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Show RIGHT WAY TO REMAIN YOUNG I BABE ADAMS IS OLD YET YOUTHFUL p I ' iSsSlfe (iBftF-TO ALL- -ITJ3 "TliJL. r" ion vuam - it vji "BABE" ADAMS (Pitching Head, Not Pitching Pitch-ing Arm, His Recipe BY HOY GROVE "A ball player has lots of tlmo In which he cun do himself harm. "V t.-llow can't disregard nature and get away with It. He can kid himself him-self along for a whllq, but finally he'll snap. There are certain laws that everybody every-body has to live by. Thar came with mankind, Just like directions on a package They must be minded to enable en-able a fellow to deliver consistently." These are Babe Adams views, lis has lived accordingly. In years he's m old man Cor baseball. As a player i among the youngest. What s more, he's pitching the branch of bervlce In which they wear out fastest fast-est l don't know how I do It." says Paba Just simply go am ad and do It, that's all. ISE OLD SW "That's a'-wlso old crack about youth will be served ' A fellow my , i ii. i to dig -"I"- to v, t by i he j ung chaps The youngster! got It and you can't do much against It And moat Ot them arc getting by just be-i-iiu.sc they're young, that's all. "Tho pitching game Isn't what it used to be En my day. I used to have to sit down and figure out the different things that go to make pitching, pitch-ing, and then go out and practice them hard The young pitcher toff-ay can pick the game up In n few weeks. He hb two or Lhree coaches, whh mod ern method of tricks .ins systems and so forth, that have been accumulated through years of experience. That the reason I think they crack so fas; They don't gt the right seasoning during dur-ing youth to stand the grlndi of Oat years. M ADE THAT WAY "But most of it Is Just natjral ability. abil-ity. A fellow simply has just got to I be made that way. "It's not so much the old pitching arm these twentieth century days as 11 1 the pitching h. ad After ai: jit's the noodle that throws the ball I not tho wing. There are some fellows fel-lows 1 can throw a high Inside bai: (o and they won't touch It, and ther let some otiu-r pitcher come up and d the same thing and that same playei wlll knock it outa the lot I If a fellow were to stop thlnklns 'out there ln the box and resort U strength, he'd d;irn soon find out h-i was losing all his friend?, ' |