| Show I Major Managers lave Have New Problems In 1927 By GEORGE CHADWICK Special Correspondent of The Tho Examiner Copyright 1926 ConsolIdated Pres Press 3 Association NEW YORK Aug Au H H 11 caught Rubo Mar Mu- Marguard's guards guard's slants the th other after after- afternoon afternoon noon In the game game came between the th old timers of o the tho th Giants a II game gamo was as part of o of the Christy Mathewson memorial Bresnahan who Is is now John J McGraws McGraw's right hand man made this comment In a conversation after the th game came Every manager manater In the National knows know that ho has got cot to have two things hints In 1927 1921 On One ot o them Is I catchers catcher and the tb other Is Is 1 batters balters Its It's the trie plainest t truth th runnIng loose loo around the th bases right now There was a little mUe Incident dur- dur durIng lag Ing the tho timers old-timers game that that that add add- added added ed force to his bis words Fred Tenney player first base on the Bresnahan team Arthur Fletcher now now- manager of o the Phillies batted and got cot to first base baso on a safe hit When he reached first his nostrils scented the battle from front afar or afar atar or from away back and back and ho ho ho- ho began beean to dance around the bag bar Bresna han ban said to himself You old ohl gazelle you OU will vili ret get cocky will you He Iro aimed to catch Fletcher nr napping THE OLD SIGN IGN Now let Dr Bresnahan go eo on with the tho I gave Marquard our old sign for tor a pitch out he h said Mind you rou we hadn't been to together for to 16 years ears and at that time time- was s only R a kid who had barely got gota BOa a trial and anti In his first attempt But he be h knew that sign and shot the tho return flash back to me at once I peeked down to- to toward toward toward ward fir t base hue and Tenney was wason wason waon on too top Rube pitched one out and I pegged peered to first base ba o and we had Fletch nailed a mile and were just ready to give elve him the laugh when Froth Fred dropped the ball IS as a ho he tripped across the bas bate base Pretty Prelly good wasn't It for tor us old g ezers who haven't been ben playing active ball for tor quite quita a spell Sixteen years rears and we wo couldn't the signs We had to know em cm In our time Good memories memories and sad and clever er work there Interrupted the th eager listeners But Dut what's the sequel moral or It may be They cant can't do It H no now chip chip- chipped chipped chipped ped In another fo former catcher o of the tho National league the whole gosh darned story The They not only cant can't remember the signs now but they cant can't give elve em cm right it If they do think of em ern The way they gRo ghe signals these days das the guy out In centerfield must be blind If K ho cant can't tell what Is go- go go Inc to-Inc log Ing goIng on Think of o the th chance chanc that the runner has on second base lie He catches the tho th signal sends It homo bomo and maybe the batter steps out of ot the box If it H Is I a base running sign slen or or maybe he be h lets leis let the tho hall ball slough through It If its it's a pitch pitch- pitched cd ed Cd ball sign Usually the th signal Is so given that all the th batter has to do Is Isto isto Isto to look down at hI his feet and catch It The most t he ho needs to know knowIs knowis knowIs I Is whether they thy are arc givIng him hima hima a curve or a fast tast one or or whether whether er they are ar pitching out If It It Is Isa Isa Isa a curve curvo he ho will pull th the ball It If Ithe he can and if It Is speed he b will try to hit to right field They all try to hit hit to to right field field these these days That's all they do try Bunt Some of o cm lm got gotan gotan an Idea that a bunt Is I some sort sorto o of Cuban tag TIlen Then you think that batters batler of Intelligence ar ate needed in 1927 They ant aint only need needed d they are Implored NEED ASSURED You can talk baseball of ot this prese t vintage with any of o the themen themen men who ma made mad e their reputations some years ears ago aco and you will never hear neve-hear hear the last f neld of catchers catch catch- catchers ers and batters for tor 1927 1921 Three clubs are arc going colne to seed seed this year without a pennant pennant when who they had bad a fair chance to wIn wInone winone wl one on had th they y good catchers A halt halt half dozen dozen more would have been much better off oft K It only they had batters who knew to ho how to take advantage ot or i In Ina ina a game came and who knew enough to look down at the knees of the catcher when he h Is telegraphing to the pitcher so openly that the timers ord-timers can see the th signals without their cheaters on |
