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Show GLOSSLESS BALL WILL HELP GAME Sphere Expected to Improve as Game Progresses. The makers of the official baseball are confident they will be able to put forth a baseball in 1029 that will have a cover ready for ue. There will be no further necessity of rubblug tbs cover to remove the gloss. The pitchers pitch-ers can start with a new ball and the longer that the ball remains in the game the better adapted It will be to play because a ball which has been in use for an inning or two Is just becoming be-coming fit for tip-top sport. This is another improvement which will tend to make baseball better. There were some of these balls in use ! In 1028, but the fact was not widely J circulated because they were an ex- i periment, as the cork center baseball I was an experiment when it was first put out. The matter of baseballs has been badly handled by players and umpires. The former are foolish enough to call for another ball when they should be perfectly satisfied with that which they have. One of the best experienced pitchers in the major leagues sharply criticized young pitchers In a talk one afternoon because the latter were foolish enough to demand a new ball at the very time when they should go on with the old. Umpires have been criticized for throwing out too many balls at the request re-quest of the batter. The latter should have scant consideration because he is the man who finds the baseball a target, tar-get, while the pitcher must furnish the target, and so far as the use of the baseball is concerned it Is apparent that the latter task Is the harder of the two. The new ball will do away with the necessity of soiling a dozen baseballs before a game and also do away with much of the silly superstition that pitchers and batters have acquired In regard to the ball. When it takes 40 baseballs to play nine innings and only 10 of the 40 are lost in the stand, the game seems to have been overcome over-come by a slight attack of baseball heeby jeebys. Sporting News. |