Show LUCK IS CHIEF ELEE IN WINNING SAYS BOSTON AMERICANS FIRST SACK ER PLACES TEAM WORK SEC OND AND HITTING THIRD IN THE LIST by JAKE STAHL copyright 19 0 by joseph B bowles there are so many elements that on tribute to minnii g or losing baseball games that it is hard to decide which which is the most important I 1 be lieve 1 luck k Is first team work second hitting third and fielding just ahead df base running few persons under stand how much the game fb affected ly luck it makes and breaks ball lubs every season and sometimes it seems u as if luck alone decides pen nant races but it if you come to study the matter more deeply you will d s over that the thing we call luck keeps pursuing certain teams and others and it if any one begins to seek why this is true he discovers hat luck Is only another name for lameness gameness determination and hustling ability the team or the player that persi bently hustles that rung runs out svery ball at top speed that tries tor for P very ball that is hit as hard as it is 1 possible to try soon becomes lucky for the player who does that Is there ready to take advantage of luck one comet mes wonders why after the middle of the season some clubs are so easy to defeat and some so hard it Is luck again in another orm the one club has been beaten intal it is discouraged and listless ib th its wort worl half hearted hearte ct in everything chile the other is full of confidence aspired with hope out after every hing and every man is on his toes very minute and it beats better ball lubs through sheer hustle and con iodence these things are facts there are some clubs tl at are dangerous no mat er how many games they have lost ind others that are done and out of t race as soon as the luck breaks against them tor for a short time A oung ball player who wants to know low to win can find the secret of it n these statements and any veteran all 11 player will vouch for their truth the first thing a young player ought 0 do is to see that his condition is perfect berfect and he must keep it that way ind train himself so he can last brough an entire season then he aught to begin studying the game hatching eiery ciery other players records and learning all about them he fie ight to watch his own men and the opposing team studying how they make plays and deciding for li himself finsel i 10 0 V 0 0 a axel k 4 jake stahl which Is the better way if he does those things and practises practices st att td id ly be he will become a better ball player and last longer in the business than scores of men who are his physical ply pi superiors at the game another bit of advice for a young blaer er then is a complaint that the old players do not give the young ones a fair chance this is not true it the oung young player does not get his chance it is his own fault A oung young player lust just starting with any club must watch his private behag or as c as his playing A fresh ball player or a swelled head or one who ho does not attend to business soon finds that he is not popular and be gins to complain that he does not get his chance A player who joins a club watches and listens sticks up tor for his own rights and does not tram pie on the r gats of others always is welcome A player in the modern game is judged almost as mi anch ch by his conduct as by his playing the grea greatest mistake a yo ing player can make is to think that because he makes a successful start his success Is assured and to swell and cease to pay close attention to business they ought to learn that baseball is more than a sport and realize that it Is the most sportsmanlike of all sports |