The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 22, 1904, Page 13

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"THE SAN FRANCISCO SUNDAY CALL TIOW TO DEVELOR A STAD DITCHER. o weeks two excellent suffered te supp for speed it an get t with soon 1 as he as w e fittle “Jim- which e two in- not at above w f the game wess of the let me ex- w the in- before show- y which strains ken care of. For ated it will be some of the se- t, how he mak vd drops and slow properly executed, game nothing more 1l combination bztween the tcher » mat what sort of a ball ed, whether a curve, a speed p ball or a slow ball, the ball s held in the same way. is only one correct posi- CORRECT AV TO HOLPD B From~mT V! =\ v tion, as illustrated In the two smail pictures, the front and back views of the pitcher’s hand, shown on this page. It is clasped tightly with the two first fingers and the thumb, the tips of the fingers resting on a seam, while the other two fingers are closed up and merely press against the side of the ball. It is the way the ball leaves the d that determines what sort it is going to be, whether straight or speed or curve. However, in order to deceive the batter as much as possible, every ball is thrown with the same swing of the arm and body, no matter what vi- carious course it may follow after it leaves the pitchei’s hand. Thus if the pitcher is using an over- hand delivery to create a curve the ball must leave the hand with the two fore fingers turned well downward and the thumb upward, the finger tips closing over the seam of the ball to give it that swift revolving fillip which causes it to rotate so deceptively. For @& drop ball the swing of the arm and body is precisely the same, the only difference being that the ball coRRECT DELVERY" z level takes a more effective. UNDERHAND CURNVE between the moie over the ball itself iike a hood, shown in the photograph herewith. The til the necessary speed and control is fingers in peculiarity of the slow ball, which most deceptive, is the fact that it does The speed ball has neither the swift, line it It is just Though the overhand distorted beyond repair. motfon of the arm is made with the with with leaves the what BY FRANK MNEWTIOUSE. ERANK NEWWOUSE /] leaves the hand when the thumb and same speed and show of enerzy, forefingers are on perpendicularly and the closed fingers are directly under the ball. Thi¢ while it is thrown from distinguishing difference and the curve can readily understood by reference to the and the two pictures printed herewith. The drop ball gets its name from the fact not revelve at all, the seam being that after followirg an almost straight precisely the same relative position precaution against taking cold. While downward when it reaches the catcher as when the body is in a state of perspiration fing over the batting it left the pitch Therefore, s may be readily sur- mised, while the movement of the arm motion of the curve or the and bedy is precisely the same drop tendency of the drop ball, but is throwing all these ¢ in a’straight eaci ball really leaves the hand ,with 's hand. re- balls, whether with thé overhand nomena. PHOTOS the liver no trol. Tven then for the first ten or force at all, comparatively speakirg, fifteen ba! an open hand, it until (b thumb down and ail the fingers spread lmbered up, and then gradually in- as crease the energy and the pre in ifferent kinds of this invariable rule you are or contract muscular rheumatism, which underhand ¢e .very. it is the muscles is difficult to curte end which may in hand the two forefingers are clasped of the arm and shoulder alone that over it, the thumb under it and the two prodpce the various baflling phe- closed fingers at the side. The slow ball, on the other hand, has Thus in throwing the curve ball an entirely distinctive delivery from any of the above, and is often it is the tendon in the lower part of the game always take your time after each -~ - o, T “WINNIE CUTTER AL, ROUND ATTHLETE STEANFORD above this that receives the worst wrencRing. The speed ball, on the other hand, injures a different set of muscles alto- gether, for in this it is the muscle on top of the shoulder and the muscle just under the shoulder blade that suf- fer the most. The slow ball rarely, if ever, causes any injury whatever. Now, the best way for the young pitcher, and even for the seasoned ath- lete, to begin development at the open- ing of the season is to avoid throwing too hard at the outset. The fajlure to observe this simple rule has ruined more arms than any other cause. It is best, after the long rest between No- veniber 1 and April 1, to begin prac- ticing slowly and work up. For the first five or six days it will be suffi- cient to merely lob the ball the pitch- er's distance. which is about sixty- five feet. After that it will be time enough to put more #peed into the de- and to begin to develop the con- o it is better to merely lob - arm has been thoroughly n un- is secured. Always foliow these practice hours in as well as actual play with careful see