Show HUGHEY JENNINGS ON BASE RUNNING MANAGER OP OF DETROIT AMERICAN LEAGUE TEAM SPEAKS OF THE SCIENCE ALSO EXPLAINS HOW TO SLIDE says spikes are not dangerous when guardian of sack knows how to handle men coming in outguess ing the player one of the important points of pilfering jennings manager of the detroit Arn eilean league itcague team always one of the best base runners la in the game and with hardly an equal in touching runners trying for mccond base when he be was mas with mith the Dalti motte club recently spoke of the science of base running and incident incidentally illy of the liability of a placer being by spikes base sliding la Is not dangerous when the knows how to do it and spikes are not d when the placer knows how ion to handle the man that la Is coining in the giedt rie it success in saving sour belf in base running la Is to slide when ou start to do it never hesitate the man who mho starts a slide elide and tries to stop la is a goner sure it if he doesn doean t break an ankle he Is lucky the base runner should throw all lils his strength into the slide elide and he wont get hurt I 1 recall that hat we ve always hid halt half a dozen men flies in the baltimore clubhouse to out spikes with rhe ille diamond there wis especially haid and rough and the splices spikes wore down easily so we me had to sharpen them every day hut but we did not let the opposing club know that was the reabon two imo or nr three of them would come out to tho the club clubhouse bouse and they d flad find the crom crowd d sit biding ting on the benches filing away at their spikes the rasping noise filling the loom as though it a machine shop look out tot foi us to day was at al ways the admonition and ot at couise they went away putty well deter mined mine to take no chances with us on oa the ile bases As ab a matter of fact there Is hardly any chance of an infielder being spiked it if lie he plays his game right an and the runner la Is only trying to get getto to the base no matter how a bise base run ner goes into a bag he cannot hurt the if the litter itter I Is in the right position megial as often wit al every opponent on the field tried to get him was never spiked until dick handed it to him bini when he be had bad no reason to do so mcgraw always made the base slider carry him into the bag the only man who b his bis is a chance chanca to get huit by spikes in baseball if 1 na ae is pla placing ing his game the way lie he should about Is the first sacker backer ile he must keep keel his hia foot on the bag and he la Is therefore there foie bound to get nipped more or less but nobody wants to hurt a first baseman in day baseball I 1 don t know of one ot of them who Is at all offensive they are almost always tor for some reason or other good bighearted big hearted chaps that nobody would put I 1 hurt nobody wants to hurt a first baseman it a rt a sort of unwritten nw law that as the poor chap must keep his foot e it isn t fair to cut him matty mcintyre for instance would have hava played all last year it if he be hd ha in t turned his ankle to save hob dob king kelley once offered to bet jack crooks five fie dollars that he coull could give him the ball 1111 be ten feet away from the bag and at make a I 1 e I 1 it t without being touched lle lie mab as so eo clever in dodging one way when the fielder expected him to go the opposite they c coulden couldn ulan t touch mm him crooks declined to tike take the bet ile he know knew kelley coula do it famous as kelley was for his big work 0 on I 1 1 the bases ty cobb la Is a better base runner tor for ty ilas has mote moie speed and ami Is equally in getting around the man with the ball kelley had bad a a swing owing something like cobb a only lie he used but hla his toe to touch the sack cobl cobb does not take quite such a cleant clean swing in gogg feet first but when he goes headfirst he be leaves but a hind band tor for the holder fielder to touch and going tho the way lie he does it Is a mighty small target watching the guardian of the sack of course Is the great hick in baser base sliding you can usually tell by the way lie he is standing which direction the ball is coining from and it is your cue to go the opposite way but even in this ls Is always the chance or of being outguessed out guessed its an old trick ot or the fielder to hold his hands on his bips and pretend the ball la Is not coming calling comit it toward him vou tiou go slow to our slide elide and he suddenly becomes ant ani mated grabs the ball and tags you or he be will lean in one direction fur for the ball and then dodge over itna take it arora trou anthor anith anth tr and unless you can caa outguess him he has ou cu |