for the White Sox and suppose we was going to face a pitcher that maybe he
was weak on fielding bunts so before the game Mgr. Rowland would say to us
"Remember boys this baby so and so gets the rabbis if you lay down bunts
on him." So we would begin laying them down on him and the first thing you
know he would be frothing at the mouth and triping all over himself and
maybe if he did finely get a hold of the ball he would throw it into the
Southren League or somewheres and before the other mgr. could get another
bird warmed up they would half to hire a crossing policeman to straiten out
the jam at the plate. And the same thing would be in war like in baseball
and instead of a army going into it blind you might say, why the gens.
ought to get together before the battle and fix it up to work on the other
side's weakness. For inst. suppose the Germans is weak on getting out of
the way of riffle bullets why that's the weapon to use on them and make a
sucker out of them.

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Getting the jump on your oppts. is more then 1/2 the battle whether its in
the war or on the baseball field and many a game has been win by getting
the jump on your oppts. For inst. that reminds me of a little incidents
that happened one day when we was playing the Washington club and I was
pitching against the notorious Walter Johnson and before they was a man out
Geo. McBride booted one and Collins and Jackson got a couple hits and we
was 2 runs to the good before they was a man out. Well Johnson come back
pretty good and the rest of the game the boys acted like they was scared of
him and kept one foot in the water bucket but we would of win the game at
that only in the 9th. inning Schalk dropped a third strike on me and Judge
and Milan hit a couple of fly balls that would of been easy outs only for
the wind but the wind raised havioc with the ball and they both went for
hits and they beat us 3 to 2 and that's the kind of luck I genally always