The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1930-08-29
BRAINY PITCHER
EASIEST WINNER
Harvard Coach Has High
Opinion of Slow Ball.

| in the big league ranks both as
pitcher and catcher, hands out an au-
thoritative line of chatter about pitch
| ing that young twirlers would do well
| to ponder.
'The hardest thing to teach young
pitcher" says Mitchell, lis the value
| of a slow ball. They all want to
breeze it by the batter. They can't
understand why batter can't hit
slow one AS the secret of hitting is
! timing, it follows that the secret of
pitching is breaking up the batter's
timing. BY mixing them up pitcher
can keep a batter from getting set.
! The slow ball makes the fast one
seem faster and the first you know
the batter is breaking his back trying
| to connect with either one. Dick Ru-
dolph had no real fast ball, but the
| opposing batsmen often thought so
because he mixed them up so skill
fully they couldn't gauge his speed.
1.-The greatest arm in the world will
get a pitcher nowhere unless he learns
to use his head with it. He must con-
stantly study batters, their strong
| points, weaknesses and mannerisms
at the plate"
Mental hazard in golf, indeedi A
! New York player, entered in a state
amateur tourney, was arrested just as
the round started. Did it throw him
off his stroke? 1t did not. He ar
| fy1cr .In iyrn
to caddy for him, and won the match.
Charles A. Stoneham, president of
the Giants, speaks often against the
lively ball, but this time it's along a
new angle:
1.-THE New York club is spending
! $4,000 each season for official Nation
al league balls. If you go to a tailor
| and order a new suit of clothes, you
| pick out the material and tell him
how you want it made. But we don't
seem to have anything to say about
the balls we buy"
When a British scientist explains
that "in a four-dimensional world it
would be possible to turn a tennis
ball inside out without cutting it," a
matter that has been a little obscure
is made perfectly plain to all of us.
Big Ed Walsh, quite pitcher in his
day, has something to say against the
lively ball:
years ago the first thing a boy
wanted was the pitching job. They
fought for it. Now they shun the box.
If the lively ball stays much longer,
there will be keen shortage of pitch
ers."
Buck Weaver, one-time idol Of Chi
cago baseball fans, now is employed
as mutuel clerk at Hawthorne, sell
ing 50 show tickets.
Weaver, who was banned from or
ganized baseball after the "Black
Sox" 1919 worlds series scandal, still
protests his innocence and would like
| to return to baseball.
Il was an innocent victim of the
scandal" said Weaver. II had moth
ing to do with throwing the series, but
/ guess my baseball days are over. I'd
sure like to get back in the game. l
/ think I can still play short or third
base better than lot of the boys that
are getting big money for it now
while I'm holding down a cheap clerks
job.
Gee, but it would be nice to hear
the fans cheering Buck Weaver just
once more!'
If the big league home-run hitters
do not slacken their PAGES, 1000 hon.
ers are due to be hit by both circuits
this year.
They have been averaging one and
one-third home runs per game this
season.
There is possibility that both big
| league individual records for home
run hitting also will be broken, for
| the pace settlers are now ahead of any
| past schedule.
Managers and seconds are to blame
x.
in the opinion of Latrobe Cogswell.
veteran chairman of the Maryland
| boxing commission. He says the fight
| ers claim fouls only when instructed
| to do so.
One of the columnists thinks it is
I strange that Bobby Jones hasn't been
mentioned for the Presidency. The
columnist should have patience. The
mentioning season is not really open
| yet.
The first man to receive pay for
| playing baseball was Albert J. Reach.
That was in June of 1864 when Reach
was a member of the Philadelphia
| Athletics.
Burleigh Grimes has been with the
| Dodgers, Giants, Pirates, Braves and
! Cards.
The famed battery Of Vance and
DeBerry with the Brooklyn Robins
was broken up for the first time when
I young Al Lopez was on the other end
| of the Dazzler's shoots in the first
game of a double-header played on
| August 3. The names of Vance and
| DeBerry have been linked as a battery
for a long time, in fact, ever since
both made their appearance in
.'brother" act at New Orleans. Since
| then. the speedball artist of the Rob-
| ms had always insisted that no one
| but Hank knew how to catch him
properly. However, with Al Lopez
/ hitting the ball effectively, coupled
with his youth and proven ability to
catch Vance or anyone else, Robinson
| broke nm the Vance-DeBerry combina-