| Show HAS I Ii i BENCHED SACRIfiCE i I lilT HIT fOR All L TIME TIM I Word From Bench Benc to Giant I Players Now Is Iii Hi Tem Tern I Away Out BT BY TIP WEIGHT WRIGHT To 10 think that Mu Muggy Muggsy McGraw should turn 8 against the sacrifice hit For that that's just what hes he's don done Hit Jilt em m out is the word to the New York Giants now Yet Muggsy Iu s McGraw trained in the I school chool where the sacrifice hit if iC not actually originated reached its first great treat development the development the famous scrapping scrap crap pin ping quitting neVer Baltimore Orioles Arthur r Irwin of the old Providence team i is another claimant of being the ori ort original inal sacrifice hit bit man But hanIon Han llan- Ion lon s a merry mrry men men Mu men Muggsy Muggsy sy and Slide K S. S Kelly and Hughey Jennings and Wee Willie Keeler Keeler were were we're re the men to tomake tomake tomake make it a a. fine art Ban Bang A A. single Bing A hit in the diamond and the first b batter went to third if it was safe or to second if it was out These were the plays pulled off ever every day that made the Orioles the best belt te team teara m in hi the world to w watch But maybe Mu Muggsy sy is is right Bright in breaking away from it sometimes Baseball gets Jets its moss eaten traditions traditions just the same Bame as nations and dry goods goods' stores and its one tradition to sacrifice with a man on first or on first and aud second But when the other otheT team knows vou youre you're re going to sacrifice and is ready for or it it sometimes looks considerably considerably consid consid- like hike advanced ad not notto notto notto to spring sprin a surprise by tapping tappin one into the short outfield The Tho other day dav I watched watch d Detroit and Cleveland Cleeland playing a desperate game Janle Cleveland Cle try trying n to overcome a a. three- three mn run lead I in the last Jast half of the tha ninth Two Naps were on bases when Perrin Perring came to the bat with instructions to lay down a a. bunt Every man on the Detroit team knew that Perrin Perring was wa going to bunt it By Bythe Bythe Bythe the time he spit on his his- hands the tho infielders infielders infielders in- in fielders were standing around him so EO close ho could almost shake hands with them Any kind of a little hit over the fielders fielders' heads would have sent the players on saved saed an out and f given en a ago go good d chance for a score COTe but Perring Perrin had his bis orders Well he bunted all RU allright allright right and as it happened juggled jU the ball just a second so that he had to throw to first and the sacrifice fice flee was wag made nade without a double play which it looked like it would be And Ana And then Bill Bradley slammed the ball baU as ashe ashe ashe he used to a few years ago and won the tIle game For such i is baseball But Cleveland might ht just as well have had another hit as not So go ahead Muggsy McGraw and fool the infielders who are pta playing for sacrifice hits The sacrifice hit used with jud ent is 8 all right U Used ed blindly blindly blind blind- ly Iy it itis is all right right NOT |
