The morning times., 1896-12-26
CASEY UPTO-DATE.
Baseball as Suggested by the Prince
ton Pitching Machine.

Baseball as Suggested by the Prince
ton Pitching Machine.
A writer on the Chicago Record, having
heard Of the new Princeton pitching gun,
looks into the future in this manner:
With two motorcycles and an airship on
bases il was trying moment for Casey
The New York pitcher silent and unmOying,
but nevertheless somewhat hot about the
breech and gummy at the nluzzle because of
the fierce work Ot the inning, lay back on
his trunions and waited with a fiendIsh
grin for the coming OF the crack batsInan
OF Capt. AuSons braves.
Hurry up there with Casey" cried the
captain impatiently.
Send up d batteri' the umpire insisted.
In a minute, the engineer OF the Chi
Cagoes promised Wait till l oil this
journal a little more and ease up this &c
centric. And he darted in and out over
and under the Cu1nbrous mechanism Of the
gigantic machine, whose release, purCGased
from the BaIumCres, had cost the fabulous
price or $500, 900. with several accessories
in the way Of patent litigation thrown in
''Caseyr shrieked the bleachers, and
Casey was thundercd back from the
grand stand. Casey, Casey! Casey" rolled
IN across the field from the hundreds Of
peoule WHO IL the tensest suspense cluag
~ the .cl,pho poles and inhabited neigh
boring roofs. Casey"
Not a sound gave forth Casey. except
few stolen ptdlS and the rJrulble OF his
blower Looking upon him you might
have thought OF him a general, who's
shifting the battle and the stock yards
afar, resolves to do or de, with pref
erence for dong.
so ne appeared to the view ofthe multi
tude.
A raptUTed CRY went up
1T was the same old Casey
The westering sun CLEANED upon his
nickeIcd work and danced from his brass.
His gigantic traction wheels-tnoSe wheels
which have stolen so many baScS-rev0lved
and you caught the glintIng Of his furnace
fires.
| The score was : o6. 1t was the latter
/ part Of the ninth inning There was enc
/ out
Casey, with scornful glare Of his re-
| fIeCtOr at the artillery out IL the pitchers
| box, took his place at the home base. He
I raised the bat, timber OF hickory twelve
/ feet long and loaded with solder TO retain
| tue equilibrium, and just to test it gave
, it swing around his smCkestack- There
/ was pleasant sound Of wnirring as the
/ electric fluid from the dynamUs was
applied to the great steel shaft. and the
| bat circled around the batman's boiler
/ some 1000 times in the first three sec
| ondS.
! ".Ahar said the populaCe.
A boy fell cffa department store wagon
| '-Play ball cried the umpire.
| There was an explosion, a vision Ot
/ smoke, and the BAH went flying out toward
| first base, Circling around the bag few
moments and then Curvine in lcopy
/ fashion toward the left field, from which
territory, by a wonderful flight it rose,
! and. arching over, returned and passed
directly over the base. Casey did not
| move.
= Strike oneI cried the umpire
| There was visible uneasiness. The
/ rnOtocyCle on second. named in the batting
order as MeGinnis, alarmed at the pros
pect and feeling that his petroleum was
/ burning out, made u dash too far down The
line. and in a moment was caught by the
/ yialant fowIing-picce on third. All
! Chicago quivered with woe.
once more the ball came in uDduIating
curves. now here, now there. 1t stopped
in mid-air and then made sudden DASH
The great, hic kor ' arm whiTled, but missed
by seven yards.
strike two!' shricked the umpire.
Three men died of heart disease in the
! grand stand and an invalid had an cpl
lepic fit in the bIeachers- Two men were
now out The ball went back TO the
I gunner in the pitchers box. \ special
charge of powder was rammed IN and the
ball was securely wadGeG. The catching
apparatus numbered heavily down the line
to confer with the pitching device. 1t
was an awful moment.
'TheCatchiug machine returned to place.
Suddenly a loud report was heard. The
ball had been pitched. Then, before my
one could see what was happening, the
bat whirled and cut the ar, there was q
fearful whdCk of contact. ana Casey. the
superb. the sublime, the transcending,
thundered for first. With his right driver
in the air as he swung around the corner. he
continued to second, and thence home, his
driving rods looking like the poetry of
notion, The bases We're cleared. The
game was won.
Twenty -tw O. men and three women d'ed
OF ovcr-exertion of the lungs.
Score. to ..
THE bali was never recovered
''Later-we stop the presses te say
| it has lust beer discovered that Casey )
swipe drove the ball straight forward and
into the muzzle of the pitching cannon,
imbedding it in the solid steel backing.
The New Yorks declare they viii protest
the game as they insist it was plainly a
line bail caught, and that Casey was out
before he began running. But as they
made no complaint on the field it is
difficult to see how they hope TO make
their protest good