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l have also touched on the need
of special training to make the
youngster fast on his feet. An ability
to shift rapidly into throwing posi-
ton Is very essential. For this rea-
son a catcher should invariably be
on his toes. The fat-footed type of
hackstop is an easy mark for the fast
base runner. Even a man slow on
the paths can steal on such a catcher.
The runner can generally gain two
or three strides on the fiat-footed
backStop. That is almost enough of
margin to enable any one to steal
successfully.
A real catcher must have a fine
throwing arm. But unless he has a
good. fast snap peg to the bases, after
he gets in position ia make the play
on a runner, the best arm in the
world Will be wasted. A man playing
behind the bat needs to be shifty
and also speedy.
Confidence in your throwing ability
is another essential. Constant prac-
tice and hard work will make for
accuracy and speed. These things in
catcher needs to feel sure of his
ability to throw. Once he does there
is no cause for him to hold back in
making a peg to get runner If he
thinks he has a chance to retire his
man.
Oftentimes a catcher's position calls
for great nicely of judgment In
throwing to pick man off a base or
to cut one down stealing. If you
don't think you can nip your man
don't lose your head and make a too
hurried throw. Such pegs are gen.
orally wild ones. In a close game
they can prove extremely costly. A
ball tossed to the outfield over sec
ond or third base may well mean all
the difference between victory and
defeat.
Accurate and quick thinking is
quite as essential in a good catcher as
accurate and quick throwing. The
catcher should be deliberate, but not
at the expense of speed. In other
words, his mind has to be thinking
step ahead of the play so that when
he calls on his muscles for action
there is speedy execution with the
chances for a blunder minimized.
The catcher is the only player on
the defense who commands a view of
the entire field of play. He is in a
place where he can observe every
infield and outfield position. He needs
to keep his wits about him and watch
the bases when there are men on.
| Vigilance is demanded of all catchers
at all times. A youngster must learn
to keep on his toes mentally as we'll
as physically.
Catchers need to be good judges
| of the distance of batted and thrown
balls. They have to figure the speed
at which a ball is coming from the
| outfield when a throw is being made
| all the way or relayed and the play
| is at the plate. Practice at taking
balls on the fly and on the hop will
| help.
A catcher's judgment of a batted
| ball is most important in the case of
a foul. Here Is where good instinct
comes in handy. A real backstop
| must have a natural bent for figuring
where a ball is going to drop from
the sound of the bat meeting it. He
can't always quite see the play. Abili-
ty to figure the course of such fouls
might almost be called an extra
sense. All good catchers have it. Few
acquire such knowledge. 1t is nat
ural gift.
The catcher with good judgment
ION foul balls has a big advantage.
' He can get quick break from the
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FOUR BOUTS TONIGHT
AT BARRACKS SHOW

Washington fight fans are due to
witness another out-of-doors exhi-
bition at the Washington Barracks
tonight when Charlie Baum and
Johnny Gill meet as the headline
attraction on the boxing card of "a
rounds.
The barracks gymnasium is far too
small to accommodate the large
crowd that is expected to view the
exhibition of punching, and the au-
thorities at the Army post are de-
pending on the weather mans pre-
diction that the evening viii bring
nothing worse than a slight cloudi-
ness.
Sailor Jimmie Waterman goes
against Curly Warfield in the semi
final of six rounds. Jack Cafoni
meets Chick Rubin, Johnny Mccarthy
fights Jack Cody and Joe Adveco
takes on Jimmy Gardner in the other
preliminaries.
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LIGHTWEIGHT Event
CONTINUES TONIGHT

NEW YORK. March Six light
weights who passed the tests of the
first round in the New York State
Athletic Commissions tournament to
name a successor to the retired
champion. Benny Leonard, will con-
tinue Examinations in 10-round bouts
here to night.
Solly Seeman of New York will
meet Charley O'Connell of Cleveland
K. O. Clyde Jeakle of Toledo faces
Jimmy Goodrich of Buffalo and Benny
Valger of New York opposes Basil
Galiano of New Orleans
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plate. toss off his mask and soon be
in position to field the ball Such q
player is generally camped under the
ball when it drops and in a fine place
to catch II.
The backstop who is flat-footed or
has poor Judgment of foul balls is
the one you see making such plays
on the run. All the percentage is
against him. He doesn't get in an
easy position to catch the ball and
consequently is at a great disadvantage
So is his team.
Good eyesighc is another needed
qualifica ton in young catcher. II
you wear eyeglasses or your vision
is in any way defective forget about
trying to play behind the bat. There
is no position on a team which calls
for keener vision. In many ways the
catcher is the eyes of his team.
Tomorrow How to ThrowD
Copyright, 1925, by Current News Features
Incl
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COLLEGE SWIM liners
ELECT A YALE MAN


