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He Is quite sure to be i awamped. The street hasn't much | use for him. 1 had a boyhood friend ] of tills type named Grimes. He was j a falternr, a doubter, a Hamlet of the i moat exasperated type. "One evening 1 stopped to call on | htm and found him in a deep stuity, | bent over a white watetcoat, lying oil I a tfcble. " 'Hello, Crimes,' 1 said. 'What's the natter?' " 'This waistcoat,' he replied, hold ing the garment up to my view, 'lt's too dirty to wear and not dirty enough to send to the laundry. I don't know what to do about it.'"— Everybody's. y MEMORY IMPROVED. Since Leaving Off Coffee. Many persons sufTer from poor memory who never Buspect coffee has anything to do with It The drug—caffeine—ln coffee, acts Injuriously on the nerves and heart, eausiug imperfect circulation, too much blood in the brain at one time, too little in another part. This often causes a dullness which makes a good memory nearly impossible. "I km nearly seventy years old and did not know that coffee was the cause of the stomach and heart trou ble I Buffered from for many years, antll about four years ago," writes a Kansas woman. "A kind neighbor induced me to quit coffee and try Postum. I had been suffering severely and was greatly reduced In flesh. After using Postum a little while I found myself Improving. My heart beats became regular and now I seldom ever no tice any Symptoms of my old stom ach trouble at all. My nerves are steady and my memory decidedly better than while I was using coffee. '1 like the taste of Postum fully as veil as coffee." Name given by Postnm Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Write for booklet, "The Bond to WelWUle." Postum comes In two forms. Regular (must be boiled). * instant Postum doesn't require boiling bat is prepared Instantly by stirring a level teaspoonful in an or dinary cop of hot water, which makes It right for most persons. A big cap requires more and some people wbo like strong things pat is ft heaping spoonful and temper It with • large sappljr of cream. experiment until yoa know the •awaot that pleases roar palate and two It servod that way la the fntore. "There's a Reason" tor Fostaaa V. _1 . • The Physics of Baseball 'e first law of physics Is that all goes up must come down; al ways excepting the cost of living The first law of baseball Is not to let It come down. The difference between the physics of the classroom and of the diamond Is that the student learns the laws gov erning Inertia, velocity, dynamics, the curvilinear trajectory of projectiles, resisting power of air, attractive pow er of masses; and the ball-player, by experiment, deals only with the freak variants of those laws. Many times i the student who makes his college team Is apt to think that the prof, was stringing him when he laid down the laws of motion, mass and ve locity. For a baseball under skilled manipulation and control seems, like a trust, to come as near violating all the laws as possible. The ball always Is striving to do exactly what the laws of Physics say it should do, with half a dozen other forces striving to com pel it to do something else, and with the bad boys In uniform trying to in vent new methods of making it violate the law. If the supremo court should find the law of gravitation unconstitutional, or If tho ball player could breathe In an absolute vacuum, baseball would be a simple proposition. The ball would keep on going In a straight line until some one stopped It. .Line hits would continue to travel In a straight line until some fielder, standing on the needle point of Infinity, Jumped and pulled it down with one hand. There is a professor of physics in a great eastern university who wrote me inquiring as to the physics of the spit ball, and who later lectured to his classes upon the subject. I asked sev eral great pitchers to demonstrate for the benefit of the professor how they held the. ball, swung their arms, re leased It with their lingers, and how much power they applied and to what point on the surface of the sphere. Among them was Clark Griffith, a mas ter In theory, who u ed to be past-mas ter In practice. I asked him to take the professor to the grounds and show hint things. The result was a note from\3rlfflth, in which he said: Don't send any more bugs to see Tim point is that the players do not care what scientific phenomena they develop so long as the opposli.g bats men take their healthlea (I. e., swings) at the ball and miss. The college pro fessor does not care much whether Walsh strikes Collins out three times with runners on bases so long as he can demonstrate that the laws gov erning rotation, air preßsure, fric tion, retard and acceierated motion, etc., etc.. are proved by the actions of the ball. Ho physics and baseball as studies have kept aloof from each other. | Yet every move in a ball game af fords a problem. There are basic con ditions which, In themselves, are worthy of study. Consider atmospheric pressure. Did you know that a man x iv V# * * '* Clarke Griffith. who can throw a baseball 350 feet on th'i Polo grounds, New York, on a dead calm day. can ihrow the same ball almost 400 feet on the Denver br.ll park ? In studying the physics of baseball let us commence with the chief imple ments of the game—the bat and ball. The ball Is composed of a small core, with a heavy layer of highly treated Para rubber, then wound with two kinds of woolen yarn, over which is a glue substance, upon which Is a horse hide cover. The ball is semi-pneumat ic, both the rubber and the glue upon which the cover Is pasted tending to hold air. The difference even of a sixteenth of an Inch In the thickness of the rubber makes the ball so fast that it scarcely can be handled. The makers experimented for years to get the ball toned to the proper pitch oi elasticity, and appear Anally to have By Hugh S. Fullerton (Copyright. 