Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-09-18
WHAT THEY SAY
Bill Jacobson

II you'll look al the batting order
Of the st. Louis Browns you'll find
Baby Doll" Jacobson's name there
and opposite 1t you'll generally see
a flock of hits. He Is the cleanup
hitter for the Browns. Bill says:
MY style of batting is different
than that of Ruth's. He uses a very
heavy bat and takes a long swing
at the ball, getting his body behind
every blow. I use a relatively light
bat and swing more with my arms.
No doubt this style of hitting will
seem poor dope to many. but / car
only say that every batter has his
own particular way of hitting and
that he is apt to get into trouble
IL he abandons what is natural to
him to copy some one else. I have
discovered that by trying to murder
the ball I miss many a hit that I
would have otherwise have made
and my batting average suffered. II
l tried to be a home run hitter like
Ruth I believe ! could hit many
more than / do hit, but I would
make far fewer safe hits in the long
run. To me it seems preferable to
make perhaps a couple of singles
and a double or a triple than to go
hitIess for a game Or two and then
bang one into the bleachers. Babe
has his own style and is good at 1t.
Just because a fellow Is big and
strong is no reason to believe he
could be successful with Ruth's
STYLE"
James Bagby.
When you look owe the averages
this fellow Jim Bagby heads the
class. He has won more games than
any pitcher in either league this
year. Jim doesn't do much talking
except with his curves and speed,
but he did say this:
IT suppose I can lay my earliest
success as a pitcher to two things.
First, control, and second expert
rally to me. It has always been
good, though I have improved 1t by
practice. Control is absolutely es-
sentiai to any pitcher. though not all
pitchers can master 1t to their sat
isfaction. To my mind pitching con-
sists of two things, control and
knowledge of the batter. Knowl-
edge of the batter teaches you what
kind of a ball you ought to use.
| Control enables you to put 1t there.
Pitching has it's ups and downs.
| Some days you break your back try
ing and can't get by and other days
your teammates score a flock of
runs behind you and it's easy SAIL
ing"
Jack Coombs.
The answer to Brooklyn's great
| showing this year is answered in
the pitching Wilbert Robinson is
getting. Jack Coombs thinks it is
the greatest combination in the big
show today. Jack says:
Brooklyn pitchers-they're the
greatest pitching staff / ever heard
of. The manager who has three or
four good pitchers can always count
| himself lucky. But Brooklyn has
seven, every one of them a high
grade man capable of going on the
slab and working against any club
in the circuit. The big seven is COM
posed OF Pfeffer. Galore, Mamaux,
Vanguard, Smith, Mitchell and
Grimes. Any one of them could get
q job with any club in the country.
No Excuse for PolIuting Streams
Manufacturers Say
Stronger each month is growing
the public demand for cleaning uI
the streams of New Jersey by stop
| ping the pollution from industrial
| plants. For the lack of a filtration
system easily and cheaply installed
poisonous drainage from mills has
been allowed to kill off the fish fol-
miles along streams, many destroy
ing a natural source of food and
sport for thousands. In numerous
cases where these streams furnish
a potable water supply. the poison
content also produces a frequently
unidentified peril to public health
| Many manufacturers already have
installed filters to take out the
chemical poisons and have admit
ted that there is no longer any rea-
son why an industrial plant, by
pouring unhltered sewage into
streams, should maintain a perilous
public nuisance.