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Show NEW WRINKLES IN BASEBALL Inventors Galore Bob- Up With Inven. tions to Improve Pastime Mirror Mir-ror in Pitcher's Glove. "Everv season brings some new wrinkle into baseball and inventor:. galore bolt up r- ' villi contrivance! r which they say ft u' v-iU improve tlio l'" tf'T Rame, said Georga f$ ZS'' MeBride, captain It y v and shortstop of I "tionalx- One of : A i these fellows ti ji" ?" Vyt' colored fan li -'JJ' VKUn -np- " -- pel' red a. the George MeBride. park whe.y our club was i t home on the hist trip and tried tr Interest the players in a glove built pocially to aid pitchers in catching 'ase runners run-ners off second. "The inventive genius hud cut a silt In the thumb of the glove i ad placed In the opening a small minor. When a runner reached second i.nd got gay the pitcher could easil; catch him napping by looking inti the mirror which (lashed lu fron of his face us lie raised Ids glove preparatory tc pitching. "None of the boy.-r had any time to study the contrivuuee, however." |