Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1911 — GIANT PITCHER INVENTS NEW CURVE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GIANT PITCHER INVENTS NEW CURVE

New York fans have received news of a new ball developed since !ast season by Christy Mathewson of the New York Nationals. It is declared a wonderful puzzler by friends of the Giants’ star pitcher. The new ball Is described as a slow double dip. The sphere is said to t

“float up to the batsman with all the seams showing.” Just in front of the plate it does a double dip so deceiving that even the catchers miss it until after considerable practice. Mathewson throws this ball after wetting his fingers, and the Giantshave. christened it the “slow spitter.”

Christy Matthewson.