Evening star., 1923-12-28
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pinch, it depends entirely upon
how dangerous he is. The next
batter also has TO be considered.
1t is never advisable to put a man
on base who might bring in, the
winning run unless the succeed
ing batter is the weakest man on
the club. Those chances have to
be weighed, Remember, that the
chances always are against any
batter getting a hit. If, for ex-
ample he is 800 hitter the
chances are that he will get
safe hit one time in three. But If
there is a man on third. ready to
score on long fly, hit is not
necessary:
As to the third question, cer-
tainly the pitcher should do as
much fielding as possible. A
pitcher who can field his position
perfectly often is more valuable
to a team than a great star who
cannot field at all.
The answers to the others are
rather obvious. 1t is well to keep
those pointers in mind, though
to be sure that they are not
forgotten in the heat of the game.
The amateur, above all things,
must learn to keep himself from
getting excited.
A common fault among anna
teur outfelders is the running
down and catching of long fouls
when there is man on third
and not two out. In their eager
ness to make a good showing the
outfie1ders forget that If the ball
is caught the batter will score: 1t
is hard to let it go, but they
must keep their heads and do so.
Some of our best jrajor league
outfieiders make That mistake
sometimes. | have seen impor-
tant games lost by it.
I know that some of the old
timers will laugh at these simple
suggestions. But they should
remember that these boys are
not playing ball for a living and
that they are liable to be carried
away in the excitement OF their
game. All of us had TO learn our
first reader at some time. AT any
rate, we have to remember what
we did learn.
What a Big Lacquer Did.
To show you that ball player
often forgets, there have been
Two or three instances in base
ball where an outheider ran to
the clubhouse after making
catch with men or bases, think
ing that there were two out.
In one game at the Polo
- Grounds. in New York, an out
feIder-Bail, / think it was
caught a long fly when the bases
were full and one out.
Something got crossed IN his
bean and he started straight for
the clubhouse. The players start
ed chasing him, trying to tell him
that there were not two out. He.
thinking they were chasing him
to get the ball. waved his hand
gayly and dashed through the
exit gate leading to the club
house. They finally chased him
right I'D into the locker room and
had to wrestle him down to get
the ball. In the meantime all
three runners had scored
Even as clever an outfelder as
Red Murray once did similar
trick. He caught ball with one
out and started away with it, al
lowing a man to score. They
caught Murray, though, before he
could get out of the park.
was playing in game against
Cincinnati once and was on first
base. The pitcher and catcher
seemed to have misunderstood
ing as to what to pitch. While
the pitcher was peering at the
catcher's glove and shaking his
head | deliberately walked down
to second base-didn't even run.
In his worry over the signal he
had forgotten all about runner
being on first.
l really feel that wouldn't be
doing any good for myself or for
base bali if l didn't try to help
out the college and other amateur
PLAYERS. AS / go along ! will give
them some more little points to
think over.
Tomorrow: Do You Know q Bone
head When You See One?