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He should also get near the centre-fielder when the latter is trying for a high fly, so that if the ball is missed he may assist in sending it quickly to the in-field. As soon as a fielder has decided that he can get to a hit and has made up his mind to take it, he should call out loudly and distinctly, "I'll take it."
It should be added that the game would have been won again in the eighth inning but for the unpardonable stupidity of one of the Providence base-runners. By far the most difficult catch on a ball field is that of a ball hit high to the in-field, because of the great "twist" to the ball.
In chances for skillful plays and the employment of judgment, short-stop is second to no other position on the in-field. He is tied to no base, but is at liberty to go anywhere he may be most needed, and he is thus able to make himself very useful at times, in plays altogether out of his position proper.
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