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Show JACK QUINN CLAIMS "SP1TTER" IS FAIR I c Pitchers Using Moist Ball Have Not Been Invincible. Yikee Hurler Peci-leo Abolishment of Spit Oall and Says Arguments Against It Aro Not Sound-Walsh Sound-Walsh Was Effective. "The spit ball," declares Jack Qulnn stoutly, "Is no more a freak r delivery than the curvo ball." Tho Yankee pitcher, nn exponent of tho spit ball, soon to bo extinct, seems to be sincere In his belief that It Is , nil right. He decries Its nbollsluucnt and holds' that there Is no good objection objec-tion to It. "It Is no more n freak delivery than the curvo hnjl," ho repented, "not a , hit more. It never hurt anybody, nnd no spit ball ever wns Invincible. Those nro tho objections raised ( against It by tho baseball people, and ( not one of tho arguments Is sound. "There never was nn Invincible spit ball pitcher, never one to thrcntcn tho 1 extermination of tho hitter, which bugaboo was raised against tho spit ball pitcher. Tho nearest to invincible invinci-ble wo ever had wns Kd Walsh, but Pitcher Jack Qulnn of New York Yankees. not one of the other pitchers of that delivery was us good us Walsh or us threatening lo tho hitter's chunces of unking a good butting average." Few will disagree with Qulnn thnt Walsh wns the most effective of all pitchers who used tho saliva ball. Next to hlm the one who knew the workings of thu delivery hotter than anybody elso and who camo nearer to making It selentlflcally effective was Jack Chesbro. Ho and Walsh wero master of It, though there may be thoso -who maintain that Covelos-kle Covelos-kle Is almost, If not quite, as expert with It us Chosbro, Iturlolgh Grlmos also ranks high as to skill with tho wet fling, but he uses It a grunt deal, whereas Dick Itudolph untl the disgraced Clcotto wore quite us skillful with It, hut didn't employ It ns much. Thoy employed It more In conjunc Ion with other deliveries. Urban Shocker has ns puxxllng a spit-ball spit-ball as tliero Is nt present, one with us deceptive quirks as Chosbro's, ball players say, but ho bluffs a good deal with It. Ho uses a curvo ball often when making tho motions of tho moist hall, and me the two as part of effective ef-fective strategy. Qulnn Is using the , curvo hall himself some, nowadays. When his spltbnll Is operating to suit. I1III Doak Is effective, but ho Is uncor-. .uln. |