| Show WHY PITCHERS CANT Addie Addic Joss Gives Reasons fo to Poor Batting Done Doe by Average Twirler One of the nr that ariae arime in all 11 Is Why cant It This problem is ont ou th the tit M M dents of ot the game gine have wre Un with for a good many year yori an while there have ben been many man re w n given iveD sUll no one las has even been ben abl abi abito bl to make it exactly clear elMr Addle Joes JOIS Jo the Cleveland pitcher 1 ha made an ef et effort effort fort to explain He ys Of course the tile rule hoi holl good cad in all cases as ther th are a d num pum her of twirlers who can pound th tho leather ether about as hard as 8 the iren wen wh wha whar are a ar In the game every day bui buL the Ule cases are few and far tar between bet een i seeing such auch men as Orth Tan Tail Tannehill nehill and of the America r league who vo are rattling good ticker at the bat one wonder why it la th the other men woo who maka mik m k pitching At I art dont hit harder barder than thai they d 1 nevertheless die he tad fat remains tn tho same that as a ruie ruto rUt the i pit lu i t break up many games gaines gam tn stick To ro one who Jio has n v r been it with the ame from the th stand tanI standpoint point lJ of the player it would seii S I that he of or all the rest of the should Mould be able to hit Being a twirl twirler er himself it is h contended that h hould should be able to know about wha the opposing pitcher was wa going tr t pitch and being aware of this be able to hit bit it a mile But there i 1 b where the fallacy in the reasoning I Igina bf b gins gina Ins AU All pitchers dont think alike By that I mean that what may my be on oil batters weakness with a certain er might be just what the batter cant hit when served by another t wirier twirler Has H as Two Good Reasons The best two reasons that I know from actual experience as the official batting average will show at th the close of each season are these A pitcher when working OB in an anaver average aver e of about two games a week dont get to bat often otten enough to make himself familiar with the art of meet meat meeting ing lug th the ball bU which is the secret elret of if f good hitting A pitcher who is in the game about twice a 8 week will in the course of that tima tim go to bat about seven times while tile the player who is in the he game every day will face the barrier barier about times This fact fitt alone alon means quite a little to the th man wh expects to hit with any degree of con Coil Another good theory l ani anione un ai one oI that seems reasonable is the on that while white the twirler is on the tile slab sial serving up the benders bendas to the opposition tion he Is IB watching the ball bail as a 1 it gw gOt from him but when at the bat th conditions are reversed and he lw has hah t to look at the he ball as it is coming cominS to toward toward toward ward him Any hooter will tell you ou that tha l the hardest way to break a clay pigeon is when it is 18 coming directly you YOl and the same theory holds hoid good goodas goo as regards batting Pitcher mt s a rule next to winning Inning a game would er make a base blUe hit than anything els and their lack r hitting ability te Is J not causes caused caule bv by v li tIt fact that they dont practice To show how w much they Uey like to hit hitI hi hiI hii I i only have to say y that I overheard 7 major ma jor league pitcher make tho th tb r 1 that there were only onty two pleas plea ft Mi in n the game for him one was as ti m i t ngn practice and the game anu aria tn t i other othor pay day |
