The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-05-14

league The AIfaIfas only needed
TO break even with the HayviIIes in the
Closing four game series of the season
played at HayvilIe to win the pennant
II we lost three o the four il would be
tie. and four straight loses was the
only way you could figure on the Hay
NIlieS having chance The bettin
was that we'd win four straight VIC
tories, so YOU can see what a cinch II
seemed. But the morning o the first
game o the series this advertisement
appeared in the Alfalfa Citizen.
$500 reward for news of the where
abouts of Pinch Hobbs. Reggie Van
Rensselaer,, Lamp Hymes and Home
Run Hasgerty, of the Alfalfa baseball
club
And then followed long description
what we looked like an where We
Was last seen.
You can readily imagine where any
ball nine would land that you took
talent like them four out Of-tWO
CIackerjaCk pitchers. the two best in
the league. the t0p-nOtcher short stop,
an me Why. no wonder Josh Hap
good threw mp his hands an offered
$500 for us. II meant the loss O the
ueuUdHt an all the bets he'd been
maxim All summer an al the glory
an everything ? tell you. there was
doi1's iu Alfalfa when that paper came
out
And iH the r7rtul5ssro. where VAS zve2
Well. ve had left Alfalfa for HayvilIe
the ulEht before gom down SOS ne
could have some early mUrUiu UraC-
tFre. The rest o. the felleTs va~ IN the
smoker. put we went III jhe last coach.
where there wasn't anybody, an
Started a little game 70 cards an the
time passed so quick an Reggie melted
= hundred ase~ 80 often that nobody
EE"Uej uutnia' till five ~ SIN guys
D. blue uniforms come ~ am blocked
h"tif doors t. the car
All. got EN- "ed-handed." says one
bis guy And then. despite our kickin-.
an ajcTc We really realized what was
tt'. IHcT had us. baE an baggage an
had us OF the train am then we were
Eustieu INTO 90 coach. rid long ways
over J-r toughest road ever laid out
4" doors -.H ,Ueu Ted into huildiu' an
,aoghcd inJc-uaat dye. think \
Yc=- -ints a. fliI an that amt aH
nov "str EyetaliiaHS am Fliuus ;-u'
Wicked louki0 GrcsSers is that Jail az.
u ST"Hct IiAs buTTiu' SIue factory
ne W"F" made 90 give ou. cannes am
whore we wCTo born an brought up
IN when wc said we were ball AIayers
We were laughed at
"Eou know how To- work or peoples
s. ftFH}hfr~. says one .TeiIfu- EN-
Eou re- ball players We got your
pfddyEree straight I'm Tim NcGiuuis.
however. am into Jail YOU go till the
great Alfalfa HayvilIe series Is over
W nat IN - Pinch started in to ex-
pustUlato but the guy cut him off -Yuu
needn't try To make any bum grand
stand plays or work the surprised an
lHUuceut gag says ne. We know
YOU for 81 bunch Of st Loo crooks hired
Z" come out here an'-kiduap our star
HaNville ball players. tn NcGiuuis
put Us wise You may cit away with
them kind o. jobs where YOU hail from
but YOU can get EN- by this bunch q
Uickie-upS"
With that ne slammed q duru big
iron gate an left us I'm DURANGO vile
SO Reg said ] don't Jest know about
the durauCe part but il VAS vile
We rightly Judged that there would
he TucJioHS Iu HaEVIlIe the next morn
ing when Josh FapEopd discovered the
loss q his players We likewise Judged
that unless we made Cd very strong
break. OF got word outside or some
thin. the chances for our stayin' right
where we was sor the next four DAVIS
was HothiH' less than prime An lastly
We hEEerod that If anybody i'm that
hull bunch q common criminals would
be watched any closer than we was TO
prevent that same Dustin out. WHY we
couldn't lay our eyes onto him-uor
never would.
That was on Sunday night. At !
q clock we were chased into drum lit
tie cells an locked in The cells were I
wOrSe'u outside. ] didn't sleep any.
7 reckoned that If I lay down on the I
bed there I'd probably be kidnapped 4
again I sat up and smoked all night. !
a couple q times ] heard Reb an
Lamp thrashiu round an cussiu--at !
the kidnapers. possibiy-au. then I was /
calder than ever that ] didn't sleep. /
We were let out at bTea krast into /
the big room which the cells faced. /
an told we could go into the yard an
exercise We had black coffee an
era keTs an bsau SOUP FOR breakfast. /
an waters am puray o. green peas an
HeumyfaSS for dinner an weller split
pea huLlv0UE an sody biscuit an COT
fee with milk for supper. That WAS
I;eE's layout o. the bill o fare. It
was pretty much the same.
TIL second day we got permission
10 get ball am couple o. cloves out
n our grips an practiCed iu the court
yard.
To was "A good place when the rest
" The bunch save You chance. but
they were forever buttiu' into the game.
How yer after Reg had stuuC EN-
with the spit ball couple o. times .
they quit an We had good mornings
practice III She afternoon they let us
have 81 bat aE then come our chance
90 -it away
was hattiE'. trniu- easy ones 20
reg an Pinch. lamp pitcher one. an
u.s. 80 came un / see that the big gate
at The FAR end o the y8rd-tho gate
aar Opened right onto the st~eat-was
rHSaIr open. am Just then "a blue uni !
rrln"i Teller walked in and stood i'm
ar- 1oorwa-
2 dunno what made me do # or how
came '' think SO quick but 7 swung