Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-06-13
ENFIELD THROWERS.
Different Styles of the Big League
 Baseball Players.


 CTS as there are ball players-easy,
 graceful, awkward, strong, deliber-
 ate, fast, 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 runner. The style doesn't mat ter if the get there is accomplished.
 Results count, not form. All there is to form is individual. That cant expression, in so far as it pertains to set or recognized standard style, has blessed baseball by its ab- sence. The batter who humps him. self like a camel hits the ball as hard and often as the man with the most graceful position, and the thrower who is as angular as hat rack has as many assists as he who propels the ball with the smoothest of motions.
 There's Bill Dahlen of the Bos- ton Nationals, for instance. Dahlen is not a pretty thrower. He lets go with a side arm and rather ungain- ly 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 he fast or slow. Bill never is hurried. and in his ungainly way he covers 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 left, he Is equally proficient in making an accurate throw. His throws look like lazy jobs. but in reality Dahlen is a 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 Ma tionals, is an accomplished actor. He has a powerful arm, and. while he makes his share of wild throws. there is beautiful harmonizing of lift and speed 10 his filings. The ball goes with bullet-like fervor which makes even Steinfeldt's wild throws attractive. Another attrac- tive .lrower is Jimmy Collins of the Philadelphia Americans. His throws do not go win the whizzing flight of Steinfeldt's. but he Is an easier and more graceful thrower. Nobody ever was Collins equal in natural grace. From the moment he goes after a ball. up in the air or scooping a dlfficuIt bunt, all of Collins muscles and movements are in perfect harmony.
 Another splendid thrower Is George Davis of the Chicago White Sox. Davis style is more useful than ornamental. He. too. is a side ] wheeler. He suggests the lumber ing rather than the nimble, but | makes no false movements and $ one of the very best judges in knowing whether or nos there is | time to retire the runner. If he doesn't throw. 1t is pretty good | betting that the runner couldn't i have been thrown out.
 Hal Chase. the brilliant young first haseman of the New York l Americans. has a marked manner ism In his throwing It Is a pecu- i liar lift of the ball to a point just l over and close to the left shoulder There is an almost imperceptihle hi.ch or break in the movement of the arm just before the hall Is thrown: then the hand shoots for ward just past the ear. This for ward movement Is short. but ac- as much as one of Tom my Burns sort arm jolts. The ball travels with great speed. particular ly If 1t is going home or to third base.
 The only Lajoie throws. as he does everything else on the baD field. in an indifferent. careless manner. He is the personifcation of careless. supple grace. There is a rather wide and free sweep of the arra. but with the movement so well a-tuned 10 the requirement of he occasion that it has the ease Of everything else Laioie does. If he sver Is hurried he never shows it He Is symmetrical in build and la 
 Quite different in build is Lajoie's zrest rival in popular opinion as to Tho is the bes; ball player in the ,oantry- Du.eh Wagner Is less sym netriczl than massive Massive houEh he is. he Is bundles in his activity When it comes to throw- ng. the Dutehrzn can vary his tyIe. inst as he can for batting scnetimes ke tcssex h= h4li-mere- F floats U over to the srtt hsx zs ff