191*. Of W. U. Chapman! accomplished the aim of making a ball not too "dead" and not too lively. The shock of the bat against the ball dispels the air gradually and at the same time causes a molecular change in the rubber so that a ball, after be ing batted hard, loses much of lta re silient power. The disarranging of the molecular force causes a ball which, to an outsider may seem as firm and solid as ever, to become a "mush," dead and lifeless, and likely to slow the entire game If permitted to remain in play. The bats used are almost all of second giowth ash of the finest and stralghtest grain, and carefully dried. Thoy are supposed to retain their resilient qualities indefi nitely, but after a month or two of hard usage tho bat no longer possesses the "drive" necessary for aard hit ting. Yet bats that have lost "life" often Win, when kept In storage a few months, recover their lost "ring" and be as good as ever, although the sec ond tinier they "die" more quickly. This sense of feeling and hearing among players is a wonderful thing. The object of each batter is to "hit it on the trade mark" with that part o' his bat between four and six inches from the end. He does not express It that way, but he aims to hit the cen ter of mass of the ball with the cen ter of percussion of the bat— so he says, "square on the nose." The cen ter of percussion of the bat varies ac cording to the grip of the batter's hands, and It is the object of the pitcher to force the ball to revolve so as to avoid meeting tbe center of per cussion. A ball weighing five and eight ounces and with a circumference of nine inches, pitched at an approxi mate velo -lty of 280 feet a second over a distance of 60 feet, is struck squarely upon the center of percus sion of a bat weighing 40 ounces and swinging at a velocity of 1,250 feet per second, will travel how far? Per haps the professor of physics can figure it out, but If he does he is wrong. He would have to know more than these statistics before he could make the correct calculation. -He should know the forearm strength of the batter, the muscle leverage, ttoe meeting angle of ball and bat, the ro tary motion of the ball, the condition of the atmosphere, direction of wind and a few other things. It Is much easier to have Vean Oregg shoot up a fast one, let Larry Lajole hit It, and measure the distance, than to take a post-graduate coursa and calculate It. Every ball that Is pitched, or thrown, or batted has some rotary or oscillatory movement all its own fur ther to complicate attemptt to solve problems In baseball physics. The ball has a wonderful ability to ab sorb and retain motion no matter how imparted. The spit ball, which was so fully and exhaustively treated in the lectures of my friend the pro fessor that 1 expect to see about 120 Walshes graduate from his school in the next two years, is the result of skillful applying of an unnatural force to counteract the natural rotation of the ball. The professor disputes this. Possibly he does not know that a ball, gripped with tho thumb aud two fingers, and thrown directly over hand, has a natural tendency to ro tate upward and "hop," as the pitch ers say. All good fast ball*> rotat ing this way take a sudden jump Id the air. The spit ball pitcher wets the surface Of the ball, grlpu the low er side tightly with his thumb, lets the ball slide off the fingers. The ef fect Is that two conflicting forces cause the ball to "wobble" for a dis tance, and then, yielding to the influ ence of the thumb pressure and the a'tractlon of gravity, It darts down ward. When a ball thus pitched Is hit It still refuses to surrender its in clination to rotate. It starts toward the Infleld with two forces still struggling for mastery. Each time the ball touches the earth It a dif ferent English. The lnflelder scoops the ball and throws. If he clutches the ball hard enough to kill all mo tion. all Is well. If he seises it light ly aud throws with the same motion the ball takes fresh and renewed Eng lish as it leaves his hand and Is more likely to shoot out of reach of the batsman toward whom he throws. The pitched ball, manipulated so aa to revolve unnaturally, takes "Eng lish" in the air just as a billiard bail does against cloth and cushion. Many persons have told me that the atmos phere on a still day offers practically' a uniform resistance to a projectile. It does not. We know now that the sir Is