The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-07-17

HaduCaH anu fefry Will CdtCn. Nor.
ris will act at the slab for Hopsown
and Street, as usual will be behind
the bat. Street stated this morning
that he had decided to remain with
the Hopkinsville team and SO wired
the Terre Haute manager last night.
Several teams have been after Street
and each have been turned down. The
Hoptown managers will not let him
go at any price.
The baseball men who complain of
being "overworked" are drawing on
their imaginati on. What they do is
get two or three hours exercise, which.
even if the most violent kind would
still not break them down, but be
good for them. Many men work as
hard for eight end ten hours every
day as baseball men do for two or
three. and do not complain Of being
overworked. The baseball men work
two or three hours out of "a and get
more pay than many men do for work
ing all day. There is no kick coming
about this, except they claim they are
kinsville catcher, has caught every
game this season and about twenty OK.
hibition and college games besides,
and he is still catching. Yet Kelley,
one of Psducah's catchers, quit be-
cause he had to catch three or four
times week.
A great many did not understand
the play yesterday in which Potts
dropped a popup fly, and threw man
out at third. An infeld fly does not
have to be caught. Under the present
rules the batter is out whether the
ball is caught or not, and Potts did
not have to catch il. The man on sec
ond base, however, did not have to
run towards third, but he started pro-
baby through oversight, and was
thrown out by Potts. The rule rela-
tive to popup fys is not generally IN
derstood. IL was made TO prevent
double plays on small hits. For in
stance without the rule a popup could
go out to one of the infielders when
there were runners on base, and the
infielder could purposely drop the
ball, forcing the men on bases to run,
and then retire them by double play.
/ So under the new rule an infield hit
makes the batter out and men on bases
do not have to run.
A Milwaukee special to yesterdays
papers gives Lon Hedges, of Paducah,
credit for winning Wednesday s game.
One calls him Abraham" Hedges in
stead of Alonzo. The uncertainty Of
baseball is evinced by the following
dispatch: Milwaukee, Wis, July IS
With Claude Elliott, leading pitch
er Of the American association, in the
box, the Milwaukee team fell from
their proud position as the leader in
the pennant race Tuesday. With
Alonzo Hedges, graduate from the
X. /. 7. league, and Howard Stone,
late of the Circleville, o., Reds, on
the rubber, the team regained the
leadership today by beating the colo
nels. The score was to 6.
Yesterdays Louisville Post says OF
the game; The Colonies onward
march toward THE Seats of the
Mighty" received a setback yesterday,
and the inglorious part of it was that
their temporary rebuff was brought
about by a callow youth aged II years,
from the wilds of their own state.
Abraham Hedges, the infantile prodi.
gy, played at guerilla warfare. He
always came up from behind and in
dulged in scrimmage of brilliant
pitching when hits were most needed.
Beau" Egan pitched good ball in
but one inning, but in that round the
Brewers netted enough TALES to as
sure victory, and after that it was q
heartless uphill fight for Louisville.
The onslaught came in the third,
when the Brewers had feast at the
expense of Egan.
Ganley opened with single, and
then came hits by Speer. Schlsdy,
Donahue and Hemphill, aud double
by Wood, scoring five runs