Edmund Davis to James Hugh Moffatt

Milton Trust & Safe Deposit Company, Milton, Pa.

Mar 15- 1901

James Hugh Moffat Esq.

My dear Sir-

I was considerably surprised on receiving your communication, and would not have thought of making any statement on the subject of "curve" pitching, had not my friend Mr. Frank Ward mentioned the matter. I will confirm his statement as well as I can, without knowing just what you want, and if you wish any further information, I shall be pleased to answer any questions on the subject as well as possible.

I entered Freshman Class, Princeton College in Fall of '66, graduating in the Class of '70, on entering I was placed on the University nine as pitcher, which position I held till the following Fall of '67 - I was disqualified as pitcher under the rule adopted by the B.B. Association requiring a straight arm delivery.

I pitched an "in curve", with a perpendicular twist, so that when the batter struck at the ball, he misjudged its place, and hit it on the handle of his

bat, when the ball went up in the air and came down either to the catcher or to myself at pitcher's place.

Mr. Lyon of the class of '67 was then catcher on the University nine, to whom I am pleased to refer you.

I remember very well calculating just where the ball would be, when it reached the batter, delivering it so that while it was apparently coming just where he wanted, it really reached him, near the handle of his bat.

Trusting what I have written will answer your inquiry satisfactorily I am, Very Truly Yours,

Edmund Davis.