Show Is the batting practice Indulged In by major malor league teams tea prior to the starting of a game came merely a waste of time As a matter of ot fact this goes foes for every ball game that thatIs thatis thatis Is played as batting practice la Is a apart apart apart part of every game gains from the ama ama- ama amateur tour fled field up to the majors S The Tha above thought la is prompted by a a question raised by Bob Quinn the new president of ot the tha Boston Red lied Sox Sor Recently prior to the start of a game at Fenway park Pane In Boston I was sitting In the grand grand- grandstand grandstand Brand stand discussing various angles or of baseball with Quinn We were In Inthe inthe Intha the bacK row o of the stand directly behind the tho catcher S A number of new recruits lad had reported to Quinn and he was an- an anxious an anxious to see lee them theta in action A number of ot them were being used by Manager Chance in the batting practice Several Boston pItchers who were not to be used In lu the game came did the tho pitching for tor the tha bat bat- batting batting bat batting ting practice These pitcher pitchers did not work In ln their customary style or use their regular stuff Most Moat of their offerings were fast fallt balls baits ball tie tie- de delivered livered with about halt speed lust just the kind of ot pitching to hit S S i iThe The Boston batters were making merry with the pitching offered rattling hita bit oft off the lett fence sith monotonous regularity Some of the players doing the hardest hitting Had been weak wuk sisters all lear Har in the regular gaines g-amea S S C Does Doea that kind It Ind of pitching mean anything asked guiana I X told him that I 1 doubted It If it really helped battin batting that possibly It was wasa wasa wasa a detriment For years year I have oe had that opinion continued Quinn The batters never face ace soft pitch pitch- pitchIng pitch pitch- pitching pitching ing like that the In the regular games that Is la wh why I think tt it la ts a bad thing i It seems to me that the pitching In batting practice In OJ older der to be beneficial should be of the same Sante style as used In the game gome The pitchers should put something on the ball batt use their curve and itt at times shift to a change ChanK of ot pace The batting practice as I sea soo- c It now Is not a real test of o hitting but pitching rather gather order made S I S Since Sinca discussing this feature with Quinn I have talked It over with several managers Most of ot them agree with Quinn that the tW effi efficiency cleney ot of the present system is ia very doubtful However they qUestion whether It would b be be- bea a ot burn up a lot of ot strength In batting batting- practice Say Sev- Several Sev Several eral agreed that It might be good to use ulle their string second men for lor Buch work S Whether oi or not there is a remedy for it I rather agree aree 1 with Ith Bob Quinn that the present haphazard hap azud system y t m used in batting bitting practice ii hardly worth while |