Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-02-09
NEW MACHINE TO
DEVELOP BATTERS.
St. Louis Man Has Invention
That Will Work
Wonders.
NE WILL Be GIVEN A CHANCE.
Ted Kennedy Claims he Can Improve
A Teams Batting at Least Twenty
Five Per Cent
VIII wonders never cease!
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VIII wonders never cease!
Here is the very latest.
we are to have machlne-made baseball
players.
Instead Of the heretofore handmade
artist machine will be used TO develop
his batting eye, and after he has served
under the machine-teacher for certain
perlod he will graduate with the title Of
BB.-bachelor Of baseball--tacked onto
his cognomen. The Salt Lake director
should send for this machine instantly. 1t
may accomplish wonders for the local
bunch OF ball tossers The ST. Louis
Browns are going to give the machine a
chance. At least such Is the announce
ment Of Secy. Hedges OF that club, The
inventor Is Ted Kennedy, an ex-ball play
er OF considerable reputation. For some
time he has been conducting a baseball
school in South ST. Louis with some sue
cess, Recently he approached Mr.. Hedges
The latter listened patiently to tho
scheme and was finally converted to the
idea and will give the contrivance trial
this spring. Here Is what Hedges Is
quoted as saying ancnt the new Idea
III Kennedy can do anything TO make
my men bat, then he can have almost
anything the Browns own.
with three or four 800 hitters on the
team, the Browns are good enough to
win In any company, Kennedy has the
DRY that seems sound
"0f course, / have made no contract
with him, but | will let him try 1t out
on the men. II II is successful. all right;
Kennedy can get customers In the
Browns"
Kennedy explains his theories as FOL.
lows
give me a team OF good material and
will improve II y per cent In individual
and team effectiveness
That is low estimate. ] do not claim
10 make material, but what | do try 10
do is to bring out all there is In the
material before me.
Take the Browns who Mr.. Hedges
says will get first whaok at my machine.
There Is material to work on. Heldrick.
Hemphil Hlll and others are all strong
and fast They are natural ball players.
hut the best In them has not been brought
out They have learned baseball as some
II out Their Information Is good as far
as II goes, but polished up, It can be
improved materially.
For batting training | have a machine.
il Is pitching machine, something bad
ly needed for practise work II will
lEroN a Dat az varying speeds, with any
one OF the fundamental curves or shoots
and will deliver 1t accurately.
This machine will furnish n tlreless
pitcher for the practise OF batting This
has been long felt want, and II II had
no other virtue, the machine would BIO
valuable on that account.
But. better stlll this machine can
throw ball at higher rate OF speed
than Is possible for pitcher TO de-
liver t. What IL the consequence? When
the bail player who has been working for
a month against the high velocity from
The machine, then faces pitcher, he
finds the ball delivered by human agency
much slower and easier to hit His eye
Is faster and his swing OF the bat sharp
er and more vicious.
IT Is as though the batter OF today
were TO go against a minor Lacquer OF
low grade
Not only that, but what would you
say II could teach a batter TO tell the
moment the pitcher swings his arm what
klnd OF a ball IL coming TO the plate2
~ can do II, and can teach others 10
90 H. II was young again, and had
inc physical endurance, | could show IN
an actual game just what scientific train
ing VIII 40 for player | used to be
good pitcher. once, You don't have 10
take my word for Il; YOU find the rec.
ords say that there are so MANY things
about baseball that ball PLAYERS dom
Know that II Ia really wonder the scien-
tlilc phase Of the game has not been TAX
en- Up before.
Take the pitcher. ANY lad with tho
physique can become pitcher OF rare