The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-17

Job-Now, dearie. don't get mad; am
trying my best to explain the game
to you There. that man is trying to
steal Now watch him.
Dearie-Steal the ball?
Job-No, steal the base.
Dearie-What's the base?
Job-Why, one of those white bags
you see lying there. Now watch him.
Dearie-Why, he is running right
away from It.
Job--You bet he is-over to the Sec
ond; don't you see, there's another base
over there. Hooray.
Dearie-What are you yelling at?
Job-Why, he stole that base and
by George, he is going after another
one. Hooray Good boy! He stole
two.
Dearie-why, he didn't take either
us have been laughing at you for the
last half hour. l think you had better
learn a little more about the game
yourself before you try to teach me.
What's that man in gray doing?
Job-Hes going to bat now. +.
Dearie--Why, you told me that the
men in white were the ones that were
going to do the batting.
Job-They take turn about, you know.
Those gray men have their turn at bat
now.
Dearie--O, goodness; do all of them
the ball isn't there, and all of that
mess you told me about? 1t will take
so long. l think baseball is an awful
bore It's a good deal like wood-tag,
isn't it? They can't tag them when
they get on those white bags. Have
they played one game yet?
Job-O, no. You will liko-it better
after awhile, dearie. This pitcher Is
fine; he will probably strike some of
those men out.
Dearie-Strike out? Will he get him
bat? Why, you said he did the pitch
ing. Don't try to. tell me any more.
You are making a perfect fool of your
self before these people. Next time /
come it will be with some one that
understands the game.
And as the wife of his bosom turned
as much of her back to him as she could
under the circumstances, Sammy Dun
gan hit the ball for ree-bagger and
Job" gave a war 9whoop which might
have meant joy for the three-timer, but
which sounded more as if it came from
a man who had been confined in dun
geon and suddenly been given his
ticket-of-leave.
Brooklyn is not the baseball town
that Messrs. Hanlon and Won Der Horst
expected it to be with winning team.
The Superbas have been first in the race
almost all season and now have the
pennant practically won, yet they have
played toslarger crowds abroad than at
home. An official of the st. Louis club
said recently that the Brooklyn clubs
share of the receipts of one game on
each of their two trips to this city, says
the Sporting News, exceeded the
amount the Perfectos will be paid for
seven games at Washington park, esti-
mating the attendance at the four re-
naming games on a basis of the first
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the more surprising when it is consid
cred that Brooklyn has been without a
first-class team for years. The syndi-
cate owners who have spared neither
money or labor to provide their patrons
pennant winner, have succeeded only
to realize that their efforts have not
been appreciated. Messrs. Hanlon and
ter field nearer home. What mint of
money a championship team would
make in season at Washington.
McGraw Is a smart man at the bat,
1t is doubtful whether there is a smar-
ter in the league than the warlike little
chap who Is making such a name for
himself this year as a manager. To
begin with, his position is excellent. He
faces .le pitcher properly and he has
his eye out for the curves. He is seldom
fooled by curve. Perhaps that is the
greater part of his secret as a success
full batter. In his earlier days he struck
out now and then, more because of his
desire to knock the ball out of the lot
than because he was fooled by the
pitcher. A high ball never seems to
bother him, Furthermore, he is one of
the few left-hand batters who can not
be coaxed into striking at inshoots. He
doesn't swing blindly at the ball as he
| did when first league player. He has
acquired that peculiar chopping motion
which makes hitters like Burkett and
| Keller. 1t is not surprising that he is
up with the leaders, and there might
| De more In the same place If they would
| employ their brains to as good advan-
| tage as McGraw has employed his since
he became a professional ball player
New York Telegram.
THE fact that ball players arm goes
| back on him at some stage of his career
does not mean that the players useful
ness is gone says Charlie Zuber.
| There have been many cases of rejuve-
| nation of dead arms the most recent
| of which to come to the notice of the
| public being that of Joe Dolan, who is
! playing second base for the Philadel-
phias in the absence of Lajoie Dolan
was tried at short by the Louisville club
a year or so ago. After he had played
| a month or so his arm went wrong, and,
| after carrying him for a short time. the
| club released him. He was tried by sew
| eral minor league teams subsequently,
| but the general verdict was that his
| arm was in too bad condition to war
rant any team carrying him. After a
| rest of several months he started out
| again, signing with the Richmond team
! In the Virginia league. He regained
| the full use of his arm, and now is
| throwing as well as ever he did. In
| Dolan a number of members of the
| glass arm brigade find consolation for
| being compelled to carry around tempo
| rarily disabled wings, and no doubt
many of them will be able to come
! around again just as Dolan did"
There is a growing suspicion around
| the league circuit that President Brush
| of the Cincinnati club takes more stock
| in the organization of the new league
than he cares to acknowledge. This in
| ference is based on the fact that Mr..
Brush Is busily engaged in corraling as
many promising players as it is possible
for him n Law hands heinz