Show I WAGNER LAYS HIS SLUMP TO HARD HARDLUCK LUCK Pittsburg's Pittsburgh Swatter K Knows No Recipe for Hitting Ball Into Safe Territory y John H. H Hans Hani Wagner for tor many years premier o of the tha National league loague characterized his recent ri re re recent cent slump in batting in tho the beginning of ot the s season son and tho the subsequent improvement im irn provement as simply baseball luc luck If u you hit the tho ball baU where the they arent aren't youre you're all aU right and If it you hit them where they thoy are aro youre you're out out said Hans and its it's a a. whole lot easier to hit thorn thom where they are Only luck luck puts them thom any place else An Any bass base ball player will wUl have a goo good goodyear year and then a bad year and nd that's that what happened hap hap- period to me this season For a 1 long Ions longtime time I couldn't seem to hit lilt them safe Ite and th that's ts t's the reason my percentage IG slumped clumped find that it isn't nt only in batting that baseball luck holds hold wa IWA v. v Many any a a- fielder ha has bas an nn error chocked d up against him simply beCJ that element clement of at luck c caused maybe his spikes to slip maybe the ball ban to take a a. a tricky bounce in fact a hundred and cue oue different ways of making th the stop atop difficult There are aro mighty few errors mado made now that are the players player's fault Ver Very seldom when the ball is knodt knocked d to a man along the ground r und doe does he m thus miss s it because he ho misjudged ed it The infielders infielders infielders' infielders infielders' in in- fielders' fielders eyes are all aU good and its it's a a twenty to one shot that the ball was deflected in some manner mannar just as theman theman the tho thoman man was going after it No I wasn't of thinking quitting baseball at the be beginning inning of ot the season season sea sea- son answered Hans in response to a question to that effect acct II That has been been- nil all false rumor romor If I wanted to quit Id I'd quit and that would be bo all t to it I wont won't know thou though h when whon I get too poor to play with the Pittsburg team unless tho the team tells me mc I Im I'm in ready to play with thorn thom until they decide decade that I Im I'm m worthless You knoW know howIt hoIt It is is A yount young player has lot lots lot of vim vim and ond hes he's pushing right along while whale we Wit older on ones sort of lose loee our dash II Baseball luck got in against our team in the tho beginning of the season with twenty straight day days of ot nothing li but r rain in and nd that ha has been a vantage anta c to us u We e. e hav hava more nore than a dozen headers double to to- play playoff off and we wo are going to tf try to win win them Whether we will or no not I cant can't say Heres another incident of or b baseball ball luck Every time we strike the Phillies Phillie they are playing at their ver very best and generally take triko the majority of tho the games from us It is is a clear ease case of I hoodoo We simply cant can't defeat the Phillies althou although h wo we can trim other teams that put it itan all an over them thorn If that isn't baseball luck what is b it |