Show flAYED DELAYED STEAl mi ONlY NEW PLAY Veteran Dan Brouthers Says Baseball is Same Today as of Old Vw Nt W York Tork Nov No 14 The recent de deI dere rte re I e of r f the season sason of ot o 1908 proved con that the game of ot baseball i 3 vr V nearly nearl perfect The only new ne pY pi V was pas that perpetrated by Fred FredM Fre M of the Chicago Cubs It Is pretty hard to tell which should shoud take tie the blame Nanie That was sas wound up very cry however for tor or hereafter man manners ners mil w undoubtedly see nee that all Tp r g base runners touch second tit r the game Is III a cinch or not V W Wih ill t L the hp t exception of ot the delayed there has been no new play pia In Inta r ta J M 11 for tor or the past ten years accord c g 1 t Dan Brouthers the veteran r r and scout The squeeze play t I aid ud to be new ne when hen Clark Griffith id d it with the Highlanders but butS buti i J S nation aton shows that it was used i 11 ti tt t minor leagues some time prior J ti it Tn In fact tait Dutch Carter the rr TI is Yale iI pitcher declares that it itis Its b the Yale team hen he hels heL as is s u usI by TVis ls L ne Ie leading pitcher for tor the cl co 1111 II Till flu delayed steal is generally attrib a ud l 1 to ti the inventive 1 mind of or Sammy hru raI while he was waR a member of ot the Norman of ot the Hoarders took advantage of oC It im immediately mediately fInd many claim that he the th play pa McGraw says how now however ever EI that Strong Invented the play pIa md ind m sf of the na ers agree with Vm Mm m Is a Surprising Play The Th delayed steal is one of ot the most surprising sing things in baseball It has always been customary for the runner n ort first to start stat for tor or second in a a steal stealth the th minute the pitcher started to throw to the plate Strang discovered that by waiting a minute before start starting ing n the team would not be b expecting tiK steal teal and that nobody would cover COer Foud Instead of starting with the pitchers arm he would therefore wait walt the catcher pot got the ball in his J lands ands Then ho would start for sec see d Neither eIther shortstop nor second bis Tian would cover and while the thes s teher was waR hesitating about where to throw the ball the winner tinner would ar arrit arrive rive rit safely Rare on the tIle bag liag Even If It the did throw the ball ban It was lIke likel K Jv l to go o in the lid fleM l as the bag would b 1 wred I red too t to late The bunt the double steal the hit nM run aId and all scientific plays of that tha nature were used years ago The i VI ld 4 Baltimore club used them all al and John Ward insists that they the were in tn vogue youe prior to management of the Orioles The spit Pit ball baJI Is only five years old hut but it I nOt n t a play pa It is a curve CUrC used bv hy tim till pitcher and cannot be consid considered con considered ered red as a play |