Show i ill SIRES Of STAR BATSMEN Jot lIot All AH of ot the Hard Hitters Prove To be bo Good Ones f THE PRESENT DAY SLUGGERS C mid 1 Arc IC i c n nl nI I lit Or OrrItt f Tim rItt gooc hitters hard hord hU hil hUI hilI Sometimes the words i I I til t sometimes they t I 10 aro RO II f rite rhe K I la li not 1101 necessarily II n of ct h rd hi r Hunt being 1 In n tho thoDe De e of U Uit till laW ball nom 1 but t Hard hitting II It with great who no tOo There uro aro hitter Tsuna loot ro lId id tin Ille bull hur hui bUt Wl who Iio pot with tho club e 1 uh because 01 r and make many hUH hit hitI t I aus t I y big JIg averages 1 Is Ii likely tu to because tho the forcible e gt or 1 i hut t bull often of Ion e td ii UI l OU Mu h speed that ll IL els 1 Little MUc tOw Ih shu a oC of oCar ani AI WUI the ho big men mell It II itIS J b ar bt be ui cause ot ur a ii l baLd haid hUI swing or 01 I IS f r J ot Ul mi In accurate swing II t that tile llio Jail ball ua and thus makes Ifer t ounce of yE o muscle tell lell K celel Is h an l of uC a 1 player IS l J good hitter bitter rather rathel than a n hard r u II beats out a good Soo go d many n io nId MM held Id with lots his in get tu IU U m t base and ho hu lb taps tails many life ae nun to spots Spot Fred Froll is who w o makes fewer oller long og huM hll than tilts hits In between just the and an Just the Iho ii uI tone Stone tile the American th batsman Is a 1 ferocious lIlt hll ler ier er Ho He U swings hUd haid though there Is Iso o tid nd f gr lt length to lila his and nn from hu hll crouch gets so Ho much weight Into hILO I ts hI s swIng ing that when he ho meets meetH a II ball Cu fu h It fairly hums He Ie makes many nany nanya a drive through tho tilo diamond his 1118 met grounders go with such force iLe that thai they the are 1110 difficult to handle and aliA lIl when the ball bait lifts Its 1111 it force orce Is IH to curry carry curl it Il over the head liere H Is 1 no harder hardel hitter In baseball thUn Justin Clark Cark the tho ball hall breaking catcher her of o tile the says the tho PI n Dealer He lie la is a 11 powerful bats buts batsman min man He times limes the tIle approach of or o the theaU ball lall from the tho pitcher pilcher bell beautifully uti fully makes the tho bat but meet It 11 BO so us to got get ot the tho th greatest lest resistance and just JURt far enough from freon tile the end of tho the hat to Impart all the tree force of tho the swing awing Wagner a 11 Ohio fine batsman and noid an one ono ot or those free hitters who connect with any kind d of a ball Is another of or whom it II mi rny lie be said that he lie sometimes hits n t ball bait too cuo hard hurd for fOI distance The Tho ball b boon been reversed by tho the but bat may mil go g straight us III a bullet hullet but having lifted tit itt a II downward stunt describes la arc al at all and tears leals Into Inlo the ground This robs It of some of Its ed and converts into a ii tit hit what would been a 11 I tier ber ber or better had hod the thc ball hall gone Rone up a asH D i left leCt the thu bat But the Dutch Dutchman Dul h man lands so fco hard that what would be bean bean an Sn out for Cor a 1 t ball struck with loss less foret but In precisely tho the same saab way say wa becomes a bate bao a o hit lilt with him himS S WAGNER t IS S l FUKE E loud hard prowess Is shown by the lie his curving fly balls carry CErry h l there Is ho any sort ort t to tile the hit lilt A A tin 11 the ball being h ln struck below luciow the Ih middle 1 would bo ho hOIn n ordinary out coil SeW fly O and nid il a I sure out otil if made by hy putting pulling less force In tim tho blow than ihu Ih n doea the Ih burly Wagner n ner does not nol tithe take a n long P I He lie cnn can shirt shift his hili styli h I 4 ball but bul he lue generally gets gots CIS force ole Hid therefore makes 1 moro hits oft balls the hundlo than most players that Ih t Is I a 1 ball lilt hit on tho the handle by him j ti 11 more Inore likely to 10 gu I than Ihan if IC muita mullo bra bya ty a less Ions le s lobust 1 slammer J HITS EASY gASY t Is I an nil easy hard hitter so o 0 t 1 HO lie does not wrench him F he 11 swill Every part palt of if m 1 