The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-01-19

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 len of the LanguorOus but Get There
 Method, and EIDerfeId of the Swift
 Slam-AIsO Laioic, Wagner and Many
 Others.
 There are as many kinds of throw CTS as there are ball players-easy, graceful, awkward, strong, deliberate. tast, snap throwers, long swing throWers-but whatever may be the styles of the different infielders in the professional ranks, they one and all have the same purpose in view, to get the ball to the base ahead of the run ner. The style doesn't matter if the get there is accomplished Results count, not form. All there is to form" Is individual. That cant expression. in so for as it pertains to set or recog- nlzed standard style, has blessed base ball by it's absence. The batter who humps himself like camel hits the ball as hard and often as the man With the most graceful position, and the throWer who is angular as a hat rack has as many assists as he who propels the ball with the smoothest of motions.
 There's Bill Dahlen, for instance. Dahlen is not pretty thrower. He lets go with a side arm and rather un- gainly motion, but he is one of the most reliable throwers in the big leagues. He doesn't seem to care whether he gets the ball to first base in time or not. Whether the runner De fast or slow, Bill never is hurried, and in his ungainly way he covers a vast amount of ground; and whether making a deep or short throw, whether coming straight in on a ground ball or going for it to the right or the left, he is equally prof. clent in making an accurate throw. His throws look likR lazy lobs, but in reality Dahlen is beautiful judge of distance and times his throws with wonderful exactness.
 When it comes to a thrower whose method is treat to the eye for It's grace, speed and unerring air line flight, Harry Steinfeldt, the third baseman of the Chicago clubs, is an accomplished actor. He has pow erful arm and while lie makes his share of wild throws there is beautiful harmonizing of lift and speed to his filings. The ball goes with a bullet like fervor which makes even Stein- feldt's wild throws attractive He is the prettiest thrower from the third corner We have had since Billy Nash's time. Another attractive thrower is Jimmy Collins of the Boston Ameri- cans. His throws do not go with the Whizzing flight of Steinfeldt's, but he is an easier and more graceful throw CT. Nobody ever was Collins equal in natural grace. From the moment he goes after a ball-up in the air or scooping a difficult bunt-all of Col lins' muscles and movements are in perfect harfony. His boise is a pie ture.
 A thrower of the Dahlen type is George Davis of the Chicago White Sox. Davis style is more useful than ornamental. He, too, is side wheel CT. He suggests the numbering rather than the nimbe, but makes no false movements and Is one of the very best judges in knowing whether or not there is time to retire the runner If he doesn't throw it is pretty good bet ting that the runner couldn't have been thrown out. He is not a fast thrower, but timely, because he loses so little time between pickup and hurl.
 Hal Chase, the brilliant young first baseman of the New York Americans, has marked mannerism in his throwing. It is a peculiar lift of the , ball to point just over and close to the left shoulder. There is an almost imperceptible hitch or break in the movement of the arm just before the ball Is thrown, then the hand shoots forward just past the ear. This for ward movement is short but accom- plishes as much as one of Fltzsim- mons short arm jolts. The ball trav- els with great peed, particularly if it is going home or to third base. When necessary Chase can lob the ball over a base runner who is directly in the path, and put it into the awaiting shortstop's hands in time to nip his man. There is a magnetism and un- restrained grace in Chase's play that no other player quite possesses. Ap- parently he never is still, but loses naught by his want of repose.
 The only Lajoie throws, as he does everything else on the ball field in an indifferent, careless manner. He is the personif1cation of careless, supple grace. There is rather wide and free sweep of the arm, but with the movement so well attuned to the re- quirement of the occasion that it has the ease of everything else Laioie does. If he ever is hurried he never shows it. He is symmetrical in build and in movement.
 Quite different in build is Lhioe's great rival in popular opinion as to whois the best ball player in the coun- try. Dutch Wagner is less symmetri- cal than massive Massive though he Is, he is boundless in his activity. When it comes to throwing the Dutchman can vary his style, just as he can for batting. Sometimes he losses the ball-merely floats it over to the first bag, as if to show his con tempt for the speed of the runner He knows WhdL ne IS aOOuI when ne d0eS this, for he seldom fails to time the throw correctly Sometimes, when the time is short, his arm describes a sweeping arc and then he cuts loose with great force. Like Dahlen, he is good at deep throws, and, also like the New York National shortstop, he can throw we'll with feet or body in awk- ward nnsitions. Whether his feet be