filled with eddies, currents and pockets, even on the calmest of days. But admitting that it is uniform in density, a, ball does' not follow the physical law of constant decrease In speed In ratio to the resistance of the air. It even is capable of accelerated motion, and of both in the same 60 feet. That is, a ball may be made to slow up and then resume a faster rate of speed. The professor of phys ics doubts this, yet it Is a fact that any experienced ball player will vouch for. They have seen a ball seem to hesitate, and then proceed at an ac celerated gait. It may sound impossi ble but at some spot in" the path of every spit ball, slow ball or knuckle ball, it suddenly changes pace. We experimented once with a pneu matic sun the rifling in the barrel of which save it heavy rotation In any desired direction. It waa merely an exaggeration of the curve. We >hot balls under 30 pounds of preasure. mak ing them curve sometimes a hundred feet. Putting the up curve motion on the ball (which always tends to curve in the direction of its rotation), we aimed thy gun at a target exactly on a straight line, and the ball, going straight for perhaps a hundred feet, suddenly seemed to slacken speed, then it leaped upward and rose at a terrific rate until It passed over the cross bar of the flag-pole In the cen ter field, 70 feet above the ground. Yet the ball was not disobeying the laws of physics, rather proving them. In Its terrific speed it had encounter ed an air billow which it could not penetrate, and It had bounced off this denser bunch of air and rolled up ward. One would think that if a baseball Is hit Into the air is will follow a ball istic curve, in ratio to the angle of ascension reduced by the amount of air pressure. Physics says U should. It will not, and no man can draw the ballistic curve that any fly ball will follow. The greatest range of any projectile in theory. Is gained by an angle of 45 degrees. Military authori ties know that, owing to air resist ance. the greatest distance Is attain ed at an angle Just under 40 degrees. Having both the theory and the prac tice, therefore, baU players to make home runs should hit the ball at an angle of 40 degrees minus. One of L John Kllng, Krank Baker's world's series home runs was near that angle, the other scarcely 30 degrees, It went farther. As a matter of fact, even, if a ball player could hit a ball at any desired angle, ho could not be certain where it would go. It would depend too much upon the rotary motion of tho ball. summer I saw a hard line hit driven straight at Charlie Herzog of the Giants. He put up his hands to catch the ball, then suddenly threw his head aside Just in time to avoid being hit In the face, the ball missing his hands by two feet. The ball had "shot" suddenly from Its true path. In a game between Washington and Chicago late last fall, Walter Johnson hit a ball at an angle of close to 40 degreos, and with terrific force. I should estimate that It wast nearly 90 feet high, at Its greatest elevation. Had it followed the true ballistic curve, It would have passed over the center field fence. The ball sudden ly stopped, started to drop straight downward then caught In another current of air. and Ilodle, who was running after the ball, overtook It com ing toward htm, as If the batter had hit It from center field. Under condi tions such as these a study of aero nautics would help players more than physics would. The outfielder who "gets the Jump" ou the ball at the crack of the bat figures Its trajectory at a glance, sprints desperately outward and turns exactly upon tbe spot where the ball wll) alight, then catches It, has all the calculations ever devised beaten. Physics assumes that balls, thrown with equal force, following the same angle of projection over the same range, will be allk". I never doubted it until I practiced at second base with Malachi Klttridge and the lamented Tim Donohue throwing the ball down to me. Dcnohue threw faster, and seemed harder, yet the ball came Into the hands as lightly as If tossed. Kltt rldge's thrown ball came more slowly, but It jarred and bruised the hands. This peculiarity of throwers Is un derstood well by players, and one of the first Inquiries concerning a new player is whether he throws a light or a heavy ball, which refers to the striking force of the ball, and not Its weight. A ball revolving naturally, and throwil over the finger tips, as a fast ball is thrown, has a tendency to lift. Is light. One that loses Its ro tary motion, and oscillates rather than rotates. Is "dead" and heavy. Every player throws a different kind of ball, the variations depending upon the site of the hands, the length of the fingers and the manner of holding the ball. The man who knew enough about physics, and also about baseball, could fill a book on the physics of pitching. It Is simple, while seeming complex. It waa not so very long ago that Tyng. the Harvard pitcher, developed a-curve ball that started a protract ed argument which finally resulted In a group of learned professors gath ering to decide whether a ball actual ly could be made to curve in the air. The professors who doubted