The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-05-08

While Mugsy AMI we're exchanging com
plincnts our catcher came along ana ac-
knowedged thtt he had broken Macs pat
Then Mugsy transferred his affections TO
tie catcher. who stood head over me-
| What said 20 the other big stlf goes with
you " you want to take IL up said huS.y.
our catcher, q good naiured Southernor by
| the name OF Balleutine, had happy WI OF
| his own. Rim away sonny, or ! VIII turn
| you over TO our bathoy, II you are hungry
for battle. children like you should BE-
| seen and not heard said Bailentine. But
| Mugsy was game. He put M his mts and
| offered to take us one AT time. Thon Joe
Kelley broke IN and saved Mac from a
| spanking Washington Post
| Thespian Cooper Of the Albaugh Balt-
| more Stock company tells this ono of the
| twrling wizard OF the season. Hughes OF
| the orioles, In the Baltimore News Eight
| years ago was In stock company at the
| Sacramento theater In Sacramento Cal. On
vacant lot back OF the theater the lads in
| the neighborhood chose sides played
| three old cat, scrub aud the other iuyen-
| lie games in the II & OF baseball. The
| property man in the theater used to tell us
| that one OF the lads in the three old cat
| games had an ambition to outshine Tim
| Keefe Rusle and Garrison. ! heard so
much about this future phenom that took
| the pains TO study him. The lad had the
| speed OF a catapuit and never saw him
without a ball in his hand. One morning
| tried to keep Il tab on the number he struck
| out, counted at least twenty. and then
| was called into the theater 10 rehearsal.
| am somewhat OF rooter myself. and have
| chewed peanuts and incidentally the rag
| in many heart-diseGse finish at the Polo
! Grounds Though have no practical
| knowledge Of baseball | realized that this
| lank. wry youth had all the earmarNs of a
itcher Whom lac warn't pitching to a
batsman he tackled a slice OF canvas on a
fence, measured off the pitching distance.
and threw the ball at the canvas mark on
the fence. lie could hit that mark eight
cen times out OF twenty That was the
best possible evidence of his control. When
| came East met Johnnie Ward and asked
him what was the first requisite of a
| pitcher. Control said Ward Then told
| Johnnie Of the lad with the catapult arm
| who pitched back OF the Sacramento thea
| ter. Ward told me to quit my Kidding
| forgot that incident till | read In the
| Washington papers how Hughes. n Sacra-
| mento youth. had shut out the Senator'S.
| Then | made inquiries and found he was
| the Identical Hughes who used to send the
| kids on the Sacramento lot to bed with
| tired backbones every night from the pain
| full effects of going on a rainbow chase
with their bats after this same Baltimore
| Hughes"
Complaints have been registered with
| tha cIuh owrera nv come of the host
| known patrons of the game who claim that
the game is played without any of the
ginger or spirit rhls season. and that the
| players meander around the diamonds like
| SO many sleep walkers; and this somnam
bulism feature IL even worse this year than
ever" says Manager Frank Selee of the
| Boston team. Tho players have no one
but themselves to blame for this dopy, list
| less playing. When the coach law was
| worklng on liberal lines the oeclalmers OF
the biue tongue insisted on hurilug chunks
OF hair-curilng Engiish Versitioatlon at the
patneaS ",,u .he uwnu.s wu'u uopI,,ru 10
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he carried ont IN The raniiai Letter bv tho
So called hoard of denortment I thinl, n
would he n good n,an 10 restore tho coach
rule to It's old liberal lines. One patron ~
the game in wasbinutor n nron,inenl ana
wealthy snortsmnn heIioves Tho now ruIos
that curb tho players can stand for more
> liberal coaching reforms and suggests that
the coach line he occupied even when the
bases ara vacant. The quiet that prevails
, at deaf and dumb soiree or the tameness
az a full dress Philadelphia o'clock tea
are really gtddy affairs compared with base
naii unless the .nagnates invent an elixir
OF me.
Thcre VIII he two lawyers on the Kansas
Nlty team and both are pitchers. They
| "'e oa'' "ear ana Mike sullivan
/ An enthusiastic exchange remarks that
, there are enough baseball players IN the
nited States to capture Cuba.
The management of the New Haven team
in tho Connecticut league may fall 10 the
irrerressible Windy Arlie Latham. the Man
win the Iron Gall.
i, Walter wilm,t will he the permanent
= right gardener eor the Giants. though Me-
: Crcery viii be carried for utility roles
lake Ce,tman Is ana ~ mo fey o,,h,
= dextrous outfielders In the major league
4 Jake can agitate mis- left or right in n quick
return throw from the outfleld.
Am ton hr,af month, as, And, rroo,o,,
, was ncdd,inS mo reIea ss' -, 49, poania
along tho mnior loagne Itnos pm, 1ai,a 49,
i 49, ~'e ,na Nnyo. e"H"e ines' nu' JAM mas
d stick ana Buck Wouldn't part with he h,c