The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-27

l Will find out what each man bats apains | risht and left-handed pitchers, agaIns, speed pitching and against slow bitch. HE. we will figure his speed. apgres. sipeness' condition, and disposition. l never reply upon my own judgment TOT these things. figure them all ou, 1 In advance, take the figures, and go ove, them with members of the players owr
 team With players of opposing teams. With men who know him better than oo. l find out whether he is workine with his team. whether the strain of the season has hurt his work, and all can
 about him. When I get down those fig
 ures lh each department of the game,
 Know and can represent in figures al- most exactly what that player is worth m regular season. At that point ws merely have the basis of calculating a mans worth in the world s series.
 Calculating a Players Worth
 A player may be worth 800 in A regu. lar season by this system of scoring. and may be worth only TOO in world S series Let me illustrate
 EVers hits, roughly, .S5, he runs bases efrectively, but does not steal many. He advances the limit of the hit on each play. He ranks first as fielder in DIS own league. I am forced to subtract 5s points from his total worth in a season because he kicks himself out of that proportion of games. Now, Evers, ac- cording to my figures. is worth S52 as q player in offensive play, and his va,us to his team in a 154-game series in 73l. How much, more or less, is he worth iu a worlds series?
 To find this you must study the op- posing pitchers, because of his scrappy, determined, aggressive play his cour- age and brains, Evers is worth more in worlds series than in regular sea son game. He is on edge. Besides, he has had experience in four worlds series. But. to learn his real value, you must study the pitchers that are to oppose him. Suppose, for illustra- ton, Evers were batting against Dauss. Dubuc and Covaleskie in five games.
 Covey" pitching two His offensive strength would be figured at S28, be- cause Covaleskie and Dauss would make trouble for him. Suppose he ander, which is impossible. His bat ting strength would be reduced to about 225
 Doping Out Worlds Series Batting
 To dope" a worlds series properly, one must know all about the players One must learn from their fellow play CTS just what condition of body and nerve they are in. There are some players who are at their best when under the heaviest strain. Herzog, for instance, gave the greatest exhibition Of third base play ever seen in one worlds series, playing 90 points above what we~figured and at that we gave him credit for being one of the gamest money players in the business In another series Sheckard of Chicago was so unnerved by excitement and anxiety and the misguided attentions of friends" that he was little better than busher in the series.
 We must add to, or deduct from, the seasons value of each player in pro- portion to his condition of body and mind, his experience in series, his like lihood of breaking under the strain or improving on his regular work by ris- ing to the emergency. and one must study most carefully of all the condi- tion of the pitchers.
 One of the most important features of doping a worlds series Is the study of the kind of pitching each batter hits.