Show I Present Day Pitchers Skill SI U Prevents Many I I DETROIT lich Mich May Ia II That more batsmen are not Injured by h be being beIng ing lug hit lilt by br a ti pitched ball speaks weli for the time skill of or the tho day da pitch pitcher er or In rn tho the old lay to the time pitcher would not Infrequently let ono one no go straight at the time batters head In iii or order tier der to lo drive him hint away from irom the plate Such a n proceeding 18 Is rare nowadays Working time the edges e cs of ot the Iho plato plate seems to have proved more moro effective Nev Ne tho time lire the batter batler faces Is iii dangerous dan orous Roderick Wallace the famous In Infielder infielder infielder fielder of the time Brown Browna had his battIng balling efficiency seriously and permanently Impaired twelve years earl ago a o when ho lie was hit In the tIme head by ly h a It ball bail thrown by Chick Fraser who was Wait then with the Louisville club Wallace Vallace was knocked tint flat and It was wag many mun days das before ho lie went to bat hat again A con constitution constitution of iron enabled him to with withstand withstand stand the shock hock hut he be neer was quite t time tho o same hitter hitler afterward Daa Dnn the thom conter fielder of tho the Browns Browna was tIme the victim of a foar Coar oar ful tul blow at ten Lob hands handt of Jesse Tanne Tannehill lull hill then with Boston some years ears ago a o Hoffman HOl man was at the thc tho the most promising young player In the t o American league lea uc He H was having hit his first season and a brilliant ono one it WitS was One day he mad a triple a double and a single against Iri iii three trips to the tho plate The fourth Limo up hit him a terrific blow over tho the right eye eyo or It almost killed the time trained and amid muscular oung ath athlete athI late lete Hoffman lay In as If Ii dead and It I Iwas was four Cour days before he recovered consciousness Then his nerves wore were ruined rimmed From pounds ho lie declined to He could not sleep l noi oat ant for six mouths months oath tho following sea season son Hon he ho had to get along as best be t he Ime could with ony one eye ey ef Hoffman says In 6 that it lies has taken him sl Ix years oar to got ot his hili full strength He lie has haf ha never been he en able ablo to hit since time the lit he Ime was hurt I Now six years roars after Hoffman hit Iff at al atthe atthe the till mercy moro of the average pitcher Johnnie Lush Inah tIme the star amer pitcher of tho tIme Cardinals was hit hll by b Andy Coakley on tho the neck and amid all but hut killed Ills His neck has lies never neer been hc n straight sluice since I that time limo and for years ens his hi health was seriously impaired I Roger Or was vas hit and se Sc severely verely hurt by b Jack Taek Taylor In 1001 1 j For 1 01 a long hong time lne after this injury hires nahan wore a that protect 1 ed the time exposed o ed side of his head against the Hundreds of oC lesser light have hac been heen hit lilt and Injured to a degree less se so rious than those mentioned wun It ill all goes goe to show that baseball is la not with without without out omit Ha its groat reat dangers especially to tomen mon men at the hat bat Most lost of the time Injuries on tho time field have hao como cacao aLmot through collisions between fielders such auch t IS as the time theono theono ono one that cost tho the life of Hub Collins Collins fatal collision was with Harry Bur at Boston many years earB ago ao Batted balls bails very ely fow few players though tho the way wn men amen hit them lucre about in practice would often ofton make malec one wonder that accidents are arc not more frequent The rho most notable accident occident of ot thies sort sorl was when Schriver pi QI Pittsburg bit hit William Hart of time tho same samo club on ou the time chin cimin with a n ball batted In practice Time The drive shut shuttered t bred Harts jaw It was wired up Ui lI again Hart is now 50 years old and andIs Is rated high among a the time pitchers ol 01 the Southern league |