EDDIE CICOTTE HAS
A “MYSTERY” BALI
White Sox Pitcher Uncorks Curve
Called “Paraffine:”
When It Is Being Thrown, Pellet
Takes an Uneven Discoloration,
but Umpires Regard It as
Within Law of Baseball.
They called it the “shiue” ball for
a time, and later it was called the
"paraffine” ball. It appears now that
the ball which Eddie Cicotte has so
completely mastered should be known
as the “mystery” ball. Cicotte, or
some other member of his team is so
skillful in his massage work on the
pellet that even the umpires are in a
haze about it. Once in a great while
a hall is thrown out, but most of them
stay in the game, despite the numer
ous protests of opposing players.
There is no denying the fact that
Cicotte is as smart as any other pitch
er in the game, smarter than most of
them; also that he has plenty of nat
ural ability and probably would be a
consistent winner without the freak
f delivery which he alone seems to have
mastered. But it is likewise true that
when he is pitching, the hall takes on
an uneven discoloration 'that can be
noticed in # the grandstand. Umpires
examine it, realize that it is discol
ored, but regard it as within the base
ball law. Last summer .Toe Finneran
of the Yankees used the delivery with
some success but nothing like that of
Cicotte. At Comiskey park the Chi
cago players put up protests against
Finneran, but Billy Evans, who was
umpiring the series, declined to throw
out the ball when Finneran was pitch
ing, since he figured it was no differ
ent than when Cicotte was working.
Finneran’s mode of doctoring the
ball consisted in rubbing paraffine into
the seams on one side of the ball.
By pressing his glove into tlie dirt and
rubbing the ball into the palm of the
glove the dirt entered the seams and
stuck there, thus making the side of
the ball containing the paraffine and
dirt heavier than the other. Without
the paraffine the dirt would not hold
but the wax substance kept it in. Fin
neran could make the ball take pe
culiar gyrations in practice, but he
could not properly control it in a
game.
INJECTED PEPPER INTO SOX
Scrappy Little Manager of Chicago
Team Has Way of His Own in
Handling Players.
Kid Gleason, hard-fisted little mana
ger of the White Sox, has injected new
life and pepper into the South Siders.
The peppery Kid has a way about
him that is distinctly his own when it
comes to hanrtJino' men—a wav that
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Manager Kid Gleason.
wins the respect ami confidence of
every member of his aggregation from
the greenest recruit to the oldest regu
lar.
The AVhite Sox, as Gleason took
hold of them prior to the opening of
the 1919 season, were a doubtful look
ing combination. Fans and critics who
were on the inside of affairs as they
pertained to the Sox entertained well
grounded hunches that they were
divided against themselves.
Fact is, there was at one time not
long ago two factions in the Sox
camp. The wiseacres whispered that
these factions were the Rowland and
Collins factions, and the Sox machine
failed to hit on all six cylinders as a
result.
RUBE PARNHAM BIG FACTOR
Baltimore’s Giant Righthander Has
Three Times Won Two Games
in Afternoon.
Rube Parnhain has been a big factor
in winning the International League
pennant for Baltimore. The giant
righthander has three times during the
season won two games in one after
noon. He may be secured by Connie
M«ck to help the Athletics in the Amer- i
lean League race next year.
Zeider Coming Back,
Rollie Zeider, after quitting the To
ledo tenm as manager, has been play
ing ball with an independent team in
LaPorte, Ind. He is quoted as saying
that he expects to be back in big
league ball next yeur.
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