NEW YORK, March 9.-Andrew J..
Wilson of Yale, a former holder of
the Office, has been elected president
of the intercollegiate Swimming As
sociation to succeed the late w
Leeming Jelliffe.
Ben S. De Young of the College of
the City of New York was elected
vice president.
The meeting completed arrange
ments for the individual swimming
championships at New Haven March
81 and %.
Colleges represented were Yale,
Princeton, Pennsylvania. Column ia,
City College, United States Naval
Academy, Rutgers, Swarthmore and
Dartmouth.
Favorable action was taken on ap-
plications for membership from SYRIA
cuse and Carnegie Tech.
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Same OldPr0bIen1s
CALDER OF THEIR PUNCH
STILL is PROBLEMATICAL
Manager killefer Believes Hitherto Lacking kick
Has Been Acquired With Grimm and Maranville
But This Remains to Be Demonstrated.
BY JOHN B. FOSTER.

a punsh "- '"' @'''' Marc" '''''s the '"'' 10
Every year that same problem comes The
start on well and makes corkng early showing But
Wheh the called
were made OF flint Cubs
hey usually followed
hard but showing punch through
Almost always this of
pitching
CS possessed good cleanup hitter who could them OF
two more they would
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The others making up the Capital
City party are: Infielders, Harrish Peck,
Judge, Bluege, MacNally and Shirley;
outfielders, Goslin, McNeely, Rice, Lie
bold and Carlyle; catchers, Tate and
Hargrave; coaches, Altrock and
Schacht: Trainer Martin and Presi-
dent Griffith. This leaves Ruel, Gregg,
Ruether, Coveleskie Martin. Mo-
sridge, Matthews, Adams and Rhine
hardt to continue their daily work
outs here.
After today the Harrismen will
take their training under competi-
tive conditions for the balance of the
week, the card being: Tomorrow,
Giants at Palm Beach; Wednesday,
Giants at West Palm Beach; Thurs
day, Reds at Arlando; Friday, Mil
waukee at Sanford, and Saturday,
Braves here. 1t is expected that
Zachary, Marberry and Russell will
pitch against the Giants in the open
ing game tomorrow, each working for
three innings.
Grif Wins n Debate.
BY showing up so we'll at third base
for the Nat Yannigans in Saturday S
game against the Cuban all-stars,
Memo Leibold, to President Griffith's
mind at least, decided an argument
the Nat head has been carrying on
with manager Harris ever since the
world series of last Fall
When Peckinpaugh was injured,
necessitating the shifting of Bluege
to short, and the insertion of either
Hack Miller or Tom Taylor at the hot
corner, Griff, it seems, urged that the
hoy manager take a chance on Lei
bold at third, after Miller had demon
strated in his first game that he was
not the man for the job. Harris re-
fused, claiming that Harry was a
fly catcher, and probably would just
gum up the game" trying to play in
the inner works, especially with no
practice.
Since the training season has got
ten under way here, Leibold has done
considerable practice at third with
the rookie infield and has shown to
such good advantage that he was
given the assignment Saturday and
resembled the finished product, hand
ling himself in great style. Griffith's
Il told you so" could be heard all
over the hotel lobby after the game.
Assistant Secretary Billy Smith. who
came here from West Palm Beach,
where he went direct from Washing
ton to make arrangements for the
games there and at Palm Beach
Wednesday and tomorrow, respective
ly, is very enthusiastic over the base
ball plant there and cannot under
stand why some major league club
has not picked out West Palm Beach
as a Spring training camp.
They have a better infield than we
have at Washington" ne said, land
a brand-new concrete grandstand and
bleachers. The weather is ideal, and
for the life of me L cannot under
stand why the place has been over
looked by all of the big league clubs"
Little Wild Matthews has had some
odd experiences in his major league
career. He was in reminiscent
mood this morning and enumerated a
number of them. The two which
struck him as the oldest have oc-
Cured within the last couple of years.
When l was let out by Connie Mack y
he said. STRAND got my job. Mean
while, ! came back to Washington,
and, in a game in Chicago, l caught
the fly which resulted on his last big
league trip to the plate. Can you
beat that"
The other set of circumstances
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kAPLAN AND MASCART
WILL BATTLE IN June

