The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-06-19

hunted he dumped the bail down ia
front of the plate am tore for first; but
The pitcher ON the other team was a
lively fellow with a strong arm, am he
took two long hops am step an
bounced on that BAN am sizzled her
into first am uipped the runner by a
foot Whereat the gang slowly sat
6oWn-it had started Up hoIerin' when
the bah was hit-an' such talk as this
went round.
Pretty out that
Fine attempt
That's the way TO play the game.
Drop 'em right iu front of the pam
Hard luck. He ought 20 been
safe
THE next minute the second batter
got mp on his toes am ketched the bah
ou the end of his bat am 3D. went out
like streak ou dead line between
right and center. The center fielder
gol The BAN with two fingers. ruuniu'
backward. am the batter walked I'm
from where he'd been turnm' second.
And then the gang around me started.
'Oh, you mutt. Wy don't you
bunte
GlSan, you red lobster YOU'D
ought TO so back TO curry6ombin' car
ho@sc=i
He amt got no brains. He
W'uidn show q real scientific play if
30 woke him ug.'
The great American baseball public
IS stuck on the buut hit It's cryiu'
fer IT, It'd rather see man put out
JryIu' to Duur than have him soak the
Dali for nice single or a JWO-Dagger.
Its stylish To buut, but it amt new.
Why we guys up i'm the COTndrOppers
league discovered the bunt hit. dcvel-
oped it am laid 81 ON the shelf years
before the Nationals tumbled to the
play The original bunLer was none
other than Pinch Hobbs, the nat bat
was Josh HapsoOd's Great i0u- An that
brings me 10 the tale % Bill TdpleY5
famous Blunt Nulliher and Glass Arm
AmellOTaIor' Next To Houuessy's tar
paper heldiu' glove IT, was the great test
appliance ever used in baseball.
Josh HdpguUd S baseball motto
was: Win if YOU cam if you can't
take your medicine Tim McGiunis of
the HayVIIGs, he said, win Fl YOU can,
if you can't start a fight Old Bill
Iapley never said uuthiu. He'd just
sit on the bench am think THINGS. An
the lOW-doWu tricks hed pull OF. Reg
gle said be was uu-scrup-u- May
be he was. ii that's anything low
down, dirt mean, ne was. I've heard
him called verse than that. t won't
repeat it here It'd only be a lot o.
1hem little straight lines if 1 did
write IT,.
--Tapley had q pretty good nine al
Naizehurst the year that Pinch Hobbs
discovered the buut hit, only. his
crack third Dasemau am his heavy hit
Tin ketcher We're terrible weak on
THROWN, from beiu' conductors on q
trolley line am Fingin' up fares duriu'
the winter When Tapiey heard about
that new bUnuu' scheme an how
Pinch Hobbs was gettin' credited with
four am five hits day am. was
Jeachiu' several other AIfalfas to do
the same thing, ne saw he'd have 30
do sOmethlu' TO bolster up them
gimpv wings.
Bill correctly figured it out that
there's only Two ways % putin out a
buuler-gIJ the BAH TO FIRST ahead o.
him with a quick throw, or chase him
down the base line am tag him from
behind The first way takes speed in
The arms am the second takes speed iu
the legs. Bein' as his ketcher weighed
two hundred an fourteen. am only
moved fast when they lined up f0l
meals, am none o. his pitchers were
spTiurers, he dismissed the second way
or KILN hunts from consideration, am
settled his brains on the frst-how ia
get the BAH TO the bag ahead of a fast
runner am that without no arms ia
throw it. He'd have been dribblin
about it in some funny house i'm a week
fl ne hadn't watched two of his players
at a game of bottle pool one night They
were playin' on what was then a new
tangled table, where the BAN goes
into the pockets am rolls through
passageWays back 10 q box at one
end. where you can pick 'em all out al
once without Walkln' 10 each separate
pocket Bill Iapiey watched the game
q few moments am then all of q sudden
he got uD with a WhOOp-
i got iJ. j got it,' he yelled, pattiu
his hands Ou the table am pointiu' at
the pockets
Got what?" said one of the players
Ta9ley's best pitcher.
Got the hunt killer Got I'll all
thuuk out. Here's the plate. Here's
drst lhe was poiutiu' to three or fOuI
pockets to Once), am here's where the
hunts drop. Wow" am he ran out.
The report got around from that
that Bill Tapiey had gone daft Jhiukin
about how 10 beat Pinch Hobbs
buuriu' tactics. But he hadn't. He
was hard an work putin through the
scheme the pool table had put him Oh
TO- am ne was very sane am cool am
Ca'cuiatiu about To-
q week later for our first series Of tuc
season Se noted au air OF quiet con-
hIcuCc about Bill that didn't seem To
go good with a. manager mp against a
hWtil' am base stealth team. am ham
diraUUed by fTagIle-WiugeI ketcheI
am third baseman. He ies' chuc1l7d
r1 himself uu the hotel sioop the night
before the first same, au' IL reused
JuEns CuriuuSUeSE.
Ef you think. Bin Tapiey.' says be-
that IT'D stand for amy more o. your
uudeThaud tricks % last season, such as
that cr0sseyed Iniuu am SO 1u, you're
most gosh hemlorkily mistaken. 4Oa
hear me"
"BHl TapIay laughed most 10 split
and went TO put his best pitcher J1 bed
am seer The rest wasn't b0ozil'. 1 had
a feeliu that AN wasn't right but didn
worry Pinch with lelliu' it,
"The next day the Maizehurst
grounds was crowded for the game. am
We went IN bat FIRST Pinch led of, an
when he FoLLed out you couldn't hear
q sound bat the lame-armed ketcher
thumpiu his right fist into his mitt. am
The pitcher Tubbin' the BAH i1 che
dirt.
There was q minute o. crouched
signaIiu by The ECtCheT, q Ch0hiu' i'm
slant o. suspense as the pitcher gy-
rated au sWunE. Then the ban came
in straight au' Pinch bounced it down
the third base line an dug for the
nrst bag.
"swishr Swoopt The crockery arm
ed third baseman pounCed on the bail.
An as we watched 10 see a slow.
trembHn' throw. that maybe'd bounce
before it got 10 the first baseman. an
that Pinch would beat il a block. some