Show AMERICAN LEAGUE PITCHER R SAYS I SLOW BA BALL l IS MOST EFFECTIVE S S V Young baseball are rarelY prone to the thie use or f j a slit bull With I them It Is speed and or nothing and yet vet the slow balI la Il much mOre deceptIve than either John Powell o of I the St Louis Americans who It was charged Bever used uNd a slow ball baH until last Jast season t a tale about himself and this J nd or of deceiver nt that I never neer used a slow slew ball bAU U ii til last tt year ear Is accurate but the explanation that it wa because cause I could not get et on to the knack Is i not correct I practiced the slow ban bait do Cle livery IJ several seasons ago and wu was so successful le that I determined to use it itin In games gaines As any will tell you there Utere Is aU alt the In the world In pitching tu to a balsman and aad in hl work big Ing out When I sent Sn In the first slow ball bait In th the game I 1 felt a t twinge In my arm and the second aff affected tecI me the same way so I cut em out oat for tor rear fa they would put rue me out of the business I have I CecIl too many drop belt baU pitchers lose their effectiveness In a HItson or two to ever eer adopt that stylE summer after arter my IDY arm an and health were aU all right I 1 6 started Jed to throw a slow ball when I was warming up and found to my mr delight that I experienced no pain or ill III effects I developed a half ball curve cune with It and notified na my that I wanted ut to be signaled for them theft occasionally I M have al always eoll a fast l h ban bail and aad as bet bat batmen men generally Iad tl fo for It it I f concluded that if fC I worked that slow cute curve n near the knee I would have a belt better chance chante with it Amo Among th the Jn I tied it au was Bucky l Freeman reeman and Ill ne never r forget the looks that he gay gave me While I was 8 striking him out He thought the firt ball was an accIdent bUt bet when t I sneaked the second over just about hi knee hIs expression showed that lie he looked on my acquisition as a revelation revelation tion Hl He was wag sO dumbfounded that I had no trouble In disposing or of hint him on a fut fast high on oneS at which he did sot even offer He was the third out and liS as we 6 changed aides he growled at me Where ere did you get It you ou must be copying C Cy Youngs style Ill turn some senne ot of th those slow ones into home hom 3 J runs before ore sunset t I gave him the laugh and when he came up agaIn b be gsa gan to josh him Nothing personal iii our CX hanles mind just good natured kidding Wen Well after atter that game I ir eluded the slow ones In my may pitching repertoire and Fit work them next Dext sea SEiI |