The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-25
BASEBALL FROM
 ENGLISH VIEWPOINT


 Baseball players during the season practice three hours a day with, as the French books says, ossiduity. They practice helding with special care~and
 SS5ls ss nRnds Ss tae S of inverted boxing gloves. but seldom remain a season m e shape that Is rec ognizable as hand.
 ingenious conffixanee. A string. is' the siSasa height ssfGa Of an axsrsss car On this psser Snns ss sHSS s Elsh .pod Sols n n his hand foot or so in feenf of his ear. draws 1t back opposite to his ear, and. then fires 1t along the string. The point ls hand far behind the head in throwing, which loses time. Another point is to learn to flick the hand straight down the line of aim: & For If ttcn the hand plfgs tSs string and refuses to fly along 1t. This idea may be of some value to would be Jessops. should think the Glou- baiier ]. would like to ses the base baller who can throW quicker or stralghter. He would fetch 2 price.
 'The English batsmen made no Show show cry. Only K. O. Goldie. of Hussex. a young soldier with confidence, only eQuaied by his accuracy of eye. could t aEach side has, a q coach. who stands, uueRsphone at mouth, just outside the playing area. His duty is to coach the batting side. about running. But he has a task: for the moment his advice is required, gentlemen retained by the drown SS s his words. Thsse rstsisers are opponents> and thFoW bottles at them. and even throw fashes into theIr eyes with pieces of locking. glass"
 Followers of association football, or eeaaa n.,gsna t. al AA iNFA Q a m af the reasons for the lack of public in- terest in the old English game the failure of American scrfbes to learn the vernscIisr Sf the lSs spSorf; .h says s1,a an Is not described in the same way as on the other side. and as a result the general public is not given an insight
 It would probably be interesting. to soccer players to know how sporting experts in England look upon baseball.
 better and .;ol far Ton,Sr ,Srs poRIlar s1H game few startling and wholly original lines from the pen of Charles Burgess Fry. one of the foremost authorities on It appears. for instance. that the -basebalI pitcher, or as we should say, bowler. iS even more valuable than an inside forward in association football: Everten. said to be i.eo0 pounds (ss.- dell (meAning Rube WaddeIls or what ever his exact name lsl,. changes teams for 5000 pounds (S15, ,000)s, odd.
 Tn America baseball combinations are not. called clubs. but syndlcates- which is at least frank. And these syndicates buy and sell their players even more freely than our own foot ball clubs do. A frst-ciass pitcher Is
 SAll decent pitchers can make the ball curl in the air most notablei there Is the curve. which yse should call In cricket the swerve from the of; the out curve. or swerve from the leg, and down curve, or duck!
 "The baseball pitcher can compass much more exaggerated curves than our bowlers. because they do not bowl, SSie SSi 'I't point about the pitchers is. that they combine their swerYe with ex- treme accuracy, for they send every ball dead over a plate about q foot wide. At our bowling they are no good Some of them tiled to bowl to he English cricketers. and made no
 1t is rather interesting to know that whereas in our cricket the prob lem is to bring the batsman down to |fhe level of the bowler, In baseball 1t is exactly opp posite; if the strikers do not make enough runs. the pitcher is sIgnally on top. .