The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-05-01

ended bat and they were crazy TO
have me there and win the cham
pionship for them, SO they raised a
magnificent salary and wired me- ]
didn't make any secret of where ] was
going, and on the train for SOuTmash
met lot of people. who played
cards with me and took such good
care of the great bail player that when
we got = hundred miles OF so of my
destination I hardly knew a Pullman
coach from a car float. And right
there guy that / knew was ball
player from his hands got aboard.
He sort o. jumped when he heard 1
was Home Run Haggerty as they
all do, but j thought nOthiu of it,
With a schemin' eye, I can see II now,
though / didn't see liz then, ne sized
me up, and pumped me dry o. facts
and filled me fun OF whisky, and when
/ came 10 I was in a freight car on
the Chesapeake & Ohio humping
the rails for the Atlantic seaboard.
and Sourmash and the Blue Grass
league were far asJern.
THAT was an awakening! All my
baggage gone, including the famous
bat and the old mitt, only about forty
cents i'm my clothes. and the split
-iugest headache and Tagingest thirst
you ever saw. And my clothes. If
I'd WallOwed in the soft coal i'm the
tender couldn't a been dirtier- There
was also a whole lot o. WhiskeTs on
my face / don't look nice with.
well, ] dropped off the first time
the train slowed up and found myself
in a little place i'm eastern Kentucky
where passenger trains stop once
day and the fTeights gOin' west have
a down grade and just sail by. I got
a drink o. water and made up my
mind To get back TO SouTmash as
IN
Luckily a west bound coal train had
hot box right there an hour or so
later and ] climbed into the cab, and
I'm half an hour more I was fiTin' her
up so she was pOppiu steam am climb
i'm like a cat. an the engineer was
rellin his own fireman that he the
fireman. was a four fusher.
"WeU, two days later we struck Sour
mash, and the engineer and fireman
gave me good luck and I inquired for
the ball grounds. Tt just happened that
iI was about O'Clock i'm the afternoon
of the day the Sourmash season opened.
] mad lost a week of preliminary praC-
tice through ms unfortunate adveu-
lures. and the ball game was near due.
The town was deserted. but / found the
grouuds and asked for the manager,
'Whatl 7 tell 'im@' says the guy
I'm the ticket Office. loOkiu' kind o. funny
AT my railroad jumper an greasy hands
and coal busted face.
Tell him Hagserty wants to zee
him., says T. He'll know HagEeUty,
the famous heavy hitter from up AIiChi-
gaH way
.s.Did SOU ever tell somebody some
thing that YOU expected 'ud make
tremendous impression an have him
Eiv5 YOU the laugh. and a nasty, spite
fuI laugh at that2 If YOU amt YOU
don't know the faeIiu's that ragged
tumultu0usly in my heart when that
fellow says this,
.Ho, no. Cir out O. here. you bis
uauhaudlcr You can't deadhcad into
these grounds ON the stFen'th of that
meme. We got abe real Haggerty I'm
here, you're about a week late
II reached my hand through the
opening where the money goes iu an
grabbed him by the neck, intending TO
throttle him first and spoil that sarcas-
tic smile afterwards He squirmed
away though and rushed out into the
grounds by the back door sh0utin'.
Police. Help. A crazy man here
thinks he's Home Run Haggerty and
wants 90 kill me"
"He hawled SO loud three OF four
cops came and iu d minute / was hand
cuued Wasn't I mad! 7 kept asking
for the manager and sayiu' I'd have
'em an broke and maybe I did act
little crazy. And then as ] was led
past the wide 0peu gate 10 the grounds
] saw something inside that made me
understand it all.
There at the home plate. with Sour
mash on his shirt front. and my lead
ended bat in his hand was the ball
player that had piled re with booze
1u the train coming down 90 Kentucky,
That was what the guy meant when
Dee thought 7 was crazy and said they
had the real HaEEerty. / could see 81
now. He had my baggage; he had put
me on The eastD0uDd freight and qoped
me so i couldn't come to I'm hurry:
with his smiiin' front be was impOsiU
on the cOnhding toWnspeOple as the
original Home Run Haggerty and.
what was more, he was gettiu away
with the goods. And I was bein' led
10 CELL II ever my heart sank 10 was
then.
They gave me hearing before a
judge. and I repeated my claim TO
bain the only Home Bun Haggerty ln
the world. only I had nOthin' 10 prove
st. The baseball manager, who had
followed me Go make complaint
shook his head and said it was q sad
case. and the judge said he'd hold me
for examination al TO my sanity. They
wouldn't let me tell how I'd been
biIked. but hurried off 90 the game
arm iu arm. sayin' they didn't want
TO miss seem the real hittrt maze tlie
FIRST home run o. the season
well, when they put me in a cell
] made up my mind I'D get out. and
after an hours careful digging I got
the cement away from an iron bar in
q window, stealthily climbed out and
dropped TO the ground I needn't a
been So careful. for all hands around
the jail had gone 20 the bah game. /
hurried back 10 the grounds myself
determined on having just one three
minute round with the guy that mad
stolen my things ana put me iu such
a hole
"As ] crept up beaind the grand-