The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-03-20
JOE KELLEY's GREATEST CATCH.
HAD TO CLIMB FENCE TO CAPTURE A HOME
RUN HIT AND THEN TOMMY DoWD DID
THE SAME TRICK ON HIM

In the language of the seas. it was
blowing half gale. The wind soughed
mournfully through the treetops and
the fieecy mantle covered the earth.
1t was the night of the weekly meet
ing OF the Fan Club, but only half a
dozen members showed UP for the sea-
son. The Star Rooter, the Elongated
Enthusiast, the Fat Fan, the Man Who
Never Missed a Game, the Veteran
Bleacherite and the Ancient and Honor
able We're the only ones to brave the
blasts for the usual baseball powwow
There was silence deep and long for
half an hour, when finally the Star
Rooter arose from his leather-covered
couch, gently drew the curtain aside
reered out into the night and gdrgled:
Boys. guess to-morrow's games
postponed On account of snow
Baseball, eh?" chuckled the Fat Fan.
'iSay, don't you ever get anything else
In that think tank of yours?"
The Star snorted. "Baseball?" he al
most yelled. And why not? Amt
Johnny McGraw gone hotfcotin' down
TO Hot Springs to get in trim for the
next rag-huntin' expedition, and didn't
Clark Griffith, him who leads the Tam
OShanters, send a white heat wire to
Frank Farrell sayin' he'd be here on
New Years Day2 Amt them signs of
the season and amt it high time fo1,
all the followers of the great and glo-
rious to buckle On tlreir armor and get
ready? I should say it was. / dunno
what right you got to butt in when I
make remark touchin' on the nay
ti9nal sport anyhow.
81 thong Mt We all come here to talk
over the rG.3t on the diamond" inter
jec.e'1 the Man Who Never Missed a
Game, "ano NOS to get in any argu-
nIent. I'm h lcIi; du-vn the chair to-
night, and if any members got any
stories to relate about great achieve
ments with the Cat and bal now's the
time for him to spiel 'em out. If not
ne game will lie called off on account
of the storm and the absentes fined so
cents apiece for not poItin' for prac-
tice"
That's what I was a-sayin','' retort-
ed the Star Rooter. 1Soon's as 1 make
remark about baseball the Fat One
over there tries to get in row with the
empire and break things up. got a
good story or two to let out of my
kick tonight, and with the permission
of the Chair and the promise of Fat
~ that he'll keep quiet, I'll reel EN-
off. If he's mad because its snowin'
what'd he join the club for? A little
thing like seven or eight inches of
snow never feazes me nor any other
good old dyed-in-th e-wool rooter."
After this shot at his loyalty the Fat
Fan said he was only teasing, and the
Chair having granted permission, the
Star Rooter began to unfold his tale.
81 waited into Baltimore once when
Hanlon's old Orioles was settin' the
world afire," began the Star, "and one
day 1 see the two greatest ketches
ever made on a ball field. May be you
think mats stretchin' it some. but it's
a fact. copper riveted and steel bound.
The Birds was a-flyin' at a awful fast
clip then days, and nothin could stop
'em. Ard what bunch they was to
stack up against. to he sure. There was
Keller aud Kelley and Jennings and
McGraw-say, without a-mentionin'
any more names, wasn't that COM
bination likely enough to make any
pitcher sick afore he ever started to
warm up Well on this particular
day along comes old Chris Won der
Ahe's ST. Lolis shines to take shot at
the Orioles, and 1 might just as Well
say that Hanlon had that game pack
ed away in salt afore the Westerners
got inside the grounds.
1.-THE night precedin' this little bit OF
pleasantly a cyclone got on rampage
| in Baltimore. and cuttin' loose in great
shape tore down the left field fence of
Union Park That wac a sort of calan-
/ in, "a 1l1nrnin' force
of men was set to work jackin' it up,
and when it was time for the game
| to start the fence was raised to a angle
as the scientists say, of about 40 de-
grees. That fence would have made. a
| good toboggan side if it was long
| enough but that's neither here MOI
| there, Well, s.. Louis goes first to bat
and Tommy Dowei-you all remember
| Tommy he was the first man UP, and
| sadie Mcmahon was doin' the twirlin
for the Orioles. Two balls and two
strikes was called on Tommy, when
suddenly he ketches the ball square on
| the trademark. I looks UP to see where
the thing was a goin' and as I ketch
sight of it curling out toward left field
way I softly whistles to myself, Over
the fence and one run for the Dutch
mans outfit
But this was a error for me, all
right, and no complaint comm to the
| Official scorer either. The minute the
ball was hit Sir Joseph Kelley turns,
and. maxim tracks for the fence, runs
with the ball. OF course. everybody
expected to see Joseph stop when he
| reached the fence and let Mr.. Ban GO
over. but that's where everybody, in
cludin' me, was mistaken. With his
| eye still glued on the sphere, Kelley