Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 107, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1918 — SIX-FINGERED PITCHER [ARTICLE]

SIX-FINGERED PITCHER

Agitation against the use of the so-called “freak” deliveries in baseball will have no effect on the most unusual style of boxmanship of Benjamin Pellowitz, Philadelphia school boy, whose unique pitching is natural. Pellowltz is fifteen years old. That old saying about the awkward boy, “His fingers are all thumbs,” acts with reverse Eng- » lish In this case, for it is on his two thumbs that Benny depends for his success in pitching. One is a growth of she other thumb. Gripping the ball with his two thumbs and first two fingers, Pellowltz discovered that he could control what he calls a “four-finger” curve that is difficult to hit safely