Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-13
LEFT HAND IN SPORTS.
Persons So Equipped Ask No Favors
 of Right Handlers.

Whether left handed persons in va nous athletic accomplishments. dc ] things unusually well or whether they merely attract attention to their proficiency because they are left handed, it is nevertheless a fact thai the left handlers do not suffer by comparison with right handlers They are mole numerous ill baseball than Tn any other sport, and in baseball more numerous as pitchers. As pitch CTS they are too numerous to attract any undue attention and while it is saId of them that they do not last as long as right handlers, they are every sbIt as effective while they are at it. To this day the wonderful drop ball or Tom Ramsey. the onetime Louis Nlile soulhpaW, IS referred to as the most mystifying Of deliveries Hahn, Breltenste1n, Kilroy, Shaw, Waddell, Plank, Baldwin, Weimer, TanlaehiIl, Doheny, Newton Weyburg, Piatt and others too numerous to mention were or are first class pitchers, able to make constant trouble for otherwise strong batters.
 In the irfield left handed ttlrowers have been very Scarce, and even more So behind the bat, while left handed battefs are plentiful Not a few naturally right hand hitters bat from the other side of the plate in order to save the distance in summing to first base. flick Carpenter. in his day d star third baseman. was a left hand Cd throWer, and so was Hulen, the former Philadelphia shortstop, and Hannivan, who played third base for Brooklyn- It comes q bit awkward for a left handed thrower in the in held-eXcept at first base-and they are not desirable. chiefly because not so handy al making a double play. Tho left handed first baseman, how ever, by virtue of his anatomical ten deney, can send off d throw to the other infielders with more despatch than his right handed contenporar- ies. Penney and Beekley are left handlers, the former being especially gifted at throwing runner out at second base, and then getting back to first for the return throw.
 Willie Keeler was a left handed third haseman, but shifted to the outfield, and the fact that he propels the horse ifues WILL HIS poIG WllS uOoS not make him any the less 8 long, quick and ac- curate throWer. KeeIer also bats left handed, and he is the most scientific of batsmeD. George Van HaItren and Jimmy Ryan are other left handed out tielders, and as good as they come at throwing. The outfieId is not llandi- capped i'll this way as the infielder is, for another thing charged against the left handed infielder is that he always throws q curve hall. which is bother some for the recipient in the short in, field distances
 Men who do things with their left leg instead of the right are much scarcer than left handlers. Yet there have been few notable cases of left leg excellence. Malcolm Mcbride, cap tain of the Yale football team in 1899, and q 4punter of tremendous distances, kicked. the pigskin with his left foot One of his faults was kicking so low once in while, but that fault has ex- tended to kickers who drove the ball with the starboard foot. Another ex- pert with the left leg is Peter O'Connor of Ireland the champion broad jumper of the world O'Connor rises from the left leg as he begins his flight through space. Charles Chadwick, the old Yale