The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-06-26
BY George William Daley

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big prairie right outside the town was
the place. The boss made # a half
holiday in the mines of the Delvin
Desert o. DOubledee. Why in thunder
they ever picked that name for such
a f0TsakeE joint Isl more than / was
ever able to understand.
"As the time drew near for the
game, an We watched the ChuIKs
practiciu' ketchiu' flies over their
shoulders an runnin backwards to
bases most as fast as We could run
front ways. an dom all kinds O
stunts Ia the way o. battin', ! began
10 have my first crop o. misgiViugs.
Now says T. TO Josh, j hardly
think were dOin right in playln' this.
here game, says T. Didn't YOU never
hear o. the yeller peril% says J. Wen,
this is it, III we encourage this here
bah playin' In these Chiuks, the first
thing you know therein be a. league in
China, and then our own big cities
WIN lee signin' Ling-lang-lO to play
first base or shortstop, am Wen be
gettin' run out o. business the same as
they've run out the nisgers an ginnies
Workin these mines. an the poor laun-
dry people. That's the yeller peril
says 1. Josh HapgO0d. you'd ought
TO have enough patriotism TO resist IT,
What's q paltry i've hundred dollars
when your country's weifare's at
stake2'
'G'wan,' says Josh. I think you're
gettin' a yeller streak. Play your
game
II made up my mind Josh'd eat
them words. And he did.
when the game began, they put me
ia the middle o. the diamond right back
o. the pitchers box. to return the balls
70 Reg, who was back of the plate. I
never felt so out Of place in my life,
gaWhn' there with nay head screwed
over my shoulder-we an had to stand
with our backs to the batter you
know
90 They amt no good goin' 10 come
from this business O. putin the ketCh-
en-, the most important player on the
nine, out @ his position says / to my
self. Mark my words. The ketcher,
even i'm this twisted game, b'Iongs right
up there ia front o. that batter an
says / to myself. that's where he'll get
II things don't pan out right here
And they didn't Reggie pitched up
an out curve, the first Chink batsmau
waited for it, and druv st along the
ground down toward third. Jim Har-
risen sco0ped It up. An then what do
you think the bug did, Instead O.
stepp1n' on third an putin his man
out, he ups an lines it into Pete Brown
on drsL in the true front way o. play
in. an before Pete could get it back
the Chink was safe on third base
But they had another way o. play
in Tt seems that Harrison had picked
the ball front ways, am Pete Brown
had ketched it front ways. So we were
nned two bases, an the Chineezer went
around TO FIRST
THE next one to bat popped I'D a
little fly 10 Pinch. He showed how the
game should be played by backin' up
an taking it Cvere his shoulder. an
then making quick throw to Pete an
ketchins the guy who was danCin' up
an down there for a double play. That
gave US heart an Johnny Harrison
made nice stop o. a grOunder with his
heels, an Jim Harrison got the feller
at third
when we came to bat it was
revelation TO see them yeller feIers
scoop up our hard drives-fOr we
could hit pretty free, though not as
hard as against the ball-an' we. saw
that our hard hittin' wasn't goin' to
pull that game out, for We couldn't get
our hits safe
Wen, the boys got all baIled up in
the next inning. which was the eighth
ana made errors an got pen
allied, an when we got three men
out. they had three runs in an the
bases full Only q nice rUnnin' eaten
Of Hennessy's saved those three runs
from scOrin' We got nOthin' in our
half, an when we took the field again
my mind was made up. took the
mask an tie old mitt an the pertec-
tor an planted myself right i'm front
O. the plate.
20 counse everybody hOlIered.
Boss Watson he said he didn't want
to see a fine Teller like me carried
home ON a door which I surely would
be; Josh he tried to sit me away,
and even Pinch Joined In the howl
Very calm / stayed right where I
was am when / got ready L says to
josh:
They got three runs last innin''
says l. an where We're goin' to
get four from TO beat 'em I sdon't
know But what Glanced we have
under this ere blue vault o. heaven
90 sit twenty-five runs? says T.