Show I BASEBALL NOVELTIES ALMOST 9 are tho time clot helps holpa for baseball players that Ingenious have originated trots from time dine to time Probably the latest Is n 11 ball to tobe lip be us used 1 by pitchers during leisure mo moo ball Is 18 so constructed asto as UK toM to 10 yield l to 10 the tho pressure of or the limo twirlers lingers augers l At Al limo tho moment the time strain Is relaxed the Die ball hack back to Its lis original Time Tho Inventor claims that any grasping time the tall bail as ho he In ht throwing n it 1 curve cure IIII develop In his ilia humid hand mist and forearm t rearm time tho muscles that thai calve Into play during nn ml actual game galliC U Is the tho grip gilp on tho limo ball vInieR for Cor each curve iuro the spheroid will bo be Im hn pressed pd nr rH Indented differently when on orb curve curl IR la for another Dy lIy do developing eloping the thc curving muscles In Inthis till this manner tho limo Inventor stales that Hint hers can double their effectiveness Ring i I device originated for tor tho time mice uso or of ins as a 1 ring that thaI Hilly BIlly Mc Me Mei IP II a i bOught to 10 have luo players adopt not nol long ago fo O tike Like thin tho or 01 hail ll tin III rings object was to render lender mr PH ea r moro more effective Ve The Tiie 1 in III question tune BO so made trade th Ohm Min 11 m a I ho time pitcher pilcher slipped It on n A pi ul m linger Anger and grasped time Iho hall ball ballIs hally J y F r rut ruti i l g J lit tit I d I Jill n fl X lIIn I I t L 1 n tun Is III one of time the Ih best beet bestis t tees is In III mho Iho mat lit For Jor n 1 long lolIK I ll i i I i iii of f the tho Lang Inn Hinch Jolt Gulf N Y V lie Ile 1 is III H nn an ox I I 1 I dl II I of the tho game Ho lie Holly lier r f If lly mill and IIII per PilI II 1 tl dl 1 l In Ili chum chain 11 II the thc racial band bind held the leather sphere a Tho ho he could get got an umi un unusually usually sh purchase on nn time the ball and Severn box men found that with It n a 1 curve could be almost In Iii sharp 1105 flue Tho also proved to bo bl a n splendid moans for overcoming the Iho slipperiness of a n wet vot el ball and greater speed could bo lie through Its Itsuso use uso However ring was doomed to oblivion It WAS seas found after two taro or three trials that It cut tut the cover coer of oC a 0 ball Freak Call Ball Time The flexible ball bull Idea 1 Us lis origin probably In hi 11 n II novel sphere Invented by b Pitcher Pilcher A u a 1 minor league ploy play player plu or er hailing front Marlon hid Ind This Tide hall ball waN Willi of or wood It tt was coved In halt half A powerful spiral spring held 1 two tau of the edges f together Tho other two edges wore 01 an 1111 Inch apart mid amid con cou connected by n a piece ploce of or leather I Ily U II the ball It could he hc made mado to close Of or course conree time the th removal of ot let l l the ilia Ill halves fly Ily open ngai thus Thua In going through the Iho movements necessary to 10 produce a 11 curve the tho mus muscles ales cles employed were subjected to an 1111 un usual The fhe Inventor of or time the wooden woodell ball hal hail hadn hala a n good record which he h claimed was entirely due to 10 hum device doIe He Ile used teed us e Jt II t every cIer winter and nd on the Iho m rival of or spring found himself In III trustworthy shape for tor earl curl guinea ell In It two I wo seasons ho he lost but Jut ammo nna gamo In to 11 which ho lie pitch pitched ed oil mid II lie frequently scored shutouts against time the loading bailing teams of f 1 Indiana 11 1 hi 1111 As Ac to Date Dab DabA BatsA A dozen different of or freak Cronk hats bats lutne been put pul on tho time market from onto limo to time Ilmo One lIS ns n a stick with lIh ono one ride planed gut nili The rime Idea 1 that thata a 11 lint hut surface on the bat would lessen tho limn of foul tool halls balls und and at nl tile the enable n a 1 man to bunt bUill with withA A member of oC the tho hat bat fam tun family ily wan waa patented In 1580 1890 The Tho stick was wast 1111 t and Its Ile claimed that thai thata n a bull ball could bo be so 10 struck with Ih II It that Holders would have hac great P In hm handling the tit lilt The Tho curio Iuro In III tho the but could ghe x