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Show no WIJLBKRT HOW xo j Putting pinch-hitters Into world Berries Be-rries games is a big gamble, saya Wil-jbert Wil-jbert Robinson. Its easy to make a' bijr mistake, lie says: The manager can pull bones In a' series as Well as his players, but he I llfl quite often blamed for things t hat I aren't his fault This is particularly .true of the plnch-hittei . Nothing la more uncertain thai a plnch-hltter, I and yet it a manager in a world Be-Hes Be-Hes Bends In a plnch-hltter who delivers de-livers the goods, he Is called an able' strategist. If the plnch-hltter utrikes' out or pops up. the manager baa pulled pull-ed a bone It's the same old story of' the second trues-- What succeeds ib I oKht. What f;.ll is ., blunder. Muring Mur-ing the season a manager can sonic-1 Mimes Juggle hli pitching m.,m, con-j 1 ceding a few defeats lu re and there in I order to win the greatest number of garnet oyer the stretch, but in a short series cery cram,- is inipi.rtant thai! jou must fight until the hist man Is; ,ut. Good breaks on Bending In pinch-i flitters mean a lot 111 world series' games." I JOHN sI'GRAW. j In sloping out world series ca rues' experts very often pass over the man- ;agci of the clubs ligbtlv. but in t he opinion of John .M.cJraw the. pilots', I figure much greater In the outcome of 1 the serlei than the star players. He' says: "I would say it Is more difficult to I manage a winning team than a lose I Anybody can lose and there arc always al-ways plent of alibis. The i.-ani inn', be lll-bal iik - d. the manaxcr inuv lack good players hero and there and If 'un tor him 10 blame his shortcom-'ingr. shortcom-'ingr. on BUCh Well known and obvious things. F:iil with a goo.l team the manager's Job becomes different Peo-plc Peo-plc expect him to win and ih0 pace 'always grows bolt- st at the t.,p. s With a good team the manager Is I blamed tor various things which are I .really not his fault. He has to even, ' shoulder the responsibilities which properly belong to some player." CBJETl THOU v Babe Ruth's homo run record did I not corne h any surprise to f'het I Thomas of the Cleekrml Indians. Chetl 'used to catch Babe when he was u piti bcr. He says of Babe: 1 told some of the fellows last spring that Babe would hit forty home runs before the seutioii was over They laughed at me. They offered to bet. I wish now I had taken them up Bui i I got to thinking and figuring and , ame to the conclusion that fort busts were quite an order. Besides Babe is only human and might slump You never can ttdl about a ball player. But I I'm certain now that Ruth isn't bu-j , man. At least he does things w hich lyou couldn t expect of a mere batter I With two arms and two legs. I can't explain him. Nobody can. 1 was With the Red Sox when he broke into the game. And he certainly broke In , all right. A catcher can't figure him I All he can do is to give his pitcher n target nnd let him snoot. Babe oan hit anything." 1 |