The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-07-14
SMASHED EN- BOTH,
HOW SIN BILLY SAW DOUBLE
AND SAVED THE GAME.

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Balls, Two Pitchers, Two Everything.
But Was Also Double Armed for the
Long Hit.
| One of the most strenuous baseball
games ever seen was fought between
scottsboro and Larkinsville. Two
thirds of the population of both towns
was present on the occasion and enthu-
siasm ragged like prairie fire, consum-
ing alike men, women and children, old
maids, orphans and widows, the lame,
the halt and the blind, says writer in
the Washington Post. -....e...
There was a big, red-fisted, snaggle-
toothed. loose-jointed fellow among the
SCOTS by the name Of Sin Billy Sim
mons. who was prodigy in his line.
When Billy was a youngster and as
ugly as sin some facetious wag made
that addition to his baptismal appella-
tton, and therefore it was Sin Billy to
all. Sin Billy was of slight Importance
in the field, but at the bat he was an
artist, a juggler, a wizard; his arms
were piston rods, his shoulders boiler
plates, and he had a steam chest.
When he went to the plate it was his
long suit to make dollar and a half
baseball look like the price of a dozen
eggs. It was signal for the ffalders to
borrow steo-ladders, the weather bu-
reau man to move his clouds out of the
way, and the catcher to drop the nit
and pick up a pair OF field-glasses.
Great was the faith placed In the
awkward slugger on this occasion, but
when the umpire yelled t'pIay balli'' it
was discovered that Sin Billy had
eluded the manager and left his fellows
| in the lurch. There was much conster-
nation among the SCOTS and their root
ers, but the game had to go on and the
Larks were seen to scatter over the
field with their proverbial songs of mu-
tual happiness, for verify, the absence
Of Sin Billy Simmons meant the dawn
ing Of a new glory for Larkinsville.
A diminutive Scott, with a fine eye,
but a slight stroke. spat upon his
hands and tapped the plate with the
butt of his bat. Jorkins, for the Larks,
coiled his fingers around the leather
and shot the ball over the plate. The
bat described beautiful arc and an
other came. This time there was a.
ringing rack, and the second baseman
caught baby fly. The two SCOTS that
followed struck out, and much the same
operation occurred as the players
changed places.
1t was the beginning Of the seventh
inning and not d run had been scored.
There were two out and tive SCOTS had
made base hits. The small batter was
again dancing up to the plate, when a
murmur arose from the oillookers, and
Sin Billy was seen approaching with
an unsteady gait, But there was no
halt in the game; the pitcher shot the
ball over the plate with a nervous hand,
and the umpire called the strike.
Again it came into the nit, but the
third ball caught the youthful Scott on
the thigh and he took his base. This
filled the bags and shortened the
breaths OF the fans.
The delinquent player approached
with an amused chuckle. There was
no mistaking his condition. Too much
preparation on his part had made him
over-ripe, and even his best friends had
to admit his status Four straights and
a high-ball would have put him in ex-
eellent trim, but an extra high-ball had
done the work. When 1t was attempt
ed to rule him off the ground, however,
a protest arose from the on-lookers;
which could not be ignored and Sin
Billy was told to do his worst.
The slugger approached the plate
dug his shoes into the sand, and swung
the heavy bat to his shoulder. He
could not see beyond the pitcher, and
that individual was tangled mass of
| legs and arms. The human crab wa
we'd his claws and two little comets
shot toward Sin Billy.
There was a splintering crash! Out