Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-01-31
NO CHANGES TO Be
IN BASEBALL FOR
USE NEXT SEASON
SPRiNGHTLY SPHERE IN VOGUE
DURING PAST FEW YEARS WILL
AGAIN BE EMPLOYED IN BIG
LEAGUES.

The bail in use in the major
leagues the coming season will be the
same in every detail as last year, ac.
cording to Charles r. White, whose
business has to do with the making
OF that ball; az least there is no pres.
ent intention OF making any changes,
One never can tell what will happen
but nobody connected with the run.
ming CT the big leagues has SO far as
can be discovered considered having
the ball any less lively, Same ball,
says White.
Presumably | think il not good for
baseball in the long run for ball 70
be slammed as far and az often as
it was In spells last year, says WI
liam B. Hanna in the New York
World 1t makes hits and runs too
common for sustained relish, though
there was no symptoms last year Of
the fans firing of their abundant quail
ity. Abundance to that extent was
not continuous, it will be remember.
ed, which helped.
A favorite topic last season was
that ball--whether ii was liyelier or
whether the pitching was below the
standard. The evidence is pretty
strong that it was livelier. not thru
any particular design in that direc-
tion, but through improved material
In making the ball Then, too pitch
ing betimes was pretty sosgy, though
that this should be so because e i
sudden and wide disuse Cf the curve
ball is not very appealing as an eX.
PLANTATION.
Curve Ball and Good Pitching.
Most pitchers are sensible enough
to know that they couldn't 90 far
without curve bail for few Of them
have the Johnsonian speed The
pitchers OF the Giants did silence the
Yankee hitters with their liberal use
of curves. but Douglas splitter was
quite as effective. Mays and HCyt
didn't use any more curve than usual
and tn Giants found them very hard
to hit Mays in the first game didn't
use a curve.
What count in good pitching, al
ways 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 equa-
ton.
The International League will take
up the draft question again at its
meeting here on Feb. 10. The Ameri.
can Association will discuss the ma
jor league proposal 81 800 for a
drafted player-earlier than that, the
latter part of this month, in fact
John c. Toole, international presi-
dent, SHES when you ask him how
about It, He doesn't care to discuss
the draft and the proposition at this
time. but will have the International
stand in the matter all ready to pre-
sent to the major leagues when they
meet. Mr. Toole and Commissioner
Lands were in conference recently
and the former set forth his ideas at
that time.
Fordham has no baseball cage, but
that didn't bother Arthur Devlin anv
when he was coaching there. Don't
believe in them" he declares
The short distance Of the foul line
at the Yankees new park does not
mean that a long or safe hit will be
driven into the stands. me reason
Is the bleachers extend out from the
foul lines at such wide obtuse angle
that q mere matter of two degrees
between the lines and direction of
the ball can add as much as 100 feet
to the distance the ball has to GO to
carry into the stand.
Frank Frisch did not find place
on any of Walter Camps first ALI
American elevens. If he were placed
1t was on the second or third team
The writer in looking back over those
teams was struck by the fact that the
Navy hasn't had man on the first
Camp eleven since 1913. Yet the
Navy the last two years has outrank-
ed most Of the eastern college teams,
and last season wen place among
the best three teams of the east.
Parr, King or Larson could have been
put on any team without weakening
it enough to matter.