The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-05-24
MIDDLEBURY BOASTS
A GREAT PITCHER
In Henry Edward Awkward Vermont
College Has an Ambidextrous
Twirler

BOSTON, May % Middlebury
college, says the Boston Post, boasts
of a real ambidextrous twirler
The singular fact that from the car
hest days of his youth Henry Edward
Awkward had twirled with both arms.
without knowing which was his natur
al throwing arm, only adds interest to
the history of this clever collegiate
box artist.
Born in Ludlow, VT, May Is, 1891,
Henry Edward Awkward first attracted
attention while 4 member of the Black
River academy team, where he was
the star boxman for the three years
previous to his entering MiddIebury
While a member of the academy team
he frequently pitched three or four
games a week, alternating, one day
twirling right handed and the follow
ing day sending up a pOrtside assign
ment. During his last year at Black
River academy he won Is out of IA
games.
Perhaps his most remarkable per
Torrance, and the one which stamps
him as q star performer, took place
last summer, when as member of
the Rutland team, he pitched six full
games in one week, and by working
first with his left arm and then with
his right, he won five and lost one.
He faced the Proctor team on Monday
and twirled left-handed, applying the
whitewash to the tune Of / to 0.
He was sent in again on Tuesday
/ after the scalps of the West Rutland
/ team, and after being touched up
/ pretty lively with his southpaw de-
4 livery turned around right handed and
won by the score of IL to 4. The next
day he defeated the same team, and in
this contest he went the entire dis
tance right handed, winning by .hc
score of ) to 0. !.
With the Proctor team as an oppo-
nent on Tuesday he pitched one in
ming left and the next right, and after
a stubborn uphill fight, succeeded in
pulling off his fourth successive vic
tory of the week. He was defeated en-
Friday by the Proctorsville team, the
final count being , to ,, but on Sat
urdav he came back strong against
the same team, using his right hand
delivery throughout the full nine in
nings. having realized that the Proc
torsville batters had a peculiar liking
for his port-side shoots, which he had
sent up on the day previous. The
final score of the sixth and last game
was . to 0.
Famed First Ten Men.
, In his first college game Awkward
} was sent in against Union college al
Schenectady, n. Y, on April % OF
J this wear and he famed the first 10
: men that faced him, using his right
arm throughout the entire game, win
ming by the one-sided score of to ).
/ After the fifth inning in this game
Awkward wanted to pitch left-hande'
as his right arm was troubling him
but Coach Sammy Mureh the New
England league player, would not al
low him, as he intended to send hin
in against an opponent two days late
: and he wanted him to save his lef
arm for this emergency.
e From a mechanical standpoint Ayl
: ward pitches a much speedier ball witt
!. his right arm than with his left, blu
t This best shoots emanate from he lief
e but his best shoots emanate from tn
t left side, consequently he is in a guam
V Diary as to what arm to use in a
actual contest He has fairly goo
cross-fire on his right side in additio
to splendid control, while up his lef
: he has Undertaking out-drop wit
. a nasty hop.
He rarely if ever uses glove i
actual competition and as result
+ few stolen bases are registered agains
e his battery mates, for by keeping til
d base runners guessing he keeps thei
It close to the bag. Time and time agai
e the man on the bases thinking he wa
about to deliver the ball has been III
ceived into an attempted steal an
ct caught yards off base.
When trying to account for his an