The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-15
BASE RUNNING OF WHITE S0X VERY
 GOOD THIS SEASON

Base running, which was fast be- coming a lost art in the AmerIcan league, might win the Worlds Series for the Chicago White Sox, providing that club would take the same chances iu the post-season battles that it is talk ing in the games for the pennant. writes E. A. Batchelor in the Detroit Free Press. . :
 Row1and's men gave remarkable . exhibition of sack navigating in the series with the Tigers and the Junga- beers were completely bewildered by their speed and daring. 1t must bea Every skilfu1 in holding men on the cushions, but at the same time nos' other club has ever taken such 1fb- critics with them as the Sox took in the recent disastrous series in the Windy City.
 The Tiger catchers were seldom to blame for a theft. In fact, the Sox were beating perfect throws right along and even when the receivers had them guessed and called for pitoh-outss there was no stopping them. Stealing third was one of the best things the Rowlands did. This is a play that l most orthodox baseball theorists do not fancy, on the ground that the risk ia out of proportion to the benefit if the maneuver goes through The argu.., ment is. that as runner will score from second on a single anyhow hs
 should stay there and wait for the
 batsnaan to do something. But Chic I cago several times scored runs with@ out the aid of a hit or an error simply because of cleverness in annexing the l hot corner, by burgIarous methods 6 If the Sox follow precedent, it is to
 be feared that-al1 their sprinting talent will be wasted in the Worlds Series
 however. Almost invariably air-tigh.
 baseball prevails in these important battles for the big coin. Now and then somebody steals second with two gone, but such a thing as trying to pill. fer third or of pulling the double steal
 with none out is almost unheard off, In 1910 the Athletics cut loose and ran themselves black in the face and panty lby so doing, won against a club that l was supposed to be the equal in ak departments and to possess the best catcher in the game,
 It would add interest and excitement to the series to have the American league entry discard alright methods and do some running. Possibly Mo Graw's pitchers would be able to break up the plays a good part Of the time but unless the New York pitchers are very alert to see that nobody gets a
 running start, the percentage of sue- cess would be very high.
 Chicago has an unusually large number of good base-runners. Lies bold, Weaver, McMullin, Eddie Collins.
 Jackson and Felsch are fast men on
 the paths and Gandil, though slow of foot, gets a good lead and knows when
 to go. Opposed to a pitcher that is inclined to be wild and that is putting
 men on the bases by the pass route.
 the Windy City boys could score .ai
 bunch of runs with very few hits. a454
 The more attempts to steal there
 were, the more the catchers would be likely to call for waste balls and this. Of course. would not help the fingers
 to cut down the pass list and ever
 though base-runndng did not bring bis results in itself it's value as a, threat
 would be considerable, for the enemy
 never would know whether to look for
 the free steal, the hit and run or.
 straight away s1ugging. There is so
 much batting strength on Cornaskey s
 club that it does not always have to depend on fancy stuff to get runs.