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Show j 'BBgjjL '''-"W' Every Baseball Manager. Endeavors to Have '"''--I rr mfjfKlm 1 V BEg ' S n His Staff a Man Who Can Hit In the Pinches hM j ';-r' iJVT- Et i'1 As a General Rule Such Players Can Neither fmflt4'' '. 11 i . ' ' :feV". &y Field Nor Throw Up' to the Standard But .Oh How MT LgftSf ' . ' ' ll $ ' jHB7f They'Can Wallop the Pill and Bring In the Runs! V W'l - V . I I .JACK pi I JPOGME ll II " - RK What ls a pInch hltter? l Speaklng-in the piquant lexicon of Wlml the dlamond' a Pinch hitter is a gent 111 wbo can tbe bal1 a mIlQ in lbo 111 late Innines o play when his club III If lB takIne tbo dust o Its opponents. Jjgyj j Pinch hitting has become a proflt- itfl 1 ablG bUElnesB in tno big leagues, j If ! The other day the ew York ! i GJants needed two tubs to wlu in 1 i lhe nIntb inninSaBainsUhe Chicago ffl j Cubs. ( lift ' -A brawuy eentleman who wields ! SI - h5s bat EB a woodsman swings an ax jlllll'' one who answers to tfrfe name of I Kj Dave Brainard stopped into the ffi j burning breach for the Giants and uB delivereda pinch single to right field j that drove in two runs, then and 9 . there winning the game for the ; HI Giants. " jf ' Obviously if this Mr. Brainard can '(ill d? thlB enoU8h mes for tne Giants IiBM dUrlnS the season he will earn his jiffiV ! salary whatever he may draw. jljV j Generally speaking a pinch hitter iV J Is a ball player whose ability to hit 9 has been developed at the expense of JH other departments of play. Or he may do a player who never had it in ! him to be anything other than a hlt- Wmi tCr Thcrc aro BUcb birds- "Moose" In W McCormIck. lately of the Giants, ill la ProbaWy could not steal a base on ilni! th0 avoraSO of a decade, but he cculd fiSir mt 0b'myI M Kll A plncl1 hUter becomes inurred' to Jit I ' baseball, pinches orriBes. Othor- Wm j s0 he wouldn't be a pinch hitter jM The pinch hitter is a man of spe- I?H cIal PrivUcge on tho ball club. rFor htm instance, in the batting practice pre- iH I "binary to the game he takes his ! ,1 turn at bat along with the regulars iH ' Xet any ther BUb3'"tute so much as IB T take a bat In hls hand durlng this (m.' i Practice and He will' bo chlded uri- I1IH' rclfulfy.by.his team-mates and lSlnS' ' regulara. ' . lift' Y0"' Wh0 follow box acorcs. see !IJB dally at tho bottom of a score an ffifiKf asterisk and 'an explanatory note H feads "batted for James In the ninth mm Inning." , IB- -TVJIERE BE fl; COMES IN. HI'i Let ura'8luw that Jones batted Bi fr James Jone3 Is a pinch hitter. II Hi " 6re nW tno raanaecr bas dis SHffH covered that as a tegular- plaver II mill Jnes is an iE"088151!! Hocan- 11 P ' " v L? Bl JJJlJ .- not field, or ho cannot run, or per-' per-' haps ho can do neither. - But j down south at the1 training camp Jones proved that ho could hit He proved that conclusively by hitting hit-ting out of ( the lot all tho pitching that was offered him, and let us assume as-sume when he hit a home run off Mathewson or some pitcher almost as well known, his manager whiB-tled whiB-tled softly and said: "Ho can hit" Later in tho exhibition games, Jones proved ho could hit, and It was his long drives that won several sev-eral of them, ' r So th.o team finally landed north and began the regular schedule play. One day In April Jones' team was one run behind In the last half of tho ninth inning' and there wan a manon second and two wereyut. "Jones grab a bat there," saya the managerf! nnd sco If you can bring Smith home. Tho pitcher's got smoke. Lay for, his fast ball." It was Jones' first experience in Mhe big-league. With a lump-gath- n : '.- s- ering InThls throat, albolt.ho forgot It in tho thrill of his first time at bat In a major league, Jones strodo to tho plato and when his bat flash-t flash-t ed in the low sliding sun a single thumped off of it that brought Smith home and tied tho score. Probably later Jones' team won. "I thought so," murmured the manager, half to himself, "He's a natural hitter." , 2LUQNG ' " ' 01' ."JONES. That one single has made Jonea. It has established him as a pinch ytytter for his" club. He travels with the club and . Is accorded all ' the courtesies and consideration that go to tho regulars. , Usually Jones' salary will not bo a largo one. Players who do nothing but pinch hit may get no more than ?2.500 and as little as ?1,500 tho season, but figuring that, they rarely get' into morcthan two score games it may bo soen that their pay per game is '-. 