OCR Text |
Show MUST ABOLISH FREAK BALLS j Manager Stallings of Boston Braves, Opposed to Use of Paraffin, Emery, Etc. Manager Stallings of Boston believes be-lieves firmly that baseball authorities will have, sooner or later, to banish all paraffin, emery and other accessories acces-sories that make startling curves In baseball. The spltball is not useC by the young fellows coming in. It is the old boy who feels himself slipping who takes to It and keeps himself in baseball several years longer than one who does not use It. "Take emery," says Stallings. "A man can put It on his glove and an 7 """"" Jf. i t " " 1"- 9 P X ! p s ! - t -I ' I -ii Manager Stallings. umpire can rub his hand over it and not detect the dust. Yet there is enough there to roughen the ball and let the twirler get a grip on it. "One twirler on a winning club has ao much paraffin scattered about his person that he smells like the Standard Stand-ard Oil. He makes no bones of. it. Tbe catcher gets a new ball and bounces it to the pitcher on tbe giound. That makes a rough spot and the pitcher smooths the side opposite and you have a curve that will outbreak out-break a spitter." |