The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-05-22

I follow US around the circuit. We mus;
/ beat him right now.
! I'VE agreed and decided to make out
scheme the next day. So we went 70
bed
" Get ready for coop this afternoon.
IIag.' says Pinch in the morning. 4
got it all worked out
A coop? says l. You can't get that
eagle In no coop.
" Brush by! says Pinch q don't
know why l let that little Teller sass ma
so but I do. Don't you know what a
coop is? It's a stunt which brings VIC
tory out O. defeat. Now you amt got
initiative enough TO get put next to Il
all. You just got to do as me an Reggie
says.
$50 they told me just what I was u
do and it was a careful frame-up. !
tell you We went up TO the grounds
that afternoon and Pinch and Jim ana
Brownie got their bases the same as OF
the day before and then l loped up 20
the plate. The crowd 1 s'pose won
/ dered II l realized yet that his eaglets
had me beat. or IL 1 was goin' TO try and
drive one away from him: as there was
the day previous
The Trick Worked.
arms
and legs ana lined one In. Tim saw me
square OF for II and footed his old Wills
tie twice. Then. instead O. soakin' that
hall when it came up and cut the plate.
l side-stepped about a foot, turned OF.
my heel and damned another bali which
Reggie had suddenly took out OF his
pocket and tossed up from third, where
he stood on the coachIn' line.
THE thing dopa r,,folr
most of the audience didn't see it. Blu,
McGinIis saw It.
- Hi. Bill. Bill don't touch that" nc
yelled. tearin' out on the diamond an
wayin' his arms and hollerIn' at the
eagle. which now had the second ball.
But the eagle only knew whistles h
come fiyin' In an hung over third about
hundred feet in the air
''McGinnis thought we'd SEM that bal.
up SOS the eagle wouldn't be ready TO
chase the real ball. so he run in an
grabbed his whistle and footed II three
times for the bird to drop it. and thus
spike our guns. in the meantime tellin-
the pitcher TO hold a minute before he
passed up another.
Ball Wouldn't Drop.
IAN then. as Reggie often says. there
came wondrous sight. The eagle tried
to drop that ball into the third base
mans Outstretched hands, and darned n
he could do it. 1t wouldn't drop. He'C
pick II of one claw with t'Other and
sling 1t. and II wouldn't let go. and thea
he'd pick It of the other claw with the
first again and give IL q harder sling
and 1t wouldn't go at that. and Their
he'd pick IL eff the other claw with tn
first again and give IL a harder sling
and u wouldn't go at that, and then
he'd bring his beak into play and give
Il a peck and that wouldn't do any
good. and all the while we stood there
breathless; and the string OF terrible
talk that Tim McGinnis let out about
hardened schemers that took advantage
of innocent animiles would do you good
10 hear.
We'll. that ball kept a stickin' and
Bill kept gettin' madden. and finally
disregarding all Tins whistles and yell
ing. he ups an flies away like the wind
for the mountains. and then the umpire
says Play. and 1 softly leaned up agin
the first hall that the pitcher put over
and druv it clean through a low cloud
that hung over center. We got a lead
OF four runs and tow-ropCj the Russell
villes the rest OF the game.
The eagle never came back II
wouldn't be right II told you the kind
o glue Reggie and Pinch put on that
second ball. but II certainly stuck. II
any eagle IS ever caught and put in the
circus and he has a veXed look on his
face and ten shiiiin' ball hangin' on
his claws. you'll know it's Bill. the bird
McGinnis trained to stop Haggerty from
hittin' home runs