The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-03-20

strikes the boards and he bounces up
that inclined plane just like he was "a
goin' upstairs in a hurry to get to
bed. Holy mackereli My eyes almost
popped out of my head. Everybody
was a-hollerin' Look out, Joe! You'll
go overiu but, of course, Kelley never
heard 'em. Just as he reaches the top
OF the fence Kelley swings around
same's as If he was on the ground.
rr,s up one hand, grabs the ball and
skiddooes back to Mother Earth.
Maybe that crowd didn't yell! May
be it didn't. and then again maybe il
did. Why, say, 1 just gor up on my
hind legs and howled till 1 was black
in the face. ard everybody else done
the same thing. Talk about a ketch-
That was a lallapaloosa and no mis-
take. 1 seen baseball ever since Harry
Wright took the Cincinnati Reds arounii
the country. anG 1 never seen anythink
like it in my hfe. Well, st. Louie goes
out one, two, three, and when Kelley
comes in from the field he gets another
reception, the crowd maxim all the
noise that was left in 'en. McGrev'
leads off for. the Orioles. and he goes
out from short to first. Keller puts up
a fly which the third baseman gobbles,
and then up to the plate steps Sir
Joseph. He gets the glad hand again,
and, of course, he wants to make a
hit
Seems to me Red Ebert, with his
hoochie-coochie delivery. was handin'
EN- out that day for ST. Louie. and Red
he puts on steam and tries to strih =
Joey out. Kelley. you knows, always
lets the first good one go by. and q
strike was called. Then he makes u
tremendous swing at the BAH ard dIn't
hit nothin. Strike No. 2. But the
third, Say, he lands on the leather With
a crack that made Tie old mans hear.
so pitty-pat, and way she sails just
like Tommy Dow * stingaree, way
over left field. headed straight for over
the fence. L just chalks down a run
for Kelley on my score card and looks
up to ketch a last glimpse of the ball
when I sees Dowd doing the same stunt
Kelley did. Tommy was inountin' that
inclined fence like as if he had wings,
and the crowd was a-holdin' its breath.
SAY. you may take me outside this
room and roll me into a snowball-may
I never see Johnny McGraw pullin' on
the halIiards raisin' that pennant next
eApril at the Polo Grounds, if Tommy
didn't do the same identical stunt Kel-
ley did. That st. Louie greyhound
whips right up to the edge of the fence,
wheels around, sticks out mitt and
pulls the ball out of the clouds. Then
he slides gracefully back to where the
green grass grows all round. You may
believe me or not, but that gang near
ly took the roof off the grandstand.
The racket was awful. You'd have
thought another cyclone had hit old
Balty. And me a-settin' there like a
mummy. 1 couldn't open my trap. I
was so founded. Me a-seein' base
bail at that time about % years and
then to tumble in on a game and see
the two greatest ketches ever made,
all in one day. Say, one of 'em would
have been worth the price of a seasons
ticket. but twoI
well. 1 just crosses out the run I
had chalked down for Kelley and sat
through the game like a NUT, and that's
| no joke The wind was clean gone out
of my sails When the game was over
and the Orioles had breezed in I walks
down onto the field to my old friend
| Hanlon and I says. says L: Say, Ed.
| lever see anything like them two
ketches- on the fence in all your born
days?' And Ed. says, Nope, old man
and I never viii again."