Show hiu club But says stirs Mr Ir Griffith tho the fox tax there tl era a thing doing whon when the pitcher cannot control the ball Tho The minute ho bo loses control all nil your jour In Inside Inside Inside side stuff is knocked Into a cocked haL haLAs As an evidence of oC this give a look at nt the pitching record of 01 Mordecal Brown Drown for this season Reason The star twirler for the Cubs C bs has not been ef effective and oven with tho the great In Inside Inside Inside side ball hall of or the Cubs behind him he hehns has hns been trimmed nearly overT every aver time he has ha stuck his noso nose Into tho the box If IC Mordecal Mordecai had bad been able to hold that ball of his and put It squarely whore where ho he Intended to throw It ho hue have haye gone gODe away awny In his usual stride Pitching hIs the secret of the defensive side aide of inside baseball There Thero Is also offensive Inside ball as aswell aswell well as defensive and this makes runs Instead of cutting thorn them off oCr I Every manager and team captain has his own ideas about this sort of or orpIa play pIa Hal Chase believes belleos that It is isa isa isa a mighty good thing to mix ml mi up the plays once In a while For instance It has become an absolute rule in with a man on first base bane and none out to sacrifice tho the runner to second base baso The opposing players lay Iny for a bout because they the know that the second man up will try lr to tolay tolay tolay lay one down with an eye eo toward get getting getling ting ling tho the man to second even eyen If It coals OB a life to the hitter Chase Chao be believes that It Is a clever clevor thing to mix up the opposing team when confront confronted ed with a situation of this sort That Is 18 why wh the Highlanders do not always attempt to sacrifice a man manEer Every Eer little while the second man up will Ill try tr to slam a single through the Infield Other managers refuse to allow their players to do this They Ther count the chance of or the double play and believe that it tl Is good baseball to advance the run runner runner ij ner to second rather than take tako a chance chanco on getting two men out Some managers will not Dot try tr the thc squeeze play plo The Highlanders revel In that bit hit of baseball strategy and If the hitter can dump tho the ball hail any old place Inside the lines the tho stands rise up and say sUY Dully Immense But Bu If the thc hitter happens to miss mills ol 01 yol you I What a n rotten thing that squeeze play Is When you ou come right down to cas ens cases casen es en on the proposition inside base baseball baseball ball boll Is lovely 1001 when It works and Mr C Griffith old he hue fox lox of the tho big league put lint his finger on all tho the heart of the whole thing when he said With tho the and Drowns Browns working you can cnn use and shifts and signals galore When your OUI pitch pitchers ers era have hayo perfect control of the ball you can plug up the tho grooves but bul If the twirler Is I unsteady good night |