Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1911 — LATEST TYPE OF BASEBALL [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LATEST TYPE OF BASEBALL

New Core That le Causing So Much Controversy in Both Leagues— Cork Center Bhown.

From 1883 until last year very little, outside of minor changes, was done in developing the baseball. The league baseball used in this period bad a rubber center, and the yarn wound around it was coated with a continuous layer of rubber cement. The ball now used includes a means of preventing the inner yarn from slipping away from the center of the ball, and the substitution of cork for rubber in the

core, says Popular Mechanics. This core of cork is covered with a layer of .rubber vulcanized to a certain degree of hardness, and on this is wound the usual yarn. The cork makes possible a more rigid structure and more uniform resiliency. It Is said to outlast tbe rubber center balls many times over, because it will not soften or break in spots under the most severe usage. Tbe illustration shows a cross-sec-tion of the new ball, with the cork center, robber covering, tbe layer of blue woolen yarn, then white woolen yard, then blue woolen yam again, and then borsehlde 'cover.

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