The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-05-15

By George GILLIAN Daley

dope-its natural force. When you're
doped YOU do somethin' you don't
want TO do. This stun makes you want
10 do it-therefore you cant help doin'
IL right. It's great stuff.
But If it's so powerful says l.
won't 81 maybe XIII him2'
XIII nOthin says Pinch It's harm
less. il only makes you want to work.
work, work. It gives you energy SO
you can't rest All we got to do is to
keep ellison supplied with a dose a day
an heH pitch till the seasons ended
and the cold winds of the north land
bring the Arctic SHOWS drifting over
the baseball diamonds hereabOuts
When Pinch gets real enthusiastic
over anything he can reel on mighty
fine language.
80 Pinch went TO the drug store
for the Tadium stuff and ] went home
They We're havin' an awful time In the
stable with ellison Billiams, and an
inch garden hose, but finally, after the
barber gave him ether 10 get of his
hair and Whiskers, and he had on
some Of PinChs old clothes, he looked
good. His hair was streaked with
gray d little and he looked hungry
asked if we shouldn't give him the
radium right there and then,
" oh, no. says Pinch. If YOU We're
~ tll lLlE sLuuG u iAlS great BAt-
prietary article you'd know that if I
give it to him when he was hungry
he'd never quit eating, like Cash Tor
rey, of the old SilO team. We give
him this just before he begins practice
tomorrow, and then there won't be
nCthin' TO it,.
so Pinch had his way, ellison Bill
Hams ct good enough at supper with
out any radium to help him, and the
hotel people looked worried and
wanted to know if we was sure the
club'd stand for him
THAT night Pinch showed me a lit
tie bit of a thick glass bottle with
some invisible stun in one corner
There was only a drop, and when
wanted to smell it he most had a mt
"Weu, the next day about O'Clock
as we went out To practice We put
the great plan into operation. Pinch
and I were nervous lest failure should
come of it, and ne couldn't pitch. AS
to its hurtin him we decided that q IT.
er the breakfast and dinner he'd ct
there was nOthiu' made thatd DO that
So Pinch put the radium on a lump Of
sugar TO make it palaJable, and when
ellison demonstrated 1 grabbed him by
the neck and held his nose while Pinch
showed the lump I'm his mouth and in a
minute we had il down him.
Talk about your pitchin' machines,
5 Talk about your iron men, Talk
rather about ellison Biliams, the
steel-armed centenarian box artist Of
the Alfalfas. The minute that stuff
was in him he couldn't rest. Pitch
pitch pitch. slam 'em in till my hands
was sore And speed! EllWOod Hanks
never tore them of stronger CurvesI
Reggie himself, nor SOlarplexis the
Indian 81
Steady as Lamp Hymes had been. Gil
son mad lot on him. Strike outs ga
lore, The first seventeen men up
never saw the ball The Hayvilles
didn't get hit or run, and when they
telegraphed the news TO Tim McGiu-
mis- at Russetville that night he took
10 drink
THAT was all there was to that
pennant chase ellison pitched every
game tin Reggie got back, and never
lost one. And then Dan got better
and we could let the gray haired old
veteran rest bit And then came the
cruellest thing Of all The price O.
radium began to go up.
'' soon it cost so much we could
only afford to give ellison his lump Of
sugar for very important games. Dur
ing the winter he didn't cost nothin
but ia the next spring radium, instead
OF going down, was higher than ever.
It got so it cost $1,000 a drop and then
two thousand, and then three. A quar-
ter Of a drop made a dose, but Josh
couldn't put up $500 or $500 every i'm
portsnt game and make money. So
we held ellison as utility, and he did
fairly we'll though he's getting aged
and sore without the radium. As soon
as the price goes down Wen break
some more records with him"
Copyright, 1904 by George William
Dsley)