The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-03

20 try pitcher, jim Burril, gave US
trouble, but we solved him. too. But
the man that got his checks handed
to him the funniest of any pitcher L
for Russetville part of a season
Dummy Taylor can't talk or hear.
Chicago Brown is shy O. fingers.
There's a guy on the coast Ditchin'
with only one arm, an another down
in Texas with only one leg; hut HI
B0sh had EN- all beat He was stone
blind.
Blind an a pitcher" you'll say.
impossible" / don't blame you for
sayin' II. 1t oert'nIy is remarkable but
the facts is laid down in black an
white IN the history Of the Corndrop-
pers' league. an you can't go behind
the returns. Xxi Bosh couldn't see no
more'n durn mole. He could tell
Wen il was night, an when the sun
was shinin' real bright. an when din
ner was ready. Otherwise he was
blind as bat
An pitch, He was il. with big I.
You've heard people talk about putin
the RiDosh on team that comes I'm
Xxi Bosh an depicts the way he used
to rub it into us-befCTe We got onto
him am his weakness
You'd say. bein' blind pitcher.
how'd he know where the plate was?
The Eetcher told him. He'd hear the
ketehcr's voice sayin: Put her here.
XII an slappin' his mitt, an the bah
I'D so there. When he was to throw
to q bag it was the same way, The
baseman I'd holler for the ball an
he'd get it. good an hard. ri Bosh
had a arm like d piece o steel wire
and speed that's make these biz
leagueIs look like way freight. He
had curves AN could use 'em. too. 1t
cert My was a remarkable case.
You'd say. why didn't you lay
hunts down in front the plate. How
en- he tell where the ball is?' an
that's ii good question. But he did H.
We'd bunt an he'd gallop for the ball
like Il hound dog after a bone, an
Whirl round an throw It the first
baseman voice like a shot We tried
calm 20 him I'm the Joachim line TO
get wild throws off him, but he knew
the voices Of every man on his nine.
On, he was a wonder
He put il ever the Alfalfas SO often
that We laid up nights pvnderin on
how we'd get him. We figgered that
if we Cd find out how he found them
hunts We ed do somethin' to best him,
but We never got onto him till one day
Lamp Hymes. our best pitcher next to
Reggie, got accidentally hit in the arm
by a pitched ball by XII
As Lamp run down to first base.
cussin Ki an askin' him wy he didn't
watch wat he was dom (Which was
| foolish, for Hi didn't have no watch
| ersl. Pincn Hobbs begun to rub the
bump The ball had made. After Lamp
had got on the bag an Pinch had gone
back coaehin', Pinch put his hand up
TO tell his runner somethin' an got a
sniff of his fingers where he'd rubbed
Lamps arm.
Pinch didn't say nothin' then, or that
night or the next day. or the day after.
But Wen Il came IGi Bosh's turn to
pitch the last game o the series
against US be surprised the gang by
appearin' in the CTeSsin' room with a
white package under his arm. What
was in il we didn't know till Pinch
come 10 bat an laid down a pretty
( bunt near the first base line. As he
tore Tor the bag We seen him give
something in his hand a toss out on
I the grass in front o the pitchers box.
Did Iii BOsh run for the ball, scoop
/ it and flag Pinch at first? No. no. To
this day il is told in the Corndroppers
/ how he ran away I'm the ball an
scoOped up the thing that Pinch had
: thrown in the grass an lined it 10 the
bag. An when the first basemar
/ kicked it out OF his mitt they'll tell
you, with a haW-haw of laughin' that
it was nothing bur frankfurter sau-
saga cold dog.
That's all Hi BOsh had rubbed cold
{ dog on each bali he delivered SOS he
could tell where it went when it was
/ hunted, an he'd been gettin' away with
/ il. But now we spiked him, for we al
took To buntin' an THROWN out franks
an he couldn't tell which way to &C
/ for the balls, an we got aim for sever
runs in one inning. And then he'd
change his stuff each game. an we'd
/ get on to il an chase a kid 20 the drug
store for whatever he was usin'. ana
/ he'd have q bad innin' sooner or later
And il got SO expensive pervidin
+ fancy smellin' stuff for him that the
/ club treasury couldn't stand it. an
! one day when he rung in a bottle OF
/ altar VI roses at a hundred dollars q
/ throw the crash came an Ki Bosh was
/ turned adrift. He said we was the
/ cause OF his trouble, and maybe We
! was. II takes a clever pitcher 10 set
/ any gags by us
Copyright, 1905 ,by George William
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