Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1908-04-05 | Page 22 | Will Increase Batting

WILL WIt INCREASE BATTING Overall Thinks Glossy Ball Will Make Pitchers Easy E sy This Season Pitched Jeff Overall of the cham chant champion champion pion Chicago Cubs predicts a tough season for the twirlers He believes that the rule prohibiting the pitcher from soiling a glossy gloss ball bail will wilt greatly Increase the hitting department of ot ille ie game He also sees trouble for me the ne umpires in enforcing it as he believes every pitcher will wUl try tr to invent some someway someway someway way to get around the rule You cant curve cune a glossy ball said Overall and in my judgment there will be more pitchers knocked out of the box the coming season than ever evel before The batsmen never had the advantage this new rule will wUl give them and unless I am very Yer much mistaken the hitting average will wUl go soaring this season se son Suppo Supposing SupposIng ing argues Overall ua pitcher a has two strikes and three balls bails on a bats batsman batsman batsman man and the next one is fouled off over the stand That means a new slippery ball The pitcher dare to curve it on account of ot its glos glossy gloSsy glossy sy surface which prevents getting a good grip on the ball He has no choice but to stick the ball over the plate with the prayer that it be knocked no farther than the back fence