Show MONDAY ONDA Y EVENING FEBRUARY 20 1922 INSON HAS UNIQUE UNIQUE- IDEA ON HITTING i istar Star t r Pitcher Says Left Handers Handels Are Most Troublesome Trouble Trouble- some to fo Pitchers Because They Play More Baseball at the Plate Bee Skipper Good Hitter By Walter Johnson 0 o YOU prefer pitching to right or left handed batters If a fellow Is a good batter barter he is a hard man to fool tool whether he Is a right hander or left hander r I dont don't believe It makes much difference with me If they are rated as good hitters I work equally hard on them at 7 regardless of which side of the plate they bat from y ry The greatest trouble with most pitchers Is that they p grow careless when facing some batter who Is supposed to i be a weak hitter t 1 Very often an ordinary batter proves far more troublesome troublesome troublesome trouble trouble- some than the crack left or right hander simply because the pitcher treats him with a show of indifference p It has always seemed to me that most of the good left handed batters try to do more at the plate than the b goodright goodright good right handers jI By that I mean the left hander thinks more of trying to place the ball bunting when you least expect It it or waiting you out to a far greater extent than the right hander What I want vant to say Is that the left hander while not harder to fool than the right hander has a tendency to play a 3 a little more baseball in an effort rt to ou outguess the pitcher The rhe f facu fact that a left hander has a star start to first on the right hander is probably right hander what causes m most St of f them to tO- tO resort rt tO th tho bunt more than ian the What batter makes the most trouble for me That is rather hard to answer because c there are a lot of good hitters In for me he American league and most of the them have made plenty of trouble Jack Fournier formerly with the White Mute Sox and with now the St St. Louis Ca Cardinals always increased his batting average at my expense Duffy Lewis Tris Speaker Derrill Pratt Eddie Collins ns and ana Frank rank Baker are a few o others who 0 always liked my stuff l f. f |