Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 247, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1916 — MUSCLES HELP MYERS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MUSCLES HELP MYERS

Elmer Myers Worked in Black smith’s Shop When a Boy. 9 Manager Connie Mack Says Youngster Is Greatest Pitcher He Ever Developed—Has Splendid Control and Curve Ball. Muscles developed ns a kid puffing bellows and massaging the anvil In his dad’s blacksmith shop in New York Springs, Adams county, Pennsylvania, are making Elmer Myers famous. “Myers is the greatest young pitcher I have ever developed. Better than Plank, Bender or Coombs’? les, sirT Myers does not know as much about pitching as these old stars, hut. right today he is a better pitcher than any of them were in their prime.” That is Connie Mack’s tribute to the graduate blacksmith. The youngster is a right-hander, Btands six feet three inches tall, and has a long pair of arms, which aid him In getting closer to the batsmtui before he lets the ball go out of his hand. The youngster has splendid control, a corking curve ball and a graceful,

easy delivery, which gets the ball over the plate almost before the batter real* izes it. In three games against Washington, Detroit and St. Louis in the same week, only twelve hits were made off him. Mack predicts that before the end of next season Myerswill rank with Walter Johnson and Grover Alexander.

Elmer Myers.