Hammond Times, Volume 12, Number 28, Hammond, Lake County, 20 July 1917 — Page 7

Friday. Julv 20, 1917.

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"PITCH TO BITTER'S FEET."

GRIFFITH

"You Can Always Tell Where Batsman Intends to Tryto Hit Ball By Watching Position at Plate," Says Senators' Manager.

It Is said that the most successful boxers watch their opponent's feet rather than his eyes or his hands. 'TIs explained that by so doing the- boxer can anticipate every move his opponent Is going to make. In other words, his opponent "telegraphs" his moves by the actions of his feet. And now comes Clark Griffith, wily manager of the Washington Senators and In his day one of the shrewdest of baseball pitchers, with this advice to young pitchers: "Patch to the batter's feet." Sounds strange, perhaps, but read Griffith's explanation: "It takes more than speed and curves to win ball games," Griffith continued. "It takes more than speed, curves and chanjre of pace. It takes brains. 0 "Look over the records of any of the pitchers who lasted any length of time ia the majors and find the answer. "Mathewson pitched winning ball for several years after he felt himself sipping. He did It by studying batters and pitching what they could not hit effectively. "Eddie Plank developed a slow ball after he found his speed ami curves were not enough to get him by. He has always studied batters. "There are a few batters who can

hlt anything.' "When you get hold of a Wagner or a Lajoie a prayer Is about the most effective thing. "With most batters It is easy to tell from the way they stand at the plate as a pitcher starts winding up what they intend to do. Then the wise pitcher, by watching the batter's feet, can change his ball and cross him. It throws a batter off his balance, and if he does connect with the ball the chances are he will pop up a little fly or foul or ground weakly to the Infield. If he does connect with the ball it will land in territory well covered by waiting fielders. "For-instance, a left-hand - batter is about to hit into left field. As the pitcher starts to wind up the batter steps nearer the plate. The pitcher.

without changing or stopping his windup. can shoot the ball to the inside of the plate, and the batter, if he connects at all, will catch the ball close up to his hands on the handle of the bat and hit weakly. "The left hand batter decides to hit into right field, the natural place for him to hit. He is further away from the plate, taking his natural swing. The pitcher,, watching the batter's feet, puts the ball across the outside corner of the plate so the batter can't pull It into right field. "The batter is thrown oft his balance and probably will not hit safely." The great hitters in the day when Griffith was pitching winning ball declare he was the most tantalizing man to face in the league. The reason was Grif was outguessing them. He was making them hit when they were off their balance. That's where he got his name. "The Old Fox."

THE STANDING

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W. L. Pet. .55 32 .633 .53 33 .619 .47 41 .634 .44 41 .tit .42 40 512 .33 60 .338 .34 E3 .331 .31 49 .387

Yesterday's Jlesults. Boston. 3; Chicago, 2. Detroit. 2; New York. 0. St. Louis, 4: Washington. 2. No other scheduled. NATIONAL X.EAOTTB.

W. L. Pet. New York 50 28 -6S Philadelpiha 41 33 .554 St. Louis 44 39 .530 Cincinnati ,47 43 .522 CHICAGO 43 43 .500 Brooklyn 38 39 .494 Boston 33 46 .418 Pittsburgh 27 54 .333

Yesterday's Basalts. Pittsburgh, 8; Boston. 1. Other games, rain.

NEW ORLEANS. LA.. July 20. Tommy Walsh. Chicago fistic promoter and manager, is to be match-maker of the New Louisiana Auditorium, scene of many championship bouts, it was announced yesterday. Walsh will succeed Dominic Tortorich.

CLOSE-MOUTHED PLAYERS

It has sometimes been said that the scrappy, pugnacious ball player or manager Is the most popular with the fans because they love a fighter. The facts do not substantiate this statement. It is true that the fans do not like a quitter. No one does. But a ball player does not have to be a "pug," continually toting a chip on his shoulder and ever ready for a fist fight to avoid being called a quitter. The gamest player is not always the fighter; in fact. It frequently Is found that the fighter is a fighter only on the surface and that he Is not nearly so game at heart as the more quiet and

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less assuming player. Of types there are plenty of each variety in each league. There are (etars who are pointed to for their aggressiveness and there are stars who are referred to as calm, closemouthed players men who are put off the field so seldom the fans can't re

member the happenings. Of the belligerent type John J. MeGraw, Charley Herzog, Arthur Fletcher. Johnny Even, Heinle Zimmerman, Ty Cobb, Fred Tyler, Miguel Oontales and Rabbit Maranville are the most prominent.. On the other hand there are Eddie Collins. Jack Barry. Joe Jackson. Roger Peckinpaugh, Wally Pipp. Lee Magee,

Walter Johnson, Grover . Alexander, Frank Baker and half a dozen other real, high-class players from whom a real, live kick In angry tones never was heard. And these men are Just as popular as the omes listed under the heading cf belligerents. The Braves, when they were driving well and sticking around the top of the National league standing, constituted one of the greatest drawing cards the game ever has seen. Every man on the club was a fighter, i'he club won its games by fighting. Bull-dozing was one of Its greatest assets and the players made it go over. Then there were the Athletics men who rarely uttered a protest. They merely played baseball and were recognized as the greatest machine baseball ever has seen In action. They drew powerfully in every American league city. The main difference seems to be the quiet kind of a ball player draws the cheque intact, while the scrapper suffers the setback of fines.

