HIT AND RUN PLAY AND
HOW TO USE IT IS TOLD
Greatest Of All Shortstops Explains Use Of Most
Effective And Dangerous Of Baseball Plays
As U8ed In Big Time Baseball
By HANS WAGNER
Continuing whit I hivi decided to
elll my elimination papers, I would
like the imiteur bill olube now being
organised In the colleges and on the
town lots to get together and study
the following group of questions. Also
I would like seme of the fans who are
inclined to roast ball players on the
spur of the moment to look these
over.
The Hit and Run
1— Is the hit and run the most Im
portant offensive play in baseball?
2— Which Is more successful In col
lege ball, hitting behind the runner or
ahead of the runner? In professional
baseball? '
8—Does the base-runner get the
same lead and start In a clean steal?
4— Is It advisable to hit and run
with no ottts and a close score? Not
close?
5— Do you hit and run with on* or
two outs, close score? Not close?
S—Do you hit and run with a man
on first and third? ,
7— Do you ever hit and run with a
man on f(r*t and second?
8— Do you ever hit and run with a
pitcher on base?
S—Is the beet time to hit and run
when you have the pitcher in the
hole?
Generally speaking, the answer to
moat of those questions should be yes.
Borne of them, though, are open to dis
cussion. It Is that discussion that I
am trying to encourage: Nothing gets
a ball club or any other business as
far along as an Intelligent discussion
of the problems that will have to be
solved.
