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Show BILL JACOBSON. 1 doesn't do much talking except with If vou'll look at the batting order his curves and speed, but he did say of tia SI r .nil 111 Ilrov.ns vnn'll flnn this: "Baty Doll" JacobsonY. name theTe, and opposite it you'll general!) see 1 flock of hits. He la the clean-up hitter hit-ter for the Browns. Bill says: "My style of batting is diffe rent than that of Ruth's. He uses a very' heavy bat and takes long swings at the ball, getting his body behind every blow. I use a relatively light bat and swing more with my arms. No doubt ih!-style ih!-style of hitting will seem poor dope I 1 many, but I can only say tnat evei better has his own particular waj "f hitting and thai he is apt to get Into trouble It' he abandons what Is natural to him to copy some ono else. I have discovered that by trying to murder the ball 1 miss many a hit that 1 would have otherwise have made and my bat-1 bat-1 ting average suffered. If I tried to ; be a home-run hitter like Ruth I believe be-lieve I could hit many mpre home runs than I do hit, but 1 would make far I fewer afe hits In the ionc run. To : me It seems preferable to m ike pei -1 haps a couple of singles and a double for a game or tv.o and t!i 11 lorn one into the bleuchers Babe Ruth has his own style and Is good at It. Just because a fellow is big and strong Is no reason to believe he could be successful suc-cessful with Ruth's style." I .1 AMI S B U.BY. When you look over the averages this fellow Jim Bagby heads the clas3. ) Ho has won more games than any pitcher in either league this year. Jim ' 1 suppose 1 can lay my earliest suc-ceSSfaj suc-ceSSfaj pitcher, to two things. First. control, and second, experimenting. My control came naturally to me. It ha always been good; though 1 have improved im-proved it by practice. Control is absolutely ab-solutely 1 ssential to any pitchcer, though not all pitchers can master It to their satisfaction, To my mind, pitching consists of two things, control con-trol and knowledge of the batter. Knowledge of the batter teaches you I What kind of a ball you ought to use. 'Control enables you to nu: It there. Pitching has its ups and downs. Some .1 y our teammates score a floc k of runs behind you and It's easy sailing." .1 V. K K IMBS, l The answer to Brook lyn' great Showing this year Is answered in tho pitching Wllbert Robinson Is getting-J. getting-J. - K I'ipi'inlis Cn.nks n Is the greatest coinl'in it ion in the big show today, j Jack says: "Brooklyn pitchers they're tho greatest pitching staff 1 over heard of. The manager who has tnreo or four good pitchers can always count himself him-self lucky But Brooklyn has seven, leveryom of them a high-grade man, 1 capable of going on the slab and work-iing work-iing against any club n the circuit. The seven is inn. posed of Pfeffcr, Ca-dore, Ca-dore, Mammaiix Marquard, smith. Mitchell and Crimes Any one of I them could get a job w ith an club in the country." |