SAN FRANCISCO. March 9.-Louis
(Kid) Kaplan. champion featherweight
boxer of Meriden, Conn.,, has been
matched to meet Edouard Mascart.
French featherweight, in a. contest to be
held in the Yankee Stadium, New York,
some time in June, it has been an
nounced here by "Scotty' Monteith,
manager of the American.
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BOTH VETS AND ROCKIES
TO PITCH In EXHIBITIONS
Zachary, Marberry and Russell Expected to Divide
Box Burden in First Practice Contest With
Giants at Palm Beach Tomorrow.


AMPA Fla March 9That Manager going
his rookie pitchers all of the burden these early
exhibition indicated the those
take the which tonight shows
four the hurlers to be used
1t first thought that the rockies would have the
along enough
little but Tom Zachary Fred Marhcry Alien Russell and Joe Martina
that
Jim Mcnamara Harry Kelley elise Dudley and Benson Brill
the pitching
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PERUVIAN BOXER WINS.

BUENOS AIRES, March 9.-The
Peruvian middleweight, Alex Rely,
knocked out the Uruguayan, Alexandra
Trias, in the third of what was to have
been a 20-round bout BY his victory
Rely earned the right to meet Angel
Rodriguez for the South American mid
dleweight championship
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CURLY OGDEN SIGNS
GRiFFITH'S CONTRACT

TAMPA, Fla, March 9.-Presi-
dent Clark Griffith rounded up
Curly Ogden this morning right
after breakfast and took him to
his room for half-hour confer
ence. At it's conclusion the Old
Fox announced that he had had
little trouble coaxing the young
shiek of Swnrth more to affix his
name on the dotted line OF "A
Washington contract for 1925.
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Macks Borrow Ruth.

PHILADELPHIA, March 9.-Re-
ports today from the base ball train
ing camps of the Philadelphia Ma
tionals and Americans in Florida in
Dictated that both squads are in for
a strenuous week.
Manager Fletcher of the Phillies is
working hard to get his men in
condition for the exhibition games
with the Athletics at Fort Myers
Thursday and Friday. With two
workouts a. day Fletcher hopes the
team will be in fine shape for its
American League opponents.
Babe Ruth. Sultan of Swat, will be
in the Athletics outfleld against the
Phillies Friday. Ruth has been Dor
rowed by Manager Mack from the
camp of the New York Yankees at ST.
Petersburg for the day, and reserva-
tions have been made for the game
by fans for miles around.
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all right, but maybe their unwil-
lingness to let Kelly go to Chicago
was due TO the fact that they figured
he would raise to much Ned with
them if he got a chance to bat
against them on the Cubs field, the
fences OF which are just suited TO his
style of hitting.
Killifer says with Grimm and Ma
ranville going good he won't even
miss Kelly in the outfield-and he
figures he can use the clever O'F'ar-
rel TO mighty good advantage
Copyright, 1921
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All Indians in Hand.

