Show SOME essentials OF successful PITCHER must have strength endurance and a good arm IBY by CAR CARL L LL INDGREN mo baseball coach ity of illinois the hie pitcher should lne have more physical ability than tile average ball player aln tant Is 1 lie must lue have strength and a good arm ins ills work requires from on fin hour ami allot a half to to IWO hours horns of hard hanl going while e if lie its down for a second the opposing ill aters will soon feni him nn an easy ens vie uc llin ill fro aly tic the most es enolal re of if a pitcher is control then fines speed curve cune chinee change of pice pace hi by control we ve menn mean the ability nellt to pitch the bail nt at tile alie spot that Is cle ired tit nt the time desired after de idling alln 4 where alio tit bail should be pitched il it does not necessarily mean the ability abill of the pitcher to ret get the lie bull ball over oer the plate but rather tiie ity t to pitch to a batters batter S weakness or away from the place where the hatter batter lilts ailts therall the ball hard the pitcher may not hue have a n good line curve bill ball or a good fust fast ball but there tire lire very er few who cannot get liy y hard work lind and practice in warm ing up never neer throw the ball in n it h hip ip p hazard fashion but eich each time with a definite idea of where you want the ball to go the position of the pitcher in the rox box is very ery important lie he should tand comfortably with his body re taxed and take plenty of time in sizing up the situation there fire many mani different forms of winding up in starting the delivery whatever the style there should be no useless swinging of the arms tint that will serve to tire the pitcher out in beginning the delivery start the body bod and arm forward together bringing the arm with the ball as for ns as the shoulder 11 ater fter which it Is brought forward with a hard snap and push the elbow hould be hent bent only very er ti slightly lightly when coming coining over the shoulder the body boch should follow well through FIR as the ball Is being pitched and the fielding position adopted at once tills this enables enable the pitcher to start quickly for a hit ball which may mi come into his territory one very en coincon boint non mistake that pitch ers mike make Is lint they use uie their arm and not their hody hodi with the tit ill in lir fir pitching absolute co ordination between tile hoch body and nun arm Is nc enry it if the lie greatest pipi amount of effectiveness Is to tn bp be ron ched in iii i itching a fast ball 1 ill grip the bill ball with the first two fincers nc naros ros s the narrow put part of the searn eim this will wil give ghe you m a i firm ile he careful not to crowd I 1 lie ie bill ball too far down into tile the palin p llin ot of the hie hand tint but rather well wall out toward the end of the fengers anois then a ilow the ball b ill to come olt off the end of the hie fingers with a inid hard snip snap of tile wrist wilt and fingers at tile the end of tile the nun arm motion motif n the hie curve cune hill ball Is thrown tin own with ex irth the lie same arm motion ns the lie fast ball 1 ill tile lie only onh dIf difference Terence 1 being eln in ili ill the wilt and finish of the arin motion at lite c ind id the llie 1 inal all nm may be held the hie list first two fingers the long linger being niang tile the seim 1111 of t alie lie ball or both lingers fingers ners ner s the re benm of the ball till the llie first part of the airm arm in mo motion if oil Is started the same nine Is as for the fat fam ball but tile the finish dieters in n that a hilad drive dihe down tile the breast Is mado with ills his arm ar giving tile wrist wilst a quick snap that flint causes tile lie lull to re volve ohe the axis ais of rotation of the ball should be poll with the dl di you want the cirill to curve cure de DC not lot allow tile bill ball to lene leave your our hand too over your jour shoulder but rather drive dile down hard across the breast to curve cune well n curve bill ball should break from the waist down |