II hit bit ball hall H a twist that test would make run II 0 llao 1110 Otino of If both huth and amid andIly flY Ily hallo In Iho the ball would out of a fielders he further argued The rite curved stick h never Ile r wino wine lion thon Equipment Past and Present Many MAllY of this the device that have conic como Into Burin during Iho thin last lata twenty years roars would have uli aY out nut of ot place to 10 omit uc as tine Hie Ih pitching ring tho the curved cure 1 bat hat are to 10 us 1111 today lode lor Instance the hum mitt milt the mho flak the tho chent chest protector and tile limo glove gloo were ore absolutely unknown In the days of oC old aid Catchers then thell werd were compelled to harden their hands HO so that thin they could handle n powerful delivery dell 1 y without Injury A man who would piny close behind thin tho but bat In the J hind hal lo to have no little courage Many Inny H a astar star backstop baek lop of oC the present would have hlf ranked far down on time the In it n the Union times when whan Chullo and then men of his Ilk 1111 Ill s gamboled on min time tho green greensward sward award The Fun helps tint nay nn of ot the old time hue players could expect woe elo Iho thin gloves used In cold weather Time The pro protection they time tho afforded inn so cant calli nit us to be bo hardly worth mention And even In years later the time was the Iho only man lint Hint ever error humid had n 1 glove A I pitcher who asked a lell for n glove gl would wo l have hao heat been laughed to 10 scorn Nowa Nowadays days no nn nine man thinks hunks of or going Into time tho box without a Kline glove on cn his hla left hanl unless ho he IH Is n a left lert handel handed pitch pitcher h her er hit lilt limb Ilia hlll bell just ns nit In lu the Iho old days ns as they thoy do now new and mid Knowing I h 10 nuns arras wore no weaker than IhAn now no Thus It IH le easily ou ll seen seep thai time tha of ot the flue national game Rille wore were built along the lines linen of or the status of at limes Irwin and tho the Glove Arthur who won tram fame nw us n a Roston player WAR IU time the first man to 10 put pill puta a 1 glove before the time baseball world Tho rime wn was In vogue yngue long hili before the professional teens learns It II This Invention also claims time the vi vicinity chatty of oC n as R IH its birthplace for Cor or u 1111 for tur Its lis Itsuso use uso b thirty years real ago ugo 01 or to 10 be mole moio In III 1876 Thayer the Ihl lint liar yard aid catchier catcher decided was WIH needed to tu protect the noel man behind helm the bat 1001 foul feud tips lips He lie begun bogan b swat on the plan IllIn of the fencers mask amuck mind 1111 In him n a short while he ad evolved a n 1 very cr good Catchers musk Tor lor tires three years the tho 1 collage college teams uses used Iller It II but hili not noL until Snyder of oC time the BOlton league teen In lu 1518 gave Ave It II a did time the pio IiO give gho I U It any ally Mn consideration Old Time TIllie Catching Tricks At Al that thai limo into It used to lH be quite nn art all for t r n II catcher c to Judge julge time the angle antte of oC time the bull ball tu fill It II sped over limo tho plate The catchier catcher would turn his hll load head lo to the Ih right or l lets latt ft a so 10 If time the hall ball imm used ills his hands hand It II ss would not 1101 land full tull In his Ills faut sue Not every ely catcher c was vita able to in do tin this titIa trick Irick With tt i th ease alle and r m l grace grate Whom When the mask wan wall tried by and arat found to 10 bar bo orally what the Ih Catcher hind had lung long needed nee lell of nf course the theother theother other teatime took look It II up 11 end mul It II in ina n a to lo time the ot of every v ry To Conn Coun C the cued ried it for Cor producing the in maim mAil n who Vho adopted another lion to 10 time the life Iho limo chest protector Such a thing as tie alln tien n protector hut hud not 1101 been of or until one was na tried and like Ilk time the Ih found In to nil All n a 1 long felt want This lIde piece ploce of ot paraphernalia too had bud to run rue the gamut of time the before the professionals decided Hint that there true enough In him It 1110 to warrant Its till adoption tion llou |