The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-07-23

At the bat he showed that he knew
an lnshoot I'm a wide out BIZ Dickin'
out one o Bob Brooks straight ones in
the first lnnin' for a clean homer. 1 du-
, swipes that put the ball out o sight an
out o business.
So things went on till the ninth in
ming. and when we came in for our last
bat the score WAS TO 6 in HusseCvilles
favor With two out. Pleiades clipped
out a long liner that let him slide into
| third base safe. and 1 was up.
The first ball I got from Babe Brooks
I lunged on, and as 4 lunged 7 slipped
and hit too low. It went up. up. up in
the air. right over second base. and out
o sight. Pleiades run in, and run
around the bases. and Still no ball. Aft
er Waitin' ten or fifteen minutes the en-
pire gave as the game, and We went
home.
O. course. nuthin' else was talked
about than that ball all evenin'. Plei-
AIDES said he was C'nvinCed I had II on
him at battin'. and that the ball must
jaw-crackin' planet by this time. He
said he didn't think it'd fetch Mars
without a change in the wind.
The next days game was hot. lamp
Hynes was kind o wild. and the Rus
setviIles scored early an often, an
Pleiades an me had to keep slanmin'
EN- out 10 get in the runnin'. When
the ninth started they had the lead. IL
y.
maxim US need four to tie and five TO
win
Pinch Hobbs cracked out a double.
and Jim Harrison sacrificed him TO
third. Merritt's drive hit the fence and
bounced back. so he only got second.
but Pinch was in Hennessy walked.
and then Pleiades plunked plunkerinO
against the right field fence He rested
on third, and il was UP 10 me to win
with one Of my famous homers, for the
score was IS to y.
7 determined there wouldn't be 10
high up IN the air business about this
80 I picked out a cloud above the left
field fence and doomed one into il I
started TO trot around the bases. with
the RussetVilles loOkin' all over for the
ball
All Of a sudden Cash Torrey, the Rus
setviIles' second bagman, give a
whOOpin' yell.
II got it, he screamed. Sure enough
comm down over his head was the ball.
and though it dropped like lightnin'.
Cash held on to it. Then he lined ie
to third. before Pleiades cd get back.
'Russetville wins, Is to r. says the
At this Josh Hapgood comes runuin'
out an grabs the ball I'm the third
base. A quick look an he busts out
laUghin'.
I sh'd say notl' says he. Then bs
shows the empire the ball Ont it said;
This ball was hit by Home Run
Haggerty. COrndrOppers' League. April
II. 1870. 5:22 p. m Return to Josh Hap
good, manager"
Yesterdays ball"' gasps everybody.
"Mebbe that little trick o mine about
putin the dates on wasn't all to the
good" says Josh.
Give US the money. We win tive
games out o three"
win two noth'sr' says the empire.
Il decide that the RussetvIiles win yes
terday's game, to 6. Add a put-ofr
an assist for Torrey an a put-Out for
third base TO yesterdays score"
For an empire on home grounds
that was a cold deal. We thought Josh
was fired out for thinkin' IL too loud
In the midst of it all the Russetvilles
KEEP declarin' the game wasn't over.
for they were gOin' to wait for that
high one o. mine to come down out %
that cloud. The empire sided with 'eun.
an said we'd have to wait
Hold on" says Pleiades- You say
the Russetvilles just won yesterdays
game today?"
Yep" says the empire.
An now you're givin' EN- a chancs
to win today's game tomorrow
yep" says he.
Boys" says Pleiades Lets git TO
helangOne out o this Up in Mars
they's none o these I'm day-to-day ball
games, an every nine gifts a square
deal. no more an no less. Into tho
autOwindile an fly. WOt do you say2''
After that handout, what could We
say? We few
Copyright. 1905. by George William
Daley)