Clipping:Cummings's delivery

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Date	Saturday, July 9, 1870
Text	[Star vs. Mutual 7/8/1870] In pitching Wolter's swift delivery was not only surpassed in speed by that of Cummings, but in strategic play did the Star pitcher fully equal even Martin, this being a rare combination of pitching talent in one man. In fact, the play of Cummings in his position as pitcher in this game shows conclusively that he has studied the science of his art, for it was not his speed which troubled the Mutual batsmen, but a command of the ball which enabled him to practically illustrate “how not to do it”--a peculiar power of giving a curve to the line of the ball to the right or to the left, and this is one of the chief elements of his success. Brooklyn Union July 9, 1870, quoted in Elwood A. Roff, Base Ball and Base Ball Players, p.
Source	Brooklyn Union
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Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
Origin	Initial Hershberger Clippings

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