CLEVELAND, Ohio, March e.-With
the arrival yesterday at Lakeland.
Fla, from Hot Springs, Ark, of
Pitchers Uhle and Edwards and Riggs
Stephenson, utility inf1elder, of the
Cleveland American League base ball
team, the entire roster of that club
is now in Lakeland to finish Spring
training.
Uhle, Edwards and Stephenson
report themselves free of injuries
that kept them out of the game a
large part of last year and express
confidence that they will be able to
appear regularly in the coming
schedule of games.
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which give the Spark Plug consider
able amusement are that on both his
first and last trips to the plate in
the American League he got hits off
Walter johnson and Urban Faber,
respectively.
With the signing OF Vean Gregg
last night and Curley Ogden this morn
ing every member of the Nationals
squad, as now constituted, is under
contract for 1925.
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batting was so evidently what they
| needed that the Cub scouts were told
70 round up every potential fence
buster they could find The scouts
| have not had lot of success along
that line in past years and it is a
question whether the nee4.e wal
loper is with the team this year.
In fact, ii is pretty certain that
no one slugger has been uncovered
However. If the combination OF
Grimm and Maranvi'le should bring
to the Cubs as much batting activity
as II is conceivable they might.
the team will be helped wonderfully.
Both will field fast enough, and both
have shown in the past that they can
bat.
Rabbit Is Biggest Problem.
Maranvflle, perhaps. is the greater
problem of the two. He can play
about as well as he ever did II he
tried. but the Rabbit is casionaIly
too Eighty for his own good. Still. he
is as hard as nails this Spring and is
bubbling over with determination to
make a good record.
Bill Killefer, the Cub manager. ex-
pressed himself to the writer as well
| satisfied with the teams prospects of
having a punch. He thinks so highly
of Maranyille and Grimm that he
feels he might have won a pennant
last season with them in his lineup.
| OF course. last season is water over
| the dam, but it's about the only thing
by which a manager can figure the
| future.
If ii is to be considered that the
Cubs have punch it must be locke ed
upon as d combination punch, made
up of two players taken over from
Pittsburgh. The Cubs figure that the
Cooper end of the deal was all their
| way, and they are counting on get
ting at least Is victories out of his
south wing. Maybe that, too, is q
part of the punch. But if the Cubs
| had real 400 hitting player on the
team there would be fewer ifs anC
butts. They would be almost sure tC
| land among the first three.
One thing is certain-with Hartnett
| behind the bat, they have five arms
of steel in the infield. Although they
| have been here only a week, Grimm
Adams, Meanwhile, Friberg and Hart
nett are throwing the ball as if they
| had been playing half a season. Hart
nett's throwing to second is the mar
vel of the other players. He line:
| them down, one after another, never
| higher than a mans head at the
highest point of their trajectory
Meanwhile says he never caught
such hot shots in his career on the
| infield. And the three basemen and
the shortstop promise to make things
pretty hot for base runners, too
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Lands at Chisox Camp.

CHICAGO, March 9.-One OF the
snappiest workouts of the season was
on the White Sox program today at
Shreveport, La. with Base Ball Com
missioner K. NJ. Lands as a spectator.
Recent arrivals are Ted Lyons,
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HOW TO PLAY BASE BALL
by Stanley (Bucky) Harris
CATCHER II.-WHAT A CATCHER NEEDS.

HAVE pointed the
that they the which subjected
undepinning by the
lower his full weight when he behind the Such work
bound
to in The TOT condito
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FOUR AUSSIE NETMEh
MAY BE SENT TO u. S,

MELBOURNE, Australia. March .
A fund is being raised here to obtain
money to defray the expense of sending
G. NJ Hone, the south Australian cham
pion. as the fourth player on the Aus
tralasian Davis cup team to the United
States.
Hone is known as the young giant Of
Adelaide" He has service which some
observers of the game consider eQual
in pace to. if not faster than, that of
Gerald L. Patterson.
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O'Farrell Is Highly Valued.

The Chicago management a few
weeks back offered O'Farrell, the
catcher. outright to the Giants in
exchange for Kelly. but Killifer says
he would not make the swap now
1t was thought at the time that
Kelly's batting as cleanup man
would be worth more to the Cubs than
O'Farrell's catching.
The Giants seem to need a catcher.
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Two Tigers Missing.

DETROIT, March 9-After a COM
plete rest yesterday, the Detroit
American League team opened it's
second week of training at the Au
gusta, Ga, camp today. Earl White
Hill, pitcher, who is reported en-
route to the camp. and Heinie Manush,
outfielder, who is the only Tiger
holdout, are the only two members
of the squad that have not reported.
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Pirates are Battling.

