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Show HOW TO KEEP UP BATTING AVERAGE Larry Doyle has been interviewed ' on "how to bat." This ih what tho :. captain of the Giants had to say: ( "Willie Keeler said In ono sentence all there really is to batting. His ad- vice was 'Hit them whero they ain't ' i "One of the first thingB that a bat- V ter should learn Is bunting how to lay the ball down, as ball players say. ( The value of the hunt can't bo ovor- i ehtlmated. 1 think that somo teams ' play a bunting game too much and . Manager McGraw has always been opposed to tho sacrifice game; hut i when a bunt Is wanted It Is wnnto-1 i badly, and while the Giants very sel- dom use it only the fast men, as a rule over)' man on the batting order Is supposed to bo able to lay down a J bunt when it is called for. t "When you want to bunt you Hold I your bat in the natural manner, but Inhtead of swinging you slip the upper up-per hand a foot or bo out along the bat and poke your stick In thepata of tho ball. The bat Is not gripped so tightly as when you swing, and the result is that almost all of the fi force of the ball In absorbed. U re- I bounds only a few feet and rolls ;n : whatever direction you have EUlded s it. -'. "In real hitting the sober fact 's i' that much of It Ih a guessing match ( between batter and pitcher. You N" don't have much time to change your mind after the ball leaves the pitch- : er's hand." !j -1 |