The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-10-11
HOME RUN HAGGERTY IN TEXAS
Down IN the Domain AIka His Team Goes Up Against
Hard Combination But
Wins Out

caught Il. just for practice. he said. He
Hennessy ended the inning with a line
uriVe 70 right which he called properly,
Dcins q lett-handed hitter but the nelder
Then Reggie went in to pitch He
put a straight one over. and a big Alkau
guy says hight and fel on 1t like sam
thompson ln his palmy days. Fast field
rs Dy Bliiings kept him down to two
The next man up was another slugger.
teeBgle saw it from the way he handed
ne ~ ,, Ss'ek, % ne wound up hhe as though
rs , VS. soin6 70 put lot O. speed ia IT,
The fellow looked for fl, but he hit be-
l0re II got half way 10 the plate IT was
one of Reggie's slow ones that seemed
70 stop and hang in the air.
Deception No fair" yelled the bat
Ter Ike KID getting robbed O. marbles
ne made believe he was goin to throw
He got it, too, and Reggie went UP in
the ar and gave the next man first on
balls- That filled en- and nobody out.
IL looked like a bushel O runs.
ne next man put a liner into Jimmy
HarrisOn's hand at third though and
before the Alkalites knew what was up
we'd pulled off triple play. They had
70 allow that was fast work, and we got
quite hand,
Those darn rules bothered us an the
While. They wouldn't "a Gelded more
than half the hits we made. only we
called EN- wrong. If the big league ever
want 20 make games pass quickly they
couldn't DO better than to run In a couple
o. those Domain Of Afkaf rules.
Alkalites Three Runs Ahead.
when it came to the ninth they had
tnree runs TO our none Reggie was up
llrst and struck out
Pinch called right field and then put
a liner over the first baseman's head lt
lust stayed inside the foul line, and went
for a hit Jimmy Harrison Iine-aeId 10
urrd IL q
made horrible muff and they were both
safe Hennessv tried for a base on balls.
but what should have been the fourth
ball the umnire allowed was the third
strike. 1t was pretty raw.
Pete Brown sung out right field, and
nut liner in safe place. Pinch hurried
IN and Harrison got third.
II was uu next. over the fenceT I
yelled as / picked up the old lead-ended
which fenceg the Alkautes all yelled,
and their three felCers backed out and
e>ch began to kick. board out.
Hold on says T. If I knock il out
the lot doesn't it 20 for a home rum
Not unless you tell which fence It
goes over.
And if it goes over the fence I say
and those fellows WriEgle through those
holes and get it I'm out anyway
That's about it. says the deacon
manager.
Il Thought for a minute As I stood
there calculatin 1 heard the church man
saw to Josh:
90 Friend. as I said before. I never bet.
But 7 have a proposition to make II
YOUR team wins-and YOU only need the
two rms on the bases to tie the scOre-l
VIII give YOU that herd of steers grazing
on wonder field While if the Alkah nine
wins YOU win give me the roll Of money
in your packet Is IL agreed2.
Can YOU make it2 says Josh to me-.
the unhoIy light Of gain coming into his
ewes.
% Yes says r. grittiug my teeth.
Go You're on says Josh to the deacon
The latter rubbed his hands
Haggerty Calls Thrashing Machine
Now. way beyond the center field
fence was . thrashing machine in full
operation. The horses were pounding in
the treadmill, a guy was pltchin' wheat
away straw and another was bagging
the wheat Out beyond that ought TO be
safe.
Center field fence says
" over OF hit it,? says the pitcher.
over, says ]. To be more explicit,
I'm goin' to put it through that thrashin'
Gle thought I was fooling. and laughed
pleasantly, and threw up a swift one
right over the pan.
Iaik about your hard swings. GER
tainly put more beef into that than ]
ever did in any crack in my life. for
beef depended on it; and that's no joke.
over the center feeders head and he crept
through the hole in the fence and dashed
out to get under il.
It's all of saws l. as I struck first.
If it don't go quite out there For he
was getting close to it.
Like a bird ii went soaring through
the air. Now a breeze helped il. now a
gust delayed it. The crowd was yelling
like a lot O. MANAGES, and as I turned
second / saw the man on the thrasher
look up with a frightened look. I knew
it was all right then. The next minute
the bah went into the feed hole and a
fOrkfui of wheat followed it.
And then what do you think2 That
fielder had the nerve to come up with the
mangIed shreds # that ball he'd taken
out the hopper and made the claim that
he'd caught it before it touched the
ground That was the limit, and I fully
expected to see the umpire decide against
us. but for once he gave us a decision
that he might "a put the other way.
and we got out of Alkali drivin' a herd
oF rT,prs