The sun., 1901-09-15
NE LO0kED rpO Wais At ONCE
secoId d Bnsemsn Of the Iightfoot Lilies
Aw onsirf Z tntIi Put In IIlInkers.

4 ANoOdrf tntil Put In iiilnker.
NO. haven't played baseball this sum
Nor the Fat cA-mAscot OF the LightfOpt
lili.s told some friends tho other day
My interest Ia Ia. national gamo l. a.
great a. ever. my arm has lost none 81 it,
old-time cunning: my feet are A. nimbls
As 70 yOre. but NV eyesight IL rapidly going
hack on mc. Not hut what I've known
ball PLAYERS with eve trouble-good players
with bad troubles hut they We labored under
difficulties which | should never care 10
attempt For example. Well. let me
see There was big VIII Seymore, our
old secoud bazeman. Taking everything
into confederation | should say that he
was about tho best player with bum blinkers
that | ever knew He wasn' I near-sighted
or fnr-sightcd nor was he cross-eyed But
his peepers wsre both 90 gol burned ugly
looking that each instinctively turned
away from the other a. far as possible.
Squint-eyed. wall-eyed or something like
that just the opposite from cross-eycd,
y know.
-Why II was 50 bad that whcncvcr viii
Scyrnoro crossed a crowded street he was
able to watch for trolley In both dirco-
tons without - much ~ turning a hair
And once. while marching IN a political
parade with his head straight to the front
he dumfOuudcd the captain with the in
formation that the mon on each end Of tn"
line wcro out Of step I really do believe
thai II that man had ever tried 10 take a
philosophical view of the present, he'd
have got views OF both the dim past ani
the distant future instead.
The hrst time Sluggcr Burrows. ths
captain Of the lightf"ot Lilies. ever saw
Seymore was IN New York the year Of the
Brotherhood League n you rcmem her
the brotherhood grounds were on the block
above tho-e IL the National League. Sey-
more was standing on the roof Of a hanson
VA the street between 'hem watching both
gafn.z al the same time. ] don't know
how the siugser ever got next to his ability
a. a ball tosser. but he did all right. for
ten daVs later Sevinore was out IN Jones
county holding down SECOND base for ~
Boo tho practice games preparatory To- tho
hig championship match with tho Ring
tai Roarer-.
And SAY. maybe His Eyelcts wasn't
the real thing. though, He would stand
there on -.,'pid facing tho plate, with one
l0uker fastened on third and the other
staring 'h- runner a. first baz" square Ia
In tho fac. Il would have taken better
than seoord-story man u have stolen
has, on that guy But II was his stick work
that attracted most attention IA the gatno
with the kingtail Ruarrrs Three singles,
one homer. and three ha-e- on ball- out II
seven times at bat He reemad to know
lust when tho hall was coming over. and
tricky curves and shoots that would hav"
fooled even the Slugger himself had no
torrurs for big viii Seymore. Still that
wasn't ~ remarkable when all the Circum-
stRuoes of Va" case are taken into con
ridrration You se when he Was al the hat
while one eve was gazing intently al ~"
pitcher. the other locker was carefully
rsauning the catcher. In that way he was
abl. To read the latter's signals and In con
s'qucnc- knew just what kind Of a ball
g. sSpaCt from the former.
What were his troubles them I'm com-
ing to that Throughout the first eight
innings ~ the hig game his helding was
abnNc roprnaCh. and the Ringtai knarrrs
were looking like new business for tha
Indertaker Then tho unforeseen hap
ueucd (v Priest the first man up for
tiv' Ruar-rs df"w his has, on hall. VIII
had him covered with Eis l"ft optic and that
Of c1ur-e. focused hi- other lpuker over on
e. third On IA" next ball pitche, tv mad"
dash for second our catcher shot IA"
hall down to nip him 81 snd-thud' Four
tooth and a broken no-". that's all bl'.t
$50 it2 Why since VIII had one ev" levolltd
np first and he other un third. N
han. thrown from homo. came righ, IN be
tween his two lines Of vision, Just where
h" c'uldn't $50 Il
Now Seymore was too good PLAYER
20 release for little misfortune Ike that
Mh.u he recovered from his ia luriss sui
ficcutly To show up for PRACTICE again
We tried having The catcher throw to either
first or third, where the basenlan would
pass tho hall along to second. But thus
method NaH too slow. Every man, woman
and child who had the best interests Of III"
IAghtfoot lllies AT heart then ST 90 think
iuC 20 discover some WAY In which II would
- possible to keep Seymore at second |
II was old Doc Quackenbush. the town /
L. q liz Ia