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,''igf''if'gwffyw : Snodgrass is a streak hitter. Weeks at a time he can't hit a thing, and all of a sudden he begins, and, no mat ter what you"serve him, he laces it safe. If he has a batting streak dur ing the series it wouldn't surprise me to see him lead both clubs. Shafer is one of the best batters on the team and one of the most scientific hitters in the game. Being a left-hander, he usually hits to right field, but he does place his hits. Burns is a good hitter. He likes curves. Low balls are his long suit. He isn't so likely to hit a high one, close in. He is the best waiter on the team. He won'tgo after anything that isn't right over. When the ball is over both he ana Shafer will swing, and they usually land. Murray is dangerous. Give him a fast one, rather high, and he will murder it. He's not so good on low balls, but hkes curves. Merkle and Fletcher are both high ball hitters. Let Merkle have one around the shoulders and he will drive it out of the lot. He is weak on low balls, but I have seen him lift low ones to the fence. Fletcher doesn't like low balls, nor is he keen for curves. He can whale curves, but doesn't hit them so well as the fast ones; McLean, like Meyers, is a slugger. He doesn't like to reach for them nor does he care to stoop for a low one, but he can hit 'em low when neces sary. He dearly loves a high ball. On the bases the Giants are won ders. Every man, save Meyers and McLean, can sprint. They take more chances than any team in the league. They worry pitchers with their long leads, yet they generally beat a snap throw back to the base. If a pitcher tried to keep the Giants anchored to the bases he'd spend his time watching them. Sometimes the pitchers do catch them, but the chances are overwhelming in the Giants' favor. Foreyery man caught, The Giants have base-running to a science this year, and it is the big reason for their success. They are faster and better than in 1911. When a pitcher is worried his ef fectiveness is cut down. The worried pitcher cannot give his entire atten tion to fooling the batter, and this gives the team at bat a big advantage, vantage. Dates for the world's series games will be set tomorrow,, when the na tional commission meets in Philadel phia. Ban Johnson wants to get the battle under way Oct. 6, but National League representatives favor a day later. John Kling, Cincinnati catcher, has retired again. The ex-Cub returned to Kansas City yesterday and declar ed he was through with baseball. He had a one-year contract with the Reds. Kling also "retired" last year. o o DIGGS AND CAMINETTI USE JUDGE'S RULING FOR DELAY San Francisco, Sept. 24. The rul ing of Judge Pollack of Kansas that the Mann white slavery act was not intended to cover the "personal es capades of men" will be used by Maury I. Diggs and F. Drew Cami netti as a basis to ask for a month's stay of execution and both men are convinced that the ruling will, be the means of freeing them. ' Special Prosecutor Sullivan declar ed the Pollack decision can have no bearing on the Diggs and Caminetti cases. "Judge -Pollack evidently did not read the rulings of the Supreme Court of the United States regarding the Mann, act," he said. "Judge "Van Fleet ruled correctly throughout both" trials here." . . o o RULING PASSION "Have you anyfarmers' eggs?" Grocer No lady; but we have poets' eggs, retired clergymen's.eggs, and millionaires' sons' eggs every- four'aranoRand that means each ad- yances a base .Wtfiij W4H