Show i II I I THe Telegrams Telegram's s Panorama of Bas Baseball ball ballA balli A Pictorial Highlight History of the National Game L y t J I. I tt A t l c O t to I Arthur Cummings left the tho Inventor or OP discoverer discover of the curve At the ri right Arthur is is- shown making I his discovery It was just like the apple that struck Mr Newton Arthur threw a clam shell and it itI itI I I almost came back and hit him in the eye so he started to figure ou out how w he hed he'd done doneit one it n An Account of How Great Curves From Little Clam Shells Grew I I lE story Is told of Christy Mathew Mathew- r thew THE son on that when as a a. boy he began throwing stones atones he ho could coull beat very every boy lit Iii the neighborhood and he became so flO dexterous so accurate In his aim that be he often took to the woods with a. a bag full of stones tend came back backwith backwith with a 0 bag full of game frame How many Important developments thus take talce place accidentally so so o to speak How Itow many come to light while playing 7 I If It It had not been blen that Arthur Cummings Cum- Cum one day began throwing clam clamshells I shells across the water and watching i their antics the curved ball bail might not 1 have put In ls its appearance In the game gamO of ba baseball Sr 1 as early I as It did ll But flut It I did d arrive t through o this trivial play just 1 when the professional player arrived I and thus the whOle whale aspect of the game was changed This This' was In the late COn Of or course there ther have been debates as asto asto asto to who really really- pitched d the first tint curve was the pitcher on the Stars of Brooklyn lie he was he-was was tall taU loose Joose Jointed and flexible In the arm That ThatIs ThatIs I Is ls possibly in part why the clam shells so so aside from their I shape Cummings Cum Cam rg f rd I a argued Tightly sightly that he could malts make I n a a ball bail curve in the time same manner so 60 I II I when li h s h-s bagan to pitch for the the Stare Stars he began to study hO how ho hoto to get around the pitching rule then In vogue that there should Ibe no throw or Jerk So he I began whipping his wrist such in-such manner that the to spin as lt t J left tt I the hand Playing against the Harvard ard team of Cambridge In 1867 Cummings pitched d and tried his new bill ban Harvard couldn't hit him Thus entered the curve Into baseball r There ere have been reams and reams of or print spent trying to explain why a 0 curve Is a c curve But It cant can't somehow be satisfactorily ex ex- The fact i la Is merely that It curves cant ts The and g b you ball e either either- has baa can do It through or o you I Ithe the tIme third degree by learned pr professors of physics but s. s but they It up by saying sayIn say say- ing In that is one of the IT mysteries of at baseball It I is as well one of the mysteries st of ot science for lt defies defies' Il certain ta fundamental da laws bf Of r physics v Copyright Copyright 1921 in TJ U. s. s and Great Britain Bri i. lain tain by North American Newspaper Al Al- liance All rights reserved WHO INVENTED TED TIlE THE BASEBALL ALL DL DIAMOND |