The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-10-30

looks lonely and forlorn.
Inc Dase nit, error aud assist 20 solemn
ly TO sleep.
me home run and the triple off 10 hi
bernation creep.
mere they lie s-nights a-shivering. each
IN his little bunk
On. there's mighty little baseball when
the frost is on the punk
that's finei That is from one n the
brightest pages In the 'PoeticaI TIistor1,
OF the Corndroppers league and ToeS
1apgood never slung out better noetr,,
ti'ner on or off the bail field than he
pul into that same book. Josh was
most as good at maxim poetry az he
ere ''N Pi"y
There's no use talkin'. the seasons
In the Corndroppers' used to inst nv
around. The clubs were no more or
10 good start, it seemed thar Ne
MeIc III the middle Of the season. hat
llhS with some Of the other good olrbe
Iof the lead; and then we. under NV
500 leadership on the diamond and
oSH OH or IT, would walk away till
Ny the middle o September there'd he
nothing to it and we'd have a1ott,9r
peHhdht 10 put into JOsh's aunt's crazv
SulH. She was most unreasonable old
Cil'tef, always maxim a GRAVY o1IiIt an
never gettin il finished. am we only
gave her the pennants to keen Deace he
tween her an Josh an TO keen ON. mi
forms safe. She tried TO put a piece a.
pat Dag INTO crazy quilt once. an the
IiNeIs she put in 10 hold it to the next
piece cloth KEEP comm out an She
i'au 10 give II up Imagine Hag sleepin'
under quilt with a bat-bag patch an
liVets in IT.
Wen, as said, we used to win the
pel'hant an then we'd cast around for
s'hethln TO do durin the winter that
MAS pleasant an profitable. an if was
"I one o these searchin' times that 7
EoI the letter I'm the Cook County In
door Baseball league. askin' if I'd come
10 Chicago an play ball indoors on one
tneIr teams. 1t was easy money an
lun. thought al the time. an
strapped up the proposition without a
hHhipse INTO the future or thinkin' Of
the consequences.
w men got TO the city O. signs an
tears found that 1 was expected to
play ball two or three times a week in
d Dig armory, with tanbark on the floor
instead o grass, an the ball was durn
near as big as the one the giants a
BfoDnygag rung in on US out there in
,ne racine L seen at once that was a
NUS game with no chance of fine indi- (
Nluual playin' or long. free bittin'
Why? Because the bali was so EASY IN
MT you had TO be careful an not land
on u TOO hard or you'd Kill the infeld
ers.
complained to the manager a. .o,,r
IAN after my first game in which nv
3Itsln was confined to two or three pop
Why YOU big ham SAYS the man
+tir,,. setun red IN the face. wot do YOU
, LIN MI, Inls ls-9 nursery an Child's hOspi-
- VINO tglu you that YOU had to COM I
press any OF them rarin' an ravin' Kan [
S4s leelin o yourn? Mike Biff away /
- ~ y; 1lt II as hard as YOU can. There's /
IVthln in the regulations against your
ouIhlh all the bark on the floor up-if /
You can r m your work last night .
Tuuge 'R 9; you re only one o these pop-up /
ptepul m the prairfes. As fur compress
S'h your feellnS don't let that worry I
YOU If YOU should cut loose some nfght
On me her out we'd try to hold down
nc cover You ain the first guy that's /
broke into this town with his tale n
woe about stifled talent ant compressed
ieeln :. They all go out the same way.
on old mi is stir dom business at the
Old stand.
.. You mean that do you?' saws I. I'm
privileged 70 hit that bail as hard as
can. regardless o lectTic lights winders l
players or people? That goes. does ito
II sure does. Bill. Pepper her. Sock (
her. When your terrible long drive hits
mat wall out there I'm center it'll bounce II
back an become a put ont. If Won nIIIp
hole in the Skylight an let in the sill 81
Very RAYS o the bright October moon 4
why Wen make an added charge of ad-
'.Now it seems that I'd struck the right \
party. Tor 1 no sooner had told the guy n
who ! was than he rushed me out to
saloon an held up two fingers an then
sat down and looked at me.
So you're Haggerty' says he: the
famous Home Run Haggerty. Wen. I'll -
Then he sat an looked at me with ad-
mirin, eyes till / felt rather soft.
The famous .Haggerty he kept say
ing. The guy that either loses or breaks
the pail every time he gets W to bat.
The Teller that burnt up a ball once The
sockdOuagin old swiper that hit a cloud
an brung rain with a baseball one time
when all Kansas was parched with thirst.
An this manager wants you to hit EN-
out an YOU fear fer the safety o. the
community? Is that it,?
Il nodded.
" Old man. says he. tappin' me on the
knee. hit en- Out-sOak EN- hard But
look out for one thing. Don't soak the
brick wall painted red in deep left. That's
all Don't do it.
well, we talked some more. en- I
thought the reason he didn't won't that
part O. the wall hit was because his rooms I
was back of it, or somethin' like that. so
! didn't ask the real reason. An ! went .
out an ct my ham an eggs that night
an kept wonderin' whether it'd be best
10 knock the arm offer one @ the other
pine or paralyzc the armory skylight- I
hadn't made up my mind even after the
game had begun that night
Now. il happened that tho game was
against a strong team. an there was a
good crowd out. ] went 10 bat I'm the first
inning with two ont and The pitcher guy
threw lo0ypop up 70 me. an the big
ball looked so big an came ~ Sc slow
that ] had time 10 count the four stitches
nearest 10 me. The next minute ! had
brung the bat around with "A swing that
made it whistle through the ain. The
ball went ont SO fast that the tanDark
smoked wherever IL struck an BIZ the
time II had knocked over two chairs with
people IN them m deep right Was safe
nn second base. ] didn't score. but the 1
looked as though nc thought
might not be such ham after al.
The second time ] got up ! doomed
lut a fly that smashed big electric light
globe in center field. an i'm the grand
scramble of busted glass an crossed wires
an lost ball / got around the liaEs. The
third time 7 ketched a ball The pitcher
meant for an inshoot an hit Il through
an open window in right field. Il sailed
through the roof OF q stable next 10 the
irmory an woke up a cop asleep on pile 8
, straw. The cop Thought IL was a
Anarchist bomb. an ran roU- miles ont
n the country an hid in a well
"All this was told 10 me afterwards by s.
ny friend the janitOr I couldn't make s
mt what all she rumpus was outside. but IS
did note That that manager was loOkin' b
q me more an more respectful. When 81
got Up for my last rap, US ueedin Z
un TO win, there was a deathlike still q
well. this story is in. ketched this
'all fair, only ] was little quick i'm .
wingin', an anyway, ] had forgot the Il
anitOr's request about that red brick 8
fdu Inc ball dldn san out. u Shrlekeu- ~
inch Hobbs paregoric ira icct0ry never IL
Ot any natter The left fielder threw "a
. one hand and three fingers went along 81
18th the ball an was fattened against B
'sThere was cloud o. flyin' brick dust. 81