Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-08-27

been sidered the strongest club heretofore.
Billy Mclean, Of Philadelphia, umpired.
The manager of tho female mines in
Philadelphia has written here for date.
The part of the score of the game on
Friday between the Altoonas and Iron
sides, which gave the playing Of the latter,
was published with several errors. It is
but just to say that the score was furnished
correctly to the paper and the responsi.
bility of the errors lies in no way upon
any member of the clubs or any outside
parties, the mistakes having occurred put
ting the score in type.
The Steelton club must be q very,poor
one, for they allowed the York nine to
beat them by the score of 80 to Z on Sat :
urday.
Manager Myers, of the Ironsides, is in
receipt of a postal card from the Bridge
ton, n. j., to the effect that the club will
not play here on Thursday next, as it has
disbanded.
The games played Saturday resulted as
follows: At Philadelphia New York 5,
Philadelphia q; Virginia 9,August Flower
l.; Hartville 10. Manayunk 4; Werntz 10,
Mantua Q; Detroit Cleveland 8. Detroit
1; Chicago: Buffalo IA, Chicago 1S ;
Providence Boston 8, Providence 2;
Pittsburg st. Louis 8. Allegheny 7;
Baltimore Baltimore 13, Eclipse 10; New
York Columbus 6, Metropolitan 2; Brook.
lyn: Brooklyn Is, Anthracite 6; Trenton
GA innings) Trenton II, Harrisburg 12 ;
At Millville: Millville 8, Camden z Mana.
yunk Active of Reading 80, Active of
Manayunk 13; Hillsdale of the Falls of
Schuvlkill 8; Manayunk 0.
A Local Explanation of tho Curved Ball
EDITORS INTELLIGENcER.-I think
have penetrated the mystery fethe
curved ball, for which l am mainly in.
debted to Lieut.. ]. F. Meigs, of the U. s,
navy, with whom have had some cor
respondence growing out of the recent ex-
pertinent here.
MY original idea was that the pitcher
gave the ball q rotary motion, by which
the upper part of tho ball turned from
right to left and the lower part from left
to right, the axis of motion extending
horizontally in the direction of its flight.
This now seems to be quite mistake.
The pitcher instead gives the ball in
addition to its forward motion q spinning
motion, the axis of such motion being per.
pendicular or at right angles to the line of
flight. The right side of the ball moves
forward in this spin and the left side back.
ward, Just the reverse of the movement
of the ordinary top in spinning. 1t follows
from this movement that the right for ward
portion of the ball will have not only the
friction or resistance of the air from its
forward motion, but in addition the fric.
tion resulting from the forward movement
of its surface in the spin which it is maxi
ing while tho left front portion will have
less than it's half of the friction or resist.
ance, because its surface moves back from
the resisting air in the spinning m movement.
The friction of the air incident to the
spinning motion being added to the re-
sistance on the right side of the ball and
deducted from that on the left side, it
follows from we'll known law that all
moving bodies tend toward the point of
least resistance and that the ball is grad
ually pushed over to the left.
From this theory the deduction is easy,
that spinning top if rapidly moved for
ward upon hard surface, would describe
a curve to the right. This experiment 1
have had no opportunity to try but have
no doubt of its correctness. 1t also follows
that il the pitcher can give the ball the
contrary spin, it would curve to the right,
though it is said only left handed men can
do this. The amount of curvature in
either case depends upon the force of the
spin, and the nearness to right angle that
the axis of motion forms to the line of
flight.
1 will leave the down curve and the up
curve for others to discuss and the double
curve or "snake like movement" of the
ball for the Nep Era which alone discOv-
cred it in our recent Lancaster experiment.
R. j. Houston.
Tho Game at rat. Joy.
In their first match game of baseball at
Mount Joy the Clipper club of Harrisburg
defeated the Dauntless by score of II to
8. The game was interesting and every
body expected repetition when the
clubs would meet again. They met
on Saturday afternoon and the
contest disappointed the large crowd
that saw the game. There was too much
loose playing on both sides. BY several
overthrows at critical points of the game
the visiting team was enabled to score 20
fewer than six runs. At the bat the home
nine did some hard hitting SURPRISING any
thing they did this season. Drauby and
Sourbeer were punished severely, while
Primrose, their crack pitcher, was batted
in all directions. The last two innings, the
only time he pitched, Zeller, Pyle and
Baker each made two base hit, and
Mooney struck oDe fOr three base. 1t was
their exceptionally good batting that won
bo cvoD,o 20 tho oooco