The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-10-20
Washington Star Proves Hin
Right to Title of Smoh
Artist in Trial Agains
Nap Rucker of Brooklyn
PLAYERS DISCUSS
VARIOUS HURLERs
Joe Wood May Have Just a.
Much as Johnson, Clyde
Engle Declares But He Ger
tainly Has No More
BY w. J. MaeHEATH.


NEW YORK. oct. 1s,-Science hA1
struck at last TO the very best OF tli
baseball profession. ScientiflcaIITk
speaking. this scientific game has bee
placed upon a plane with the mort
intricate science. No longer will otH
BIZ Irwin, with his water glass III
celluloid bali demonstrations OF tI3S
| spitball for the edification of collenU
professions, be In order. No lonn11
will Scout Arthur Irwin bs able ~
hoodwink unsuspecting Yankee rOOkt4
with wonderful tales OF the speed 61
Amos Rusie. Science has made dill
| day and generation OF scepticism. W1
| have TO be shown.
And lt is now. possible, taI get Il On
absolutely accurate line on a jbaseba5k
| players ability in all matters Der
tanning 10 his physical horse pewes2
| The first test was made recently aE&
bridgeport, Conn, in the factory Of
well-known- gun frn1. W alter .5b1ssxs
son, the crack pitcher Of the Waxh%
| ington team. and Nap Rucker, TIL
fork hand speed boy OF the iBrookiy
| Dodgers, Were the pioneers OF scfem4
tif'c exploitation. That proved vefy
(
! culat0 a players propeliing power
! Johnson also established conclusiv1@
| iy that he Is the speedier hnrler 6o&#
he propelled ball many feet faato4
! per second than did the illustriou&
southpaw- At distance of tweuyyS
/, FIVE feet Johnsons pitch travels ut 6
rate OF at least i25 feet per seconds
and in many instances. doubtIe~
more Rucker, who is renowned aG#
O "a ,xS4
in velocity by ten feet per second
Clark Griffith's standby. JohnsOnS
without half trying. showed that h1
was Fuckers master in speed, ANIL
he stands ready to accept any chaIM8
lenge for the championship he won
Joe Wood. Of the Boston Red yS0xe
preferred
The tests of speed of these iftu9~3
trious pitchers was made with an aHa3
pliarice used to measure the velocft14|
OF the projectibies from firearms. Il
is simple enough arrangement, III
which electricity figures very promx$
nentlv
Across a disc shaped opening a11
stretched a number of lightly charGA1
electric wires so fine that the breaN
ing of them expands but an jntinitt4
maily small portion of the velocity
thrown baseball Five feet behin
these wires is steel plate, alt
charged. The bali is hurled into
opening. The exact time from
breaking OF a wire until the bac1%
ground is hit is registered. BY CO.
Iculating the distance of five feet wtS
the fractional second consumed
traversing it, the happy result Is a9M
rived at Expert gunner declare IT,
the mechanism Is so finely arranAy
that calculations may be made IN
fractional feet per second WksMM
fore there need be no more arxumGMS
las 10 speed Of pitchers. Let thu
show in a tussle with this latest IT,
chine.
! The gun factories should now 1q6z
an alliance with the baseball M
mates IL the word of any scoq
should be doubted as to the prou1
of new material the mogul could tOM
new with the prospect and the 60
| to the testing machine 1t would -
handy place to shoot the scout
rocky fell down.
Speed of course. is not everyfn4
to the game That fact developer
the test Walter Johnson had y g.
deal more difficulty in hitting
bulls eye than did Rucker. Il 81
four pegs by Johnson TO find tne r
| Rucker was more fortunate on
first attempt. but after that had t.
or less difficulty. Rucker was sAM
fed that he had developed the IT,
|of which he Is capable. Here'4
tip TO summer resort amusement
moters frequented by the baSN4N.
profession. A speed testing de41
would be played off the boards.
There is absolutely no way to Ju
sneed by the eye alone Bail pI9
4 all disagree on this point. The 49,
lean league believes that JohnnQM
l.tha fastest thrower In the cor
They should know for they see an8
OF him during o campaign. Huts
the other hand the Giants. who
Just played casually against all
are divided in opinion among JOhn4
I. Wood and Bender. 81
This interesting phase OF the
| uatfop came up for a great da4
discussion on the special car 04
Giants on the way to Boston aftak
first game Of the worlds series
mo sucker in the world eyeN
the speed Of this guy. Woods
Josh Devore. SAY, he threw
balls at me that shot by my1luN
size of buckshot All ] sag ~
they sung past was iittis oly
white.H
.Can that kind Of chatter
big Chief Meyers You
| your chest simply because yQM%
!. up that hrst game on Bende
year in the ninth inning. & I4&
|. tell you that Wood never shm
smoke at that old indian. M4M
: | lots OF speed. but Bender'aSkM
haby I'VE hit against Johz
Nobody ever did have the aue4
der showed u In that first
, year. and IL you hadn't had N4
/. in the water bucket, trying akeS
when the hall hit your k&$
|. 4 admit NJ much. ca
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