Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-21 | Page 9 | Says Pitchers Will Throw More Curves

Says Pitchers Will I Throw More Curves (By International NcW3 Service) NEW YORK. April 201. Henry O'Day, veteran National League umpire, um-pire, recently predicied that the new pitching rules will result in iricroased curve-bnll pitching this season, and the work of some of the hurlers in the early games to dale seems to bear him out. "The pitchers who have bren using the 'spiiter,' 'shiner' or other freak deliveries," de-liveries," said O'Day.. "must go back to first principles and depend on the good old curve ball. "There is nothing in the world harder hard-er to hit than a curve ball when It Is properly controlled, and I can say without fear of contradiction that a good curve ball will grl the goat of most of the good hitlers in either big league today. I think this is conclusively conclu-sively proed by the showing of such great pitchers of today as Walter Johnsoon, Grover Alexander and JIm Vaughn The great pitchers of other days used the curve ball. Ktefe, Ciarkson. Galvin. Mntthewson, Young, McGinnlty, Nichols and Miner Brown, used no freak stuff. Matty had what what was known as a fadeaway, but he threw it without the aid of any foreign for-eign substance in doctoring the" ball. "I thing there'll be some pretty lively live-ly hitting under the new rlues for a time, but as the pitchers get back to good old-fashioned pitching and learn how lo control their cunes, fat batting bat-ting aerages will be just as difficult to build up a:s they ever have been." oo