I l under control lOIl I and adjusted lt tn Wat lt t he lie wants welts to 10 to do Ito Ho lio never IB ii C of n a but hut with all ull the Iho up ap I parent en conic no bf Of lois hla owing swing hem Is se severity verity rU in it II because It is 18 BO so accurate tiu Uc it II brill Wita force co When ho lie meetH It on un the tile loose long liles scorn sC to Rather kathel speed ami tIle thu nearest do ilo not ret rol Ih the thu tattle lii sic jt ut U tt tr lied on 1111 tu tO one ut or his hili smashes hel coining straight ac tot them There tore are tunes times when wh ll it its a tho better putt pail ot of valor to sidestep hen Johnny was wan playing halt ball he waw wn uK a n very CI hard littler hitter II Ille 1 lots hla lack hick Ille 01 or weight ht Miller Huggins of lit oft tho t Is III a Q little mutt ins a who liftS has a mighty punch Ho He Io can wallop them on ill u l boo buo line und give tho thu out helders a chase He lIe mel meets the ball unit nicely Cobb of ot the tM Detroit Is I a 1 slashing hitter Ho UI sends lH many balls lW ulong ground unit antI with sizzling speed sliced e bUill mii lI of the tho Tiger rigor team lilts hits hit hard and drives drive tho Jail ball for tor lung long distances So io t does doc Hurry Harry Davis of ut thou tho Americans as wick ilek wicked ed Cd e a n us as there lucre 18 Is Davis is isa IsI isit a it I dangerous littLer hitter hit lei ut at till nil times having havi jog jogIL a IL tree flee powerful wrist WIlst that In Inculcates In tho the bull ball a tL desire to go to the 1111 fence He lie is Ia perhaps the best beet be t distance hitter hillel In III the tho game ills His roe roc record old ord fur tor 1906 1806 wan WI 40 eIght OliO Him 12 IS home hooe runs run SWINGS HAnD BOlh Davis and Crawford Crawfor made a to considerable proportion of their by b the tho joUle toute by U whaling the bulb with such lIuch force lorce that It 11 galls calls over els heads houde makes lower homo home runs and fewer bets bels bet titan than Davis vis but more inure hers bers iv it difference In III tho blue application of ot COIO hard har to 10 explain Jn In 11 ho he made two home runs mile 23 3 und and 16 10 It appears aPpeals taut for lor extreme distance he Ito does doc not nut hit hll as 13 tiltEd hurd as liS Davis DI vla or 01 as ie ashard 0 1 hard for 01 mean mcall distance dl tanco but harder for Car distance dl between b mean and extreme a 0 tine line point In III science chonce on oil which the Iho elevation Imparted to the tho ball probably ha has a II bearing Elmer and find h l l luTe are uTe powerful of ot tho the stick and a much smaller small or mutt man who pum pummels mels mols tho globe Clabo viciously Is Topsy Hartsol who lands lanas with a II force foro worthy of oC 4 I heavyweight Ills drives go sharply and I nd straight Hard Utira hitting pitchers are Al Orth and Chief Bender Dell er So tire are Powell Chesbro Mullin Walsh nl h und and Mathew Mathewson son solo when they meet nicot tho ho ball on the seam scam Old Jim can CIUI cut loose short abort line drives that are lire scorchers und and one CIne of othe the prettiest hitters bitters when It II COnICS comes to taking swift airline no clouts clout cloutsIs cloutIs Is Pat PIll Dougherty ot of the tho White While Sox ox Dougherty and can cnn hit lilt as asfar asfar asfar far on a line lino us as anybody n and another batter buttel of ot this typo type I po Is La Cy C Seymour of I the Iho ho New Ne York Nationals Crashing drives best hest describes what follows fallows when whon Se Seymour and Dougherty Do ghert collide with wl h a ball amidships Ginger of at the Boston Nationals Is a 1 hard hald hitter with ah alt easy swing The Tho secret of the force which he gets CIs lies In III lois his accurate well timed tilled swinG swine The bull ball goes straight Ir and Ind fast and not lIot Infrequently far tar One of the lie National leagues hardest lilt hit lers era is Sherwood Magee of tho the Phila His hat comes a around with witha a powerful sweep but with his body tinder Hn lIe is 15 a useful us ful dis distance tance hitter and makes the ball bail veil even when lila his butt bat gets getti only a it I slice of or It |