The Washington times., 1905-04-09
Home Run Haggerty
Opens the Season
F1askins, of the HayviIIes of the
Corndroppers' League.

ketch, only to find d regulation sphere
an a couple o busted fingers in his
hands after hid closed onto 1t.
Concentrate your durn inner sensi-
tiveness or % me. If you got any, you
galoot,' Enders'd say to his ketcher
when them things happened. Let your
hull soul gaze into my eyes an allow
your hull beIn' to be dominated by my
will Then the bah won't seem hard
to get an you'll save pain an phlanges." +"
An then the ketcher'd cuss, but stand
UP an take his medicine.
Pinch had once took up this here
psychical phenomena game. but he was
not prepared for no such jolt as he got
the first day the Cloverdales hit town
and grappled with us to try and take
bail away from the champs.
Pinch at Bat.
Pinch was up first an he walked out,
busted off the plate, grabbed his bat
short, an prepared for his customary
bunt which he generally started every
game with. Elnathan he opened a pair
o. dark, soulful eyes, made a couple O.
passes with his hands, an lollypopped
a slow one down.
When 1t left his hand 1t looked like
a ball; when it was a quarter ways in
| it had shrunk to a small apple size;
when 1t was half ways in 1t was like a
| marble an beginnin to speed up, and
| when it got three-quarters o. the dis
| tance It looked like small army bean
an goin' like the wind. Pinch don't
! hit 1t, for goin over the plate 1t haC
disappeared utterly an didn't reappeal
| till it had been fished out o the recep-
| t1ve mitt o. the receptive-mindet
ketcher.
| Pinch Struck Out
Three O. them and Pinch came bach
| to the bench and rubbed his eyes an
| looked mad. Jim Harrison had thu
same experience an SO did Pete Brown
Pete swore that Enders didn't throw one
ball a tall ard wouldn't believe it til
the ketcner showed 1t TO him.
How in thunder" says Pete, doe
the empire know enough to cali strike
| when nobody sees the ball?'
Because he amt under my psychic
infiooence," says Elnathan- Every
body In front O. me is fooled by it
for they are dominated by my mind
Anything l see I dominate For tha
reason my ketcher could ketch bette
IL he didn't have to look at me. Tha
makes him see the ball fade like al
the rest So soon as his mind get
completely under my control. however
he'll see the ball just as I Will hin
to see 1t, not as I want others to: he
got to give up all outside things. though
an devote his hull mind to my orders.
Talk No Good.
Very pretty talk that was; highl.
, elevatin' and instructive. But it didn'
get us anything. The Cloverdales bate
Lamp Hymes like his curves got bigge
as they come up and Enders' nine wol
as they pleased, for we never hit hin
once through the game and not on
O. US got on first base even.
The next day they repeated the dose
for it wasn't hard work for him t
throw that slow, easy ball, and ne coul
work every day: and when they ha
taken three games from us they wen
away and we were glad they did, for
gave us a chance to breathe and figge
on how to beat the disappearin' dro
before it took hold too deep and bee
us out O. the pennant.
Council O. War.
We had a council o. war the Nigh
r they left, an me, as chairman, aske
5 what we was goin' to do about it.
"We'd ought to use hemlock plank
e for bats" says Pete Brown. He wa
t xore. for his battin' average had SUI
r fered along with the res. of US.
e "Git him into a fight nd give hi
u a black eye" says Hennessy. 'Then
: wouldn't be putin them brown eyes
d his onto you so you can't see nuthil
8 but shadows"
s For Gosh sale. don't no one do that
t says Sam Merritt IF you do. h
bisickIe powers'd be twisted an you
: only see half ball.
r mot 'bisiclsle.''' says Jim Harriso
r "Psychical powers II you blackt
II one eye. though. wouldn't his power d
4 crease so't the balrd be twice as big
/ it ia now?"
s It'd have to be ten times as big
: do any good for me-" says I. 'Pinc
G what do you say?'
e Solved the Problem.
e Pinch pondered for minute, al
D. from the way he looked l seen that
!e had come close to solvin the profile,
It Boys" says Pinch, "as you all kno
I've studied W this here business
the superiority O mind over matter q
had mystic revelations an thoug
Is transference, an all that. In fact, T.
ss been over the route with MADAM
le Blavatsky an all that bunch, an l c.
le see that this here Enders guy is a h
10 ginner, an that I got 1t on him If
Id want to go to g. lot of trouble. Ther'
,g one sure way o. beatin his game, a
to that is for me. before we play the