The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-05-29


don't know. said Pinch. scratch
ing MS head. That's my Signature. all
right, but how they could "a got ID I
can't teil-unless- and be stood there
stammering.
you p~ink-headed fooll' 7 hoIlered.
Dent you see what you've doue2 This
here Gladys you chased after last
nlsnI bltked o on that church SUBJ
ecflpti9u business. ON, sou prize easy
mark. You ought to 90 back couRlin'
freight cars. 4ou are q kube. Here
you've signed away your chance Of
winning this year for a WOmans
Your birthrlght for mess O. pot
taBe. says Josh. very sOiemnly. Josh
was always right there with the book
words when they were needed.
what can / dOT says Pinch.
troubled and sick lookin'. I don't
want TO play with thar gang of knock
Josh HaDsood walked up to the
Cloverdale manager.
amt sayin' uOthin' as TO the
sneakin way % get my men who
never tasted a drop of liquor iu their
ives 10 sign your papers Kissed he.
dramatic as all-nredupss. tNothfu'
56out the bedizeued JezfbeI which
Iufed this young man. ~ ho knows
nothin of the danger of the light that
ass "a Woman's eyes, from the path or
ii7 duly But / 90 say and here
ne pulled a paper from his pocket.
taat have a prior contract with
william Henry Harrison Hobbs.
agreeing TO play shortstop for my
team this year, and &c can't be broken
unless ne asks for his release. DO YOU
want your release. Pinch?
NO. says Pinch, quick. with a
nudge rfOm me TO help DC along.
dldnt know but that the bedizened
Je1eDeis cordial might stiu be jum-
bling his wits.
But the Cloverdales had a awyer
present, % he got at the two CON
tracts, and he said after a long DOW
WOW b a h business of Pinch's con
sem didn't go al an that the prior
AlLeiIa contract was good so far as il
maze Flnch play shOrtstop for us. but
ne have TO bat. coach and run bases
Tor the Cloverdales. Nobody but a
1901 lawyer could have made agiv de-
elslon * that. What lawyers don't
hno" ABOUT baseballd fill the biggest
ADtary you ever saw.
But Pinch was such a valuable man
JhdJ the managers consented. Josh
was AFRAID he might lose all o. Pinch
instead o. half of him, and the Clover
uales were glad TO get what they did.
ana hoped to get a judge the next dav
70 Aold mat their contract was good
N- ~-A- way through Sol the game
was started and Pinch batted first for
C~ioFerdale. He knocked out a light
nlng %grcunder and beat il to first. He
stole second sliding under JOHNNY
harrison legs like a streak, though.
OF course. 1 got the throw down i'm
time He got third on a steal, too.
ana came home on d wild pitch. That
~as great oait playing, aud the crowd
yeiied over hlm. They didn't yell the
next minute, though. when he ran
out 20 Hnish up the inning at short for
us. lie pulled on a double play on the
nrst ball knocked to him, and then
MADE a h~ish-twistiug jump for a liner
10 make the third out.
D so it went for the entire game
Pinch batted for them. making 4 bif
every time he got up. and for us he was
an over the feld-knocking down
Sfoundens. grabbing liners out of the
ar, and g%obbling up flies. When the
hlnth inning came we were one run
ahead, thanks % his effective fielding
ana despite his eXertiOns with the bat. /
ana then came The play that
eclipsed everything and that makes
HOODS an eXecrated lame in Glover
dale.
THE man ahead o. Pinch. after two
were out, made a scratch tW~O-bagger, /
ana the crowd began to holler, for
they knew who was mp next.
pinch dropped his glove at short,
trotted IN, picked up his bat and stood
waiting. There was a minute Of omin-
Gus silence as Dan Delaney rubbed the
bali smooth on the grass and then
damned in a swift one.
Crack Pinch's bat shot ont: there
a white streak above his head as
the bail hot upward, and the next min
ute he was tearing round the bags
after the man who had been on second. |
And the balll Our three remaining /