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Show If Then Did Those Things ! Nowadays, Grandpa,There ! Wouldn't Be Any Pay Days ; 5y AL SPINK. -imw iho world'.'! c:ia.:-.:im- ,v.ip .;:.:r imn.c'.se oru.vu.H t'at .1.01 TiioiH.-y w.iH taken in nt t!.t' f;:ao than in :i ny otlior serU-s --'J jj I !;-; .v.:rv I tio .inV.s' ;is fiirilMri'T :: : j .-yt i iti; fi s Mi;( ny a:: oilier f-':iv;.-; u: ! : s:i i (i - son V ;: 1 .1,, ii ihi-ik tii.-y m. The 101:1 i ,:-, in j'a-;. :ri; almost, narrn oi ." . K.-iliiiL,' i!n-il-nn aconip. nu:l j -;.m.-i ' ol .-am,; t-tii-L i-lai t-rl in yt-ar-s " ''r:,.."'J. iL-an.-.n.-il !;.-.mf.-r::n Hv;ts iii.it ' jj -hiii.j f- ii in (MtivT :n-ri''S, vhioi ...,i5.-- avL. n lin ': w.-r.' iiio-I H and rnrii'.'l I'm-. tMf:, w.-n: entirely lavk-in lavk-in : !:!) aiins. .1:i:v ii:' vo,;i!- f--Vu:- .v!'o f-':nv ;-"- ;'f-!;M if I thmmiil the ij i , i.-s ;is irU-T.-s! in- a nrniy niay-d bc-! bc-! -'..v.', ami I vplirl ilikt linpv must have ' (-!! L.;i :-r, fur t;i-y tlf.-w tho bio.L . :.,. s, a:.l all liui I. TltW'' a.ri; inaiiv I'la.im :lio i-'arnc to-Lis i: l'-.iily imt what it us.-d to ; it 1. l U lii'j 'Tii'iL anil nap it used iv '.i;ivp. I'aplain .;m,;i. Lie oM lc'ioVr of t.;o f ::U-a;r. ;Vhils Stocking.--, talking about i -a -it-1 hi 11 a- if is phi rd today and as it wti.-i played ia his tiinu, said tho other riay: ! Some Speedster, Was Bill. I "Say what yon will about (he frrc-at . i-ii'fM of today, th'-n: i.s not om- oi' i ,' hwn as sp'''-d;- ii a Hilly Sunday, wlio ; 1: . -d ;u rit:ht field for my t'-arn. "Sunday foit Id i mi a hundred yards ;.l uitii: yiid a i'a!f :-f-roials. and new-r ;i .i i iic pas.Sfd but wiia!. ho. thrtw out ! a' man or rwo :ti. ilrst b.c. , : 1 "1 do not Hi-'i tii;ii pi.'' y nowadays .it ; IL was wor.cc-d onco in thu lit J 9 ; ! series. i i " Mow of : en nowadays do you ?:c tuc I 'dt'iayi'.l .si-'al' tli.n J;iJI Eur..'.: perfected while on Liu old t!iiicaio team? "The. great ( 'aiifornlan nifiintainod I hat U. was easier, by far, to mako the nf.'ik from bag to bag by waiting till t :ie atch'.n- was returning the ball to ib" plt'Mier t nan 10 try the wtraight-a wtraight-a !iv dash, and lie got by with it time and Kirain. "'As tho ball started back to the ! ' ni(.'.bM- "Eango dt'partiid. 'L'iio flurried ' piifher had to grab thu bull out of the i I , ! musphere and r.flun spilled it turn, , i , ;.:i!ie aim, fire with periYcA 'precision, i I nd trust to the equally astounded In- : j fielder in inke the peg perfect 1- and : ;;e.i the big fellow as lie came tearing in. ' ; Eiaiige iid Urn merry steal trip after trip, : , Iitit who even risks i( now? t "Jimmy Callahan's method of eol- ; i I iriLf t wo-bagge.rs, as pretty and daring ! ' ;i play to look at as uver happened, isn't ; tried these d;iys. J "Callahan, on nipping a .short Fingie, j i , v.-o-id keep right on for second full speed, ; and make it almost every time. ,! ".lfmmy figured that the outfielder; I : would have to make a perfect pickup ' h.v.r to 'm:.iu- j-. p-r-feet ea-eh a:,d fauP-!e:-s pi;iy lor i.i'i runner, ana both woul'i be r:irt;ed by the iiervr: ri ;he af:air. "ilow often do yu rt'i trying tiiu bai! in his eltimsy iiar.ds?" Thinks Pop Is Right. ball does lack many ui the best features if tin; g;ime as i'. was pla.e.-d years au. ev.-n adrnlrtiny that the .soort has nd-vaneed nd-vaneed Kr-a:lv In oli:er directions. Many neat and lva-lly el.ityy plays have come into use to perfect the. dePuis in recent years- tricks to kill the saerifi. --. , to sior the base runner, to cut down the i chances of u score. J Ti-,e are as neat and workm.i mike in I liieir theory and success as anyone cmid J ask to see, but they- are never cleverer j nor more bewildering than tho plays t -le i old fellows worked so well. Hut the tricks on the aggressive side, both in batting and base running, were as numerous twenty years auo as now. Some of the neatest of the offensive plays have b en passed up or iL'lerly forgotten, for-gotten, and the majority of the modem batsmen seem to lack the rampant enthusiasm en-thusiasm which inspired the creation j new device . "schemes to get the goats. I both o: the pitchers and the hostile fielder.-. Too many of the modern batsmen, in fact, seem to bear a mut e apology for j living and presuming to face the pitcher as they come shambling; to the pla te. and a bnil game as the Orioles and I he old browns played it in the. long at;u would seem like a ease of violent sacrilege sac-rilege to these Iwentkdh century performers. perform-ers. Rlebbe They Can't. ! Where do you see a Calumore chop today? The Orioles could not only sacrifice, sac-rifice, but loved to slap tho ball upon the top or' the he:'d, as it were, bringing the bat sharply down upon the, leather. A bail thus hit bounded high in air, and often failed to come down in time for the fielder to get the fleeting Oriole at first. Instead of ambling down to first and there reposing, the gentleman who had just drawn the pass would get up speed as he went around first at lightning gait and keep right ahead for second. TUo confusion Into which the average defense de-fense was thrown by this nervy dash would be a panorama of joy for the fans. : and It wasn't one time in five that the infield collected on either of the runners, iiou don't see them try that now. JTow often nowadays do you see a right fielder throw a. man out nt first on what are now registered as safe hits? In the olden davs, when fast runners like Mike Kelly. Tom McCarthy. Billy Sunday, Alike Tiernan and that sort were playing at right field, there was seldom a day you did not see. them throw a man out at first. They did this on sharp hits to right field that are allowed to co safe now. Jlow often do you see that trick turned nowadays? |
