The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-05-21

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term down the-left field fence the ball
hangs in the air for second. the bat
whistles by, aud then the ball speeds
on its way into the ketcher's padded
palm That's the way the stop. hall
acts that New York paper says. and
lt compliments the inventor in q hull
lot Of bang-Up IaugVidge."
Then Reggie Van Rensselaer,. our best
pitcher, who owns up to havm' a little
on McGiuuity. he tried to sit the stop
haH. but after he had tore the hide
o1u a dozen new halls putin fancy
clutches onto them he gave II up.
NuihIu' in IL fer me" says he 1T
may be Possible, but it amt probable"
Lamp HymeS. who is 50 good on
curves he couldn't pitch a straight ball
II his life depended on it, tried To get
the stop ball. but chucked it UP.
Il put ChcsbrO next the spit ball s."
says he but dumf I can get this
This here Mr. AmeS has cert'nly got il
on MS good pitchers this time"
Dan Delaney tried II an diSloCated
his wrist. He said nobody could pitch
II without he stood on his head So
there the thing lay.
And 1T n right here that Sue Steb-
hlns OF the Clovcrdalcs comes into this
-t'-'- AAN w t III llF lflttIItE all. ulli
a oTneTy punk right fielder He had
heard the talk o. the stop ball. but il
didn convey Uuthiu' to his mind till
one DAY when there wasn't any game
on account q. SogEy grounds ne was i'm
a pool am billiard room. an ne seen a
Teller make one q them stop shots ON
a uooi tdbe-Oue where the cue bail
cracks another out o. the bunch and
loses all its force an LAYS there SpiuDfu'
rfT for . a.. II.
The minute Right Fielder Sfebbins
seen lndt shot he uttered "a whoop an
rushed out into the air to cool his
JhTobhlH temples, for the greatness. of
ne discovery he was about TO make
oVerpowered him.
George Washington crossin' the
lleld ware, says he you are a dead
ore solomon m all his glory, get down
mere Danl Webster take "a back
seat I've got YOU all beat. one weeks
practice an I'll be flying TO the east
t' Dust open the ranks o. the National
an American leagues an make Nc
IFaW and Griffith and Fred Clarke
EIoyeI on their knees TO me-"
tRtH he went an got d baII-a base
hs'h mean-aud got a hid to field
lHr throws back TO him an one To bar
an they Went out TO the bail Grounds
Tie planted himself about sixty feet
from the backstop.
Vow, says ne to himself the
question j. how To make that han
stop Jest like il does on pool table
say this tWelVe-Shilil- ball Is The enc
ball an the bat is the object BAH am
my good right arm Is the cue. I've ugr
TO put a twizziing twist onto il so ne,
II nItS the bat il won't move
30 then he up an throwed the ball
hUt his judgment was Door am the bali
went D under the Eraudstand. And
llen he throWed another and near
made picture frame ~ the kf5 win
the bat And then ne nondcred some
more. and finally ne ffg-ared that no
had to draw the BAH bin to ova1.-
come the natural force a. his throw
NHen ~ INT the bat That's what ne
SSid @fterUard- He had it an down iu
hgEers-
Wen. he put the draw onto his rav+
throw and sIzzleJ one down ro tbe
hid with the bat. am he reached ms
par ouJ am tapped it,. and. ro an be
f'Id, TIE BAH didn't go s4fIfn' ONT IN
'elt held. nor to ~hortStur nor mo-
where Il just hung there fu rhr air
Slzzln round ike "a buzz saw. and the
Rld with the big mitt reaches out and
picks II ont On the air ike a girl uisE-fr-r
SoorSberrIeS ana throws IL To S-cbbfus
SHE = eyes were $50 duru bUgged ont h..
couldn't even hoIie~ 'Eureka,- which
y prope1 10 say when you make r. new
discovery That was what Eacefo
sung out when he discovered the
medicine ball
Well. S-ebbils threw that ball again
and then null Tot a. times and II
worked every time He let Tim No
Fhuls. the 'loVeIdaio manager. i'm
and the next day we were rarIu- sic
7teboins, who had been 20 right fielder
and he Was pitchiu' the stop ball To MS
numbering it. Hardly.
We had never seen the thing worked
and before the game was two i0ufu's
old We never wanted To see II sgai,,
and was WiShiu' Stebbus Il drown i'm
the water bucket or break his arm,
We'd git up 20 tine plate an cit SET
and swing vicious ON nice. straight (
ones over the plate and the minute .
the bail hit the bat iI'H Civ. a TfrfIa
jump am hang there iu the air ar- mo /
kercheTd reach out a fre.klaI and I
waTty right first and puH the ban I'm
an throw us out as we was -Daadfr.-
for first. We lost the game lr,.n o., I
HUthiu- SteDniuS didn't strike nobody
out- bat nobody didn't git 20 hit. So if .
3H amounted To the same Trims. They
carried him out o. the grounds ON their
shoulders that night and named him
stop Ball Stebbius, cause he'd beat
the champions
What made the game So important I
was the fact that il was the deciding
series Of an exciting season The
~lOVeTdaleS needed 20 take four
straight 10 beat US. while IL We won
lust one game the pennant was safe
for another year
Pinch Hobbs was furious. LOsiu' the /
game was bad enough, but TO have our
-eputa tious as scientific ball players /
shattered by a right fielder guy with
InIy one throw was fearful
Pinch tossed about i'm bed all that
hight, an ] got about two fingers O
-icep- Long about I iU the morniu' he
limbed out an dressed up an began