The Washington times., 1905-06-11
Put Out Fine Times
In Earthquake Game
Home Run Haggerty Tells Remarkable Ad-
ventures of Man From Arcturus
County, Arkansas
By GEORGE WILLIAM DALEY.


for q number o. seasons; but consider
the case OF Jordan Guffey, of Arcturus
county. Ark.
One year when Hennessy was laid up
for awhile we needed an outfielder. and
Joe Hapgood signed Jordan Guffey 1t
was rather late one Saturday night
when he got back to Alfalfa with him,
and the crowd of us were telling queer
experiences when Josh brought Jordan
In and told us who he was
had the floor just then, and was tell
M ABOUT McDoherty, pitcher 1 once
trained to pitch right and left handed.
One year he'd pitch one way and the
next the other, and was a world-beater.
And then I wound up by tellfn' of how
he got In the ninth innin' or u hot game
one day, and the score was one run in
our favor, and how, with bunt knock
ed to him, McDoherty forgot what year
1t was, and didn't know which hand to
pick up the ball with-just hoped
around and looked excited. and yelled
to me to tell him the year. and by that
time two runs had gone over the plate,
and we lost
No one said a word, for they knew
I told the truth; all except Jordan
Guffey. He looked solemn and uneasy
und took fresh chew O. tobacker-
Ball Busters VS.. Bat Breakers.
Then went on and told of we buryia'
the ball in the dirt up in Silyersand for
a home run, SO 1t took q pickaxe to get
IT out; of how we beat the Desert of
Double dee Chinks playin' backward,
and finally told the story Of the men,
orable contest between the ball busters
and the bat breakers up In Crucible.
That contest wound up with me hittin
a ball with a Harveyized steel bat so
hard it burnt the ball into little cloud
o. ashes. All our fellows recoiiected
the circumstance very well, aud knowed
I was handin' out facts. BIT Jordan
Guffey looked so tired he'd like TO lay
down and sleep.
Remarkable circumstances, all of
EN- says he. 'It goes to show you
feiler.s had some smidd1in' experience on
a bail ground But you sh'd visit the
A1l-Star League, down In Arcturus
County. Arkansaw, to finish up on. A
year in that cirxit will qualify any man
for a diplomy as a. Q. G. e.
"A Q. G. E-?'' says Pete Brown. The
rest Of us looked the question. Yes
says he. Qualified Grass Eater. The
All-Star League o. Arct,lrus County is
the greatest that ever happened. No
body can expect to be a finished
product in the baseball business till he's
been there. We got eight star clubs an
about twelve star players to each club
Fhe Hesperus team is this years cham
poems. The Saturns was second. Then
came The. Affair and Sirius teams; they
were tied for third. The other clubs
was the Lucifers, Or1ons. Cygnuses. and
MarseS. The Marses was picked to win
early in the season; they had what
you'd call star all-star bunch, but
they turned out such scrappers the en-
pires could do nothing with 'em, and
they forfeited so many games that they
finished last.
This here Corndroppers' League amt
anything out o. the ordinary that can
see: you prob'1y don't have to buck
against the weather conditions that we
do. so you can't expect to develop any
thing extraordinary. Now you've often
had games called on account o. rain
here, amt you?"
We all nodded Despite his ruther
large way O. taikin', this guy was inter
esting.
Volcano Stopped Game.
WCns H0 WE'LL OH, Lie fedSOn L
dallyin' In this here vale O. tears Just
at present is because a game o. ours
Siruses, witch + captain, versus the AL
tairs-was called the other day on ac-
count O. volcano.
Account o. wat?'' says we ALL
Fact says Jordan Gufrey: "calIed on
account o. volcano A durn Veesoovyus
appeared In the twelfth innin', with
two down an us one run ahead, an the
bags full II spouted up In the middle
o the diamond, ketchin' our ketcher,
who was on second an our shortstop,
who was on third, an the Affairs pitch
er and shortstop an second base. The
laver an smoke an fire belched I'D
with sound like thunder, an them five
went with it. The rest OF US an the
empire escaped. It's TO fill their places,
III explain. that I'm lookin' around
here"
why. where'd they go? You don't
mean they was killed." says Merritt.
Dunno where they went" says Jor-
dan. II sh'd very much like to git back
that ketcher an that shortstop, though.
They was both birds. tell you"
We'll. quit feelin bad" says Pete
Brown .'If they was birds at ketchin'
an snortstoppin'. why, we got pair
o. osrrid8es here Wait TIL you see Nag
an Pinch Hobbs play
Again that tired look came over the
face o. the man I'm the All-Star Cirkft.
Worlds Best.
''Please DON'T says he Don't Joke
about a serious subject like that. That
ketcher was the best In the All-Star
league. When I've said that 1t means
the world. He never wore mitt. mask
or p'tector. Ketched every kind O. slant
ever made with his bare fiste. Nobody
ever stole a base on him His hide was
20 tough II turned the edges O. spikes
ven they tried 70 git him out O. the
way at the plate. His hands were SO
hard that his only weakness was on
foul flies"
+. 'Hows that?"s says Lamp Hymes
= IVY, they came down go easy that
sometimes ne didn't know he had 'ern.
Didn'e feel 'em. you see Instead o. him
yelIin', got IT. when he went for a
foul. we'd yell, You got iti just as soon
as it hit his paws. Then he'd know the
ball was there. He'd see the ball go in
his hands, you know. but wouldn't feel
Il, onless II was very swift. You know
wot I mean"
VERY nice" says Pinch. ''Wot was