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Show CHANGE PITCHING STYLE i M WITHOUT REALIZING IT j H Walter .Johnson's sudden return to form ! af tor many critics believed the great strain had ruined his arm, recalls one of ll tho peculiar things about pitchers. Not ll ono pitcher In 100 knows how he Is pitch- Inp or realizes when ho changes his dc- hH livery. fl Johnson changed his delivery about two IH years ago. He did It partly because ho IH was studying what Dad Clarke UBed to IH call "a new system of slants." H Recontly Johnson decided to cut out all M frills and pitch his old "smoke ball" nn H ho always had done. The effect was In- H etantancous in the first game he used his M speed and fast curve alone; opposing bat- M ters returned to tho bench with the sad M tidings that the great Walter was him- H self again. M Ed Koulbach Is an oxample of pitchers M who do not know when or how they H chango styles. When he was with the JH Chicago Cubs It was a constant fight to H keep him pitching overhand. The mo- H ment he began to tire a bit or get hit. lio H commenced pitching more and more side- 1 Tho moment his arm started to awing H downward Ghance. Tinker and Evera H would start yelling: "Keep that arm up." H |