The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-05-13

stand and scalp some innocent Iooker-on.
So that's where We. got it on en- with
He's as steady as a clock, never gets rat
tied never has made a wild
BB aiis ab never only hit one batsman-a3G
that fellow took a chance and let the
ball hit him to force in run. 1t was
poor judgment, though, for ii took away
the arm of a burned good left fielder.
and he has to tend gate now for forty
dollars a month. So they don't get in
any more
didn't say nuthin'. but resolved to
wait an see how the Gas Belt Goliath
worked in a game before l formed my
opinion of him.
So the Chapparal team came onto the
! field and warmed up, and the audience
began to come in and the game was
soon on. There wasn't the usual ques-
tions from the bleachers, Who's goln' TO
pitch today?" in this league. for every
body knew that the Gas Belt Goliath
would twirl for Mesquite, and the Chap
Choo-Choo was a pitcher which had no
arms, but coughed shoots and slants out
of his mouth. He had some kind Of an
| milne in his innards that belched them
| baseballs out so fast that the Mesquite
| batters couldn't see EN-. Nobody got
run for five innin's, but the Mosquitoes
wait till his gasoline gifts warm" SAYS
Calkins. Then If he don't blow up ne IL
start sighin' instead of coughin, and then
he's easy TO hit.
Sure enough, the next innin' the Choo-
and sent up a lollypop slow one. The bat
ter soaked it and got a three-bagger.
Then there was worry in the Chaparral
His gasoline is gettin' hot" yells one,
and he runs in and pOurs lot more into
the Choo-Choo. But il didn't have any
effect for a minute and he coughed up
another slow one, and the batter just
paralysed it and got homer. That gave
the Mosquitoes two runs The Choo-Choo
settled down then and began to cough
hard, and there were no more runs.
So it run on till the ninth, and in the
! first half o. the ninth a Chapparal bat
! ter stuck his club out and the ball hit IL
and he dropped a Texas Lacquer into left
field. The Chapparal part OF the audi
Just then their manager comes over and
| speaks few hurried words to Pinch
..Hag. he wants us to bat in place of
the next two batters, at $40 throw
| Say. I'd been aching to get a chance
] at the Gas Belt Goliath. all through that
game. and now I grabbed it. Tell YOU
| why. He was no speedier than Elwood
/ Hanks of the HammerhuTsts, and knew
| | could bang his swift ones all day,
/ So 1 says Sure" and Pinch trots out tc
| Then there came a battle o brains
against science. and brains won Pinch
made the audience gasp and the baseball
! reporters scribble by workin' the Gas
| Belt Goliath for base on balls The
/ steel armed marvel went right up IN
/ the air soon as Pinch stepped TO the
plate and wabbled like a kid from the
| Three | league pitchin' his first game
| in New York; and it was TO me.
| / got the heaviest bat on the field.
though it wasn't as good as my lead
/ ended slugger and went over to the plate.
! Swish the first ball come over 50
/ fast | never saw it leave his hand-or
/ ruther the muzzle of his armand a
/ strike was called. Another one came up
swift. a little low. an l let it go on
/ purpose. Two strikes.
/ | was ready for the next. 1T came like
! a grass-stained streak right over the
pan and | just fell up against it.
/ They never found the ball 1t went SC
/ far the boys they sent after II got lost
! in a swamp. The Chapparals got three
runs. and the game, and Pinch and l got
| a sawbuck apiece.
NO. we can't stay" says Pinch, wher
| the Chapparals came round with bic
! offer and the Mesquites beat it. I'VE, re
two marvellous ball players searchin' foI
two marvelOuser ones We must be OF
our way
You'll never find them says Cagey
CaIkins not a bit sore over the trim
min we'd given his great pitchin' ma
/ chine. ANY time YOU want TO come bach
the town here is yours.
Even for the town. Pinch wouldn't stay
he was so set in findin' the rubber-armcC
! shortstop. So we hit the trail.
GEORGE WILLIAM DALEY.