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Show 38 Jf then- is ono t.ilng that baseball needs It Is more speed Don't get me wrong. I do not refer re-fer to speed on the bases or tho de-llverv de-llverv of the pitchers. I have In mind the general attitude atti-tude of the participants Dilatory tatlc-s have crept into Ihe national pastime pas-time thai hay no place on tho ball field . . . The public likes action, even though there may be much of the phoney nbout It Very often the public docs not get what It likes, which of course. Is a direct slap at the people who pay the way. a George Cohan said .something when he remarked that If he owned a ball club there Is one thing that ho would Insist on, 'the players would have to hurry in and out at the close of the Inning " It certainly Is much more pleasing to the spectators to see the teams ."how a lot of pepper golm; to their positions posi-tions rather than having them straggle strag-gle out, antl usually hnve one player 1 hold up the game while ho takes a little more time than the rest. Often umpires are blamed for alow games. I'mpln-s. however cannot do tho running for the players. Neither can they make a slow pitcher work fajt or hurry up a catcher In giving his signals 'Take your time.'' Is tho watchword on a lot of major leagUS club. The theory is that tho slower you do most I things on the ball field the more ef-fectlve ef-fectlve they are. Since all managers scorn to have the same idea any advantage ad-vantage is neutralized. Ray Schalk Is a popular catcher bo-cause bo-cause he la always full of llfe.t It doesn't take him a minute to give a signal. Qfover Alexander and Walter Johntton tiro the Idols of the funs because be-cause thov work fast. a e a Baseball is going to profit Immensely Immense-ly when the managers decide that slow tactics are not of any particular advantage ad-vantage and Insist on their players Bpeedlng up. |