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Show Big' Baseball Teams Need Good Men On Coaching Lines "OASEBALL. managers are beginning to realize the necessity or a good coach. By that Is meant a player of experience and brains who can tako his stand at third base when his team is at bat and use Intelligence In directing direct-ing the batting and base running of the men. Without the shadow of a doubt that has been tho secret of the wonderful success of ilcGraw. the New York manager. Ho has had teams which wero not considered pennant contenders, contend-ers, but they have literally "run their way" Into tho world's series. Stolen bases, sprinting from second to the plato on hits nnd from third homo on long flics havo given tbem tho run many times which was needed to win n clo9o game, and It was McGraw standing on third who detected Just tho right time to take a chance and Intelligently directed his men In their base running. New York baseball writers always howl when McGraw Is banished from tho gamo for a day or moro for protesting pro-testing too vigorously to an umpire. They do not say Johnny has to bo on tho field to Insplro his men, to pick tho pitchers or do the -many other things which come undor the duties of a manager. man-ager. They dcclaro It Is his couching at third base which Is missed. How many games nro lost by one run? Look It up and you will bo surprised. sur-prised. And In those games It will bo found that Invariably the team which lost hnd men on second and third many times, and they clthor did not try to score or were thrown out at the plate when they did. There was no intelligent intelli-gent coach at third to Instruct them what to do and the right time to do it. During tho season It probably happens hap-pens onco In every gamo that the coach at third has an opportunity to send a man homo or hold him ut third. Is that man wise enough to know what lo do? To measure with his eyo tho dlstanco tho ball has to travel and decide de-cide whether the runner can beat It to tho plato? If ho Is not, be should never bo pormlttcd to stand In tho coocher's box at. third. It will bo noticed that McGraw never trusts that Important duty to another when tho gamo Is closo. |