The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-03

look made perfect throw 70 third.
Egan knew that the runner going
from second base was going to turn
third and then stop 10 see if the ball
had rolled TAR enough TO permit him
to score, SO he made the throw to third.
The runner was ten feet past the base,
treading air. DahIin. who was playing
third, was sound asleep and the ball
passed by within an inch OF his head
hit the grand stand, and a run scored.
while the other runner reached third.
scoring later and beating Chicago.
Arson released Egan for quick think
ing and kept Dahlin, whose brain had
been working at d. Green pace.
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Sir Chentung LANG Cheng. China's
ambassador To the United States, was a
crackerjack baseball player at Phil
lips, AndOVer, and afterwards at Am
herst, where he now is honored as an
LID. Sir Chentung even now is d
wild baseball tan and he thinks Jake
Stahl is about as big as anyone else In
Washington. lie cOvets his titles p.
ana G. +. won at Andover and Amherst,
quite as much as he does his LID.
One of the minister's baseball stories
is the tale of his three-ba gger made
against Exeter in 1879 or 1850.
y was right field and change
pitcher" he says, land was in the out
field IN the big game agaist Exeter,
which Is the big event of the year for
AndOVer, We were playing at Exeter,
and l do not think that the students and
other spectators ever had seen a Chi
nese boy before.
An through the game they were yell
ing at me, No checkee, TO washee.'
Hello. Sam and all sorts of things in
pigeon English In the fifth inning ]
came 10 bat with men on second and
third, two out, and a hit needed to put
Us ahead. The crowd was yelling, no
hittee, no runnee. and that made me
mad. The pitcher shot up a high one,
a foot over my head. and / clouted il
against the left field bleachers for a
three-base hit. drove home two runs,
and won the game.
That was one Of the proudest mo-
ments of my lfe-and they didn't yell
pigeon English at ne again"
y 4
Every ball player. no matter what he
says, believes himself the best that ever
happened. Men who hit $50 year in
and year out confidently declare they
really are better hitters than Lajoie
because, they say. every one of their
hits counts. Men who make errors reg
ularly and atrociously call attention TO
the fact that it is only the good ball
players that make errors and they make
them trying 20 make impossible plays.
They have excuses for everything.
One of the worst examples ever saw
was n young pitcher Arson picked up
one spring. He looked good in practice.
He had speed. curves, and a good
change OF pace. and Arson thought he
cou d develop the boy into a wonder.
Finally, after a month on the bench,
he was trotted out to pitch a game. He
gave two bases. hit two batters. and
was soaked for two singles and a triple
before Arson could yank him out of the
game. That night he said TO me:
What do you think of that big stiff?
He took mo out just when L was getting
ready to put the fOOlers on the ball"
Ciroundkeepers in every city know,
perhaps better than any others. just
how players will hunt for excuses.
After every error they make they hun
around the grounds and If an infie der
can ind pebble within twenty feet of
where the error was made the ground
keeper win Be lucky to escape with his
life after the game.
At one time-when the famous Can
brothers-W Can RAN and Large
Can Shocks -were the groundkeepers at
Cincinnati the Reds tried out a new
third haseHlan to succeed the inimitable
Arlie Latham, and in the first game
that thid baseman came near kicking
the cover off the BAH With his shins.
And, when he reached the blub house,
he LEI out vail about how rotten the
grounds were end how much better the
field was at Wapakoneta. or wherever
he had played.
The following dav he started punting
Founders again and he hit most every
thing that came his direction with his
Sims After the second inning he
came In from h!s position with both
hands filed With pebbles.
How the ---- do they expect a man
to Play thare." 10 demanded. showing
the retbles 'Tust look a the gravel
picked un around hat BASE
He might have got away with Il but
for tho fact that Large Can sneaked mp
behind tho bench. grabbed the kieker's
coat, and duinPeds half a peck Of gravel
out OF nc goektts The player had
salted the third base line TO excuse HIM
self for his errors.