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Show PITCHING GUN WILL BE USED FOR PRACTICE ANNAPOLIS. Md.. March 1 Baseball candidates at the naval academy this season will try out a new pitching gun which is expected to give llicin all the preliminary training needed to face any rival pitcher. The gun. in throwing a ball from the pitcher's box over the plate, may be made to gie a curve as wide as eight feet in any direction by a simple regulation In the breech. The machine is tho Invention of ono of tho naval academy officers. It Is op-crated op-crated with compressed air. Only fifteen pounds pressure will be used, as this will give a speed equal to tho fastest pitchers. |