Show CUB PlAYERS SWAP COACHING PLANS OF MANAGERS Mitchell Uses Scheme to toI Break Up Offense of I 1 Opponents I IBy By Jack International News Sports Editor NEW YORK April 23 It If If two heads are better letter than one then ten or fifteen heads are better than two This is la the sort of or logic Fred Mitchell I uses and In the case of or a team of ballplayers ball ballplayers ballplayers players it ought alIght to get results Before the Cubs had been In training ten days this spring Mitchell called the members of or the squad together almost dally daily for the purpose of discussing baseball baseball baseball base base- ball tactics and pointing out the faults and the virtues of his players as well as to discuss those of players on other clubs It happens that seven or eight members members members mem mem- bers of or the Cubs have had experience under un under under un- un der other big league managers Mitchell had a hunch that the Cubs as a team should profit by this experience so he asked certain of his players to give the skull Bass the low down on tactics used by rival managers Alexander Killifer and all aU secured se secured secured se- se cured from the Phillies told their fellow Cubs all about abo the Phils The Cubs today to today today to- to day know more about Pat Morans Moran's tactics tactics tactics tac tac- tics as a club than could have learned in a whole season by making malting their own observations I Pete Kilduff Kilduf and Fred Merkle both of or whom worked un under McGraw spilled the tho beans on the Giants and Merkle added a afew afew afew I few pointers that he picked up as a a. aI member of the Brooklyn Dodgers under Uncle Wilbert Robinson I Mitchell who was formerly first lieutenant lieutenant lieutenant lieu lieu- tenant under George Stallings t told ld of or the tactics helped to win the 1914 pennant penI pennant pen pen- nant for the Braves and George Tyler late of or the same team added his bit I Mitchell is the sort of a manager who demands the best there is in a a. ball player play play- I 1 er at all times but more than all he values val ues cooperation I |