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THE STOLEN BASE
INTO THE DISCARD
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no one cared w'hether the runner was
on first or third. We don’t get those
any more. The only time I try to |
steal is with two out and one run] Rome, June 22.—Slowly the god of
needed to tie or win. Then I want to comR :erce is grinding away a little i
be on second so I can score on a at a t j, ne t i ie romance and antiquity
single.” I of this cradle of civilization.
Harry Hooper, another great base j The Cors0( from t h e time of Homan
runner > takes ‘ h ® 1 same view as C ‘"!: | emperors the busiest thoroughfares
Chicago, June 22.—The stolen base, llfp^.hicaL^VhUe^orUTs Umt'the' of the city, is losing its ancient charac
once one rf the n.ggeet r.c.or. I. the; ot ^.y .ren't a.lnr.; t»r. The
attack of world championship base-; as those of past years. He said: i (l. suoved ceiuuries ago. Palaces and
ball teams, has been thrown into the i "Why have them steal, when t e t .| iUrt | 1CH were i e ft but the palaces
discard by the major league managers! chances are they’ll get thrown out or a;f} f.,j]j n g before the irresistablo de-
of today. Records show that there i picked off the sack after stealing. he in . in j s 0 j- commerce,
were nearly three times 'as many 1 said. "The batters are hitting and Two huge t)ltl 1)a i a ces occupying a
stolen bases in the American league and that’s the best way to get the | site half way up t i ie Corso have al
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and nearly twice as many in the Na
tional league nine years ago as there
were last year and indications are
that the decrease this year over nine
years ago will be still greater. Where
there were ten star base stealers there
is now only one.
Many reasons for the decrease are
advanced by managers and men who
formerly were noted tor their daring
on the paths. While all agree that
heavy hitting has helped in the ten
dency to make the stolen base extinct,
seme also blame the ineffectiveness
of pitchers, failure of umpires to en
force the balk rule and the scarcity
of fast men. Ty Cobb, the greatest
base runner in history, says that the
stolen base has been discarded only
temporarily and will return soon.
Cobh declares that the game moves
in cycles and that following the cycles
of great pitching and great base run
ning, we now have the cycle of great
hitting.
"With the sluggers to today, base
stealing is a hack number," said the
Detroit manager, whose stolen base
mark formerly was close to the 100
figure for a season, the hitting
runners home.” j ready gone down before the couuuer-
The records reveal some unusual C j u i onslaught. In their places have
facts about base stealing in the major been reared two big, gaudy structures
leagues. The number of total stolen t 0 be occupied by banks, which stand
bases was decreased rapidly, more so out in hold contrast to the quiet col
in the American league than in the oring of the ancient gems of arehi-
National which now has replaced tecture. ^ x ,
the junior circuit as the leading base
stealing organization.
In 1912 there were 1,910 stolen bases
in the American league, 1,450 in 1915,
906 in 1919 and only 750 last year.
Thus far this season there have been
197 thefts at the ratio of only 591
for the season or little more than one-
When the palaces are not torn i
down, they are modified in such a
way, that the interior decoration, 1
some of which has stood the test of
centuries, is effaced and sometimes
plasteied. Numerous alterations are;
made to suit the necessities of busi-
1 ness.
i in the quarter where the church of.
fourth the number in 1912. Where gt j 0 j m L, a t eran j s located, a new!
Clyde Milan led the league in 191- amusement company has taken pos
with 88 thefts and Cobb in 1915 with se8s j on 0 f a large square of vacant
96, the leader last year—Sam Rice— g roun d and has erected carrousels,
stole only 63, and George Sisler with roller-coasters, t'erris-wheels and side '
42 was the only other man to pass the shows. The romance and beauty of
25 mark. Eight years ago there were the spot has vanished.
nearly 30 men with more than 25
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stolen bases each.
The National league runners, orig- i — |
inally stealing fewer bases than their ( This question has been asked about j
American league rivals, now’ are ahead many a woman under thirty, who has
of the junior circuit. In 1912 -there j married and taken upon herself the
were 1,576 stolen bases in the Nation- cares of a house and young children.
^ al, 1,214 in 1915, 1,165 in 1919 and 96!) j When a woman is suffering from fe-i
win pass. VhenTwe wTu again return i last year. The ratio thus far this year male weakness, bearing down pains,
to the cycles of pitching and base- i would bring 654 for the season if con- head and back ache and nervous irri-;
runnina Eive vears from now my tinned to the end—litMe mere, than tation, it is well night impossible to ^
running. Five years from now my
base running marks may be eclipsed
by some youngster now in grammar
school.”
Tris Speaker, managei' of the world
champion Cleveland Indians, combines
ineffectiveness of pitching with heavy
hitting as the reason for the lack of
stolen bases.
“The base runner of today is the
man who can go from first to third or
i from second home in a single, not the
man w’ho can steal seventy-five bases
j in a season,” said Speaker. "The in-
' effectiveness of the modern pitcher
has brought about the heavy hitting
and, indirectly, the decrease in stolen
bases. We have no pitchers today
like Matthewson, Joss, Walsh, Plank,
Waddell, Brown and other stars of
ten years ago. The average pitcher
of today throws the ball up and hopes
it won’t hit him coming back.”
] A well known National League man
ager, who did not wish his name used,
but who is looked on as a student of
' baseball psychology, blamed the leni-
, (jncy of umpires in tenfofctyig) the
I balk rules as one reason for fewer
stolen bases.
! "Heavy hitting has been one factor,”
he said, "but another factor is that
the pitchers today can hold a man
I two steps from first base. The run
ners can’t get a start; pitchers make
balk after balk and the umpires re
fuse to call them. The rule that when
I a pitcher makes any motion which
he habitually makes in throwing to
the plate and does not pitch to the
batter, that it is a balk. The pitchers
today repeatedly make motions to
pitch to the hatter and then snap the
1 ball to first, so that the runner can’t
I get any Kind of a lead.’
Eddie Collins, who once was one of
the greatest of base runners, declares
that the catchers are not throwang
any better than in the years past and
that the runners are not any slower.
| “Why should I try to steal when I
have men behind me who usually ad-
’ vance me by hitting?” asked Collins,
j “I’d he foolish to take the chance. An-
! other thing, the rules are more strict
now. We used to get a lot of free
] stolen bases when there w’ere two out
one third as many as in 1912.
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