OCR Text |
Show I CONTROL IS THE THING, DECLARES TOM DALY Tom Pal. once a leading National league catcher, who Is coaching I he Yankeca' pitchers, says the secret of good box work Is putting the Kill over or near tho corners of the nlale as often i in possible. Dnly goes buck Into baseball history to prove that the greatest pitchers were those who mastered control and always kept the batsman in the hole. Ho nays that a otirvcr who gets two strikes on a butter with as mnny pitched balls, holds the whin hand, whereas the boxman wlio finds himself In a fix with ''throe and two ' usually comes to grief when he puts the next ono over. ' "Get a grip on the man at tho plate right off the reel," anys the veteran loach, "and he'll do the worrying, not you. 1 |