Let me add a couple of things. First, a wood stick of this era was not a piece of carved wood. It would be a laminate blade, likely reinforced with fiberglass. The shaft might be a single piece of ash or alder and was capable of similar flex to todays sticks. The technological gap isn't that wide. Add the crazy banana bend in the blade and you get a stick with devastating ability. Could Hull attain the claimed speeds? I think if anyone could it would be Hull or Esposito. Al Iafrate could have probably done it but didn't have the advantage of era. The banana sticks were banned in a few years.
Hull was a guy that would throw his whole body into a shot on the fly, leaving himself at full extension. A checker could easily mash a shooter daring to be in this position. Not many challenged Hull, not in those days.
The argument is really was there a single guy blessed with perfect circumstance that utilized the era's equipment to it's maximum advantage? Was there that much advantage?
Stop arguing that the measurement was wrong. The equipment was accurate. The measurement would not account for user movement, though. If the user tracked on an angle, the movement of his arm would account for some of the total figure. A based on nothing, other than experience with police, guess would be seven to ten miles per hour. Anything faster is waving the equipment, not steadily aiming for accuracy and you wouldn't get a reading.
