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Show SPEAKER NEAR TO . H 100 HITS MARK,H It appears as if Tris Speaker, Bob- M ton Reit jaxj outfielder,' will be the M first atjileteo make 100 hits durinv M the 192 syn. Prior to Saturday's M pipe he ,tarir97. Bill Sweeney, Beo- H oafd baseman for the Boston Nation- H als, has made 93, and is four "ahea,d H of his nearest rival, Sweeney Is one H of the big surprises of the year. H (Continued on Page Ten.) H H 1 (Continued from Page Two.) I GIANT LARRY F"LE i TELLS HOW TO BAT H New York, July 5. Capt Larry Wl, ' Doylo of tbe Giants, who shapes up H this season as if he would give the H Zlmmermans aula other aiuggerb wT I5iu H National league a warm race for the H championship hatting honors, gives in H this article his views of tho great H science of hitting the ball H Doylo is generally considered a H "slugger" by the fans of Now York, H and there is an "Oo-o-b!" from the H stands when he misses one of his H fierce swings. But, as a matter of Hl fact, there is no blind slamming at H the ball when the Giant captain is WL at the bat. Ho is a good "waiter," H and he hits with skill and precision H "Somebody I think it was Willie H - Keeler said Jn one sentence all there H ' Is to batting," said Doyle. "Keeler H I was asked the secret of his reraark- Hl J, able hitting, and he replied that it H j was 'to hit 'em where they ain't.' But 1 every young fellow that breaks into I baseball can't be a Keeler He could make base hits out of anything because be-cause he had the science of place hit- . ting down to a point that few men H ,j erver have anywhere near equaled. HYI Still, hlB rule for succesD covers the H whole ground. Wt "One of the first things that a bat- H ter should learn is bunting how to H ' 'lay the ball down,' as the players say. H The value of the bunt can't be over- H estimated. I think that some teams H play a bunting game too much, and H Manager McGraw has always been op- H posed to a sacrifice game; but when H a bunt is wanted,- it is wanted badly, Hl and while the Giants very seldom use H it only the fast men, as a rule ev- ery man on the batting ordor Is supposed sup-posed to be able to lay down a bunt when it is called for. "When you want to bunt you hold your bat In the natural manner, but Instead of swinging you slip the upper up-per hand a foot or so out along the bat and poke your stick In the path of the ball. Tho bat is not gripped as tightly as when you swing, and the result is that almost all the force of the ball is absorbed. It rebounds only a few feet and rolls in whatever direction you have guided it" |