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Show BATTERS POLL AWAT 1 fffi MM HITTERS Step Into Ball Before It Reaches Plate and Meet K Sfpiarely. Pulling away from tho plate just as the pitcher throws the ball Is a common mistake and tends to make jwor halters. hal-ters. The habll of pulling away can be remedied, but 11 taken nerve. Teach yourself to slop Into the ball before It roaches the plate. In this way It will always be In front of you. and you get a wallop at It before II breaks. There is no law for position. Bailors clnn.l (, ..II t-l,i,lu ,f . ,. M.. lilri. I color and Stone bend way ovor the. plate. Lajolo stands almost straight. There aro all kinds of variations. Tin: thing to do is tako tho position thai seems natural and ' comfortable to you. Then don't let the pitcher scaro you out of II. . Many foxy twlrlers will shoot a ball close to yovr every unco In a. while io innko you get away from tho plate. Don't loi thorn get away with it. Walt to the very last, second bofore dodging. Don't use too heavy a bat. It Is a mistaken mis-taken notion that only a heavy club will drive a ball out. A pitcher with a good change of pace can make a Joke of the batsman who Is swinging u bat too heavy for him. Use a bat of medium weight, ono that yon can handle easily. You don't have to swing so hard, either. All that Is needed Is to meet the ball fairly, fair-ly, to get the weight of your body back of It at the moment you land. Study the pitcher. Jin Is studying yon ail the time and trying to Unci " your weakness. (Jo back at him. Find out what Is his favorite luill. what he tries to do with it. how he delivers it. Sec If he has any particularity In the way x( pitching his curve, his fast ball, his slow ball. If you can master any of these points you have gone u big distance dis-tance toward get time his number. |