Show F CLARKE USES discretion leader of Pitta pittsburgh burgh pirates never bothers bateman while player la Is in batting slump A batting slump Is a thing no per eon aon in the world can overcome excepting the affected player calling attention in nes newspapers papers every day to the fact that any particular player Is not hitting Is the lest best way in the world to keep him in a slump glump when he begins to step right gets his stride and begins to feel us as though be he can 7 manager fred clarke hit then will he hit and all the ne newspaper 0 comment la the world will not make him hit 1 1 I never talk to a man who is not hitting saya says fred clarke manager of the pittsburgh pirates what 1 19 tho use I 1 have been in slumps myself and I 1 know what they are I 1 malted there have been oth er periods when hen I 1 feel right at the plate and I 1 for the life of mo me feel confident und and arble to hit when a man ie Is in a slump he must come out of it by his own natural process all the talking and coaxing in the world will mill not cure him but may only serve to annoy him ted sullivan may take a team of baseball players to ireland this fall |