| Show MOST 1ST OF THE BEST HITTERS I i i. i ARE RIGHT HANDED BATTERS 1 Boys Bosl If on starting your your career in baseball your ambition Is as s to earn R a place aon along with Cobb Cra Crawford ord and Veach in the Ti Tigers Tigers' heavy JIM vY artillery dont don't learn to to hit loft banded II This is is advice direct front from rank Prank J. J ain Navin the the- bi big bip boss bos of oC th the Detroit club who has his force of scouts ready to scour the country thoroughly for or men who ho bat right ri ht handed and hit hi tho ball balla I II I third base a mile nilo a second down toward rh The better of the tho hitters bitters of the bl big lea league are left handed In the American Amen Ameri can for instance Cobb Crawford Crawford Craw Craw- ford Jackson Sneaker Speaker Eddie Collins Baker Strunk Milan Gus Gus' Williams William and autt others of the tho l leaders a bat from the ot ofFside off offside side of tho the plate The success of the left handed bitters hitters hitters hit bit has baa led youngsters just dust starting their baseball careers to bat left banded even e if they the theare are natural ri right ht hand hitters It rt has brought rou ht up through h the minors and into the majors an o over overbalance overbalance er- er balance of or left handed hitters The Ti Tigers ers this spring DL let two good goodmen goodmen men go o lar largely eh because they wore Wora left handed hi hitters first baseman bareman was sent of Rochester because tho the Ti Tigers gors gers had ball Burns and Gainer rl right ht handed hitters for first base baso Pay Ra Ba Demmitt a swell fielder and aud a man m wit with witha a fL reputation as a hitter in tho the Inter Inter- I I I l I I I Ii I i I I nati la league ue was allowed to togo go o because because be boo cause came he was a left let handed hitter and because he failed to f show flow low the slugging expected of him bim this spring prin The White Whito Sox oc who anybody who can an hit at all aJI grabbed him Of course every team has its right handed hitters too As a general thing I there is one ona good ri right ht handor hander on every American league oa ue club Cleveland has bas Lajoie the tho greatest ri right ht handed batsman batsman bats bats- man mau in tho the league le St. St Louis has Derril Pratt second eco 11 baseman Philadelphia hns has Oldring Boston has bas Lewis Lems Washington t 11 has bas Chick Gandil The ef eft handed banded batter has baa a n bi big advantage ad nd vanta vantage e o 0 oyer cr the tho right bander in being a couple of steps nearer the first base ba e. e Ho can beat out infield hits hUs that men of equal speed who bat ri right ht handed banded cannot do The superiority of loft left handed hitters hit hit- tr tera has caused major league o managers to keep a sharp watch for left handed pitchers who are arc harder for tho the left handed hatters batters to solve The Tho number of loft left handed handel pitchers in the major league lO ue in in It proportion l rop to the number of ot athletes who hb h are left handed is remarkable remark remark- able Girls Break Three 1 College Track Records PHILADELPHIA May 26 Several Several records were broken at tho the annual track meet held recently at Bryn Mawr colle college college col col- col- col le lege p- p pIt It ha has hag been announced b by tho the col col- Je here lere e authorities Mt Helen H I n. n Harris Burls of I I I broke the the women's worlds world's record In lri the hoj tep and jump She Site covered Ov red 31 feet and onti 10 I inches he Miss Mary Iary C. C Morgan of ot Philadelphia t th Bryn Brn Mawr record for the yard hurdles Her time was waa as 15 5 2 seconds Another nr n Mawr record was vas b by Ml- Ml MISS lIls s Matgaret Thompson of ot otI I Chicago who bo throw threw u baseball feet I Miss 1 won on the contest with a throw of 61 feet 1 S 6 inches inches- |
