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Show ED WALSH HAS A SCHOOL Of MCC Ed Walsh, whit scat pitcher, is head of a south sids school of twirling st Chicago. Tba big pitcher ia doing the. beet ba can to prpetuat ths srt af spltball pitching by teaehlag tba moist delivery ta all tha youngsters , who iaf eat tba neighborhood of tha local Americas league grounds. Walts is peculiar fellow. Oiv him a catcher, a baaeball aad a bunch of "kida" ana be is aaw. Ia fact, ha ia ao happy that it is almoet impoaaibl to draw him frees tha "kida" to tha aaomiag practice. It ia a peculiar eight that ia wltaeaeed at Comieky park every day that the whit aox are at home. Along about t o 'clock tha yoaagatera of th neighborhood neighbor-hood bria to aaeembla ia front f tb entrance to tba park. There ar fifteen fif-teen or tweaty aad eemetlmee mere etaadlng about when the hif figure of the twifler eeaaoa into view. " Here ha eomeaj goes up th err. Tha aaxt minute Walsh ia surrausded try hie youthful friends. They all eater the nark. Th pitcher goee to the clubhouse, discards hia' afreet slothes aad eome oat ia hia apaaglee. With him ia Jamea Block, the catcher, for ho is ths receiving ead of th beae-hall beae-hall faculty. Then th lessees begin. Walsh gathers ths youngsters about him. Ba ahows taam how to grasp the ball. Ha appliea tba moietura. He go through all tha preliminary wind-up wind-up that ha doaa whea be is pitching s league game. Only slower, of course. He delivers the ball with all of hia apeed. Then he turns tha sphere over ta aaa of the rpuugsters. He inetrueta him juat how to sold it, makea him stand aa if there waa a batemaa at the plate, ronrpela him to go through all the matinee ma-tinee that tha real twirler does. Ia a word, Walah attempt ta coach tbe yoangntar ia tha proper asethod of pitching. |