The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-06-11

for a home run. so it took a pickax to
get it out; of how we beat the Desert
of Double dee Chinks playin' back
ward, and finally I told the story Of the
memorable contest between the ball
busters and the bat breakers up in Cru
chile That contest wound up with me
hittin' ball with a Harveyized steel
bat so hard il burnt the ball into
little cloud O. ashes All our fellows
recollected the circumstance very well,
and knOwed I was handin' out facts
But Jordan Guffey looked 50 tired he'd
like to lay down and sleep
Remarkable circumstances. all of
EN- says he. at goes to show you
feIleT's had some middlin' experience
on a ball ground. But you sh'd visit
the All-Star league, down in ArCturUs
county, ArkanSaw, to finish w on. A
year in that cirkit viii qualify any
man for a diplomy as a @ c. f
A O q. E." says Pete Brown. The
rest Of us looked the question Yes.
says he. Qualified Grass Eater The
AlI-Star league o Arcturus county is
the EreatesN that ever happened. No
body can expect to be a finished prod
net in the baseball business till he's
been there. We got eight star clubs
an about twelve star players to each
club. The HespeTus team is~this year.
Champeens. The Saturns was second.
Then came the Affair and Sirius teams;
they were tied for third. The other
clubs was the Lucifers, OriOns. Cyg-
muses. and NaTses. The MaTses was
picked 10 win early in the season; they
had what you'd call a star alI-star
bunch. but they turned out such scrap
peTs the empires could do nothing with
'eIu, and they forfeited so many games
that they finished last
This here CorndrOppers' league amt
anything out o the ordinary that I can
see; you prOb'ly 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 you2"
We all nodded. Despite his ruther
large way o talkin', this guy was in
terestinE.
Well" he went on, the reason I'm
dsllvin' in this here vale o tears just
at present is because a game o ours
SiTiUSes, W'icE I captain, versus the
Altairs-was called the other day on
account o volcano.
Account O. Wst2" says We all
Fact" says Jordan GUffey; called
on account O. volcano. A durn
VeesOOvyUs appeared in the twelfth
innin', with two down an us one run
ahead, an the bags full 1t spOUted up
in the middle 9 the diamond ketchin'
our ketcLer. who was on second, an
our shOrtstOp. who was on third, an
the Affairs pitcher and shOrtstOp an
second base. The laveT an smoke an
fire belChed up with a sound like thun-
der, an them FIVE went with it. The
rest of US an the empire escaped It's
10 fill their places III explain, that I'm
IOOkin' around here"
Why, where'd they go? You don't
rrean they was killed." says MeT-
rift
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 I tell
you"
Wen. quit feeIin' bad saws Pete
Brown. IF they was birds at ketchin
an shOrtstoppin', why, we got a pair
O Ostridgss here Wait till you see Hag
an Pinch Hobbs play
Again that tired look come over the
face o. the man I'm the All-Star
Cirkit.
please don't" says he. Don't joke
about a serious subject like that That
ketcher was the best in tia AT-Star
league. When I've said that, II means
the world He never wore miJt. mask
or p'tectOr. Ketched every kind O.
slant ever made with his bare fists.
Nobody ever stole q base on him. His
hide was so tough 1t turned the edges
out o the way at the plate. His hands
were so hard that his only weakness
was on foul flies.
"HOw's that" says Lamp Hymes
wy. they came down so easy that
sometimes he didn't know he had 'em.
Didn't f5eI' en-. YOU see Instead o
him yelliu', I got it, when he went
for a foul, we'd yell. You got it, just
a. soon as it hit his paws. Then he'd
know the ball was there. He's see the
ball go in his hands. you know. but
wouldn't feel il, onless It was very
swift You know wOt / mean"
Very nice" says Pinch 'WOt was
the popularity o the great shortstoP
you lost2''
Had rubber arms" says Jordan, "a
he wiped away a couple o tears that
fell for the valuable ketcher He cd
stand on third base an nip a liner goin
over second, or vice versa Peculiar
thing about him. too. it was only his
forearm that stretched. His upper
arm was always the same ZENITH, and
when h wasn't reachin' for anything
the lower arm was normal. too
Handy man around a free lunch
counter" says jim Harrison.
You bet" says Jordan. He was
right on the job at these railway lunch
rooms. He cd reach enough in two
minutes tn keep the hull gang of US
busv tin thu next station"
Gle had 4 cinch base runnin. says
/ IF he cd stand on second an reach