The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-06-18

pigpen and curved apples around EN-
to the delighted pigs First it was in,
and then a out. and then q Out-drOp.
and all sorts o shoots and f1OateTs- And
right there he picked up an apple with
q smooth skin that he had TO molsten
with tobacker juice to get grip on IL
IT developed a most su'Drisin' curve
one that he'd never seen before, and he
named it after the apple he threW-a
Snitzbereen-and called II the spit ball.
The farmer was more delighted than
ever over the curves. and the next sat
rrdav afternoon he kept his word anu
fetched Willyum down to the GROUNDS.
where the Alfahas, with me kelchih
and Pinch Hobbs playin' short, was go
ing to have one Of our crowded nine ~
uin's with the RussetvIlles-
F,ut right here was where the hltch
caT1e The farmer was DOS tive. his
hired man could make good, an josh
was ready 10 be shown, but the durn
WiIIvum galoOt stuck 10 his principles
an turned his back on d great ana go
TioUS career
ornament to a honorable perfesslOn.
saws he I may be compelled to work
on a farm. I may even in hours OF case
an relaxation chuck windfall apples TO
the hogs and in 50 doing put curves an
twists onto them that Tim heefe never
knew in his palmy days; but III be tee
totally goI burned if I'm gOln' to de-
scend to DIayin' ball I know how it'll
be" saws he IN pitch this game an
get a name an then be bought up by
club in the east an go there to that
land of decayed civilization an the
squeeze play to spend my days pitchin
3 ten-shillin' ball over a piece o rubber
fifteen inches square to big guy with
iron mUZZle an a mitt full o tobacco
49, tn
nv profession. One o these days some
Carneeic or Rockefeller will hang up
roll O stuff to educate deserving young
men who want to be boss doctors. an
then I'll he glad 1 didn't descend 10
Professional ball"
WiIyum went back home with the
farmer an the next mOTnin he was
put to work sOTtiu' potatoes. The way
"a sane man would do a job like that
didn't suit him. for. as I said, the base
ball octopus had a hammer-lOck hold
on him an he didn't know it He be
gan slingin' the big potatoes an the
little ones into baT'Is from about hfty
feet distance. an he wasn't missln' a
bulTs-eye once in fifty shots Then
the farmer came around the corner an
got inside the firm zone fore Willyum
noticed him He ketched d Early Rose
n under the ear an very hard Beau
tv n Hebron on the nose. both deliv-
cred with beautiful precision an con-
sidpTa BILE speed The consequence was
that when the farmer come to. some
hours later. his hired man had beat it
for the nearest railroad station, feariu'
the OK cad for his
An then commenced a series q
strange adventures for WilIyUm. He
struck Chicago an got a job as a wait
or i'm a restaurant In order to hurry
things in the MONDAY rush he SlUnE
a plate o hash from the kitchen door
TO a customer waitin' for it. It landed
plumb i'm front o. him, all right but
the Teller opposite didn't judge the
bound nicely. an his vest front sUf-
fEred. So Willvum was told the Cubs
needed a good pitcher, an for fear
they'd RELY make him 20 to playin
ball he left town that night.
By'm by he got to Boston an got a
Job i'm n beaueTy. Nice thing about
Boston beans is that they don't bounce
like Chicago hash. so he did well there
for about a week. slingin' beans all
the way from ten TO forty feet. with
never d wild pitch. Alas, Fred Ten
ney an Jimmy Collins heard o him an
come on the run. an to save his boss
doctor ambitions Willyum had to chase
himself. He went to New York an
got job tendin' bar in Park Row.
The very first day the proprietor, an
ola IAN seen MN throw 2 glass o beer
across the bar an two tables an land
it right side up without spilIin' a drop
iH the fist O. the old gent that called
for it. He didn't look to see another
throw. but teIephoned for Clark Crit
fifth. for fear Johnny McGTaw would
hear of the find an get him first.
But Willyum escaped the Highland
ers- That would a been awful He
got to PittshurS before ne stopped this
time. an got a job in a iron foundry
u didn't seem as though nature an
the baseball octopus could put any
pitchiu ideas into his head in iron
mill. but the second day there they got
a lot o. bum steel plates to crack up
an. melt again Th= bosses We're stuck
how to do II till Wnlyum stock the
plates up on end, an staudin' off the
DitchU distance. took long. easy
swing an pasted a plate with 4 steel
riVet- bout the size of a baseball. He
put q bit Of a drop on il an busted
TN plate i'm four pieces He repeated
that once. an they sent for Barney
DTeyfuss. an Fred Clarke, an the
whole PittsbUrE outfit
Looked like he was caught then. but
ne got away by strategy an worked
toward the west again II was the