Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-06-13

hue. The score:
Rockford .......0O00 O0O00-1 6 6
Joliet ..........OOOO OOOO11-2 S 1
Acknowledgements and Reading;
Owens and Stark.
James DarneII Umpire.
EX-Chief of Police James Il. Darnell
left this morning for Rockford to of
| ficiate as umpire in the place of TruX
ell, resigned. Farnham will be kept
in Davenport. The new member of
the staff has the nerve and the head
and knows all about the game, being
| an old ball player himself. He ought
To make good, though he is against
tough proposition to begin with.
Explaining the assessment of $50
that has been levied against each
team in the league to help support
the Joliet team while on the road,
President Sexton states that this
course had to be rcsorted to as the
reserve fund consisting Of 10 per cent
of the gate receipts from all the
games was not sufficient To meet the
need for funds to pay the salaries of
the members of the team. Had this
course. not been adopted the team
could not have been kept together.
Box Philosophy.
In speaking of the mystery of the
curve ball, Clark Griffith. Of the New
York American league team, remark
ed to a group of ball players: "Al the
pictures and diagrams that were ever
printed won't show an amateur how
to throw curve or how to pitch eff
fectively. As a matter OF fact, nearly
all the curves are thrown with the
bali caught i'm just about the same
old way-with the thumb and first
two fingers. The shoots are only ac-
quired from practice of the teachings
of an old pitcher. and are gained by
a hard or easy twist to wrist or arm.
by the different swings with which
the arm can be brought over the
shoulder and the angles at which the
ball is delivered"
Different pitchers said Jack
Chesbro, have to use entirely differ
ent curves, owing to the difference in
their sizes. \ man feet will not
| throw the ball bit like a man feet
). And there are good pitchers of all
sizes" THE control and the height
at which the ball is kept" said Grit
fifth. ''have a great deal to do with a
pitchers success" Keep them away
from the waist line" broke in Ches-
bro, land your chances of fooling
them is good. Nearly all batsmen can
swing hard and straight on a ball
coming in waist high" ~ tall man
like Willis, for example" said jess"
Tannehill. "loves to tower over you
and send them down with a swoop.
No, he doesn't throw what is gener-
ally called n drop ball, and which is
very tough on the arm. His shoot
comes down at you with n sharper
slant than drop, and is just as eff
fective, but he gets it simply by vir-
tue of his great height.
Curves have their uses" said Tan
nehill, but the man who gets them
across and a little to one side of the
plate center and keeps them high or
low. according TO his batsman, is the
boy who wins. Al Maui stuck in the
game a long time with nothing but
control and a high dinky fioater."
"Ad Bumbert never had anything
much but control" said Griffith, "but
he was game-winner."
Tannehll said: "'The pitcher who
can bat helps himself to many
game. 1t makes a load of difference
in a team whether il has eight men
likely to hit the ball or nine
Big Scores Everywhere.
To the student the baseball page
of yesterdays exhibitions all over the
country furnished food for reflec-
ton. Everywhere the players seem
.. hn i'll
and big scores were the rule. Teams
that had been playing tight. low score
games turned in and welted the ball
and piled up runs galore. Not only
in the Three-Eye leai ne. where the
games at this city and Dubuque re-
suited in such slaughtering of the
pitchers, but in the other leagues as
well. The Chicago Nationals were
beaten by Philadelphia IL to 5, and