The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-07-16

three luke dies Oxer tho inl1e1A and waD
swelling up with his importance - bat
ter. The fourth time Il bat Dad hi
grounder toward third and Peck came for-
ward fast. kicked the bah ten feet. and
Dad. stopping halfway down TO nrst.
shook his Est II the fielder and yelled:
Get IN front Of that. you clown, and ct
wounded
There was . Tight down on the grounds
AZ Columbus. O., Z few days ago that was
not reported in the priEenght columns.
The principals were Reuben Waddeli.
pitcher, and George Tebeau. the manager
OF the Columbus club. waddeil one Of
the best pitchers Ia the Western. - . long.
lanky farmland with . world OF speed.
and he Il all he was chr:stened- When he
first became q professional ball player he
used to tie . fan 10 his breast. another
TO hts hack. and on them Was printed the
Injunction: Come out and see old Reub
fan 'em out" Then he would march
around the city and advertise the game.
Reub was. Just before the latest battle
At Columbus. praciicing shooting revol-
yer out back OF the clubhouse. Some OF
the bullets punrtured the pianks and Ill
tered through to where Tebeau was Dress
inx and he entered objections. The quarrel
grew high and finally Tebeau. who has
some OF his brother Pats fighting tenden-
cies. sailed into the pitcher. There was
Q merry battle. and In the end Tebeau
looked like . man who has been run over
by q harrow. To atone for his crime OF
lese majesty Waddeli pitched two games
In the next two days and won them both.
Arson released Bad Bill Eagan, the
second baseman, for play made perfectly
and q play made so suddenly that Arson
himself did net understand II. The play
came up In . close game with . man on
second and one out. The bali was hit
sharply to Eagan. who fumbled, and the
error let the runner reach first In safety.
Eagan knew this. and. without making .
blum to throw to frat, grabbed up the
ball and shot II fast up to third. knowing
the runner going from second would turn
the base and make q break for home.
Dahlen was not looking. The bali whis-
tied across third and rolled over to the
stands. two men scored. and chicago lost
the game. The next day Arson released
Eagan.
Mike Kelly released Pietro Gladiator
Browning for an even stranger reason.
Kelly was then running the Allentown.
Pa. team and had the old Gladiator play
ing in the outfield. One night. after Pesey
had made three "bingles'' and won the
game for Allentown. Kelly called the Glad
iator to him and said;
''Petey. I'm going to release you.'
What for?' asked the Gladiator.
We'll. to tell the TRUTH" said Kelly.
you're playing such good ball you're
showing US all up" and he gave the Gladi-
ator an unconditional release.
Almost a parallel to the case was fur
nished by the pitchers Of the Philadelphia
club In 1894. That spring the Quakers had
a dozen twirlers. and they were all jealous
OF their jobs, and whenever one of them
pitched a good game all the rest expected
a release before morning. One afternoon
one Of the pitchers wen. in. pitched a
clever game. and made four hits, and the
next day a delegation Of pitchers went over
10 the clubhouse and sawed up all the bats
of the man who made the hts.-Chicago
Tribune.