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Show QUESTION ARISES AS TO MOST POPULAR I FORM OF THROWING VJTH INFIELDERS Inflelders Who Have Their Own Peculiar Way of Throwing. Whut Is the better form In bnschull, (o throw underhand, sldo arm or over-hnnded? over-hnnded? Wo will not venturo nn opinion. Wo lenvo that to the pundits of tho pastime mill to tho golf players, play-ers, writes Tom ltlco In Brooklyn Ingle. In their recent series with thq Boston Bos-ton Ilrnvcs, (he Brooklyn Supcrbns luid to fnco tho shortstop work of Mn-muvlllc. Mn-muvlllc. Wo will venturo tho opinion that Maranvlllo Is tho best thrower we havo ever seen. Jn thnt wo ore supported sup-ported by the Brooklyn papers. Larry Cheney remarked that Maranvllln could shoot a bnll faster nnd with more accuracy than nny other athlete he knew. Lnrry wns right'. Maranvlllo la a' Pilule. Maranvlllo seems to get tho ball away without limiting half of tho usual usu-al motions. Ho can shoot under or over hnnded, but his best trick Is, In-shooting from n sort of side-arm overhand. That Is not a clear description, hut It Is not our fault. Mnrnhvlllo's throw lias nlways been n puzzle, ovcu to ploy-urs ploy-urs on tho Held with him. He seems to push, rather than throw, tho bnll. Another peculiarity Is thntheplny-.crs thntheplny-.crs on tho samo team unyWpWthr "light" throw. That Is, It hits 'thire-celver's 'thire-celver's hands without Jarr"ug them. Why that should ho so is ono of tho mysteries of baseball. It Is notorious In tho profession that n throw from somo plnyers will nearly knock tho receiver re-ceiver flown, oven when tho thrower Is by no means famed for his supposed speed. On tho other nnglo Is tho plnyor whoso 'throw fulls Into the glovo lightly nnd gives the other fellow plenty of time for making tho piny. The renson for that has never been explained. It mny ho that the thrower unconsciously twists tho bnll ns ho lets It go, but In thnt ense It should curve. Sweeping Side-Arm Throw. Tnke, then, Mickey Doolnn, who played short for Brooklyn on various occasions. Mickey has the most beautiful beau-tiful sweeping sldo-nrm throw wo over snw, nnd the motion wns totally different differ-ent from that of Maranvlllo. Which has the better form? There nln't no such animal ns "form" In hnscbnll, ns It Is applied to golf nnd other sports. Doolnn mado his reputation on tho sldo-nrm stuff. Of courno ho could throw from other positions, hut that was tho efficient element which mado him a star for ten years, although ho seldom batted over .2.10. Smith Throws Overhand. Another cuso la that of J. Carllslo (Itcd) Smith of tho Boston Braves. Smith for nenrly ten yearn has been n third baseman. Tho best asset of a third- baseman Is supposed to bo an underhand throw; yet Smith has always al-ways been tin overhand thrower. Ho novcr learned tho other style, and does not uso nny other to this duy. If "form," as ordlniirlly understood, had counted, Smith never would have gotten got-ten a Job ou nn nrauteur team. |