Popular science monthly . cifi-cally to the sport as practiced—patentson balls, gloves, protectors, masks,spikes, bags, marking apparatus andsimilar things, mechanical baseball in-ventions divide themselves roughly intothree classes. These are—games whichsimulate the great game itself, andwhich are supposetl to pro\ide at leasta modicum of the thrills of the real diamond, and which can be played uponlawn or in parlor—games or sportsbased on baselaall which are suitable forcountry fairs, circuses, midways and-similar places, in which the publicparticipates either as batter or aspitcher, and fin
Popular science monthly . cifi-cally to the sport as practiced—patentson balls, gloves, protectors, masks,spikes, bags, marking apparatus andsimilar things, mechanical baseball in-ventions divide themselves roughly intothree classes. These are—games whichsimulate the great game itself, andwhich are supposetl to pro\ide at leasta modicum of the thrills of the real diamond, and which can be played uponlawn or in parlor—games or sportsbased on baselaall which are suitable forcountry fairs, circuses, midways and-similar places, in which the publicparticipates either as batter or aspitcher, and finally, inventions designedto aid in the actual training of ballplayers, by making their practice easy,or providing them with mechanism bywhich they can tell when their practiceapproaches perfection. Considerable ingenuity is displayedin several such patented games in theconstruction of a pitcher which (shouldone say who?) delivers the littlerubber ball at various speeds andangles. 58 PopnJnr Science Monthly INOICATOR. BUCKET WHON WHICH BAS^LFALLS AND TO IMDlCATElSjWjlK;ORBALLSON INDICAJOR This apparatus for teaching the art of pitching a baseball provides for everything exceptderisive howls from the bleachers. Both the batter and the catcher are dummies. The catcher-dummy has a cavity for receiving pitched balls, the entrance to which corresponds withthe area for a strike. Above is an indicator for strikes and an indicator for balls. Whenthe pitcher throws a ball over the home plate at the right height, it enters the cavity in thedummy-catcher, drops down a chute and hits the blade of a bucket-wheel. Since thebucket-wheel is connected by belts with the indicator above, the pitcher sees his strikerecorded. The ball is ultimately sent back to him by a return trough. If the pitcher failsto make a strike, the ball drops into a bowl in which both the batter and catcher ball rolls into an opening and falls upon a bucket-wheel, connected by belts witha
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