Pe Eight
Sunday May 17, 1925.
SPORT WRITER TAKES EXCEPTION ! Pitchers Try Slow
WALTER JOHNSON'S SAYING THAT j Ball on Sisler To
. SIDE ARM FLING MOST NATURAL Get thW8 Goat,
lly JOHN' B. SHEltinAX
(Sport ins Xcwa)
I read the other day, in ome
naper, that Walter Johnson had
said that si.lo-arm was the natural
Klyle of throwing. I'lMhaMy .l.ilin
cin did nut i-ay it. If lu ilitl. lu
s wrons, wat (ally, fearfully, tor
il.!y wri'.ni. Kur'ht'rmori1, by say
ing st, Johnson would do a lot of
injury to young players. ii:;fir:n
JVin In a sinful halift. T!ure is
no such theory as a natural throw
ing motion for human beinss. All
iiropulslve motions, away from the
initial body, are unnatural and ar
luired. The arm and hand are
prehensile, designed to draw to the
tiody. not to cast away from it.
Originally the arm and hand, no
lonM, were used only to convey
food to the mouth as the trunk
if an elephant is used. The ele
lihant does not use his trunk to
-at away from his body. No doubt
-le can be trained to bo use it.
That doea not mean that there is
natural throwing motion for the
'.rank of an elephone. There is
not.
Taking things as they are, all
"arowing of missiles away from the
tiody is unnatural. There is no
uch thing as a natural style or
:nethod of throwing. If there Is.
it is not side-arm or underhand.
Init overhand. And I will &o prove
iii. two shakes of a nursing lamb's
rail.
There are nine men on a base
Hall team. Of these, eight make
-11 throws over 40 yards overhand.
Now, if the side-arm or underhand
was the natural or most useful or
easiest motion why do not out
fielders, infielders and catchers use
the side-arm htrow No, sir, Mr.
Johnson, if the aide arm is the
natural throwing motion why do
not outfielders, and catchers throw
lde-arm? Why do not infielders
use the side-arm throw for long
distance efforts which must be ac
curate? All bae!ai; players must, at
;imes, i'arow from any position. As
a sheer matter of fact, the real
throws, the long. . hard throws,
which must be accurate, must be
American league pitcher tell us
' ' that the low hull is the present
overhand throws. I have known weakne if (ieome Sisler at the
bat one catcher who throws side- bat. commeuta Hilly Kvans. writing
arm -Wally Schang The fact that (or Newspaper Knlerrrloe assoclu
he throws side-arm has greatly de- tlnn. They emphasize the fact that
traded from Schang the merit as a the curve, broken inside and at the
catcher. His throwing never had knee, is the pitcher's greatest
been a.', urate. The hall he throws weapon to curtail Sisler's batting
has always been hc.u .n, hard pruwea-i.
I r a fielder to handle. In a recent game I remarked:
0. . 'Til.1 piic'iers seem to think you
We find that the only pi-iyer on don't like the low ball. Ceorge."
a diamond who can ho exclusively "However, if the pitchers mil
a side-arm or under-hand thrower tittiie to pitch low to me all year
is the pitcher. t'itchers are not I am positive 1 will bat well over
"meant" to. be pitchers from birth. .300. You know it U much easier
They develop as they get along in to hit when you kuow Just what to
boyhood and young manhood. If expect."
Johnson w-ere right in his alleged -
assumption that side-arm is the World's 440 Record
natural throwing motion, all base- Broken Bv Uni Of
Southern California
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ball throwing would he aide-arm.
Which, we have shown, would make
baseball a very poor game.
It is all very well for a pitcher
to be a side-armer when he can
get away wuu u. uuai. iub , . . .. d - h ,..
pitchers of greatest longevity, Cy , yard rela). ,.en tney ran the dis.
I.OS ANGEI.KS. May 18. The
I'nlversity of Southern California
four-man relay team this afternoon
Jim "FlrM" (rtirnian, who rhalleiifcea
Hie winner of the Itoiky SHnmbo
Sam Olson affair Tur.lny nlK'X-
Young. Kid Nichols, Griffith. Mord-
; tance in 41.9 seconds. The teuni.
Seven State Records
In Washington High
School Track Meet
ecal Brown, etc.. were overhanders. , (, o( Tayr- ,ee. House and
Walter Johnson must be accounted L,oy(1 W(,red Hie mark of 41 ser
one of the four great pitchers. if.onds. which was set by the I'niver
not the very greatest, of all time. isily of Kansas team at the start
Opinions of Johnson's delivery vary. '0f the present season.
Johnson himself says that he is a I Besides winning the relay, the V.
side-armer. Griffith says that U c. team won the A. A. I'. chain
Johnson is an under-hander. Class- j pUinships for southern -California,
ing aU motions which bring the!wih 70 points. The l.os Angeles
hand above tho line of the shoulder Athletic club was second with 41.
as over-hand, below the shoulder. ' and the. I'nlversity of Southern Cull-
j and above the hip, as side-arm. and fornia freshmen third.' with 13 1-2.
below the hip as under-hand. I'd'
say that Johnson varies between Y.tl.K CISKW WINS
side-arm and over-hand. i .....,.
I HURRY. Conn.. May 11 Yale's
1 powerful varsity eight swept to an
i OHKGOX 1". Iliil'K TKI I easy victory in the annual triangular
SEATTLE. May IS. The I niver-; ra,.e itn Princeton and Cornell on
sity of Washington defeated Oregon the Housatonic here this afternoon.
at track here this afternoon 85 to; The Ell shell was four lengths
46, taking eleven first places of the I ahead of Cornell, with Princeton a
meet. Oregon managed to get four length and a half back In third
j firsts, in both hurdles, the broad place.
jump and the javelin. i
Jim CuaierTs sent a half milel WtVNK 1NIHAX KHUITS
mark for Washington in the fast p. white. Klamath Indian, drunk,
time of 1:57:02. Captain Percy and disturbing the peace at the1
I Egrevdt made Another Washington carnival grounds, was arrested by
record, jumping six feet, two and county Traffic Officer. It. E. Know-
ine-tcnth Inches in the high jump. !ea iast night and lodged in the
' i county jail. White put up a stiff
A ctrculatron covering the city of t- i . i i , . i
Klamath Falls and the county of f,Kl,t ,,ef"re l)e,nK dmvneU V
Klamath 'hat's the Klamath New" Knowles. i
pri.l.MAN. Wash. May 1
Seven stale records were smashed
today in the moat sensational inter
scholantic track meet ever held
here. Wenatchee high school won
the meet and Yakima was second.
Wesley Poster. Wenatchee. took
a trio of new marks In the sprints.
His time in fifty yard dash estab
lished a new world's Intel-scholastic
record nt 5.:i seconds. He diualled
the ititersrholastic record of 1 S sec
onds in the lfl yard dash, and ran
the 2-0 yard dasli in 21.7 seionds.
Ki eser. another Wenatchee youth,
set a new high school record in four
minutes and 36 seconds for the mile.
Ambrose. Ilwaco. shattered alt
state records in the javelin, hurl
ing the spear 16S feet. 3 Inches.
(lough of Bremerton jumped five
feet 9 1-3 inches in the high jump.
Wenatchee made a new time for
the mile relay In 3 minutes 32 S
seconds.
MSHKRMA.V lltOVM-:l
I1ENI). May 16. A. I.. M.Cut
cheon. Portland traffic policeman,
was drowned near Gateway, on the
Deschutes river, while on a fWiing
trip, it was learned here tonight.
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