Show CA CATCHERS HATE TO Tn SEE WAGNER COME TO BAT Cant Keep Him From Hitting the Ball and When on Bas Bases s He Causes Trouble Give GIe Hans Wagner an Inch on the bases and he le will take a rod Is the wa way Catcher Archer ArchE r ot of the Chicago Cubs sizes up the prowess of at the st star I I consider the tho greatest ot at nIl all the base n miers remarked Archer and next to him Tyrus s Cobb ot of the D De Tigers I l know now more about Cobbs ability of at course co aa I played With De Dc trott troit a couple of at y ye lS s ago Ho He Is a mag stealer all right but I have to hand the honors tv tu Wagner The big bigGerman German uses his head more than Cobb Everything that Hans does on the bases IS premeditated Yet it comes lIke a flash for he Is a quick baseball thinker Cobb Is more r kless In his running Ill Ile takes one by surprise the other catchers catch catchers ers tell me as I never have been against him He goes So fast that it Us is an awfully hard thing tp head him oft off But Dut with Wagner It Is He simply out outguesses guesses guesse you OU Many tUnes times he has fooled mP mA so comps tely that I threw down to second bat base thinking ha h was going to steal and there would be standing on first base laughing rot rt us s all Then quick as lightning he would swoop down on second base while the fielder was returning re returning turning thE ball to the pitcher Starts Flash It is such chara t as s that which make him a terror too to everybody d Wagner nas the stealing down to perfection ea cs from a standing start He will lazily awa sway on the line near the bag whIle the pitcher and catcher are going through their preliminary motions and will tear for second without the slightest warning You ma may sa say that we should bo bb prepared for such an emergency So Ye we are but even then ho he Is to beat us to It No matter how awkward ho may appear and how he may seem to go godown godown down the line he is 15 making terrific progress progress ress It If tie the throw absolutely perfect he will get that base And It Is no easy task to get a perfect throw when you have to hurry I always hate tt tl see Wagner come to bat There Is no use trying to Pass him It If there thero Is another PIrate on base for he Is bound to hit the ball It if he wants to I have seen him reach lEach away over the plate on a ball thrown purposely wide and lift It over the Infield for tor a hit This was when we were trying to give him a abase abase base on balls You cant keep him from hitting the ball unless the pitcher throws the sphere yards wide of the plate And then once on first the troubles are only continuing |