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Show GIANTS TO MI THE SHE BH1 By Paul Purman. With the Giants: John 'McGraw. will meet psychology with psychology. If Eddie Cicotte's shine ball is merely mere-ly a ruse to keep opposing batters guessing McGraw is ready to meet that ruse and send his men againBt tho knuckle ball artist with confidence that he has nothing on them. McGraw will not admit It, but he evidently had some inside hunch, that the remarkable success of the shlno ball was duo, as Cicotte himself told tho writer, more to the belief of the! batsman that he had something phoney' on the ball than to the fact that he was actually using anything. For weeks McGraw has been drilling drill-ing his players against the possibility of even considering that. Cicotte or Danforth are using a shine ball. His theory is similar to that of Cicotte. Ci-cotte. "If you think a pitcher has something some-thing on you, ho said," McGraw has repeatedly warned his men. The effect has been that the Giants believe tho shine ball is a myth and are ready to combat it as such. "The shine ball Is not bothering me," McGraw said. "If there is anything wrong with the ball it is up to tho umpires um-pires to look out for it and tho national na-tional commission to rule on it so far as the world series goes. I don't believe be-lieve it does the nlayers any good to worry about it." Since Ban Johnson and the American Ameri-can league umpires have never seen fit to take any action against Cicotte's ball this year it isn't likely it will be ruled out in tho world series. McGraw is very crafty. If he thought there was anything wrong with the ball ho would have a complaint to make. That he will not do so is almost a foregone conclusion. OXMAN NOT GUILTY. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 29. Frank C. Oxman, Durkee, Ore., cattlo man, was acquitted last night of a charge of attempted subornation of perjury growing out of tho conviction of Thomas Thom-as J. Mooney on a murder charge in connection with tbe preparedness parade pa-rade bomb explosion here last year. - |