'fffJ:: 'IBBIBlBlBBHIHioMiSIBi BOr3 BEffCH-EI?' on' a par or beyondthat of the regulars. reg-ulars. . If they mako good 'they aro, worth Hyatt, known as 'Ham-bone" 'Ham-bone" by Pittsburg fans, was Fred. Clark's pinch hitter for years. Ho could hit the ball a mile and tho picture of him trudging to the plato swinging two bats and then invariably invari-ably delivering a resounding whack is ono that will remain with Pittsburg Pitts-burg fans forbears. Griffith uses Walter Johnson often oft-en as apinch nlttcr for Johnson hits . 'em a mile when ho hits 'em at all. Bill Carrigan himself pinch hits for ," his Boston Red Sox and- ho la at times a sterling slugger. Fournier pinch hit, for the Chicago Chica-go "White Sox until ho gained a place as a regular. Detroit uses Duhuc, a pitcher, who is ond of tho mosf .natural pinch hitters in the' business. busi-ness. Jack Roche, a California toy, gained fame with the St. Louis Cardinals Car-dinals last season as the best' exclusive' exclu-sive' pinch hitter In the business He is a catcher who In two years' Urno never has started a gamo. i ; FAMOUS v j V PINCH HITTER. George Davis auon seps Into tho Pinch for the Philadelphia Athletics and betimes acts as Mack's first leytenanty Becker and Paskert alternate al-ternate as pinch hitter for Pat Mo-ran's Mo-ran's Phils. Young Danny Costello is making a name, for himself asvPittsburg's new piiich hitter. Another youngster young-ster George Twombley, has helped Cincinnati to a few pinch hilfing Tictories-tbis season, Jed Cottar, i until recently, pinch hit for the Bos M ton Braves. W Not always is the pinch hitler W called upon to get a safe hit. Often ' with a man on third base where ho T can score after a long sacrifice fly T the manager will yank a batter tfbo f has not the strength to hit afar and substitute his particular pinch hitter, y gambling that Jones will either slug t the ball safely or hit it to some d!i tant outfielder that the base run f ner may score after the catch. With 25,000 raving fans calling for a base hit and tho pitcher, knowing y he Is facing a batter of recognized merit, putting everything he Bag on each pitch, it may be argued that . there are more plcasureablo tasks than that of pinch hitting. Yet the good batter is always thfl t man who loves to bat and you may j be sure that none save good batters arc pinch bitters hence they are glad ; to get a thump at a ball under any conditions. "In baseball," said a well-known I player recently, "you're a hero ono J day and a bum the next." . So It is with a pinch hitler. ' ? Graduated Etiquette. Prince Michael Cantacuzcne, wno Is endeared to America through bis happy marriage to Julia Dent Grant. J said' on the Kaiser Wilhelm der . Grosse, on the way to New York t' "I sink my title in America. An observance of titles is in a repub'llo I rather ridiculous. After all, simple. I republican manners are the best f have never been one to approvo oi j Talleyrand politeness. "You know the sort of politeness Talleyrand's was how it was grail- j ; uated, as nicely as a centigrade tier- j mometer, to all ranks? ( t ' "Talleyrand once gave a dinner I party, and In serving the beef be , I graduated his manners to his g"ts rank in this way: I "To a prince of royal blood 'May If: I have the honor of offering your t royal bigness a little beef?' ,. ' "' "To a duke 'Monsiegneur, peina" .; Esf . me to offer you some beef?' ; t "To a marquis 'Marquis, may . j cut you a little beefy " , j -To a viscount 'Viscount, ha - some beef?' ...tf , "To a baron 'Baron, some bew' , "To an untitled gentleman ioiu j l beef?' . : I , "To Mb secretary 'Beef? i "There was present a P0 J Inferior to the secretary, and tow j Talleyrand did not ayo rnucn j J - one word. He simply looked a t ' man. and pointed the carving kd at' the beef interrogatively. J fe Being successful is u0" J j 1 matter of business, butonictinies , attained by very unbusinesslike p v , g ceedings, |