The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-01-31
GALASk| HAS A NENgURVE
FORMER NORFOLK PITCHER
STARTLES eAsEBALLDoM
THE BANANA PEEL" CURVE
Galaski, Who Came to Norfolk From
Humphrey and Won Fame Here,
Later Going East, Has Achieved New
Renown in This Discovery.


Later Going East, Has Achieved New
Renown in This Discovery.
Bood.bye to the common spit ball,
puzzlingly popular In its brief day.
The banana peel ball Is the latest a
spitless spit ball that makes the orig
inal spit proposition look like the
shortest distance between two points.
II Is n north Nebraska boy, a for
mer Norfolk pitcher, who Is credited
with the new delivery. Joe Galaski,
the athlete who Is finding fame in the
new ball. played with Norfolk a few
years ago. He came originally from
Humphrey but for season held down
the pitchers box for Norfolk's pro.
fessional nine. He has played over
north Nebraska. GalasN has been
working In the New York state league
OF Galaski the man with the new
curve, the Chicago American says:
Maurice Myers, manager of the 1907
Kalamazoo South Michigan League
baseball team umpired a post-season
game in Albany, n. Y. and 1t was
there he unearthed the very latest
thing in base ball-the banana peel
ball.
He tells of it as follows:
81 worked most of the game back of
the pitcher and was particularly struck
with the remarkable spitball of one of
them - GalasN by name - who had
been working in the New York State
league. The curve had fully foot of
break. I admired it awhile then hap
pened to think that | hadn't seen Ga
laski moisten his fingers once.
watched him carefully then asked him
how he did 1t.
1.-The ball you see,' says Galaski,
is my own particular invention-the
sptless pitter'
Then he winked and put the fin
gers of his throwing hand into his hip
pocket for q moment. Without further
ado he threw the ball and the batter
couldn't have hit it with a tennis
racquet.
After the game Galaski offered an
explanation. 1t seems that he always
buys a banana and eats it on his way
to the grounds. Instead Of throwing
the peeling away he puts it into his
hip pocket. When he wants to lubri-
cate his fingers he rubs them on the
banana peel. The result, | am quail
fed to state, Is just as battling as the
regulation saliva article. and has the
added advantage of fooling the batter
all the more through the fact that the
absence of expectoration throws him
off his guard against the delivery that
the pitcher is actually using. They
tell me the league slipped up on that
banana peel ball last season"
Joe Galaski played with Norfolk
when the Wilkinsons were here. He
is a big, good natured, strong-armed
Polander-and he's a real baseball
pitcher.
Galaski was in Norfolk a year ags
last summer visiting old friends here
His parents still live at Humphrey.
Madison Star-Mail Last Saturday
evening the basket ball team of the
Stanton high school were in the city
with blood in their eyes to do up the
basket ball team of this city at the
opera house. The game was the mos
interesting ever seen in Madison ant
when one time keeper called the game
to a close the score was 26 to 81 in
favor of Stanton but on closer exam
ination it was found that they had Il
seconds more to play in which Madi
son threw one field goal which made
the score % to q in favor Of Madison
A very large crowd was In attendance