G.. Menke.)

New York, April 20.-"Get the bat
ter in the hole; always aim to get the
first two balls pitched to him over the
plate" This is the advice handed out
by Tom DAILY, once one of the greaest
catchers that ever donnd mask, who
now is coaching tn young Yankee
pitchers. Days advice is for the
sand-lot youngster who has the ambi-
ton to become a big league tWlrler
some day.
"The pitcher who can get the first
two balls over the plate usually has
the whiphand," declared Daily. Every
few batters offer at the first ball, and
if it happens to be strike they hard,
ly ever offer at the second. If the
pitcher can shoot two straight over the
plate, it's pretty much of cinch that
they will be called strikes and the
batter will be in a hole.
"You will find that the best pitchers
Of the present day are men who never
waste the first two balls. Mathew
son, Johnson, Walsh, Bender, Wood.
and the other stars always try to get
the first two balls over the plate or
mighty near the corners, and that's
why they have been so successful. IT
they don't strike out their man it's
seldom that the man on whom they
get two strikes on the first two balls
will do much damage as the batter is
rather nervous and knows he has only
one chance left. Quite often, in his
nervousness, he will swing at the
third ball, whether it is good or bad,
FOR fear that it will be called one
and if he doesn't miss he seldom gets
a drive that will do much damage.
"Of course, a pitcher takes chance
that by putting the first two balls ov-
er that the batter will swing at it.
But it is rarely that batter swings
at the first ball, unless the manager
of the opposing team has figured out
that line of understanding that
happens infrequently."
A Problem in Golf.
Golfers in Eangland have become
terribly excited over the question as
to which stroke is the nest valuable.
So heated has become the discussion
that the peace-loving residents are
fearful that large number OF duels
will be fought out to acquit the honor
Of the various gentlemen on one SIDE
whose ideas on this question have
been ridiculed by the folk on the 9TH
er side.
The question was put to f1fty-six OF
the best golfers in England. Forty
five answers came in. OF these tWen-
ty-three thought the putt the most
valuable, while twenty-five stood out
for the approach. James Braid, re-
garded as one of the best. putters IN
the world, headed the faction that fav-
ored the putt, while J. H. Taylor, one
of the best golfers the game has ever
known, and man almost without
peer as a driver, headed the faction
that declared the approach shot was
the best one in the game.
The approach clan asserted that this
shoot was the most valuable because
of the psychological effect 1t mad utoh
a player. A good drive from the
tee gave player confidence; a poor
one made him nervous and spoiled MS
natural effectiveness for the next
shots and also the putt.
In rebuttal, the putting clan de-
clares that an Indifferent drive on the
first shot from the tee rarely meant an
extra stroke because on his second
drive or third drive the golfer had
good chance to make up for the poro
first drive, whereas, if golfer missed
a short putt, it certainly meant an
extra stroke.
lust now the whole British domain
is nightly worked up over this ques-
fontiOnC
busily calling each other names, and
declaring that the other doesn't know
q darned thing about what he's talk
ing about, that George. the we'll
known king, is fearful those fellows
will get to fighting among themselves
with something more deadly than
fists. with the result that so much
carnage will be done that only a
handful of golfing Britishers will pc
on hand next month to do bottle with