Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-08-14

OF the season.
l. remained for young Bert Max
we'll, the pitcher lately released by
Pine Bluff, to show how a Young head
can put an older one on the bench.
! maxwell mad been engaged by Leidy
o1 Monroe to pitch one of the games
FOR Monroe in the second double
header and consented to do So jim
Leighton was catching the youngster
and IN some way got the signals cross
ed. Kid Maxwell throws ball like
shot out OF a gun and does not al.
"ays use the best of control. Leigh.
Ton was doing his best to stop all the
bullets that came toward the plate
but couldn't quite reach them all, and
Guy Sample was sitting on the Pine
; Bluff bench having much fun out of
the Monroe catcher. Sample had
caught several games in which Max.
we'll pitched and knew just wha.
l..
sign for high outcurve and a swift
lnshoot would bark the shins of the
catcher. The result was several pass.
ed balls, and as Leighton was slow in
fielding one of these Maxwell threw
down his glove and walked out of the
box. Leidy came in from center and
after asking what the trouble was
sent Leighton to the bench to rub his
shins while Blass went ont and took
his bum1R.
Without quoting poetry 100 freely
the statement can be made that the
hest laid plans Of men sometimes fail
IN the accomplishment OF the exact
purpose. When young Maxwell wa,
hired by Monroe to pitch against Pine
Rluff, he iosl just exactly $23 by doing
so. Il seems that Maxwell had been
offered &225 to pitch in some semi-pro-
fessional game but preferred to stay
H Pine Bluff and pitch for Monroe in
order TO be given the chance to 'shoW
mis- former team mates up But the
showing up failed to materialze,
for his former teammates rather liked
the swift ones he served UP and clont-
ed him hard winning the game he
pitched IN handy fashion. AS Max
we'll did not get $23 from l.eldv tho
knowing ones figure out that he lost
just $25 by staying in Pine Bluff and
going into the show business.
Monroe boasts OF the only lady
scorer in the league, but Pine Bluff
boasts of the only lady manager in the
league and goes the little town OF
Louisiana one better. Mrs. GeOrg"
M. Reed, the wife OF the manager of
the Pine Bluff team, takes as active
an interest in baseball affairs and the
management Of the team as does Mr..
Reed himself During one of the
double-headers between Pine Bluff
and Monroe on the local grounds last
week Mrs. Reed handed Umpire Gift
ford roast" which probably cut
deeper and hurt more than all the
complimentary expressions hurled at
the umpire by those in the grand
stand. 1t was during the ten minutes
interlnission between the first and sec
ond games when everybody was TAX
ing a walk around the park, eatinst
peanuts and drinking soft drinks as
a sort of recreation between the
games. Clifford attempted TO pass q
few pleasantries with Mrs. Reed, but
that lady was thinking of some very
raw" decisions tha, the umpire had
made against Pine Bluff in the first
game and she wanted nothing to do
with the Jumps But Clifford insist
ed.
won't you have sack OF pea.
nuts?"
mo, thank you" came the response.
Wen, perhaps. you want Sack "
popcorn
mo, I thank YOU again came the
chilly response.
But Clifford insisted on spending an
extra nickel, and asked the lady to
have a bottle of pop. On again being
refused he asked:
well, what will you have?'
"a few close decisions, ii you
please came the ready response. anc
Clifford put his money back in his
pocket, and beat hasty retreat.