The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-04-16


your bats so big you can't miss moth
in'-and that's the only dead sure
way o beatin' him.
They wouldn't allow no bats as
big as flour barrels says Merritt
( so that games spiked at the start"
There you go again." says Pinch.
! y You're one O. the durn subjects I'd
have to subdue. How you goin' to
control the brain of a durn bail player
that amt got no brain? You Rube
the bat amt RELY as big as a flour
barrett only seems that big
Seemin' wouldn't git met nOthin'"
says Sam. If that burned bail only
seemed as big as a bullet. 1 could hit
I 1t; but it RELY is that size, durn it,"
Pinch give Sam enc O. them fgnor-
in looks an went on:
Now. I got a second string 70 my
bow which don't call for me to con-
troll you 1--WE all looked relieved), and
I'm goin to try it first and save
trouble. It's purely a mechanical ar
rangement and don't call for no extra
brain power. so all you felIers can get
in. It's nOthin less than to get two
forty Horsepower microscopes and
use 'em for gig lamps Wen you got TO
bat Then you can see any kind O.
a ball
We give Pinch a cheer, for we seen
the problem was solved. Him and
me were appointed a committee TO
git the microscopes and the crowd
went into the barroom and practiced
on making balls disappear till late
hour.
Pinch and me went out the next
day. but couldn't get no microscopes
that'd do the business. They was all
! little and didn't fit the brass specta-
/ Gle frames we got The storekeepers
all grinned and said they'd never
heard o such things before, and we
! seemed doomed to failure.
But the day before the game with
] the ('lONnTd3 les hprad q
/ big telescope in the state observatory
/ on the way down to Wiregrass, where
/ they do a lot O star gain and sech
things. After the game that day we
went down and we found only lit
tie white-haired p'fessor or some
| thin, and he laughed when We asked
the loan of a pair O the glasses. l
got him talkin'. however. and Pinch
| slipped up to the roof. and i'm ten sec
/ ondS he had the glasses out an slid
! down the lightnin' rod and 1 met him
/ on the track and we got home about
mOrnin'.
We spent all the forenoon putin
/ the durn things in the rims We
/ looked through 'em, an it was funny
/ how big they made our hands seem
an how pronounced Pinch's freckIes
was. Pinch slipped 'em into his cap
when we went to the game. and |
| pUt the fellows wise as to how he was
goIn to sock it; and when his turn
come to start the fun. an he walked
! up an slipped 'em out o the case an
| put EN- on, our eyes was fixed on him
and our hull intellects was centered on
how far he'd lam it.
Enders was there. With tho same
/ ola curve and the same old look: and
! he passed his hands round a couple
! o times to get PinCh's interest. and
! then passed the ball up. When it was
| half way in Pinch leaned forward on
( his toes ready to soak it; it was al
I gqrN
| like there'd be nuthin' to hit i'm an
other second, when suddenly Pinch
dropped his bat an fell fiat on his
face. like he was afraid it would hit
him.
zone striker says the umpire.
We all wondered why Finch
lodged. for it didn't go nowheres near
him. On the next ball he let it come up
near him an seemed almost ready to
hit it, when he lodged again: and on
! the third ball he jumped across the
| plate from q beauty straight one that
cut the pan.
There was "A DOW WOW when Pinch
came in, tell you Jim Harrison bat
/ ted without the glasses and struck out,
/ an so did Pete Brown Then We had
a chance to ask what was what.
! They're too strong" says Pinch, or
he's got another kibOsh on us. 1t
makes the durn ball so big it can't git
by YOU to the ketcher."
''Shucks.' says Sam Merritt 1T
amt RELY as big as that. 1t only
seems so big. Why didn't you soak
it?'
We seen that Sam was gettin' back.
In the next innin' 1 determined to give
the glasses last trial, an 1 walked up
to the plate with 'em on.
j Went through the same antics p
Pinch Gid on the first ball-only / run
| farther an was more scared of bein'
I hit They laughed, so I got mad. and
when that immense ball came up the
second time, so big il hid the man that
| throwed il an most all his nine behind
him, I soaked her right on the middle
seam.
Them glasses was a. help in rinnin
bases, for first base seemed most so /
could touch it. and l got there in two
jumps, an then second was so close I
made that, and then third looked so
easy l got that and then Hennessey
held me an tore off the glasses an
gave EN- to Sam. who was up next. an
our crowd was standin' on their heads
over the first hit made off the disap-
peaTin' drop in six weeks
And Merritt showed he was the