| Show nH n n BA BASEBALL BALL SIGNALS IG ALS ALSA A ARE f IMPORTANT T The flee Part They Tile Play in time the Progress of the tile Great National Game G A SECRET CODE IS 18 USED Every ream carn Has nas One to Tell What Hatter anti Runner Should Do 00 DoThe The It Is la n a peculiar P fact that the average baseball that the national game gams t It II a simple hn le our one and aul yet et I It Ut is I one nf of the deepest of If games Imes known to American n sports olla How lion often It 1 le heard nt nl ball hall park nark cs OR on 11 the tile bleachers that th I the Kanio If Ir I so 0 eary t hero b ti l not to 10 it 11 and nil that children could r play pillY It II childs play In 11 other 01 her Words They rhey fhe ray r y Oh anyone play piny It It aye 1 ruu rum rf d 1 If 1 they thoy could only scoop ui ul some of nf thoe lit lilt difficult nult and Bill burning rov er It thy Ihy could catch some lome of ot thou tho thoe Hies Klee If 1 they could only hit lilt those curved ball bails blot Wot ot mn rails fans really know w that ev ov every cry ery Or team I Rm hs bait hr n a 1 cod codo ut ot nr that tilli I entice victory and defeat TH The till catcher ulnA S the pit hei a tolling toiling him what kind of u a curve U rye to LO throw The coacher the Lace bate runner a 1 signal 81 to 10 HO go godown O down when the hall ball leaves II yel the Ih pitchers hand and an nt lit the tome came time ante given Kivell the batter a gnal to hit lilt at nt the bull balk no matter whore whine It comes camel Signals are given Ivon to 10 the th pitcher Itchier her to catch a 11 bold runner runner of or ice liU hi hose lifts tutu there thle aro hun him 1111 nf of otter other r signals Next time you go 10 down to watch for tor sonic some of ot them themOn themOn themOn On this Interesting subject the Hos Iles Hoston ton Post POll has bus the th following article Pew Few baseball crank ever to follow a genie game ne al n U tt from tram the managers man managers agers vi point Few I tw cranks crank will be believe lieve lIev that Iha I tom nom II om the start or of tin thin th game until mull th last IR t man Is le l retired lotho 1 both bolh teams are art working under an elaborate code of or and few fans fang Indeed ever nol u tho the batsman shifting from fromon fromn on one n foot toot tn to another and think that It means mean anything That same shift of the Ibo foot often meats means victory It always al RI always ways mils mil for a bunt or 01 a n steal or for tor forthe torIlL forthe the IlL nt ht and run genie game At the th Routh end Fred Tenney can nl al always ways lit b seen deen on all the coaching linn line with his hll hen halll d on either knee The spectator tor tors think It U le I hi his hll natural position and anti not five In III every hundred who watch him consider on her that thaI hand hail rA renting ting on his right knee culls calla for thin the theman man on first to 0 steal second sec ono on an the first ball hall pitched or It If his hand In Is on hit his left knee for far the man to 10 Meal an on the second roll hall ball pitched Tho The opposing op meing pit Ill pitcher charmY cher may n n w that Tenney hn has sin a I g for a steal HIal Ho Ito does not know the signal hut hul the thA runners hue had hn given him hU Mil cue CUt It U lit then Ih n time to watch the pitcher Watch closely his hili arm trod you jou will see set Ills his left letl hand slap clip s I his hlll h heM heal or his left toot foot placed In front of or his hili right It Il perhaps moan monn anything to you hut but to every player or on his hIli team it moans means that thaI the next ball bail to the Iho batsman baleman Is le to be hI wasted Is In Inthe the Iho pitcher pilcher Is as going to throw It high and wide so en that the catcher may inay nail the mat man going down to 10 second Often at nt either cither Roston Halton ball park you 01 eee Iee the swinging at nt a wide ball It II Is III because hI he Is 18 under orders and because he has ban detected the pitcher hitcher I trying try InK to 10 Waste lIste the ball lie He swings at the ball 1111 not for tor the purpose of ot lilt hit tang It but to block the catcher aid delay the throw down to Many Inny during durin the season you will see the batsman geeting ready to stop slop to 10 the tho plate with his thumb extended ex extended tended as Lie n he grips the hat bat If you look closely closel you on can cnn see Bee the base run runner runner ner lIer the tho batters thumb Once the base baBe ru ner sees Foell It II tho the batsman grabs his hili but bat In III the ordinary way teay wn Some Borne kind of n a play pin Is on The Tho extend extended ed thumb means either cither that Iha t the Iho batter ba tier IB In going to 10 bunt Is IB going to lu hit the tho second ball pitched or he Is III going to try II to 10 place piare the till ball down the base batio lino Ilse or 01 to 10 the Football haw has always been considered tie the game of signals and nn handball baseball to the vast majority of ot Its 11 admirers looks loola like liken n a straight game came In a n league match there are lle just us 1111 many used as ns asIn n In III a n football name game lIme between Harvard aid anil Yale There her Is n big l lg difference In ht the tho working of the signals In football one of o e the players calls nut out n R series of oC oCo apparently o II meaningless numbers In baseball n l shift from one foot to tho the theother other the manager with ono ona onalei lei leg nero the tho other or his hU right band bandIn 11 In his tits pocket or the tho kneeling With wIt n a II hand on ohe nhe log le take tho Iho place of ot the numbers called out by a college Seldom do you Ol see In n n II big biff Ica o Willie name the second baseman baneman anti and shortstop short toll stop running Into engh other at nl second o on t a II throw down from train the catch Butch catcher er or or the shortstop hort lop bumping Into Inlo the tho third baseman on a n bunt hunt down tho the third bust hf l line The hit hll anti run runs Banio game often oUn misses Why It Is III not because 1 the Iho batter does not 1101 try to hit tho the ball but hut b be 00 the opposing pitcher Is I wino IRo anti and ha has hall thrown the ball bail purposely wide aide Ido of ot tilt the tit plate If It nn Is In signaled for ito llo llomo mo Into ho thinks Is the tho best piare to lay for the tho batter hitting the With men mon on bases the tho second base hase baseman haseman man anti and must a to ta each other and to the catcher ns ns to who will take lake the tho throw down to 10 second Whim the tho manager thinks the tho hall baso runner runnel Is In Isto Isto Into to steal third lie lu IllS HIM oft off or the Ihl pitcher catcher and third baseman to that of et feet Ceol The fhe code used by either Hoston team term Is u It complex ono eon It 11 must mURt be he or and U It must he puzzling enough ollough to fool tool all the he other tennis for every cory baseball plover pili er Is forever trying trog to catch Bleh on to the signals of or the till opposing tennis teams No one hut but the manager malinger and the tha players ever know what tho the ore |