PITTSBURGH, March 9.-Manager
McKechnie's Pirates staged their first
regular outdoor base ball embroglio
of the 1925 season at their training
camp at Paso Robes, Calf, yesterday.
The regulars crossed bats with the
second string team.
According to battle reports reaching
here, the rockies got en- even break,
the score being SIS. The game was
a Suggest throughout, with both
teams walloping the opposing Pitch
ers aplenty.
Emil Yde and Babe Adams divided
mound duty for the recruits and
Freeley and Lorbeer did the twirling
for the veterans. pie" Traynor was
the hitting premier, annexing one
homer and a three-base hit.
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NEHF is SLATED TO HURL
OPENER AGAINST CRIFFS

rte Nehf looks like the choice of the
the first clash with Washington in
Tuesday at Palm Beach.
Kent Greenfield and Joe Lance are
the first road tour of the year with
aiming days, as IS exhibition contests
Charley Robertson, and Ted Blanken-
ship, while Willie Kamm, Earl Sheely.
Bib Falk, Bill Barrett and Maurice
Archdeacon are still to appear. Yes
terday was a day of rest and re-
creation for the entire crew, many
of the men playing golf.
Two more casualties have hit the
Cubs camp, at Catalina Island, Calf
Bobby Barrett was struck in the mouth
by ball on a bad bounce. and Percy
Jones received a sprained hand in a
collision with another player. Only
one practice session was on the card
today.
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Sisler Likes HIS Pitching.

ST. LOUIS, March 9.-After a week S
review. Manager George Sisler says
he feels certain the st. Louis Browns
will get better pitching, both start
ing and relief. in 1925 than they got
in 1924, when a little tighter twirling
might have kept the club in the race
to the close of the season.
Lacking the Sisler stamp of official
approval. reports from the Brownie
camp at Tarpon Springs, Fla, indi-
cate the following hurlers will be on
the staff this Summer:
Bush. Vangilder, Wingard, Davis.
Blaeholder, CASTOR, Giard. Falk and
one from the ranks of the recruits.
Dave Danforth also is a strong pos
sibility If he signs a contract
Moundsmen hold the training
limelight among the Cardinals at
Stockton, Calf, Manager Branch
Hickey having experienced some
difficulty in finding a hurler who
could place the ball near the plate
in exhibition games Saturday and
Sunday.
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have been scheduled for this month.
At Clearwater the Brooklyn
Dodgers are ready for the st. Louis
Browns on Wednesday, Manager
Robinson expects to use Eddie Brown
in right field and Big Dick Cox in
center. with Capt. lack Wheat in
left. Cox is the sensation of the
Brooklyn camp, having brought an
advanced education in hitting and
fielding from Portland of the Pacific
Coast League.
The Yankees will play the Braves
Thursday, with either Jess Barnes or
RUDE Marquard opposing them.
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ran back TO Tho Molecule. / took
the white ball with me.
The Mocecule was using language
He chased me. He took the ball
from me. He took me by the neck
and shook me. That's how learned
about the first rule
Tho Molcculc put the ball on an.
other pile OF sand. He started to
wiggle the stick.
The young man said, Playing
three"
The Molecule stopped wigsling the
stick. He used more language. He
said. You don't need clubs-get a
jimmy" When be hit the ball again
| didn't chase It on account of the
rule. / didn't chase the white ball
the young man hit. either.
The Molecule and the young man
and the boys with the sticks tied to
them went long way over the green
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thought he had forgotten the rule
about taking things from tho table.
I gave him a paw poke 10 remind
him lie aaid. Here Il b.; so as far
as you IKE
! thought b, over thought per
hapa the rule was only for home
thought perhaps at country clubs
you can take things from tables. I
made up my mind 10 Try Il. I Jumped
up on a chair By the able. Can you
believe it7--not a thing worth smell.
Ing. even.
Nothing but bottles. call tina, a
dirty trick. I Eot or the chair and
lay down under the table
A young man came in. He looked
al The Moleeule He said. Felix.
why do you let the underworld into
tho club nill7"
Tho Molocuio said. Don't speak
until you're spoken 20, and then re.
main utterly silent"
Tho young man said. while 1
dislike your personality. admire
your occupation More ice and an.
other glass. Felix IN do little
summing Hc sat down at the
table.
The Moleeule fald. Lay OF the
so.eailsd humor. and listen. Typo.
I've broken my engagement
The young man said. You shoci.
me- GOSH How you, shock nc
Back At you-so have IT,
The Moleculo aid. Mo-
The young man kaid. "Ycsr'
The Moiocule said. when"
The young man said. Last
night"
The Moleeule said. ME. 100.
Here's looking at YOU without set.
tinK sick"
Tho young man said. Here's star
ing right ia your hnby.blucs withou,
even beichlng."
They drank out Of glasses. They
kept on drinking out OF glasses. ]
vent outside. went around The