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mmmmmmm or sidearm and with great sneed.' Overhand" the hall is gripped with two fingers on top and the thumb under neath, tl is delivered off the ends of the fingers, the fingers gripping the ball tightly at release. Due to -this pressure, the ball as it revolves backward, traveling as straight as a thrown ball may travel, until it nears the batter, when it jumps upward. This is the "hop of . his fast one." Pitched sidearm, the grip is iden tical, but the back' of the hand is turned, so fingers and thumb .are horizontal. This ball jumps in direc tion of the gripping fingers. When pitched by a right bander, the jump is to the right. The Curve. The curve is held like the fast ball, but the ball is released over the side of the first finger instead of over tlie tips. The break or curve depends up on the pressure applied by the fingers at release; upon the snap of the wrist and upon the power of the pitcher's arm. Effective curve balls' break down and out (for a right-banded batter) or down and in (for a left-handed batter) when pitched by a right hand er. The effectiveness of the curve de pends upon the sharpness of this break. The ball revolves on an angle of about 45 degrees, away from the pitcher. The Slow Ball. One slow ball is held back in the palm of the hand, gripped by the thumb and little finger, the other fin gers not touching it save at the base. It is pitched overhand like a fast ball, but instead of revolving wobbles from ,side to side until it loses force, when it rotates rapidly away from the pitcher. This rotation shoots it in the natural direction and helps the down ward break. Clarke Griffith had a slow ball that revolved rapidly. The value of this was that the revolving ball appears his fast one, b"t ' i'ncCH it fco jerked his hard backward, making the ball revolve rapidly away from him, which caused it to travel slowly. The Spit Ball. The spit ball is pitched with two fingers on top of the ball, resting on a spot that has been made slippery, and the thumb beneath, against a seam. Delivered overhand, the ball breaks downward sharply at the plate. Jn flight the ball revolves away from the pitcher for some distance, then floats dead and finally begins to revolve rapidly toward the pitcher. Al Orth had his. own spit ball, the reverse of Ed Walsh's. It was thrown' underhand, being released about op posite Orth's knee and pitched on an angle to the batter's: shoulder. Orth held the ball with his fingers under neath and thumb on. top, wetting the spot his fingers touched and gripping the ball at the seam, with his thumb, giving it a -fast, unnatural, backward spin which helped niaintain the angle instead of following the natural arch. Virgil Garvin's slow ball was deliv ered with second finger overlapping first, thumb on opposite side of the ball, the hand almost Upside down. The ball was released between the second and third fingers, and at the moment of delivery his hand was jerked backward, causing the ball to break down and in like a left-hand pitcher's slow curve. o o i WOLSKY TO LECTURE Stanislaw Wolsky, well-known Russian writer and lecturer, will de liver a lecture in English on "The Conditions of Russian Prisons and the Treatment of Political Prisoners and Exiles by Russian Government," at Hull House, Friday evening, Dec. 5. The proceeds will be turned over to the Relief Society for the Political Prisoners and Exiles in Russia. o o "Green is draft clerk in a bank." "Never heard of such a job." "He opens and shuts the windows." N! Sinauer tu lub utiixci uiau a ucau uitii. I Griff pitched the ball just as he did I Y. World. TUB g jj m w;