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Show EASY EH TO RUIN ARMS Veteran Coombs May Know-Secret Know-Secret of Extending Moundmen's Career Has .Tack Coombs, former big league pi i cher, dlscoveied the secret of ex-1 t lending the life of alabsters? j Coombs Is now coaching the base ; ball squad at Fordham college. Re-! rcntly during an Informal chat the ma- ' I Jor league veteran whoe courageous I (work while with the Athletics forma one of the classics of the great na- j jtional game, says big league pitchon? I will continue to be short lived as pltch- i iinui i no ii'uiu met must mane other preparation lor their work than mere loosening, then toughening of the salarj wing more familiarly known as the souper. Coombs unburdened himself of his theory in reply to a question as to why some of the college pitchers under un-der his direction were studiously grip ping and iondling a baseball In methodical meth-odical fashion. He explained immediately immedi-ately that the boys were following an ' exercise he had mapped out to strengthen the muscles of the hand and fingers, while the wrist motion involved was designed to lake the kink ! out of that Important member "You see.'" said Jack, "it is foolish I to train pitchers unless they are pre ; pared through a fundamental knowledge knowl-edge of their anatomy and of the principles prin-ciples of this pitching business to go on to the limit So many good oung-sters oung-sters with a brilliant ruturo as pitch era are spoiled In the minor leagues through being directed to do things that simply ruin their chances of success. suc-cess. THROWING ARM AWAY "It Is the easiest thing in the world to get an ambitious youngster to literally lit-erally throw his ami away Training , lor pitching Involves a whole lot more ; than mere limbering up the arm and ; getting it accustomed to a particular j swing. I have known 6ome good ! pitchers who were bothered with oer-t oer-t strained linger and hand muscles, yet j they were willing to Bweai the trouble was in their arm or more particularly in their shoulder. I am trying to show our youngsters that the entire body should be in shape before they attempt at-tempt to pitch or even attempt to trj 1 to pitch. "When I say the body should be I ready I mean particularly that the hand and fingers should be hardened to withstand the strain of properlv gripping a ball This is not guess work with me; 1 figured it out from uiv own experience Back in 1912 when I suf fered from apinal trouble I wa out of the game for a long time. Various lit I tie experin. I - jP'3 j that the trainmz of lhe ger muscles was n IRilJU been sadly neglected. 1 ENCOURAGED MARflB"--v "In 1915 I took hold H quard v hn hp was c-oSjB ilisii.-arteneil 1 Am nrfaBum have my system juiklBsi with Lkis'oii, declares 'oflK, 't;- I ck Coombs has a gnitH derful ptichinc stunufMhhl high wtih the scleotitis' b.iseball in tie rnaK 'Jn. snme of 'JB rj,-., I tn'wind iheory but ihose P'jB'' a had the pleasure of gftK irom him swear by fc jS I . r i r.-'ir ' ;r5 tli,- Tietroit staff fc . nmbeiu y ;k J'v. speaks In clowin? ternlB, , folFJ.e, V.hlr' . '-' M.., without doublt one pitchers baseball cer "H(an 10 '" J'-'SsS, oiira?eo!j3 "W'ijft .. .. pp d on a rubber moOM |