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Show MACHINF BASEBALL VS. SLUGGING I The ideal of ever baaeball manaajei Jl la to assemble n bunch of brain I rt II beneath his tent ! He drills and trains the separate parte of his machine for hours, day I fter day It takes tlm. tint the re-I re-I suite Justify the patna taken. I I A sluKKlnir team plays patehv i.iil 1 and seldom does it win pennant The 1 well-oiled automaton will deliver In the pinches and make runs where the I count In the standings. H Plays have to be thought out In ad-H ad-H Nance and executed from given slic-H slic-H irnls at flrat. But hn the can? fl-i fl-i rally hits the "all-toicether-boys" flj stride they function Intuitu. l H Connie Mack's old athletics have I ' , II r.evsr been equalled since in cutting the mustard when the mihIw t' h was reedy to be served. Napoleon Iajole tried, time ufter time, to win a pennant for Cleveland ! th- long willow mute, but failed. The smart team beat him lo the cov-Oted cov-Oted gonfalon. In a machine every outfielder as well as ln-gurdener knows lust what kind of ball the pitcher Is nrrvlng and' gits set accordingly. They have to think quickly and act Intuitively. The sluggers will strike out with men in tho bases, while the inside tpe of players will bring them over' the pan for the deciding tally by sacrifice, sac-rifice, hit-and-run, squeeze, or otherwise other-wise methods. A fitwer makes more noise rh.m a Rclls-Kovce und Its specie is far more numarous. but thr odds are on tha for-1 eigner fur dictlnctlon. |