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

Which Is what we'd need if they got
runs as easy every innin' as they old
the last no, I shall stay right here,
says I, and IL I should set mine. says
i, tell them in the old Corndropper'5
League. if YOU ever get back 60 Gods
country. that Haggerty tel in wardin'
or the Veuer peril, and right Up un-
der the guns. Tel 'em that, says T.
Then II give Reg the signal fer a fast
inward. and the inning was or.
say, that was what was needed
that little move o. mine. After that
eighth innin' Reggie give 'em Cy
Young Bane-nO hits, mo runs, and
not weller 20 FIRST base. Ny bein'
there steadied him down, am he
I had to untangle 'em out o. their
pigtails. They hit em a couple o.
times, an once 7 got a hard belt on
the shoulder, but it bounced back
an Reg got IT, an threw the crab
runnin guy out.
'Innin' after iuDin' went by an We
couldn't score Fifth, fourth. third
second doated past. and still we
couldn't git man on base, AT last
it come down TO the ending o the
first as our last chance.
Break 10 no now, holleFed Sam
Merritt Sam never quits tin the last
man is out i'm the last innin' an his
spirits Reggie was up first. and then
the Eeavy hitters on the battin' order
We didn't expect much from Reg,
but he surprised us by falling on the
first ball an sendin' out a sSyscraper
that fell safe lie tumbled over in
backin' down 10 third base, but got
up an made the bag.
Wow Break her up! Break her
up. yelled Merritt Old Pinch come
up an shot one down the left field
foul line The Chink third baseman
made a dive for IL, but it went through
him Ike a shot, an bounced OF tie
heels O. the left fielder. an by the
time it was fielded in Reg was on first
an Pinch on second.
Then Jim Harrison popped up
foul their third baseman made a circus
catch Of, and Hennessy was called out
on strikes. That hampered US little
However there was a scheme III
Pete Browns head, and when he
came up ne hunted Their ketcher
was half way between the pitchers
box and second base, an by the time
him an the pitcher had skinned IN
fer II, Pete had gOOgled on his heels
backwards down TO third, an it was
up to me.
Il hadn't made a good hit out of it
that day, and I knew the time had
come. 7 picked out an especially
smooth aleyway in left center. an
'Git away off! Away DOWN
yelled Merritt WhOopin' her up. The
runners could take good leads, cause
the pitcher is so far away in this
Chink game. Break her up now,
Hag.' he yelled. Kill isp
Il knew there was no danger Of my
breakin' &c I'm two when I was battin'
with the ball, so / really put all my
streu'th in It. Biff Sailin' out 70
left center she went, tearin for the
plate our fellers came-aIl backwards
an I began backin' up to third base.
Some day when you got a grudge
against Teller, get him TO put OF a
pair OF spiked shoes an run the bases
backward. 1t beats everything how
many feet you seem to have. I would
sWOTe / was a Centerpede before 1
got half way to second. And then
the durn spikes began TO cut my toes
i was interferin' like an old mule,
y know-an all the while 7 cd hear
Merritt yellin'. Pull OUT Cit a gait
on. You amt runnin't an things like
that And I says to myself. says /,
Sammy, if I had you here you'd think
you was runnln'-Or sOmethin, IT
seemed an age, but soon I was at
first and had begun tie last back
breakin'. ankle wrenchin', toe tanglin'
rush
'Weu, the left fielder had got the
BAH, most half mile away by this
time, an they began linin' &c I'm to
ketch me. When / was three quarters
o the way home Merritt saw they
had me II he didn't do somethin', so
re picked up nay mitt an when the
second baseman ketched the ball on
the throw In, Sam slammed in the
mitt, an blamed If the guy. bein' a
little ratified. didn't throw it at sam,
an Sam ducked, an it went into the
crowd an got lost.
THAT settled 1t. I tottered over
then, durn near exhausted. an the
game was won. an the Chineezers
We're maddeT'n lot O hornets.
They wanted to give me an Merritt
yeiler jackets an peacock feathers an
pigtails, am stay there an be sort
o. kings il we'd only play ball but
we threw 'em down hard, From that
day to this I amt heard O. no Chinese
ball player. That defeat we give 'em
is the cause Of it,"
Copyright, 1904, by George William
DaleyD