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Show TIGER MANAGER IIS NEW THIS PL! Will Provide Plenty of Work for His Pitchers and Catchers. G corse StowiJI. the new manager of the Vernon c-!ub, has a system of his trwn for training: a hall club. Most managers man-agers are content merely to have a field capla.in. Goorge Is going them one bettor bet-tor and will have also a "captain of the outfield." 1-Je docs not belfevo that one 'captain can run the shebang right. The outfielders are so far away that, he feels Lhey should Iwve their own personally-owned personally-owned captain. S to vail, when he plays first Lase, will he his own field leader, and will work in conjunction with the boss of the ortfieid. "1 tried tills system in t he east and found it to tie a. Kood one," he said, "When It bf'Oinos necessary for me to 'sive a. sl.cn, 1 will not take the time and '.rouble Lo flash it to ea--h of the outfielders out-fielders Bepaiately. 1 will simply tip It off to the captain of the outfield, and he will give it tu the other rwo. "Then the captain will direct matters j when it conies to playing- for batters. J-'re-iuenf ly when a certain man comes to bar yon will see one of the outfielders who knows his hitting habits move to one side or the other. This does but little sood unless the other two outfielders also shift their positions. For this reason, I intend to pick a man for the job who is JHtnihar with the styles of different bat-1 ters or who has a faculty for learning them. He will instruct the others how to piay for each man as he comes to j "bat. Experience 1ms shown me that one 3 nan in rharce of the outer works Increases In-creases the defensive efficiency of a bail team." G. S. also spoke a few words per-- per-- talnln.tr to the. manner in which he drills his pitchers in the spring-. The difficulty of fretting a definite line on a dozen or so pitchers In the month allowed for -spring trdinln?? is realized even by the lay mind. Alto, it is then that the youngsters must be taught a lot, and it is these with which he will be chiefly -once: ned, as lie knows about what the old -timers, those noble athletes of learn- , in iuul experience, can do. Despite the scarcity and high cost of home plates, George is going to have four of them duly installed at the Vernon park. The pitchers will then be divided into groups of three each, and each rroup equipped with a catcher. In three of the groups will be two bushers and ono veteran pitcher, n wu oe the duty of this experienced heaver to teach the youngsters all that he knows while working work-ing with them. These three groups will 1 pitch to the more seasoned catchers, who also will aid and advise the kids. The fourth division will be composed of seasoned sea-soned heavers, and these will do their throwing to tho youngest catcher on the club. It will he their function while taking the kinks out of their wings to tell the boy backstop the inside secrets of successful catching. This is a great co-operative system and should produce results. |