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Show Bow Great Pitchers Fool the Batters bo able to put It where the batter Is1' least liable to hit It solely. Some hitters are weak on a high ball, close to the handle, while others cannot hit a low, fafit one pitched inside. in-side. Tho ame Ik true of balls pitched pitch-ed on the outside, high or low, as may suit the occasion. Ia order to get the ball In the places where the batter Is weak the pitcher must possess great accuracy, which Is the true test of control. Again there are many occasions when the catcher has called for a waste ball, in order to stop a base runner from stealing a base. If the pitcher has not enough command of the ball to be able to handle It out where the batter cannot hit It and where the backstop can readily handle han-dle the sphere, it's going to be pretty pret-ty tough for the pad artist to make his end of the play right. Many a pitcher who gives quite a few bases on balls during a season really has better control than the averages av-erages show. The day of puceessful high ball pitching Is a thing of the past. There was a time when It was the accepted theory thai one of the requisites of the successful twlrler was to keep the ball high nd around the batter's neck. For a Ions time it proved successful, success-ful, but whtn the batters became accustomed ac-customed to th4s style of pitching and lesrned to keep away from the pitcher pitch-er found himself up against It every time he resorted to the high fast one. With the advent of the "spit ball" It became apparent that the low ball was harder to hit, and naiurally tho present-day twiners adapted them-pejves them-pejves to thre. delivery. The erne great reason for tho inability inabil-ity to hit the low ball successfully as given by players of experience, Is the fact that It i6 harder to gauge properly proper-ly This is true when the man at hat Is try'11 10 Du" ttie hit-and-run play. Formerly, when tho twiners kept their fast balls high, It was pie for the batter to cither step back or In, That is, he will sometimes pitch up threo bad balls In an endeavor to land his man before ho sees that ho will not swing at bad ones, and then rather than give him a chanco to hit a "cripple," meaning one which tne batter is reasonably sure will be right over, he will walk the batter to take a chance with the next one. Of course, a walk at the beginning of an inning or when there is no one on the bases is Just as good as a base hit, still the pitcher who Is always trying to make a man hit at a bad ball gets away with many a game Tor Just this reason, and they are tho ones who aro usually there with the control. I as the occasion required and push or pull the ball in tho direction ho wished wish-ed It to go. With the low ball it is different as the batter cannot gauge tho ball any too well, and finds it a difficult matter mat-ter to place it. It Is particularly hard for the batter bat-ter to follow a low ball on a dark day as was shown In the second game ot the first world's series between New fork and the Athletics on the Polo Grounds. : "Cblef" Bender, who was on The mound for Connie Mack's men, is a pitcher who, when he is right, has a xemendous amount of speed. Phlla-lelphla Phlla-lelphla roanaped to score a few runs or Bender early In the gamo, and dth this lead there was no chanco for ( .he Giants to caich up. I . Bender had the advantage of tho lathering gloom, and this, coupled i ijth his ability to keep his fast ball nv, proved a stumbling block for tho iggressivo Giants. Members of both teams say tho big ollow was unhlttable on account of his, which goes to show how much arder It Is to hit the low ball than he high ones. Fans generally eeem to have a mls-akeu mls-akeu Idea of what pitchers' control oally means. The usual Impression j that the fewer bases on balls a wirier hands out during a season the etter" la his control. While in a certain measure this is tie truth, still there is something else nan merely the ability of getting the all over the plate between the shoul-ers shoul-ers and the knees of tho batter. The successful twlrler of the pres-nt pres-nt day, In order to bo a consistent rliier, must be able not only to get he ball over the plate, but must also |