The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-07-14
JIMMY sLAeLE.
His Great work In Recent Game at
Washington

| "1n nineteen hundred and something
say four decades hence. when the athlete
OF the emerald diamond is chasing lofty
soarers on his automobile aud a vitascope
tab ia kept on the umpire" says the
Washington Post, the present genera
ton of fans. spectacles on eyes and leg
o. mutton bags at the trousers knee. viii
harp on the olt-told yarn of liliputian
Jimmy Slagle: OF how Jimmy burglarized
Orioles Sheokard, La Chance and Holmes
out OF a trio OF triples. and how these
bnrglarious teats OF Jimmy's were pulled
OF in the days common light---daylight
rooberies forsooth. such as Curt WEIGH
and Fogariy and McAloer In their flower
and adolescence committed at the expense
of sturdy swatters. For Jimmy's long
distance spirits yesterday. after glulng a
deadly eye on the nying sphere. Will ever
retain green spot In the memory OF
those who witnessed his Dalton Brothers;
hola-up of safe hits
Jimmy made three killings. and in the
demise OF these hits he saved a possible
batting rally and played Hungry Joe on
The Orioles by bunooing en- out of safe
slaps off our Winnie's coquettish delivery.
Slagle's first holdup was pulled off in tho
fourth inning, when he charged on a ter
rife fly from Sheckard. high deep, swift.
en- route for the fence In deep left center.
The fans settled hack and were casting
mental dice with each other as to whether
| Sheok would skirt the bases or whether
Jimmy would hold him at Atherton's cor
ner But at the crack of the bat Jimmy
was away at a flying start, and in his
sprint with the sphere he won out, hls
Judgment in timing the hit being perfect
aud his fleet feet carrying him to the bail
In the nick o time. though he hove for
ward and staggered from the force OF his
run"
"In the NTH Ducky Holmes swung a
long line ny TO deep center SlaEle getting
away as the bail angled from the bat as
the l00-yard man flies with the crack OF
the pistol. The scorers were willing to
compromise with Holmes by giving him
credit for a three bagger, but Slaglss
flight for the sphere was brought to a
climax by the death of another triple or
home run. But Jimmy's pifer OF La
Chances long shot to deep right center
in the sixth was the most brazan bit OF
embez2lement of the day. as the ball was
hit deep and cut across the lot on plumb
line for the fence. This. the third sprint
event of the day, was won by Jimmy amid
a booming OF hand tattoos in which even
the orioles on the bench Joined.
1T Is doubtful IL these fielding per-
formances of Slagle Will be equnled by any
outiielder in the major league this season.
Every catch was we'll measured by a fall
cons eye, and timed to the hair, not one
of your lucky stab catches, but perfect
connection with the ball.
But that's nothing. You ought to
have seen him on the trip. He nailed two
home runs in Chicago when Mcfarland
was pitching, have never seen such
fielding since Curt Welch was killing hits
on the Browns every day, said Gus Wey
hing, who sat in the stand and applauded
the midget's performances"
Slagle also helped along with the stick.
making two hits, both of them being
threebaggers.
In every city in the National league cir
cult the paers have only words of praise
for Slagle and deservedly SO, for he is
certainly playing wonderful game and
the people OF Houston who have watched
his career since he left this city are truly
proud of him. Slagle was a general fla
vorite in the Western league, as he is now
in the National and as he was when he
played here in 1896 Quiet, modest and
unassumng, and combining all the quail
ties which 90 to make up n gentleman,
and such he was at all times, he could not
help but jIpake friends everywhere. Hc
has now reached tho goal of every BALI
players ambition the National league,
and there he'll stay. his usefulness unim
paired for years TO come.