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Show oaalonT-v He shoulvW all the running be- actual! pitching pitch. He should do thia Vtt,. get till leg Inte condition. The reaaon ao many games are tost In the eighth or ninth Innlnga Is because be-cause the pitchers' legs are not In shape. Mitchell also says that pitcher waste too much energy. They work too slowly. The pitcher walka out of the box, goes behind the box, takes the catcher's catch-er's signal, then returns to the box. He walks over the Infield, following the ball where It la thrown, strolla half way to the catcher after each pitch, then back to the box. This useless walking tends to sap the eaergy of the pitcher and waste time. College games are rarely played In leas than three hours. One hour or more Is used In wasting energy. College pitchers, says Mitchell, waste too many balls. They pitch too many to each batter. .-. This Is due to Inexperience and their failure to study the batters. They do not know what to pitch ; they, try- all kinds. 1 - , Mitchell then telle the collegians that there are four kinds of batters. There- the kind that prefer the-ball the-ball on th outside- and the. kind that likes-to bare the ball-pitched on the Inside. Then there Is the class that goes after low balls-and the type that always chops. He tells the collegians how to destgJ nate each batter and bow to pitch toj his weakness. - AH of which Is true. But why cofi. fine It to college pitchers? Many Jo-Jot Jo-Jot league pitchers would well fftetlt by the advice Mitchell gives, Frlte H. O. Salslnger Jn the DetnUuSfews. They, too, waste too much energy ; at least many of them do. Also, there are numbers In the big league who fall to study the batter properly and who waste balls trying to find out what he might Ignore, always hoping to pitch the ball past the man at bat .' In a short time the public may be agreed on at least one. point: That. "Babe" Ruth Is the greatest living American , Max Malone, right-handed pitcher, formerly with Springfield of .the Western association, has been signed by St Joseph. a a a The Fort Smith club of the Western association has signed Frank Babuse, husky young outfielder from the Kansas Kan-sas City semi-pro ranks. Spring Is well advanced, at least Tex Rlcksrd again has attempted to buy the Giants. Mr. Cohan la getting rather old for that task. Jimmy White a Tampa high school athletic star, ba signed with the Tampa team of the Florida Stat league. Be I an Inflelder. Russell Ford, whose "emery ball" used to putxl batters In tb American Amer-ican league, Is now a prosperous golf-playing golf-playing cltlsen of Rockingham, N. C. a John McGraw Is depending on 'Jack Cnmmlngs and. AI.Devormer, with a third catcher, to do tlie receiving for the Giants this season. All ai newcomers new-comers to the Olantii"- ; Mr. Mortarty's ambition la, to liav a team of good .base-runners! the sports writers say. Always provided, of course, some way caq be found of gettng the boys to first base. a a a ' "Buck" Herzog, big league baseball star for twenty years, has taken up a new rola. Herzog has been appointed general athletic passenger agent of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad company, com-pany, a Miller Huggins of the New York American league baseball club Is quoted as saying that he la highly elated "at the surrender of babe Ruth." Who wouldn't surrender for $210,000? ' ' ... ' a Waterbury of the Eastern league has signed Catcher Tom McCarthy. He Is the lad Detroit drafted from Water-bury Water-bury In 1925. The tigers turned him over to StPaul of the American association as-sociation In 1926. - a a a Charlie White, who has been In baseball for fifty years, being the first eeeretary of tbe New- Tork State-league, State-league, Is probably known to more baseball players-an fans than any other living person. ' a a a Manager Bucky Harris of Washington, Wash-ington, has started' reducing ' his squads. The first to feel the pruning knife were Jack Blair, first baseman, and Ben Shaw, catcher, who Were released re-leased unconditionally. a' a a Del Galnor, veteran first baseman, has signed with the Syracuse team' of the International league; Galnor left the Stars last mid season because of his health He will he used In utility and plnch-hlttlng roles. a a a Pitcher Gerald Mallett has been purchased pur-chased from Rochester of the .International .Interna-tional lenpue by the Augusta team of the Sally loop. He was with Macon of that league last summer. winning 15 games and losing 14. . .- Commissioner Landls has reinstated Walter Kinney, southpaw pitcher, to pood standing in organized ball. Kinney Kin-ney Jumped the Philadelphia Athletics three years ago to pitch for Kenosha, Win, In an outlaw league,. . Tony Faeth, veteran light-handed pitcher, has received notice of his release re-lease from the Indinnnpolls dub of the American association. He may be given a whirl by Manager Ivy Wtngo of the Columbus team.? a a a . Manager Milton Stock of the Mobile team of the Southern league, has announced an-nounced the addition of two young pitchers. They are; Charley Real of Chicngo, and D'OUv Bill of Loxley, Ala. Both are right-handers |