The Washington times., 1905-10-01

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went to one the other day and told
about myself. and all she would say
was:
Whom the Lord loveth He chasten-
eth,' and charged me dollar
Shucks with cIairoyoyants and such,
said Josh. THE next time you pitch
part your hair in the middle and put
horsechestnut in your right pocket ami
a piece of red flannel in your left stock
ing. Meanwhile. I'll hunt you up a
regular rabbits foot mascot-the left
hind foot of rabbit shot by a seventh
son of seventh son OF a cross-eyed
nigger in a graveyard at midnight, when
the clouds is driving over the moon
II that don't turn the trick. I'll get you
a lucky stone.\ Iii make winner out
o. you II 1 have TO read all the dream
books ever doped'
SO, when Bah pitched a couple Of
days afterward. he carefully parted his
hair in the middle, as Josh told him,
and put the horse chestnut in his DOCK
ct and the red flannel in his stocking
Allowed Two Hits.
He let the bathurst team down with
only two hits. but their pitcher had a
good day, too, and did the same with
the Cloverdales, and Rab lost his game
in the tenth inning when one of his out
folders muffed fly. Josh had the rab-
BITS foot mascot ready for him a cou-
! pie of days later. but he lost again.
The lucky stone that he got after that
was Just as bad. and they lost another
game by one run. Then Josh tried all
sorts of combinations on Bah. such as
tying his hair up with strings like ne
groes do to ward off witches, and spit
| tin in his shoes and keeping his fingers
crossed, and things like that. He near
famed Bah for life by tying two of his
toes across cne another for a whole
| game. But i, Va no use. There didn't
seem to be any combination that would
make Bah a winner.
At last the Cloverdales came up e
Alfalfa for a series OF three games
which we needed 10 win TO keep the lea,
from the Russetvilles. who were clos,
behind us. 1t so happened that JOSH
wasn't with his team. having gone tt
look for spare catcher. and he forgo
to put Bah onto any new wrinkle in tn,
| moscot line for that days game, It be
ing Bab's turn to pitch. Josh had bull
up a pretty likely team of young fel
lows. and with anything but a Jonal
] n
But as II was. we didn't look for any
thing else than to see another gam,
chalked up on the "won" side of oU
! record.
The CIoverdales dressed at their hcte
and went out onto the grounds in a car
ryall. Bah sat on the front seat wiz
the driver, smoking a cigar and LOOKING
glum over the prospect of losing an
Ifsf
new mascot from Josh to kind of brac
him up. AS they were swinging aroun
a curve near the grounds the off hors
of the team o. grays, that was drawir
the carryall, threw the shoe off his righ
hind foot. The driver saw it. stoppe
the team and asked Bah to get dow
and throw the shoe in the wagon Ba
climbed down, put 1t in his hind pocke
so he could climb into the wagon agair
and then forgot all about IL.
Historic Game
, That game will always stand out !
? the annals Of the Corndroppers' Leagu,
? as a corker. Reggie Van Rensselaer, wa
: in the box for US, and good as he wa.
he didn't have a thing on Babingto
Brooks at any stage of the contes
: The young fellows on Josh's CloverdaIe
. just come up TO the plate and Wake
: into Reggie's swift ones i'm a way tha
opened our eyes. and only for cIevt
fielding by Pinch Hobbs and the rest {
: the Infield we'd a been smothered. w
: batted Bah pretty hard at times. but h
: had good support, too, and he pulle
out of several ticklish places by cIeve
strikeouts of some OF our heavy batter
He had a little catcher named Stroni
who was all over the field, backing u
first and fielding bunts and picking fou
off the grandstand like veteran. an
throwing 10 the bags like a King or
Bergen. When the ninth inning bega
the score was a tie. each side havir
three runs.
Their first two men went out drivIr
10 the infield, then Strong, the your
catcher. caught one OF Reggie's cuts {
the end of his club and tore around
second. That brought Bah up. and NJ
I. body said much, for he was a crackir
good hitter for a pitcher as I've sal
He walked up, and somebody that didn
know the history Of his past life yelle
Come on. now. Brookcy, Here's
q chance 10 win your own game"
Bah smiled a kind of tired smilc TO n
n as he came up to the plate.
"Win nothin',' he said. Its only
chance to let you fellows make ~
: runs In your half instead of one
h You see. he didn't have any confden,
: or any hope that he had a chance. ev.
: az that stage of the proceedings: VIII,
G most players would be hopping UP al