Show Curve PitchinG There are some people still left who refuse to believe that a baseball can travel out of the straight line between tho pitchers box and tho home plate on its way to the catcher It has been proved again and again that a ball can bo curved by a now well known experiment ex-periment Two stakes are set np so that the pitcher standing behind one cannot can-not hit a mark on tho left side of the other in a straight line the ball passing 1 to tho right of the first Indeed a short while ago a noted college col-lege pitcher was offered 1000 by an if ho old gentleman of his acquaintance I could Drove to his satisfaction that a baseball 1 could be pitched in a curve The pitcher at once set up two stakes in his back yard and curved the ball around them in fine style But the old gentleman insisted that tho whole thing was qn optical delusion and is no more convinced than ever Every boy knows how hard it is to I he bat an out curve or a drop and after has struck out a few times wants no one to prove to hjni there is such a thing as curvepitching There is little use trying to explain the theory of this performance per-formance here as many scientific papers have written on it which after all would not help a man to toss a tennis balL The final twist given the ball as it leaves the hand makes a spinning motion mo-tion so that thoro is more resistance bye by-e air on one eido or tl lw other and the ball is forced out of a straight line by unequal pressuro on one of its ides = odeys Magazine |