Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 125, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1919 — SAYS HAL CHASE IS INVALUABLE PLAYER [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SAYS HAL CHASE IS INVALUABLE PLAYER

One of Greatest Hit and Run Men in Game, Says Rowland. McGraw's Group of .300 Sluggers Will Make Life Miserable, for Twirlers in National League During 1919 Season. Z , --.—l T i ill -IIIn acquiring Hal Chase, McGraw obtained one of the best hit-and-run players, and one who is able to hit back of a runner at all times. Chase will fit in with the Giant machine like a cog in a well made Swiss watch. He is McGraw’s style of player. It is predicted by Clarence Jtowland that Chase will play the»game of his

caret? for McGraw, because he believes the latter, a good judge of human nature, will handle the temperamental star properly. And the shifty first baseman dotes on putting on the hit-and-run sign with a runner or runners on the sacks. “Chase is one of the greatest hit and run men tn the game,” said Rowland' recently. “He can hit back of a runner any time. That is where he will be invaluable to McGraw. “That is McGraw’s style of baseball and Chase, because of his almost uncanny talent in whacking the ball when a runner is going, will make it possible for the Giants to score many runs. “I have not had much of a chance to study McGraw’s method of playing the game, but I have heard enough from other smart baseball men to know what he does and also got a pretty good idea of his ways in the 1117 world’s series. / “I know what Chase can do. Therefore I predict they will hitch well and the pitchers of the National league are going to be kept busy watching Hal when runners are on the bases. “Then take Burns. Kauff. Young, Zimmerman. Doyle, and McCarty, and you have a group of .300 hitters that will make life miserable for the twlrlers in the league. The Giants are the players the Cubs will have to beat for the pennant. “I do not think Chase .will run amuck under McGraw, as he has done on other clubs. His recent experience has, 1 think, taught him a lesson. I believe McGraw will have no difficulty in getting him to play the brand of ball of which he is capable. “Chase is the type of player who has to be petted a little. He must be made to think be is a brainy player, that he knows yvhen to do the right thing, and has to be permitted to use his own judgment considerably. McGraw may allow him to do that. If he does Chase will play as smart a game as he ever did In his life.”

Hal Chase.