The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-04-16
HOME RUN HAGGERTY
BY GEORGE WILLIAM DALEY.

by my will Then the ball won't seem
hard 10 get an you'll save pain an
phlanges.'
An then the ketcber'd cuss. but stand
up an take his medicine.
Pinch had once took up this here psy-
chical phenomena game. but he wasn't
prepared for no such jolt as he got the
first day the ClOverdales hit town and
grappled with US to try and take a ball
away from the champs.
Pinch was UP first an he walked out.
busted off the plate, rabbed his bat
short, an prepared for his customary
bunt which he generally started every
game with. Blnathan he opened a pair
of dark, soulful eyes. made a couple o
passes with his hands. an lOllyDOooed
slow one down.
When it left his hand it looked like
Dali; when il was a quarter ways in it
had shrUnk to a small apple size; when
il was half ways in it was like a mar
bic an beginnin' to speed up, and when
il got three-quarters o the distance it
looked like a small army bean an go
in like the wind Pinch didn't hit it.
for gotn' over the plate il had disap
peared utterly. and didn't reappear un
til il had been fiShed out of the Tecep-
tive mitt Of the receptive-minded
ketcher.
Three o them and Pinch came back
to the bench an rubbed his eyes an
looked mad. Jim Harrison had the
same experience an SO did Pete Brown
Pete SwOre that Enders didn't throw
one ball a tall and wouldn't believe il
till the ketcher showed 1t TO him.
How in thunder" says Pete, does
the empire know enough TO call strike
when nobody sees the ball?''
Because he amt under my psychic
inflOOence." says Elnathan- Every
body in front Of me is fooled by ii, for
they are dominated by my mind. Any
thing / see / dominate. For that reason
my ketcher could ketch better if he
didn't nave to look at me. That makes
him see the ball fade like all the rest.
So soon as his mind gets completely UNI
der my control, however, he'll see the
ball just as 7 viii him to see it, not as
want others to; he's got to give up
all outside things, though, an devote
his hull mind to my orders"
Very pretty talk that was: highly ell
evatin' and instructive. But it didn't
get us anything. The ClOverdaleS bat
ted Lamp Hymes like his curves. got
bigger as they come uD, an Enders'
nine won Is they pleased, for We never
hit him once through the game and not
a one o US got on first base even
The next day they repeated the dose,
for it wasn't hard work for him to
throw that slow, easy ball, an he could
work every day; and when they had ia
ken three games from us they went
away an we were glad they did, for it
gave us a. chance to breathe and hgger
out how to beat the disappearin' drop
before it took hold too deep and beat
US out O. the DennaTt.
We had a council o war the night
they left, and me, as chairman. asked
what we was goin' to do about it.
Wed ought to use hemIOCk planks
for bats" saiy Pete Brown. He was
sore, for his battin' average had Suf-
fered along with the rest of us.
Cit him into a fight and give him
al
wouldn't he putin them brown eyes
o his onto you so you can't see nOthin'
but shadows"
For Gosh sake, don't no one do that"
says Sam Merritt, IF You do. his hi
sickle powerS'd be twisted an you'd
only see half a ball"
Not 'bisickle,' " says Jim Harrison.
"PsychiCal powers. If you blacked one
eye, though. wouldn't his powers de-
crease soft the balId be twice as big
as it is now
It'd have to be ten times as big
TO do any good for me" says l. Pinch,
what do YOU say
Pinch pondered for a minute, ana
from the way he looked I seen that
he had come close to soIvin' the prob
lem.
Boys" says Pinch. "as you all
know. / studied UP this here bust
ness O. the superiority O mind over
matter an had mystic revelations an
thought tranSference, an all that. In
fact. I've been over the route with
Madame Blavatsky an all that bunch.
an L can see that this here EndeTs
guy is a beginner, an that L got it on
him If 1 want to go to a lot of trOu-
BILE. There's one sure way o beatin'
his game, and that is for me- before
we play them again, to get the hull
bunch o you guys completely under
my control, whether You want to or
not
Don't get me" says Jimmy Har-
rison. You owe me four dollars al
ready.
Wouldn't he have a cinch if he got
us that way an played poker with
us2" says Brownie.
AS 1 said,' went on Pinch, wavin'
his hand TO still the protests that was
comm up- ''As I said, that'd cause
a lot o trouble. for there's sure to be
some rebelliOus minds t I'd have to
get into subsection. and thatd take
loads o time. The idea is. you know,
for me to concentrate your minds sO't
when you get up to bat, though the
ball may seem the size o a pea, the
bat you're swinging'I seem big round
as a flour barrel and you can hit any
thing. Yes, sir, thought concentra-