| Show MORE HiTTING TO J FEA FEATURE TURf GAMES L WITH ABOLITION OF FREAK BALL Pleas of Fans Fan for Freer I Hi Hitting t ng Heard by B Big Leaguers Vets Given Givena a a Cha Chance ce to Use Ern Erny I IBy of y By 1 ack Jack J International News vs Sports Editor Feb 19 The The Theban l. l N ban on freak pitching 13 is bound to to decrease the effective effectiveness ness of pitchers wh who have be beL been depending von b i I all aU of the trick deliveries declared Wild Bill Donovan manager of the tho Jersey Cit dit Ii club former otmer pilot of the Yankees and o oa oa oiva a star pitcher with Detroit today in di die cussing recent legislation against freaks adopted by th tile e major leagues The Thc ban on freak pitching f Is a go gothing thing thing for tor the tame game said Donovan Imy Imy I j my Thy opinion it result in Increased H hl hit ting and when the spit ball finally goes In better fielding on the part of the infielders in in- fielders The use use of the spit ball bail you know is often otten responsible for tor wild throws by the fielders 1 j Dont believe anybody who vho tells you that the bajI ball or the shine ball are mostly myths Theres There's s no doubt that they are realities s' s sand and antI that they have been used successfully And it is a certainty the tIie theban theban ban will increase the efficiency of such pitchers as Hod Eller and Eddie I Cicotte Take Cicotte for instance He Was waS' nev never ne r a speed ball pitcher before he started to use the He He- pitches much differently than in the d days ys when I I ho ha was trailing along with the mediocre twirlers I fANS fANS' FANS FANS' PL A HEARD t i. i The passing of the after ter this year will give batting another boost In 1921 for tor It is a a. certainty that good spit spitball ball pitchers could never prove as effective tive as as' as ordinary methods of pitching What do you suppose Ed Walsh or Jack Chesbro would have amounted to without th the r It Is probable that neither of or them would have ranked aming the really great pitchers plea for tor more hitting in th thI the I major leagues leagueR has been heard at last The Powers That Be in baseball lent I I their ears ears to the cry of the fan tan some time me I ago and too toot heed They have paved th way to for foy freer hitting by curbing the I pitchers v I The decision of ot both big leagues to abolish the various freak deliveries ly ty means of which the pitchers kept hitting down was hailed balled with satisfaction b by the fans in general It was bad had news lor foi I many of ot the but it will act like a tonic for lor the good of ot the game No more shine ball no more ball no more more mery or or- talcum powder I ball And no more after this Season season season sea son The National leagues league's decision tc te permit veteran spitball pitchers to co con continue the tie use of the moist delivery as at long as they could hold out was 4 q at Chicago Young pitchers who have learned the the- use of freak deliveries must drop them thep If they hope to break Into the big show Major league owners wll wU neither buy nor draft them them providing providing the draft privilege is exercised again FEW PITCHERS FREAKS Pitchers like Eddie Cicotte Haro Harold d Carlson who have gained reputations for forthe forthe forthe the use of ot the shiner or other freaks will have to get along without them next summed And why shouldn't they asks a veteran veteran vet vet- eran erin baseball man Some of ot the great pitchers of other days may have used 1 he continued but by no means a majority Cy Young Matty and Nap Rucker of ot the pitching school that las az passed along won fame without tamperIng tampering tampering tamper tamper- ing with the ball Walter Johnson and Grover Alexander two of or our greatest i today do not use freak deliveries And AntI there are rr many uty other good pitchers j jIn In the big show n now w who do not have to depend on them themo o s Co o my way of ot thinking think ing the ban of ot freak freSk deliveries is one of the best things that that coUld have have happened happened to the game t J Despite s lf the g co contention of ot an umber of f baseball experts that the so-called so freak deliverIes for part art are myths more than else it is the held belief of ot the big the ban baJ baJon on freak pitching will result in Increased hit hitting tin Continued orf ori j page Je 4 |