the pos sibility ot a ball curving based thetr doubts upon the alleged Insufficiency of air resistance. They admitted the theory, and doubted the fact. Every curve, shoot, "hook." "fadeaway," and alow ball depends upon the same prin ciples, revolution and air pressure. The way a ball curves depends upon the force with which it ic thrown and the amount of rotation. Its direction de pends upon the amount of friction ap plied by the fingers to a given point oa the surface of the balL The ball al ways curves In the direction of the heaviest friction applied by the hand, and away from the heaviest air friction. The curve lncreaaea In the ratio of the amount of lta revolu tion. Perhaps the most frequent question aakM of a baseball writer la, "How far can a ball be made to curve T" Of course they mean by a normal pitcher not using mechanical assist ance. I never have been able to find the limit of the curve, nor, Indeed, to calculate the curve accurately, al though I have made some expert ments. I refer to the actual curve of the ball due to its rotary motion and air resistance. Ido not think that the real curve of the ball in 56 feet (distance from the pitcher's hand when he releaaes the ball, to the home plate) can be more than 20 inches. I have heard ball players declare the ball curves from six inches to five feet. I tried it once with Orval Over all, who had, I believe, the most sweeping and widest fast curve ball I ever saw. We placed 12 big sheets of tissue paper between slats, 8 of them at short Intervals over the first 15 feet In front of the platd, the rest scatter ed at wider Intervals until the last one was C feet In front of the pitcher's slab, and, to my surprise, his hand struck the paper as the ball was re leased, proving the actual distance —of the pitch Is much shorter than usually supposed Of course Over all's reach was much greater than the average, but I do not think the act ual pitching distance, from hand to plate, is more than 56 feet. Overall pitched his wide overhand curve. The ball entered the first sheet four feet to the right of the string, which was through the center of the two plateß at a height of five feet, and almost six feet above the ground (he was pitching off a slight elevation). His hand hit the paper and tore a hole a foot lower, showing he had released the ball before his arm reached the extreme limit of Its swing. The ball went through the sec ond sheet, which was 10 feet from the first just four Inches lower than through the first, and a little over two and a half feet from the right of the line. It was less than a foot from the line when it struck the first of the eight sheets placed closely together In front of the plate, and it tore through the next ono a trifle higher. Then It bugan Its true curve. Nine feet la front of the plate It "broke" and shot downward and outward and crossed the sheet at the home plate ten Inches above the ground and nearly twelve Inches to the "outside" (that Is, for a right-handed batter) of the center ot the plate. The ball had dropped Ave, feet two Inches downward, through the force of gravity, the angle at which it was pitched and the curve, and had angled and curved practically five feet. The closest calculation we could make was that the ball actually curved M as a result of Its rotary motion, approxi mately 17 Inches. The air resistance, which was dis puted at Tyng's experiments, has, of course, became a known factcr with the study of the science of aeronaut ics. The amount of resistance can be computed closely by the use of the barometer. The ball curves in the di rection tn which it revolves. The amount of the curve depends upon the w ' Christy Msthewson. rate of rotation and the weight of air. The entire acifence of pitching con sists in the deft. application of fric tion upon some point of the ball Which makes it rotate Ip a certain direction, or, which counteracts its natural ro tation and cause It to "wabble" or float with little revolving motion. The slow balla, fadeaways, knuckle balls, all have aa their object the preven tion of rotary motion, or to gl#e false rotary motion of "reverse English." The ball that presents the most air surface to the resistance of the at mosphere slows up quickest and yields more rapidly to gravitation. The one that aplns often est (not neoeasarlly fastest) curve* moat agSib ■ : SOLEMN WARNING TO PARENTS. The season for bowel trouble is fast approaching and 70a should at onoe prorlde your home with King's Diar rhoea and Dysentery Cordial. A guar anteed remedy (or Dysentery, Chol era Morbus, Flux, Cholera Infantum and all kindred diseases. Numerous testimonials on our flies telling of marvelqus cures can be had by re quest. Mr. Robert Yount, who Is employed by me at Pullers, N. C., was quite 111 recently with a stubborn attack of dysentery. Ha was treated by physi cians without benefit, and continued to grow weaker. Half a bottle of King's Diarrhoea and Dysentery Cor dial completely cured him, and he said unless he knew where more could be obtained he would not take ten dollars for the other half of the bottle. —A. W. Fuller. 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