Judge — April 14, 1917 — page 13: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This is a humorous sports comic strip titled "A Moving Pitcher," showing a baseball pitcher's increasingly chaotic performance. The sequence depicts: 1. A confident pitcher starting his windup 2. Progressive loss of control—wild throws, stumbling motions, and erratic body positions 3. The pitcher literally falling apart mid-pitch 4. Ending with the pitcher collapsed in grass/bushes The humor plays on "moving pitcher" as a pun: both a pitcher who relocates/travels AND a pitcher whose movements become absurdly exaggerated and uncontrolled. It's slapstick comedy mocking poor pitching mechanics and athletic incompetence, common in early 20th-century Judge magazine's sports humor. The escalating physical comedy culminates in complete failure and collapse, a classic comedic formula of the era.