Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 236, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1916 — PICKED UP ART OF THROWING [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PICKED UP ART OF THROWING

Player Can Keep Hla Arm Strong by Carefully Avoiding Pegging for Grandstand Fans. “Where did I learn to throw? That’s easy,” said Harry Hooper, outfielder

for the Boston Red Sox. “I just naturally picked it up when I was a kid on my father’s ranch in California. I was just like any other kid wanted to throw stones, and by constant practice, during my spare mo.ments in the fields, became a sort of dead-shot. Oftentimes I would get the

range of a rabbit and bowl it over with a stone. “The training I got as a kid wasn’t wasted, either, for when I broke into baseball I could peg them as well as any of the fellows who had seen years of service. “A man doesn’t have to be a giant to throw a baseball a great distance. If he doesn’t try for grandstand pegs, he should always keep his arm strong.”

Harry Hooper.