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Young Men Should Be Physically Fit to Compete in Athletics Dr. Robert E. Coughlin of Brooklyn has made a compilation of fatalities in athletic sports and the mortality of athletes for ten years; ending with 1916. The lesson to hp learned from the study of the detailed figures is that those competing should be physically fit before engaging in athletic contests. Here is Dr. Coughlln's article, which appears in the Kew York Medical Journal: "Nine hundred and forty-three lives were sacrificed on the Melds of athletic sport for a period of ten years ending with but not including the year 1916. Baseball heads the list with 284 fatalities; football is second with 215; auto racing third with 12S; boxing fourth with 105. Seventy-seven cyclers and E4 jockeys lost their lives; 15 wrestlers perished on the mat; 14 persons lost their lives playing golf: nine were killed at bowling, and one died while playing lawn tennis. "No brief is necessary in a consideration of this subject, as figures very often speak for themselves. Accidents will always happen, but Providence is always on the side of the physically fit. This should be our watchword in our present crisis more than ever before. The survival of the fittest comes to the fore again with added suggestiveness. "Let us have games, athletics, baseball, pugilism, golf, polo, rowing, swimming, tennis, cricket, running, sprinting, basketball, cycling, weight lifting, wrestling, dancing, skating, aviation stunts, walking. Jumping, bowling, allaround performances, even football, but every means should be used to make our young men physically fit to survive athletic contests without suffering Injury to their constitutions. In this way we may hope to make them ideal soldiers of the future."

Huggins Keeps On ' Building Good Club

By X. C. HAJOXTOW (United rra Staff Cktrreapomdeat.) NEW YORK. July 19. One of the most surprising things in big league baseball, aside from the astonishing form showed by the Cincinnati Reds, is the truly remarkable way the Cardinals have been behaving since a change of ownership gave Miller Huggins a real chance to exercise his true ability. Ball players have come and gone In St. Louis since Mrs. Britton stepped out of the way. Huggins has been quick to size up the good ones and separate them from the bad ones. He has displayed some of the finest looking young ball players the big leagues have glimpsed for several seasons and he's still going strong. Hagglns' latest purchase was a young fellow named Goodwin, a right-hand pitcher from the Milwaukee American

association club. Sufficient recommenda-i

tion is ripped into the big circle through the announcement that Branch Rickey, first saw him work, and decided he was to be purchased regardless of the price to be paid. In view of the fact that George Sizler and Ernie Koob, besides several others, received their first strong recommendations from the new president of the Cardinals, it is safe to say that Goodwin's advance notices 'will not fall down. Huggins always has been just as good a manager as he is proving today. The reason he never has proved it with any more vim in reaching high points in the National league standings couldn't be itronger stated In view of the reversal showed when the Cardinals were sold. His David Harum operation among dubs of the league, in which he fished out player after player and made them rtars after other clubs declared them n good have proved his worth at sizing up flayers. It was Huggins who located Rogers Hornsby sunning himself In Texas and gave him a regular Job. Also, it was Huggs, who picked up a youth named Watson one day. gave him a big league job, and lives to see his efforts rewarded by Watson's remarkable success. This year he has trotted out the league's leading batsman Walter Cruise, and has uncovered a new pitcher In Hortsrnan who looks mighty sweet. Huggins

has developed not purchased the makings of a championship baseball club. If he can keep on adding a touch here

and there for another year the Cardinals are due to win a pennant for St. Louis.

HELPS GIANTS WIN IN NATIONAL RACE

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TAGGED!

HUNTINGTON. IND.. July 19 Foy Grimes, a member of the Erie Industrial League baseball club, suffered three broken ribs Sunday, when R. Ogden, catcher for the Laketon team, tagged him with the ball. Grimes slid home safely In the game at Laketon. and Ogden. In his haste, put his whole weight behind the tag. Ogden is about six feet tall and weighs 190 pounds. Grimes is still at a Laketon home, where he was taken for treatment. The Laketon fans mafleup a purse for Grimes.

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Dutch Boat Racing Adds Old World Picture to New York.

NEW YORK. July 20. Boat racing at a cost of about $50,000 a day to the Holland-America line i3 the favorite amusement of the war bound crews of thirty odd Dutch ships lying in the Hudson river from Sixty-eighth street to Spuyten Duyvil. In queer little boats resembling Chinese junks, or the Arabian sampans, Dutch seamen have added an old world picture to the busy harbor. Close finishes and team rivalry mark the daily races which represent a far greater expenditure than the cost of any great international yacht event, because of the ships were not idle the contests

would not be held. At the races Wednesday afternoon off Seventy-ninth street, F'iete Slaciaartee. of the steamship Elizabeth, was first, with Jan Bikker Voskull. of the steamship Veerhaven. second. Those near the finish line said Hendrik Voskuil, of the Aleen. had a good chance for third place, but got mixed up in the-wak of an excursion boat and did not flnlshd.

TAIT KNOCKS OUT O'KEARY MOOSE JAW, SASK.. July 20. Clonla Talt of Edmonton. Alb., lightweight champion of Canada, knocked out Johnny O'Leary of Vancouver. B. C, in the fifth round of their scheduled ten round contest yesterday. It was the second time within a week Tait disposed of O'Leary by a knockout.

Benny Kauff. Although Benny Kauff, aa a Giant has never quite equalled hia record of the Federal league, he is far from being the fizzle that his critics hava called him.

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PHILADELPHIA FIGHT RESULTS PHILADELPHIA. PA., July 20. At Shibe park Wednesday Johnny Mealy shaded Louisiana. Al .Nelson outboxed Al Wagner, Patsy Wallace outfought Freddie Diggings, Gussie Lewis outpointed Benny Kauffman, and Benny Neill of Kansas City gave a terrible beating to K. O. O'Donnell of Gloucester, who fought from the third round wiyi a broken forearm. i

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