The Washington times., 1905-07-16
Pinch Hobbs Scored.

We worried Clessdale for two bases
on balls IN the first inning, and a solid
drive by Sam Merritt sent Pinch Hobbs
over with run. Reggie was strong or
speed, and the Hayvilles didn't get a
chance a. a run till the eighth. Then
an error by Jim Harrison, a muff by
Lamp Hynes, who was trying to play
right field. base on balls. and two
bagger, gave the Hayvilles three runs,
and the lead
We did nothing In the East half of the
eighth, and they did nothing in their
half of the ninth. Reggie opened our
half by tanning, and that brought up
the top of our batting order. Pinch
Hobbs cracked out a double down the
right field line, Brownie got q base on
balls and Merritt fouled out. Ttren it
was mp to me, and the crowd groaned.
! month ago and the Hayvilles would
have begun packing up their bats.
| KNOWN it was all over. and the ball
| over the fence; now they We're packn'
| up because they figured themselves easy
| winners.
| / made up my mind to work CIessdaIe
/ for base on balls. and [ would have
I TOO, only the second ball he pitched, an
/ inshoot, bent a little too much. and
/ though / jumped back the ball follered
! me IN, an believe 1t or not you like
! ! seen that * had Il fiendish grin on it's
| face. Just as it got right above my
! ear | heard a little voice say:
Now l got you you big gutter. Take
The next minute 1 was Iayin' out on
the grass and the crowd was bendin'
/ over me.
When ] came too, there was riot. +
seems the empire had decided that /
/ had ducked into the inshoot on pur-
pose. and he wouldn't give me my base
and Josh HapgoOd had tried to use a
! bat on him. an had been fired off the
I field: and the fellers were groanin' ali
over for fear they'd lose the game. af-
ter all
I
The ingratitude o them basebaIis. af-
/ ter the way I'd been spoiIin my battIn'
average an puilin' my team back in
the race. an wrenchiu' the heart strings
of everybody in Alfalfa just to keep
from hurtin' them. made me madder'n
a hornet, and great big black an blue
Welt over my ear smarted so | wouldn't
forget in a hurry.
! ! grabbed my bat and rushed Ia The
plate again | seen that hall GRIMM IN
Claude Clessdale's hands. and | seen It
laugh as he let 1t go He sent in
straight one over the outside edge o. the
plate. an that ball tried to squirm up
an giTe me another welt a s it went by
Over the Fence.
Oh. but 1 was ready. All the pentup
hoIdm' back OF three long weeks wafLin
lor bum, no-account norrikle to do
business. Jest let itself loose in my arms
| swung around on that ball as it come
| over the pan an the bat whistled
through the air like whip. l seen
that smile on that balls face change in
one swift instant, and then there was Il
crash. and the ball went sailing out over
the left field fence like clam shell.
We won. They found that ball. fiat
as u pancake. out in lot mile back
| O. left field with all the smile knocked
out of it. l had smashed It fiat Tim
McGinnis was fat, too, for no basebaIis
came to me In my dreams that night,
| and / KEEP right on smashin', and we
won the pennant. We never heard from
The norril<le i'll Greece. and when L asked
Tim about it he smiled kind o mean.
and ] judged he was sick. Leastways,
he story got out. an the word norrikle
always made him very tired.
Copyright 1905. by George William Daler. }