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Show ELDER BELIEVES IN DOPING HORSEHIDE By International News Service. NICW YOUK, Aug. 28.- Horace (Hod) Idler of the Reds, who pitched a no-hit, no-run game early in. the season, is an exponent of the shine ball. Of course, Kller may have been using the delivery for some time, but only recently has he employed it as openly as he does now. He used it against the G ianis in- two games which lie tin is bed in the series ! which ended in Cincinnati recently, and he was practically u ah ii table in both games. Diler has on the right leg of his uniform uni-form trousers a generous smearing of paracrine, and . before Jte delivers a bail to a batter he rubs It vigorously hi: the preparation. In his back pocket lie carries resin and powdered emery, winch he also sifts over the ball occasionally. The result of this doctoring of the peilet is that Eller has a fast curve that is difficult to reach or to hit safely, and some of the Giants narrowly misled break; ng tlieir backs as they swung furiously at the ball delivered to them by 1 i od, Tile average pitcher who uses a shine ball or similar delivery makes an attempt to conceal his appheatiou of a foreign substance to the pellet, but there is miming mim-ing surreptitious about Kiler's mcttuls of gaining added effectiveness. |