| Show KEEPS P DOWN DOIN r t Hitters in Big League Agree It Is Hardest Curve to Hit hat is the hardest ball bait thata pitcher dellver to lilt That question asked s omo ome two dozen ball players on major majore e lubs Including some of the best ers In n the country brought with withy y an the opinion that It L eIther the silt ball bait or the jump ball ballI I st players pla era Iia to tt the opinion that spit ball Is i the single delivery deliver I 1 by Ii a to hit and practically F t theTa them agree that this delivery Is one Is 13 worrying crr log them the most because L I In more general ral us while the jump can be handled by onh ery small of f pitchers vers lerS are a i unit however that In the hands of a master I Ir r Young the jump ball or 6 ball baU Is as a hard to hit safely as Its 8 nt rival hen en Working rIght rightly the spit ball Is an delivery deliver and ande e It not for thE th fact that its use makes Ing uncertain It would be even more ill ly In stopping run getting than It Is Straight for Plate the spit ball comes ost straight up UI to the plate but just justn n 11 It looks look like It was coming on over overt t only ac speed It suddenly drops r n a fraction of an inch to half a toot foot footen tooten en the sit bull ball refuses to take this k It IL Is tl ii easl easiest st thing in the entire hing to murder When it right there Is no wa way as yet aid d to hit bit It yen ven It If the list bat with the ball fly drives It down to the ground and ands s one ope er If the Infielders an easy assist assists s ho happens to get at his fingers on I J wet spot when throwing Then there theren n error charged up The spit ball Is de at a t batsman has to drive even ml hit hard It can be driven slowly ril s hit squarely on the thee theNo theL e C L No Way to Hit It hew hc the spit ball first came out bat batI I t IF t tIey had discovered a rem remi i a a i slash almost straight down do 1 bat is used but the trouble hat the Pitchers rs have discovered ways ake the hail ball break out pr ir In at the 10 time It tal s i Its down shoot and of rae the style of battIng was better for this than the ordinary hori tal one are no pretty well cod eed that a i tilt hit is rarely made off a peri v tic spit ball and that ut the oni hope hoie for batters is to try r pick out 0 S that are badly delivered the rs no ne ot of the thi about the jump I raise ball is s that a batter who Is hit In t form has less chance of Ing it ii in one erie who Is out ot of form torm Effect of Raise Ball eforo the spit ball came In the raise i 1 was the king of them all The trou with this dellver however is that akes and speed andle It and It can an therefore be used y y by few pitchers len It Is properly In the hands L a r who can control It the er ef t Is aim t tile tue exact opposite ot of that tho ha spit UJ I stead f trig hit on top the ball Is below and rl popped up In the air with easy out ot ni in sight ot of the fielders The Thep p ball ms up fast tast until It gets getson I ot on on top lop nt If the batter and then It Ites es cs a slight jump Possibly It Is only mall ot of an Inch but that is ugh uh to cause the bat to hit below the Idle Idie A batter hitting perfectly at the i hap haa no chance to drive It safe as the ak tomes so late and Is so tast that ro re Is no chance to alter the th swing of bat to meet inert it squarely faulty batter who normally hits too b 11 on the other hand Is the one who Is st likely to get gt hits when It Is being d 1 Mow How effective the delivery Is is isn wn n by th fact that most or of the m ua s are to the credit of pitchers who It Hard to Control oth the spit ball and jump hell ball ar arat are areat at may hr bp as naturally lo Ie deliveries and when a pitcher has at his I Is c no particular is required The trouble troubie is that mer delivery cannot he used ly without rippling crippling the one using It ItI I furthermore even the most expert their use ue cannot annot always make them themy y their v will Iii hy It Is no one has been en able to ex exIn exIn In but bit It t Is a tact fact that one da day Ii a ml hate hav an any particular style of Ivery perfectly and may be absolutely blo to command it a day or S so later late nee flee pitchers who rely S upon one ivery Iery are never reliablE and It is the theS S who has not one but half a dozen lea ies to se that the most in Li Not only is this the case casl t pl who io UC a good variety 18 last t longest owing to the fact that the aln Is better distributed On this ac It while it is well vell for an ambitious cher her to If one of the or of delivery dellver it itI I also well to cultivate a varlet variety and rn tl t use ue headwork with it |
