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Show Only One Ambidextrous Pitcher in All Baseball In all the years of professional baseball, there has never been but one 'pitcher who could pitch with either hand, says liozeman Iiulger, the veteran vet-eran sports writer In the Farm Journal. Jour-nal. Tom Mullane could do that thirty-five thirty-five years ago. lie could be a righthander right-hander or a cockeye at will, and was a good pitcher either way. An ambidextrous athlete one who can throw with either hand Is always al-ways of Intense Interest to ballplayers. ballplay-ers. Sentelle, a former third-baseman and later umpire, had mastered the art pretty well. Being of supposedly Italian race, the more Ignorant players play-ers for a lor; time nursed a belief that Sentelle carried a pistol or a stiletto In case he was challenged to battle, which, of course, 'was not true. One day Fred Tenney, a college man, noticed Sentelle practicing at third, throwing with either hand. "Gee, look nt that," be exclaimed to his teammates; "that fellows ambidextrous." am-bidextrous." "Bet your life he Is," remarked Bugs .Raymond, whose knowledge of Mg words was extremely limited. "That blrd'll shoot you In a minute." |