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Show Muckers Improve Work In Both Major Loops h LEAGUE STICKERS 1 IDT SHOW SIGNS OF SLUMPING BatrXsof 1922 Srhow ThTaIt Pitchng Is Far Supe-trA Supe-trA "toThat of 1921; Hits Including Home irs T Runs Are Scarcer to Date Than Last Season; Better Pitching Pitch-ing Is Answer I mRGE CHADWICK ?-lmi'lt) , of rhc Stancl-- Stancl-- ;M( , iimIn r) ,5 p hv 11" - Hi S T,RK: ,n m chei k Can ful 'H,K ' n. work of th. Pitch- . . iI!'B:5!'r! . mp , i.,on with the ; 1 hi", !.! .lv tin hall !'?ltE'Stn''1 lhelr p on lalS Kcn a lot ln Some ha-. ' there , JeMr1" , , an,i .he intl-home .VD(y.' norted f"r ;i season v:; " ,h- ',r- uWsf u-i tlu "ins h i I itM'J until recently and the ,Q1alni .1 ' from the was .'in;. Ml: h j.bW5" hum'1 run king who pnY baseball coll iml 21, cultivating a love hii' 1 Iruwn to ffifcr. : whcrc "p:. home runs polng on 5 ejjjj. , man' sitting in the Yr. K ' ' iV hr' 1 iJM rlu.,. i,.,-,. hit for j .! " J fMrvrl h.iif - both 'h, f . . uil approximately 7: WKjroxl ni.ti :v ' '' 'KcUl fipurv- an- ih' p" T.C icacuf s ci'fi. i.ih only JHmr inaPPr"xl,"lll"n iiSKu'thc official fmurr-M i.-. Krtnce eHw-, n 11,0 ofri ,ul fliT" ?Kd th? unofficial figures In a 1 ''Hnc'.al Is Insignificant -'MJjihrlnk.-iC' in lia.se lilts .. the E compared, of some GOO in j iJl If you prefei ' n 1 1 1 -Srtn only 200 it wnuid ro rough ; !L it would i-liow i hither base-To base-To find Ih i li la 500 19 Sprint blov. (" those who have 1 'Btt Utdng la Increasing so h iv-fupil iv-fupil Is making baseball look ab- J PITCHERS !MPRO 1 JJBif rate thut the pitchers arc JJH qaestl'iii of time bel tho !!Huethc j'. iti. look foolixh Oono lyifc ": :llf' honnTii.! urp? . Jthi ? , wl'i he eek and ahtnlu or h k , ','n h.ls lnron" ln ,ht lobby ,of he hotel while his subjvtH make obeNrin-e and ffive him tip- Th n.tieh abused and often dffeato.l pitch- era are pfckini up aKain. i IhJJ homo runs haven't fallen away and lo.n ,hHr ai.bsl;,n... It, th. ratio a8 the smsi baat hi. ye; more VI d"rncc over kg favoring i9i, a aocreaee that cannot wholly hO JMcpuntaa for on th.- theory that he did There ore others The ihree-bajper have tosi their opulence, and the two-bag have dwindled a ilngltc, twoagJSS t hree-bRgers and homeruns aro all short of what they were one year uso here U no oure lef, r,i lo ,Inl! that the ulHhers are Bettlne; their "d wind and coming iTch into their own. "I know thev would," said George Ulpaop, manager of the Pittsburg Plr-aten. Plr-aten. today. "When everybody got home-run crazy and the baseball writers were aaylng the B.-,nie would be funned to death I told them to wait a little TlK-rn would be a new crop oi pitchers coming along betore very long. I suggentod. and there would be a lot of old players who wouid not able to bnl as they did. The lively ball was a good alibi for me Ditcher who wern slipping, and they trv to use It et, I. ut any experienced catcher who stood day nfter day and watched some of the pitching that was going up to the plate In 1021 knew mighty well why there wns s much batting in the bit: leagues " MORE UOMlARi80Ng. one afternoon In June 1921, they mad( 194 base hits in the major le.gue i-.nd on three afternoons thev madC over ISO. The biggest flay they have had this season Is 1C6 fjn four daya only have thr batters been able lo g. t over ICO On four afternoons in 1931 the limine runs went Int.. double ligures Klftcen was the highest total Not a single instance of double figures In i:22. Once last season when June were at their best the batters busied 10 three-baggers but fourteen is their limit this year. Game after game was pitched In 1923 with base hits In double flpures They went as high as 2R for one tenm. This year game after pame shows that the players can't get double figures for their total of base hits. There are plenty of sixes and sevens. The batters were hitting hnrder In Mav, 1022. than they have been hitting hit-ting In June 1022. and that's another Indication that the pitchers are g. 1-ting 1-ting their grip not only on the ba41 but on the batters |