Show chesbro to jack chesbro father of the spit ball has decided up the freak delivery that adde him reat and famous saya a new york paper chesbro will be back with th 1 ankeles an kees next spring aal ho expects to have a very good year without ilie aid of the wet curve Ho believes aliat tho spitball ball ruined his wius niu and says that no pitcher can ube it successfully for more ahin two 0 three years chesbro came back to the team mat fall ho not work to ait lier at all he devoted his cwi t co entirely to tho old curves that he elied on before the advent 1 he a v one he says that n a few weeti s he mcgan to notice th difference tu lus arm the old of the rit and forearm cretu n l and he begin to throw easily with his kiil free delivery chibros manner of the fling ho believes put him out of the class of great pitchers it is in using his cuevo that ro twist be given the ball itis it is per nikles to slide smoothly off the eral angers in order to acom liah altis perfectly chesbro threw tho ball iwvin wrist and forearm stiff and straight he says that tho constant strain of this set of muscles eventually unfitted hiim 0 o throw any kind of a curve that tho spitball is harmful to tho barms of pitchers has been the theory of mcgraw and other wie baseball men but some of the twirlers twirl ers who depend on it largely insist that properly used it Is no greater strain on he arm than any other curve notable among these is harry how all the st louis brown who was formerly with the yankees howell says that Ches bros trouble lay in delivering the spitball with a round sweep of the arm as any other curve Is thrown ho holds that a simple straight overhand throw will permit a twirler to use the spitball with impunity howell has been very successful with the wet curve and is ranked as ono of the best and most unfortunate pitchers in the league |