Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 257, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1912 — MAKING A BASE BALL CURVE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MAKING A BASE BALL CURVE

Nebraska Man Invents Attachment for Hand That Causes Sphere to Take Deceptive Twist. In describing a baseball curver, the invention of R. W. Jdnes of Lincoln, Neb., the Scientific American says: Mr. Jones provides means In this case readily attachable to the hand

for causing a ball to curve when thrown from the hand. A vacuum cup 1b held in position by a band made of a size to fit a finger, but Is preferably made of a size to fit two or more fingers so that the cup may be shifted or adjusted to any position with respect to the fingers. In this way the cup may be adjusted nicely to any point for giving a great or small curve, or various kinds of curves. The illustration showps a hapd grasping a ball having an embodiment qf the Invention applied to the hand and pressing agaiqst'tbe bal|.

Base Ball Curver.