Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1891 — Are the Days of the [?]cher O’er? [ARTICLE]

Are the Days of the [?]cher O’er?

A Cleveland man has patented a device for giving a ball a curve when it leaves the pitcher’s hands. The device consists of an elastic strap, wit! a loop in one end to receive the thumb and at the other is a segment of a sphere corresponding to the shape of the ball. The inventor claims that as the ball leaves this arrangement any curve desired can be given and that it does away with that' familiar sight on a ball field—the awful conlortions of the average pitcher before delivering a curved ball. The invention, if successful, is destined to play an important part in base-ball in the future. In its native habitat the shell of the oyster is always a little open, and microscopic, waving hairs set up currents which carry the food plants to its mouth, where they are engulfed and afterward digested.