Norwich bulletin., 1913-03-07
SOME REAL WILD MEN
Twiriers Whose Speed and Uncertain.
 ty Make Them Terrors to Ratsnnen.

The wild man has made his mark in baseball in more ways than enc, and many batsmen will testify to this as a living fact, not alone from memory but by certain marks and indentations on certain parts of their anatomy. Can vouch for this statement, that all wild men are not in Africa? Many wild men have cut a wide swath in base ball history, and their names will live as long as the game. Hundreds of batsmen will have a spot in their mem the chap hat don't know how, or the chap that ddn't know how. or what course the ball would travel after leaving his hand.
 That some are running wild today in many bush leagues and no small num- Der have found their way to the big leagues, is a recorded fact. The wild est kind of a wild man f1ourished right within the charmed circle of major leaguedom," and kept batters and urn- pires bobbing and lodging his untam- ed and unfettered delivery, and the chap that won undying fame in this role was none other than the famous Bently Seymour, says an exchange. With astonishing speed and freakish curves Cy was not desirable proposi- tton to face. Dick Cooley of the PhiIa- deiphia Americans used to remark that he surely would meet his death someday if he had to face Seymour S dread of Cy's ungovernable delivery.
 Passed Sixteen Batsmen.
 George Van Haltren, left handler, made his debut in the National league, pitching for Chicago against Boston in 1887; he made remarkable record in wi1dness. George made one wild pitch gave 16 men bases on balls and nailed three others on the cocoanut For the rest of his career Van showed fairly good control, evidently getting all the wi1dness out of his system in one fell swoop.
 Edward Crane, the famous speed merchant of the New York Giants away back in the early days of base ball, had an arm attached to the right side of his anatomy that possessed the power to throw ball tout of sight B as the small boy would term 1t. Dur fng 1886, while soutfelding for the Washington club of the National league, he became imbued with the idea of pitching. believing that if he could concentrate his wonderful throw ing power into hurling the ball fifty feet that 1t would burn it way through ozone, leaving nothing but streak of blue smoke.
 Crane Beaned Three.
 So one day the manager called this untried thunderbolt into service. In a regular league game was Edward Crane given the opportunity to try his sizzling speed. Those who witnessed the game still remember 1t as if it were yesterday. Crane had the blue smoke all right, but no more control over it than green chap from the effete and lauguorous east would have in riding bucking broncho. The Chicago team was the victim. and here is Q true list of the casualties: Four wild pitches, three batsmen hit, fl men passed over and by the free route to first
 After this exhibition Crane didn't get chance to crack heads or disable any more of the players in the National league. During the fall of that year he joined an expedition to Cuba that went on transforming trip through that island. He saw an opportunity for practice; the native ball players, with their reinforced craniums, made a safer and much better target for Crane to fire at. After the first game or so that Crane worked against the Cubans they became terror stricken; what he did to them would be horrible to re- late. He had them on the run from the first inning to the very last. not one of the natives being brave enough to stand up under Cranes terrific fire.