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Show r MONTY REVIEWS I FEDERAL LEAGUE -r fi , What Thirty - third Degree ? Baseball Student Sees in if Independent Players j-fj Showing. jOI By Monty. S' Many fans In cities where the Fed-wym Fed-wym ' I eral. league does not play wonder j what sort of article of baseball the I independents really are offering, -i From observation of about twentv games played by the Brooklyn club at Washington park, we present tills opinion. ""s To the man who is not a student .O" of baseball and does not appreciate Vj nil the finer points of it, there would be found little difference between the ""V Federal show and that in the two major ma-jor leagues. The pitchers seem to .v 1 . use the same assortment of curves, j the batters seem to hit the ball just w "m as hard, the fielders seem to make Bg. ' about the same stops and throws, toL i and the same general assortment of iiw tactics in running the bases 1b wit Oj nessed with no noticeable difference JRl' in the speed of the runners. IRK Some Poor Player, fc But to the thirty-third degree stu ; dent of the game, certain facts will 1 he apparent at times that throw a I spirit of disgust into the observer. 5 Seml-occasionally a play will occur that illustrates forcibly why many of the men now with the Feds were Bg once turned down to the minors by the big leagues. Four such cases arose in one game the other day. At one time there was a man on S second, a fast runner, with nobody I out. The batter hit a tremendously 'j long clout, but so high up In the air that the fielder chasing it had i I an even chance of catching it. The ' runner on second went half way to insai the third bag and waited to see lotel. whether the ball would be caught thew- When the fielder made the catch, the Or a runner had to hustle back to second Y9 of baBe. a clear thinker would hate io a stayed on second to watch the play. If the fielder had missed the ball the 1 clout was so long that the runner would have got home with ease. Or, the runner could have made third : If, as happened, the fielder caught It, 117 without trouble after the catch. Another time there were men on first and second with two out A snap throw by the pitcher trapped Mar- man 'irst anc ne waB tn rican ure-death run-up. When the man reed- on second headed for third the first Oak baseman threw the ball there to cut iving Mm down. After half a dozen throws ;pted back and forth, the two men were-itloiT. were-itloiT. eafe on the bases ahead, having ne-Go ne-Go gotlated a lucky double steal. Now. J since the two were out why didn't i for i the infield simply run down the man cerg, off first and pay no attention to the e en- other fellow? That's what a quickie, quick-ie, It wttted team would have done, ttert Bone Plays Made, been j Bone number three was pulled by i Monte Cross, umpire on Dases. A I - I throw from the shortstop beat the m batter to first by several steps But f the first sacker dropped the ball PI! "Out," said Cross, though the ball L1L had not been held by the basemen for as much as a full second "It was held momentarily,'7 He explained L ' after a big argument had been qul-jay'i qul-jay'i ted. Never before had anybody tn the press box seen an umpire Inter ,' pret the word "momentarily" so lit-n lit-n erally. J Goeckel. umpire behind the plate 233 pulled the other bone which was In direct violation of all baseball rules A player kicked on a called third strike and was put out of the game i bv Goeckel Then it was that team's turn to take the field in the opponent's oppo-nent's half of the inning, the man Bger pleaded with his umps to let th; I plater back, saying his team was so . ' crippled bv injuries that he did not i have another infield substitute ieft. The umpire let him return to the ( game |