San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-17
Back From 1854 to the
Seventies Was When 1t
Had Real Life.
200 RUNS TO A GAME
That Leads to Discussion
Of New Golf Ball and
Other Things.
Ry WALTER CAMP.

Copyright by The San Antonio Light,
New York, March 17.-Basebail
fans who are getting anxious about the
lively baseball and its effect on the
home-run hitting of Babe Ruth and
other sluggers will be interested 10
know that today's is not the first i've
ly baseball that the great pastime has
had.
Away back in 1854. the governing
powers of the game decreed that the
ball should weigh from IL to . Y
ounces, and be from 2 81 to L
inches in diameter. By 1893 they nad
done away with this marginal dhier-
ence, fixing the specifications OF the
ball at 9 IL ounces to weight ana
10 IA inches in circumference. by
that time. it had begun to have
heart"-an inch and hall ruDper
center.
In The seventies it was a mighty
lively ball, and resulted in scores Oh
more than 200 runs. From tnat IL
speedily dropped to what was known
as the "dead" ball
Now the lively ball cycle is In again.
Clarence Cone of Inwood says OF inc
golf ball controversy that the prople'im,
is whether the golf ball to be used sha,,
be selected for one per cent OIL al
players. the few experts VINO score
regularly under so, or the w per CEN,
the great army of players, VINO are Tue
support and life blood OF the CANT.
with the present ball the averages ~
comnetition of the leading players IN
Great Britain, including Sarazen ana
Hagen. are all 73 or higher, and that
mt Inwood, the two leaders OIL the ooo
players averaged IA.
He, concludes:
.The .present ball. gives the average
nlaver a good shot, good hole or an
occasional good round. 1t Is taxing
stem backward to return TO the hghtcr
hall. Our golf legislators should be
guided by the welfare Of the great ma.
iority and not that of a few experts.
r Matthias Alexander claims that
tho trouble with us is that we nave
lost constructive conscious controi- oi
The individual. He uses a sports ex'
ample: -, ,,.s etor.
nally, distracted by the multiple dlsap-
nearing instructions of the dour oc9t
Instructor until his muscles were an
cramped into rightly and unusaple'
His swing resembled tabled indlan
war dance. and he occasionally MT
the ball while both his feet were OH
the ground. This is characteristic ot
civilization not only on lts gol
ca,,rscs hut in its most intimate ana
necessary activities, individually, ana
socially. whereas primitive ana uh-
civilized peoples achieve satlsiac,or!
standard of sensory appreciation.
Thore are many of our golfers VINO
.ra desirous of establishing construc-
five conscious CONTROL
uore is an extract from a recent re-
mort in the Bulletin of the city OF Chi-
sTbe most representative criminal
o1oss 10 be found at the Brideweli Is
tbe netty thief. Prisoners OF TINS typc
were found TO be below par physicaliy
in most cases-small. nder-hourisneo.
a1aemic. evidently incapable OF doing
= DAVIS physical work. even mad tney
wished to do it. 1t seems probable that
an individual of this type is PICK
pocket from necessity rather than
from choice. He is physically unable
to gain his livelihood in any. other
way. He has not been trained 10 an
occupation suited to his physical con.
ditjon. He must thieve or ne musJ
starve." hoL
This IS the man who as poF
should have been made better physlcan.
| ly. Every possible aid should haFe
been given him. All communiues are
finding out that money expended ton
yocationai facilities. from parks Ynd
Fairgrounds to municipal goii c .nn AZ,
r:-u,nncv class