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Show FOR BOYS WHO PLAY BALL. Professional baseball players play) the game for the love of the game and because they make their living m that way. So they play it for all it is worth, and their whole wakiug' ' time is spent in the perfection of the1 ,-ame aud In the attempt to make its I fine points finer. Realizing this, the college team has all too often 'gone the orofessional pne better' In the multiplicity and ( amplications of Its signa Is Don't make the same mistake Don t have too many signals Don t make them complicated Kour signs for catcher to pitcher -four signs from pitcher to catcher I that is all you should need to bother with. Illf''' "The hit and run. A bunt ' lor sacrifice), and "Walt'" between b.nch and batter these are ruffi dent, Steal!" a signal between the coacher and the runner; "Will hi' next ball'" a sign from batter 10 runner. If you have a simple code for all these things, you have plenty for the I average lads' game, and If vou have j them well learned; and if you agree 10 obev signs and stick to it, other things being equal, you will seldom tail to vanquish the other nines in your league or neighborhood. In Just the same way that the Chicago Cubs when at the height of their glorv, conquered other clubs as good or better bet-ter than they were, because of the perfection of their "inside biseball,' j engineered entirely by signs St. Nicholas. |