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Show pOBSlUu?, He should, i!-. all the running he". actually pitching or O, pitch. He should dp this rlfrrf.Tw.. m get his legs Into condition. The reason so many games are lost In the eighth or ninth innings Is because be-cause the pitchers' legs are not In shape. Mitchell also says that pitchers waste too much energy. They work too slowly. The pitcher walks out of the box, goes behind the box, takes the catcher's catch-er's signal, then returns to the box. He walks over the infield, following the ball where it is thrown, strolls half way to the catcher after each pitch, then back to the box. This useless walking tends to sap the energy of the pitcher and wastes time. College games are rarely played In less than three hours. One hour or more Is used In wasting energy. College pitchers, says Mitchell, waste too many balls. They pitch too many to each batter. This Is due to Inexperience and their failure to study the batters. They do not know what to pitch ; they, try all kinds. Mitchell then tells the collegians that there are four kinds of batters. There Is the. kind that prefers the ball on the: outside and the. ktad that llkes-.to have the ball-pitched on the Inside. Then there Is the class that goes after low balls-and the type that always chops. He tells the collegians how to deslg-J nate each batter and how to pitch to . his weakness. t" All of which is true. But why confine con-fine It to college pitchers? Many major ma-jor league pitchers would well profit by the advice Mitchell gives, rites H. G. Salslnger In the Detroit 'Jew5. They, too, waste too muclf energy ; at least many of them do. Also, there are numbers In the big league who fall to study the batter properly and who waste balls trying to find out what he might ignore, always hoping to pitch the ball past. the man at bat. |