The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-24
EVERY PLAYER
HAS OFF DAY
Joe Mceinnity, the iron Man,
Tells Of His Blu dsrs.
COULD NOT HIT TIE BALL
SOME WONDERFUL GAMES HE
HAS PITCHED.

New York. Dec 23-In every baseball
players career there is always some par
tcularIy timely base hit, more than
usually brilliant play. or an especially
great game won by that players own In
dividuol work that looms up I'm his minf
TO the exclusion of all he may have done
IN any other nard-fOUght and holly con-
tested battle OF the diamond. Such events
are stamped in his memory and are mle-
stones along the rocky road Of his pro-
1essional experience.
Again. too, some glaring blunder that
mas Cost MS team q victory raukles IN his
memory and VIII not down. There wa1
the time that every fan on the grounds
forgot 10 roast the umpire for the time
being ana concentrated his excited atten-
ton on the unfortunate player who WIS
called everything from "a "wall-eyed has
been 90 pail Of 0ieOmargariEe. When
-J0JJ half frcuZied baseball Crauks get on
their legs ana with unanimity howl their
dispieasure ar player, the scene is in
denDiy impressed on the ,unfortunate's
mind. His "attiC" retains the picture
For the benefit Of the fans these cold
winter days joe McGinnity the iron man
tells Of his blUuders.
II think the worst play I ever made
at least &c was the one that ] kick my
self the most for doing said the famous
pitcher, was when I famed with three
men on the bases, when safe hit Of any
klnc-cVeu Texas Lacquer would
have won us the game. 1t was only last
season, and at the Polo grounds. Tho
Giants were playing the st. Louis Car
diuals and we wanted the game like run.
Tor we were nip and tuck with Chicago
and every victory counted for fair. We
looked upon Patsey Donovan's crowd as
dead easy, and they We're. too. for they
came on to the eroUnd looking to pet
licked. Here we are. Get us quick ana
let us 60 home was about the way they
tclt. They were a demOralized bunch
and we knew it, but my striking out di0
the business for our fellows.
Tt was I'm the ninth inning and O We'll
was pitching. He did not have enough
speed 10 dent butter and / knew IL.
could always hit him, too. and went up
expecting TO swat the ball a mile. Sill
bert Lauder and Babb were ON the
bases, all good runners and 4 thought N
WAS all over but the shouting j swung
at the ball as If I were using flaif.
nad three swings, too. at the pesky giob
ute. but only hit the wind each time
But II / had pasted the bah on the East
Fwipe I'll bet ] would have broken Il
The score was to ?, or something like
that, against us; anyhow, We only needed
well. you should have seen TO gana
I'm the club house after the game. Tam
about calldown. 1 got mine from Nc
tfraW 10 Gus Guerrero, the rubber. The
boys would hardly look at me FOR two
days. But ] felt worse over il than thes
did. 7 have made many rotten plays. bu
that was the limit. I kicked myself fol
my best worke Well I don't want Z,
crack myself up- people viii think am
stuck on myself. / viii say that I con
slider ] have done better pitching thar
tho three double-headcrs I did this sea
son. for which ] was given q world o.
credit. I appreciated. of course. an The
nice things said about me for those VIC
tories, but what I consider my hes
pitching was when 7 pitched five games
I'm six DAYS for the BrOoklyns I'm 1890 an,
won them all. -Four Of the gumes. 200
We're against the Pittsburgs. That wa
doing pretty. well. wasn't il? Sun, 7 va
not troubled with a lame arm. I ha,
just as much speed In the fifth game a.
when I started the first. But. mind YOU
] was beautifully supported in the tleh
and was backed up with some timell
swatting by the boys, or I could no
have made such a record. 7 guess II I
the underhand swing I use with my rails
bail that saves my wing ] know that
never had lame arm i'm my life. 1T ha
been stiff, but ] can pitch that on
easily"