The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-10-09
HOME RUN HAGGERTY
He Tells of the Largest Drive He Ever
Made and Proves His Tale.


revertin' back TO them old bali grounds
an. I purity near forgot the ease in
point. Now, I'll decide il in a business
like way. You remember, Josh. the
first year I was with you-the time we
played the Hayvflies on Decoration
day2 We played a game there in the
mOTnin' an then, come up here in the
afternoon for, the second. An that
mornin' game. Josh--searchin' back in
the rusty archives y your mem ry-
don't il occur TO you that I won that
game in the ninth innin' with the bases
full with a drive over that center field
fence, an the ball went 80 far an so
high up that nobody lever thought o.
lookin fer it?'
Well do / remember it. now that
you jog my memory says Josh. In
my minds eye kin see that ball. COW
cred with grass stains an the mud that
Ben Bruce had rubbed onto It fore he
pitched it-in my minds eye I kin see
1t sailin' high over that center field
fence, as you burned up the base
paths.'
Right you are, JOSH says T. Now
III c'ntinue my cross-examination.'
Reggie come over from the crap
shootin' bunch an says:
Hold up your right hand. In this
here inquisition into the loneuess %
two drives I made once. supported by
Peter Brown, party o the FIRST part.
an James Harrison, appellant. an so
forth, you swear to tell the truth, the
hull truth an nuthin' else. Dye hear?'
Reg says, Yes: hurry up, there's a
pot I lost or somethin'. And l con-
tihued:
Reginald Van Rensselaer,. bein'
duly sworn, deposes an SAYS he
pitched the afternoon game at Alfalfa
the Decoration day we trimmed the
Hayvilles twice an took first place an
he won suit O. clothes. Don't hep
Il do, says Reg.
An he also depOses am saws that
he was practisih' with the court inst
before that afternoon game when a cer-
tain baseball came sailin' through the
air from the southeast an hit him in
the neck an then fell to the ground.
Don't he?'
He does, said Reg.
An then deponent. said Reginald
van Rensselaer,, got UP an said who
lheH threw that ball? I can kin tho
bowlegged blank. blank, blank, blank
mat threw that ball. Lemme at him.
Didn't you say that?'
4" I did
An then didp't the court suddenly
run up an grab the bali an show vo,,
Il dent In IL an say IL was the same
pail he5d knocked out o. the lot am lost
at Hayville. eleven miles. that verv
mornin an it must just got I'm
Didn't he?'
He did, says Reg. An I told him
ne was bigger liar than the man
that threw the ball.
Hold says l. An then didn't 7
prove by Ben Bruce an the other
Ha,yyille players that it was the same
Yes says Reg.
An now You verify believe. with
thelr evidence and belief to help YOU.
mat IL was the same BALKAN the
court did knock it eleven milesY
1 do says Reg. There amt no
uoupt OF IT. An then. turnin' round 10
the tellers. he says: That there was
the greatest rap in all history. That
peh leTt Hayville at eight minutes
past Il an 1t hit me on the Alfalfa
srouhds at eleven minutes after %
Two hours an three minutes. If r7ust
gone a long ways up I'm The air
Reg looked around. So did 7 TIL.
three betters looked sad an depressed
like they was sorry they hadn't beef1 IN
the game when that mighty ran was
made. Josh was bitin his cigar. his
eyes closed. MS
In my minds eye. Hag. saws he.
KIN see you'Abrinsir, that ball in
from the field right after ii hit Peg
an then heaTin' % that marvellous rap
says he 4 kin see il yet-the wife
shiny .horsehide o. that ball marred
only by that cruel dent that you put
into it.
Pete Brown snorted. SO did Pinch.
jim Harrison began 10 laugh.
Hull on says T. Suspend iudr-
ment, Don't shoot, Call Hennessv,'
Even a BAN player'd know that =
ball that was dirt an grass stained
leayin' Hayville an white when il cor
to Alfalfa would need explainin'
about.
so Hennessy come. an the story
was repeated to him. an he remem-
I oered all the. occurrences, an then /
says:
Tar-Paper., says I. remember when
NC were comm on the cars rom Hay-
Vile that noon that we run through 4
terrible rainstorm. an how I said that
anything flying through that air that
nad grass stains or mud stains on il
would get EN- washed OF in that tenn
| pest2',
Right says Hennessy. We'll do
recall IT,
Il looked slowly round. 1 seen con-
!yictiOn an satisfaction on every face.
Then says I. my decision is tina,
the ball which took the air route from
HayViIlt 10 Alfalfa was thu longest
I drive l ever drOve-eleven miIes-an' ID
took two hours and three minutes "a
+ 90 it, An bein' as all YOU fellows lose
Why the umpire o this dispute Will
appropriate the stakes 10 his own uses
an smoke EN-
Il did The next spring we sunk a
brass tablet in the Alfalfa ball
grounds, markin where my fearful Ions
drive hit"
! Copyright 1904. by George William
Daley.)