Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-10
HAL CHASE THROWS
 WITH HIS FOREARM Reason for Speed With Which He Shoots the Ball Over to Third,

After carefully watching Hal Chase play number of games the learned doctor had something to say. His in structions had been to take few hours in the genial sunshine and give his opinion as to why Chase has a little on some other first basemen as phys ica1 machine
 It is more than probable that the learned doctor never would have en- tered upon such an errand had 1t not been that another doctor insisted that Chase had ''ioesening of the elbow joint or something of the sort-the phrase being well disguised with poly cromic Latin wOrds-Which gave him an advantage over his fellows.
 The learned doctor sceffed when he heard it and pleaded for time to study the subject.
 Its as easy as rolling eggs down the White House hill" said the learned doctor, when ne sat down to talk about it. There isn't any freak exhibit of muscles in Chase's throwing arm. The other chap may have thought so, but he was travelling further into science than the subject warrants. Chase throws with his forearm. That's all there is to it. How many are there here who can throw with their fore arm ?'
 Some of the first basemen; in fact, most of thenl," continued ehe speaker,
 use tleli 1OIodTin Il I1ltlS, put OO all the pushing with their shoulder muf c1es. It costs them seconds more to throw than 1t does Chase. He picks up the ball from the ground. tilts it over with his forearm, and the first thing that the runner knows near third base the ball is on him. If he happens to be d fairly fast runner he may won der how it came over so rapidly, but 1t was due to the fact that Chase did not have to hoist the ball over his head before he could get it started. In oth- CT words. it's just like running an ele- vator up three stories instead of six stories to accomplish the same result
 If there are any fans who have won dered why the ball happens to fit around so expeditiously when Chase is trying to make an infield play, per hapS they will understand it better after reading the theory of the learned doctor.
 Now, what would like to find out said the Inquisitive Bookworrn, t-is whether it would be possible for other first basemen than Chase to acquire this same skiIl-if me may call it skill.''
 We'll said the learned doctor, with deliberation and some hesitar.ey, T reckon that I would better answer that with a rnightn't. All elbow joints are not built alike All ball players do not crook their arms alike to tuICW- All players u0 HoI pOSSSSS the same muscular power and there are those who have to put a heap of swing into their motion to be sure that the ball will carry as far as they would like to have it. Probably !. it would not do any hurt to all players to try to throw like Chase, but while the general pattern of the arm has been well defined by nature. there are varieties of arms, just as there are of noses. Chase could hold the upper part of his arm rigid and throw far theF than the average ball player who attempted the same thing. At lea ast that is my theory Of the matter, taking an offhand look The spectator who sits in the stand and watches the pro- fessiona1s play growls because one man doesn't play the same as another. I wonder if he ever stops to think that no two men eat the same way and that no two sign their names the same way. Nature favors athletes and if