The New York herald., 1922-01-23
BIC Leagues viii Go Ahead
With the Missile Used
Last Year.
THE DRAFT PROPOSITION
Foul Lines and Stand Hits at
Yankees New Park-0ther
Sport Gossip.
BY WILLIAM II. HANNA.

The bail in use in the major leagues
the coming season will be the same in
every detail as last year according to
Charles e. White, whose business has
20 do with the making of that ball
at least there is no present intention
OF making any changes. One never
can tell what will happen, but nobody
connected with the running of big league
baseball has. so far as can be discov-
cred, considered having the ball any
less lively. Same ball." says Mr.. White.
Personally, think it not good for
Baseball in the long run for "A ball to
be slammed as far and as often as it
was IN spells last year. 1t makes hits
and runs too common for sustained rel
ish, though there was no symptom last
year of the fans firing of their abun-
daat quantity. Abundance TO that eX-
tent was not continuous, 1t VIII be re-
menbered, which helped
A favorite topic last season was that
ball--whether 1t was livelier or whether
the pitching was below standard. Tne
evidence Is pretty strong that IT was
livelier, not through any particular de-
Sign in that direction, but through I'M
proved material in making the ball.
Then. too, pitching betimes was pretty
V.
because Of sudden and wide disuse
of the curve ball Is not very appealing
as an explanation.
Curve Ball and Good Pitching.
Most pitchers are sensible enough to
know that they couldn't go far with
out curve ball, for few OF them nave
the Johnsonian speed The pitchers or
the Giants did silence the Yankee nit
ters with their liberal use OF curves,
but Douglass splitter was quite as ef-
tfectivc. Mays and Hoyt didn't use any
more curves than usual and the Giants
found them very hard TO hit Mays IN
the first game didn't use a curve.
What count in good pitching. always
have and always will. are: When to
use this and that mixture, control.
heart and head. Possession of these
qualities will vary from year to year SO
long as there's human equation.
The International League viii take
up the draft question again at its meet
snr here on February 3. The American
Association will discuss the major
league proposal-ST.500 for a drafted
player-earier than that, the latter part
az this month in fact. John {. Toole,
International president. SHES when you
ask him how about II? He doesn I
care to discuss the draft ana tne PiVpo~
sitlon at this time. but will have the
Tnternational's stand in the matter all
ready to present 10 the major leagues
w.l,en they meet. Mr.. Toole and Com
missioner Landis were in conference re-
Gently and the former set forth his
ideas at that time.
Fordham has no baseball cage, but
that didn't bother Arthur Devlin any
when he was coaching there. Don't
believe in them" he declares.
The short distance OF the foul lines at
tho Yankees new park does not mean
that a long or safe hit will be driven into
the stands. The reason is the beachers
extend out from the foul lines at such
wide obtuse angle that mere matter
or two degrees between the lines and the
direction OF the ball can add as much as
fsO feet to the distance the ball has 10
20 to carry into the stand
Frank Frisch did not find place on
any of Walter Camps first All America
elevens. 1t he were placed IT was on
the second or third team. The writer.
I'm looking back over those teams. was
struck by the fact that the Navy hasn't
had a man on the first Camp eleven
since 1918. Yet the Navy the last two
wears has outranked most OF the Eastern
college teams. and last season won a
place among the best three teams or the
East. Parr, King or Larson could
have been put on any team without
veakeninr II enough to matter.