Deseret Evening News | 1909-12-17 | Page 11 | Good Hitters Are Most Important

GOOD HITTERS ARE MOST IMPORTANT There Thero are arc ar three things that are ab nb absolutely 1 necessary s and there r might bo others ay John McGraw r manager I of 4 tho tl Now York Nationals N O ls No Ico N ball club b can be ho a champion ho hoI I went Vent on to explain unless It has haa a n ai i great pitching stoUt start II a squad of or fast men SOon on tho the bases and a club of or good hitters bitters Then again said the wily i chief of or thu tho Giants there thero IK iii I a certain Z kind of ot feeling that roust must pervade tho the thoi i whole team It Is a n pretty hard thing to lo describe but bul It Is something like each eachl ch l 1 i man mon pulling for or the other and nil all of ot I Ithem f c them believing that tho tue combination la Is Isa a winner I p Some men have ha what wo we call halt hall hattI I playing Instinct Mac remarked by b In way of or pation The They seem to know exactly what to lo do at the tho right time ilmo and do not have to lo take lake time ilmo to consider They The are oro natural ball bali and nn their peculiar minds direct them what to do without any an effort I have havo seen Cen some young men who were highly 11 lIh I educated and nd brilliant conversationalists who were regular blockheads on a ft ball club It was as not that they havo have the tile brains If f given IV plenty n of time they t could u probably tl ably bly outwit t tile tho hoO hoOt others t bit l In baseball e i iwo wo vo must mutt have tho the man who can think and nd act let simultaneously on the Jump Thoughts Thought must como come to him In a flash hash and nd hot after mature deliberation what I mean by quick thinkers ana aria they hoy the are tho boys bos that must be bo on a team cam that wins a championship As I said there thoro aro are three requisites good pitching base bare running and heavy hevy hitting and Iho tue greatest of or these Is tho Iho wallop