Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-03-28 | Page 48 | M'credie to have School for Club

M'CHEDIE TO IE ' SCHOOL FOR CLUB i Beavers' Head Will Coach His Men on "Inside Stuff " Manager Walter McCredie recently an nounced a new rule v,hlch Is designed to place the team work of the Beavers In good condition by the time, the) season opens Heretofore the Beavers have been late starters making their spurt after the leaders along" in July llcCredie thinks the chalk talk system wl 1 put his men ahead on their inside work and give Ihetn, an advantage oer the other clubs Mc Credle said I have not been satisfied with the work of my team In April and Mav and I th nk a lecture series will do the players some good I always flg ured that my older ball p aye should know something about the game be fore they came to me but It seems that where they are w se n one de partment they are deficient In an other That Is the reason for this i inauguration of talks to the players I am going to start out first with my Pitchers I am going to take al of them to my room in the hotel and I ne are going to discuss among our selves the best way td pitch to bat ters and the best way of holding men on bases and we are then going out on the field and put Into effect vfhat we learned In the classroom, 1 No small part of the discussion trUh pi clers will be thfr fielding of bunts. Many a game is lost because a pitch er hasn t figured out ahead what ter rito y he la to cover in case of a bunt Will Analyze Plajers I am goitik to take each baseball club In the Coast league and in the lassroom we will analyze every play er Before we go in o a gan e my p tchers will know what kind of a ball Rube Kills, for Instance can hit and what k nd of a ball I e cannot hi That will give tbem tl e percentage on th batter n ery old player Tn the league will be tipped off to my pitchers and we 11 discuss the t ew ones as we meet them I have iwo of the wisest cat hers that 1 ave ever performed in the Coast leag e and Fisher will tip Fred Ca risen off to the weaknesses of the hitters and tie various lit and run styles used In the Coast league Then in turn the Inflel lers and the outfielders will be admitted to the classroom The inflelders will be tlppd off to. the base r iming ability o' the rival players and the o tfleld crs will be educated as to whore tbe batters usua iy hit the hall and where to station theft sel es to tako a fly or hase a hit Scientific Game Idea The v ho o r b wl I r a gh 1 ow to ake alvon ago of the ncr work Intra of tl o o h r turn s In use u nlng (Jetting r ns Is as Important as nak ng h ts and pltohl g The team that gets the ru s w en they aro noled raturally Is he team that w I fln sh at the top I want my tub to pay a more s entitle afitne if possjh e I rea Iza tha we lont three corking hltte Itodg h 1 ores and B ncrof and I flgu hnt wo wl 1 have o ha c a wonde fu defe sle team to e ual z h ncs I lso flgu e If k ep o r hea Is p vu are bo n J o fl isr ut nea the op Tly p avlng s len II ns Je aseiu! we a overcome uny d sadvan age that vo nav be at in ok n t three stai Inflelders of last 3 ear The Portland lb as ho er used ma s rnn conf n ng Itself mos ly o h 1 d run and h nt s gns Th s year we are g Ins to p av a lot of 1 t anl r n perhaps more tl an wo e e p aye 1 foro VVe are g ng to e e s do s IT and wine more s gns I Is m o j o e th g a s 1 re fe k ng ler b ho t no h n n op h They v n t t n at for we don w nt u of t e boys o gc mixed up