The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-06-18
STORY ON MIKE LYNCH.
Drinks Fifteen "High-Bans' and
Loses a Baseball Game.


Cy Swain, once a pitcher for the Wash
ington National league team. tells a good
story i'm which George Tebeau and Mike
Lynch, who played with Butte lu the Ia
cific National league last year, figure.
Personally, / have met some unique
characters i'm baseball says swain put
none more passing so thau Alike Lynch,
third basemau for tle-Fort WAYNE team,
on which ] was also playins ul the Inter
state league before signing with ~ asmng-
1 ton. Lynch was the life of che team ana
( the delight of the whole circuit
George fcbGuu. who Was manager or
the Fort Wavac team. received a mes
sage that his mother was very lil lu tleNe-
land, and hastily departed thence, leaving
Lynch in charge.
oar first game after Tcbcau left was
to be PLAYED with Dayton, then neck-aud-
neck with us in the race for the remnant
Before the game, Lynch held ciuo
meeting he had borrowed a ministerial
I frock coat and high silk hat, and wore a
parliamentary gravity that was Glad
stOnean in its severity,
q. Boys he generously remarked, you
/ have understood that lt was $40 fine NTH
ertO to take glass of beer before "a game.
Now, ] want TT distinctly understood that
I amy player ON the team who Is SINAI.
enough not to take O. glass of beer before
O. game and 10 treat me to high ball
VIII be fined so.
Never was an orator more promptly or
effectively cheered than was be.
50 IL transplred that Mike drove tit-
teen Of us into a corner saloon. and while
/ each PLAYER drank the required one glass,
Mike drank impaTti8Ilv with every mem
Der of the team making Fifteen drinks
/ for the newly installed celebrity,
/ You couldn't have told him then that
I he couldn't have managed six men better
I than the whole coterie OF Brush. Ie5eau.
/ Freedman. Arson and Wagner. and that
I he was not the bright particular Jupiter
] in the galaxy OF baseball magudtes. When
/ we arrived at the park anC lined up for
} the critical contest with Dayton, Mike
was about as well organized for guarding
! the third sack as was the CTistCboi Colon
/ for smashing the American fleet after
she had opened her sea valves and bedCneQ
/ her hulk
Some one suggested: Mike. Of course
1 you won't trJ to play today
" Won't try 10 play. EN- won. II Wei
you have got your Sall, When did you as
sumo the management of tine Fort Wayne
/ BAH team, Charlie2
That settled it, and Mike STROBE into
the game Ike Bismarck before MS co.
hOrts, while the crowd cheered his Wob-
bling form 10 the echo.
/ TO the surprise of everybody. and by
some combination OF miracles, Mike played
/ the game until the seventh inning, WheI
I the score stood TO 3, with Dayton al
the bat, two outs, and base runners or
second and third.
I 1T was my turn I'M the box. Dayton.
Z catcher hit one of those dizzy, balloon
high flies which SCARED upward 70 as
great q height as ever saw a bail ascend
and then began to descend toward third
base The shortstOp wanted 20 take IL
but our new manager yelled I've got it
ia "a --oice so dlscordautly sreUJgriau that
/ IL rose above the internal roar of thu
/ Sraud stand and bleachers for they hat
I caught on to the situation.
I "A moment later the han struck Mike
unprotected mug like shooting star
/ scattering seafOam sweat and gore over
I Is square rod of the hard-fOIghJ field
while the two Dayt0uians chased to thy
plate and the game went EiimmcTiug
/ Nike took the limit for coming round
and it seemed that the steam whist les
were going an over Town for the mex
ten minutes. Upon Georges return, yOJ
may imagine his indignation.