Show STRICKLETT STRICKLEn HAS NEW SPIT BAll BULL Use of His Famous Drop Lost American League Pennant for New York Team Eastern ball are busy discuss discussIng discussIng Ing ng the new brand of or spit ball bali which Stricklett the former to er P N L 1 1 player la is said Bald to have perfected Stricklett probably has better control of the spit spitball jail ball than any other twirler At that he helas has las always maintained that It was tak takIng taking Ing ng mighty big chances to use the spit spitball ball baU all In a close game with men on bases Jack Chesbro lost an American Amerian Amerl an league pennant lennant for tor New York by bJ using a spit spitball spitball ball jail in the ninth inning with a runner on third base The ball was a wild pitch DItch as it Is very likely Ukel to be and the run runner runner ner nor from third base scored before the catcher could recover the flying sphere According to stories from California Is trying to improve on his ball Last year car while the were down south practicing for tor the season Elmer was experimenting with what he called caned caneda a spit floater or In other words a slow spit ball He lIe claimed it would be beho bethe bethe the ho most effective kind and besides easier ensiL for tor the catcher U tJ handle It is Isery very ery likely that this L IF i the ball bat he Is experimenting with out i t u the coast now which has led ed to the ret reli rt tt that we ar aro a ato arto to o be favored with another pitching freak The spit olt ball bali wa was a boon for at least three pitchers while It probably spoiled another The spit ball made Stricklett Harry Howell and Big Ed Walsh of or orthe the White Sox Sax It Is this style of ot delivery delhery delivery ery that has made all three famous Jack Chesbro was a star twIrler before he took up the wet wOt we style of or delivery dellery He was successful with It for to one ona season but last year was waa unable to hold his own It has been ben said that the spit ball ru ruined ruined ined med pitching Jack however says sara it was wall not the spit ball at all aIL Ho He H claims he got cold In his arm while pitch pitching I 1 ing lag for the Highlanders on a rainy day da I There will wilt be another spit ball artist In Inthe inthe I Ithe the National league lague I ague this season reason se son He Is II i Frank Corridon Co idon who will wilt get another I chance to make good with the Phillies It Itis ItIs I is on who Is named by some us os s the Inventor of the saliva salha delivery Stricklett says he saw sa Corridon Co using the ball In practice and set let about to master It according to one ne writer That was before he went to Brooklyn Jack Ches Chesbro Chesbro Chesbro bro saw Stricklett pitching It la in a game at Columbus 0 O and Immediately Immediate took It up Stricklett Is one of or the five tle Brooklyn players who has yet et to sign a contract The little twirler makes his home In Mountain View CaL about twenty miles mlle out of the city of San Francisco As a traveler he Is ta i jn in a class all by b himself even among bail ball players Last season when it came to reporting time he d across the continent from Mountain View to Kansas City his original home and then to Columbia S Cf C where the Brook Brooklyn Brooklyn Brooklyn lyn team tum trained He made every trip with the Brooklyn team t am and at the close of the season slow low lowly Jy ly worked his way back to 10 California stopping at several cities clUes to pitch exhibition exhibition games His wife made every trip with him coming from Mountain View to Kansas City to the south then up north and around the National league leale circuit She was his chief rooter In all aU the games Elmer pitched on his way back to the coast last fall |