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Show ijrfL " WEE SEE SAYS Cv, He signed to flgh't Bob Martin .nv 1 & In a ten-round boxing boat, I 1 When the seconds luggod him Hod Eller walked back to the bench Filled with remorse and gloom. With freak stuff taken from his arm Ha said: "I see my doom." "Without a shine ball I'm no use To Moran and his team, I can't get by with other curves. They don't have any steam. "The rules have knocked me for a goal, j 1 can't show my best .skill, i nleas 1 get im ahjnei back I'll go to court. I will." 1 Now, Slim Sallrve is just like Hod, I He throws the resin ball, Sal's hacking Hol to go to court And make the powers full. . . Th- ban on freak pitching Is hit-! linjr some of the hos Harder than they pected and so are some of the 1910 sluggers. Hod Ellrr and Slim Sallee are In open rebellion against the powers that be. ... Eller says that he ia no use to the I Reds unleas he uses his "shiner," and! that the next time he Is called on tol pitchhe l9 going to use it and appeal ap-peal the case to the courts when the law of the umpire calls him. Sallee is a resin" ball thrower. HeV having the same kind of trouble that' Eller ia experiencing in trying to get) hy without It . . . There are other pitchers In both thei American and National leagues whol are sending balls up to the plate with a prayer attached instead of the saliva and other dope applications that makes a hall act ciueer. 1 Before another year rolls round th new pitching code is almost certain to be the subject of come llvel legal court battles. It is always easier to make laws than to obe them Ellej maintains that he Is being deprived de-prived of his best skill to make a living. liv-ing. . . Hod says further that all his effectiveness effec-tiveness is gone, while Sallee believes about half of his hokum" as a pitcher pitch-er is destroyed by thi- abolition nf freak pitching Stanley Coveleskie. the greatest exponent ex-ponent of the moist delivery, 13 being made, the subject of sympathy, for in ano'her year the spitter, loo. Is to be shelved. . . . Coveleskie hasn't much of a chance to experiment with learning to pitch any other style, for a big share of the Indians' pennant hopes rest on his ability to fool the American league sluggers with the saliva ball. |