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Show SCIENCE POTS MAN ON THIRD, BUT CAN'T MAE HI SCORE gINCE tho practical abolishmont of the squeczo play by managers In general there Is one question in the domain do-main of basoball sclonco and Held generalship gen-eralship which remains unanswered Why Is it that all sorts of schemes aro worked to get a biso runner round to third, but as soon as ho reaches that corner all science Is thrown to tho winds and tho lssuo Is left to depond on simple, plain old slug It out7 After a runner reaches first straight steals, delayed steals, sacrifices, hit and run and all tho subterfuges that the brains now In the gamo can Invent aro used to adance him to third-Third third-Third Is not worth roachlng unless homo is added. One might as well be looking for tho foot of tho rainbow, got to one side of a hill and think to sco the object of his search on tho other oth-er sldo as to get to third and not havo a base hit or a long fly mado to bring him in Yet the managers Bchcmo with all their might and main to reach third, which doesn't do them, any good after It's attained, and then depend on brawn and eyesight to bring tho runners run-ners home. |