Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-04-30 | Page 12 | Pitchers and Batters Will Reap Benefit from New, Lively Pellet

pitchers itch and Batters Will Reap Benefit From New Lively Pellet I oo Should Add Several Points in Season i Pitcher Will Be Handicapped in Small Park Puk FRANCIS 1 i By J. J POWERS I I Consolidated News Feature Sports Writer 4 CHICAGO April 30 One of the Interesting sidelights ot of the early w weeks of the National league pennant race is the effect of the livelier b bair on b both th rs and pitchers Now that the ball used in the two big leagues comes from the same mold 1 asked several American leaguers who are familiar with the V. V antics of the livelier bulb for tor an ion as to its effects on National league players players The new ball will add from seven even to ten points to the percentage of at a Most of the additional hits will come from drives against or r over the fences Of course the ball will travel a bit faster on the ground than theone pre used wedin in th the National but not enough to make mak infielders back up It It will wUl be tougher on pitchers a of course buta hurdler will wUl reap some b benefit ment from the additional hits and V runs his team will wUl make Take Hub Hub- hell of the Giants for example he probably will be hit harder but Ter Ter- OU Ott Watkins and will make more hits hits- so o Hubbell will win about as many games MOn On the other hand hund a pitcher who must do most of a seasons season's work In 3 a amali mali park or wIth a weak hitting team will find tind the going goine much tough er r. r The ball baU did not have much ef V feet on on the work of Lefty Grove or in the American league but they were backed by plenty of long dIstance hitters The new ball likely will help tel fel lows low like Hack Wilson are power batters do tome something thing of a comeback C Cude de ot of Detroit was was' the tr tragic gic figure of the National Hockey league In the final game Cude stopped 53 shots from ChIcago some of them bordering on the the impossible On On the shoot hoot atthe net the puck slipped Blipped past Cude and with it went the tho championship That hOck hockey y can be a cleanly V played game was shown hown In the final game between the and andRed andR Red R d Wings The game came vent ent five periods pe pe- yet there were only three penalties pen in the J nc minute 90 battle V I 1 I C