that you are propeiiy clothed to keep yoursef warm, and that the pitching arm, especialiy, is well pro- tected from the drafts. If ycu neglect ely to any event bar zlab fur wee season. Ard no matter how exciting the you from the pitcher's if not for the whole far forearm that suffers the severest innings before beginning again. Be its strain, ofttimes being stretched and. calm and cool and self-possessed. Es- pecially must this be observed after In the drop ball it is the tendon just running bases and going to the pitch- Ay CShE owInS =D N ereED " BaAL OFFICIAL, TRAITNEI OF LEAGUE: "TEAMS FOR PAST FIVE. YEADRS k] KANK NEWHOUSE. who has written this timely and im- | portant article on “How To Develop a Star Pitcher, as she well as a trainer of nc ke ent ete., while and instru T ver in 1000, Colorado als in 1903 ar the b am i in nle” Cutt of the Caiifornia | | | t art, and theref | themselves by not throwing properly, is himse e. Besides having boxed in he has trained such notable fighters as “Young Corl 3 Joe Bernstein, Mike Schreck, g the past few vears he has been the o several of the big National Ball n 1901, Los n Francisco he trained as we ing some of the numerous ways that players injure f an athlete as Angeles in 1902, Pc team at the the Denver \ of Southern Cal ed an enviable rep Toget! ete of note, a past three years, sional e pro winced. Then is »ntrol of your gener- ame use your head. Think, ard think clea: atch your catcher and always de the kind of ball he signals for, b chances Lo one he knows better than you ¢ , give him y d of the head, gnals art for ng through ude to a to the care of the 2sgaged for efore beg his arm massaged thoroughly skillfully after a hard gruelling game later have to pay the poor Whitridge is under- ed the arms of over Yerent ball players ve years I know some- I am writing In t east, may be presumed massaging the tendon a curved ball I take the he thumb and ding the arm firm and work the tendon ling is ng care tc with ury to the upper tendon ng the drep ball, I the first fingers and hands and while the y upen the edge of a solid stand, work the through its ent 1gain resumed its the arm feels supple d shoulder muscles I vy with both hands Ay HOW THE GREAT SUNDAY CALL | ' IS DELIVERED TO YOU. Cadka - for the news, but for the very latest news, and with the circulgtion of the paper growing gre:ter and greate every day, the limited time 1 the carricrs grow and - stead of more. matter how favor- able the local ncws conditions and th2 telegraphic and cable sarvice, the presses nev rt before 2:30 There arises y a hundred and on things to cons closing up the paper promptly no_ matter wh e aga at that hour the conditions of storm and stress, every paper must be delivered in A neda County and the territory immead adjacent thereto at not lat than past five in the working districts a i o'clock in the fashionable resic ce cistricts. That means that each of the four separcte sections of the paper have to be printed, handled and rehandled four times, wrapped into bundles, loaged on wagons and hauled to the water fro unloaded there on the walting tugs, one of fifty-five horse- power for Alameda County, and the other of almost equal power for Marin, raced across the bay in opposite direc- tions under forced draught, the one to Sausalito and Tiburon, the other by the creek route to the foot of Broad- way in Oakland. Here there is another long line of waiting carts, which take up the bun- dles in their turn, and, dashing off through the early dawn in summer and the rain and the darkness in win- ter, distribute The Call over mile af- ter mile of territory before the inhab- itants are half awake. No matter what an early riser you may be, your u at the front as the m larly e men who b r such inecredible rapidity for the Sunday Call had an seven complaints about miss- g papers last Sunday, these men you ver see. While you are reading your per over your morning ast with a thought of how sortant they are in your pleasure, they too are t home again, enjoying the news with the same avid interest. eanwhile the country subseri and south a are being supplied perfect system. The 1 ing bundles through mail or city at 8 o'clock last of that g it edition of five thousand papers is on five and one-half hours, oft after the monster presses hav to grind them out. to the Far East the same in carry- dual papers leaves the 13eq Ana thus, just as the news is gath- ered from the rem world with rare speed it is sent back again in another form, with equal dispatch and as widely dis- tributed as it was ga where that news is ¢ the great Sunday Call may be hought; of the American cor snow-bound Klondik battle-torn Orient the troples of South America, on veldts of South Africa, and all over continental Bu- rope, the Sunday Call is at your ser- vice, carried thither by an army that is not so well known as the men who gather and write the news, but who are even equally trained and as well equipped in spreading it. quarter in the n the far oft

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