Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 265, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1912 — MAKING A BASE BALL CURVE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MAKING A BASE BALL CURVE

Nebraska Man Invents Attachment for Hand That Causes Sphere 4o Take Deceptive Twist. In describing a baseball curver, the Invention of R. W. Jones 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 Is 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 Augers 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, i'he Illustration showns a hand grasping a ball having an embodiment of the Invention applied to the hand and pressing against the ball.

Base Ball Curver.