Outing . HAL CHASE, N. Y. AMERICANS Who outguessed the Detroit catcher by orderingthe play the Detroit man had suggested. In sporting parlance, the doublecross is defined Inducing an opponentto think you are going to do one thingand then doing the direct opposite. Forinstance: Mathewson is pitching andWagner is at bat. Wagner guesses thatMathewson will pitch the next ball in-side and high, and he prepares tomeet it. Mathewson guesses how Wag-ner has guessed. Accordingly he dou-ble crosses Wagner by sending the balldirectly over the center of the , taken by surprise at Mathew-sons d
Outing . HAL CHASE, N. Y. AMERICANS Who outguessed the Detroit catcher by orderingthe play the Detroit man had suggested. In sporting parlance, the doublecross is defined Inducing an opponentto think you are going to do one thingand then doing the direct opposite. Forinstance: Mathewson is pitching andWagner is at bat. Wagner guesses thatMathewson will pitch the next ball in-side and high, and he prepares tomeet it. Mathewson guesses how Wag-ner has guessed. Accordingly he dou-ble crosses Wagner by sending the balldirectly over the center of the , taken by surprise at Mathew-sons daring, lets the ball pass and astrike is called on him. Such is the double cross in Ball is a generalization for thisdouble crossing. The term covers anentire team. Better to understand thisultimate out-guessing let us examinethe scientific offensive and defensive 490 THE OUTING MAGAZINE. PITCHER BENDER, PHILA. AMERICANS Who blocked a hit and run play by Chicago be-cause the catcher guessed the next move. equipment of the modern major leagueprofessional baseball team. Offensivelythere is the trick of arranging the bat-ting order. The manager must knowwhat men work best together. A playermust know the base-running speed of theman who precedes him and the hittingaccuracy of the man who follows batting order is the attacking ma-chine. The less friction between theparts the greater the work done. The arrangement and efficiency ofChicagos batting order was largely re-sponsible for the Cubs winning four ofthe last five pennant races in the Na-tional League. Then there are the dif-ferent attacking methods of this ma-chine—the many trick plays; the work-ing of a pitcher for a base on balls; thebunt that sends a man to second; thehit and run that moves him to third;the delayed steal, squeeze play, sacrifice fly, and steal home thatenables him to score. All these make
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