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Show I HEAVY BATTING WILL BE CURTAILED REASON POR HEAVY HITTING OF 1911 CHIOAOO, May 17. Heavy batting, which baa been the deep air of pltcbara tine tha opaning of tha 101 1 baseball season, will be curtailed, according to tha atatameot of a repreeenUOva of a baaabaU factory yaatarday. It la laid the nazt (apply of official balli for tha cluba of toe major aad minor leafuea will not be aa lively aa tha onaa now in nee. According to the factory representative, representa-tive, the present lively ball, which produced 367 runt in three daye io the major leagues, was due to a hint from the baseball powers that there wss not enough batting to auit the "fan." Now tha "tip has gone forth that the games -are too long because of the batting. "It is not intended to revert to the old ball, which produced so many few hit eonteeta and made many champion ship affairs merely a battle between pitchers, but to strike a happy medium about on the middle ground between tha old ball and the new. Since the opening of the 11 1 season fane have marveled and rejoiced at the free hitting, particularly the long distance dis-tance drlvee. What Jiae brought about the wonderful batting transformation In tha national pastime? It is the baseball Itaelf that Is re-epnneible re-epnneible for- the complete change In the same. For several years the rulemskera have thought and thought, trying to create cre-ate some device to bring about more hit ting. The fane cried for a more free! and open style of play. Then came the, change In baseball. j The old time hall, or, rather, the ball uaed up to the opening of the 110 year. I had for Ite center a piece of compounded rubber, probably an Inch and a half In circumference. I.eat year the baseball manufacturers ineerted a piece of onra. about an Inch and a quarter In diameter In the center of the bell, then a email bit of rubber covering over the cork. Thla produced some reeulta last year. The hitting Increased, but not as much sa waa thought advisable. Then another change came this spring, and with It some remarkable recorda In awattlng. The-cork In the bell wae cut down to probably half an Inch In diameter and the rubber conaldersbly enlarged. There lies the secret of the eenastlonsl aluaslng which haa been the wonder of every fan so far this veer. The hguree below ' showing the batting averages of the National league teams for the season of 10 and Kit snd for the present season to date Indicate a tremendous Increase in hitting. In 10. the last year before -the Introduction of the cork center ball, hut ltl home runs were made. Of the hlla made that year hut .107 were for extra haeee. Iti vear-the Tom renter was put tn th ball with a thin coat of rubber over It. The result was 114 home rune and an Increase In the percentage of extra base hlta to .271. The alugglng last year was considered phenomenal, but the bell was changed again, more rubber and leea cork being put In the center. The reeult tn date baa been sixty-three home runs let trlptete and twenty-elx doubles The percentage of extra base hits thus fsr this year te .. a tremendoue Increase over 11. Th Increase In home rune haa keen the remarkable thing thla year. Laet eeaaon S14 games In the National league 111 .K.i.l,"m or hou Ii7h7.i2 i?1"-, Thla-aaaaoa .(sty-rana! .(sty-rana! Sr!!..Vi sixty-two bom three yearl- 'm reonl ,or Club r b D-) j?"' piV. New Torli I 74 j.4 ondnnati ... ;sl :J Philadelphia i till .. 2- -"' 1..4T P"on 1.t to : ...Tuii Club T n wet - Tork . .t7i St. h''-"go l ilt IS. Pittsburg itl4l ,8 Cincinnati j,jij .,, Philadelphia liTM) in Jp'?" ; tfuia 1 1 .j4i Brooklyn I Ml .lit Totala ..It.TM mt, Onh TH. Pet Philadelphia !I .) Boston JJJ .4 New Tork ,J P1tl.hu rg ;4 pM, Cincinnati til ' .4 Chksso in -J4 Rronoklva ... It" ,)tl 81. Louis in .JU Totala t.711 IMow are atcturaa of ha ee belle seed ht leeauea for leet three yeara, showing rbangea which have resulted In kitting revival. , . ' -, -:vttC-''' ' ' ' .-.ix t-'i'i.' -if " '- - |