The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-24

never thought we could have done it.
Pinch and 1 clumb out OF the window OF
the big room the Stockholders had given
us to live in the night of the game that
Pinch won for them by climbing over the
FOurwinger catcher's head and eludlng
his four hands and dropping onto the
home plate. We had to drop about TWEEN
~ feet. for the SinglelOOkers built their
winders high up from the ground, 5ein
big people But we got away within be
in seen, an beat it off acrost the desert
toward the railroad
we had a general idea Of the way we
wanted to go. and Travelled pretty fast,
so that if the SinglelOOkers woke up and
concluded they wanted US to give EN- any
baseball lessons they wouldn't be able 10
ketch us But after travelling through the
desert all that night and all the next day
we give up the railroad idea and conclud-
ed we were lost
We tried to sleep on the sand an the
ants ate US We kept on walkin' an the
mosquitoes bit US We'd run an they
be there when we stopped We were
mighty glad when we seen a light ahead,
found if was a house knocked, an heard
somebody say Come in" We did A lit
tie sunburned man was sitting at one side
OF a little table and a great big man with
great big feet and great big hands was
sittin' opposite him. They were playin'
cards We told them we were lost an
wanted TO know II we could either stay
there for the night or be directed to the
railroad station.
Guess you can stay here" said the lit
tie fellow sit down till I finish this
hand. an I'll give you somethin to eat
So we sit down. Now, Plneh hadn
Iatched the door when he came IN, an
if edged open little. TIE big feller saw 1t,
gTunted an says:
shut the door. The muskeeters viii fill
the house
that room was a big one, but before Pinch
or me could make even the slightest move
lords shuttin' that door the little dried
L - .DNs- 1aa-1 -s
was about to lead an reached lords the
/ door an his arm kept on reachin and a
rpachin' and a-reacnin till II mad reached
fuU fifteen feet an ketched the door, shut
/ if and hooked the latch. An then there
/ a quick snap, an there was his arm back
/ at the table an leadn' the ace O spades
inst as though nOthin' had ever happened
| I looked at Pinch. His face looked like
a man of Surpriseville on the pike As fer
me If didn't seem as though could pump
enough wind into my lungs to get up a
good gasp.
10 calculate An then sOmethin' else
haDpened. Without mOvin' from his seat
the little feIler run than arm out again
over the big feller's shoulder, down MS
back an pulled a card out OF his belt,
where I suppose he had it when we came
The big Teller laughed, threw his hand
on the table an says: You win" An
tIex- turned around an looked at US
ssVvhat YOU lookin' so scared about?"
said the big feller.
Them arms said Pinch Now tell
me that You got leather nands an the
problem viii be solved
Il have" said the big feller, but what's
why. the problem Of the rubber armed
sbortstoD and leather-handed ketcner OF
/ the All-Star league.
ssvVhv. I'm a leather-handed ketcher,
/ said the big feller, an. this feller is a
/ rubber-armed shortstoP," said he, but
L Oh
others Four teams in the Stretchit coun-
/ tv league has got men jest like II, an
I rubber-legged Outfielders and steel-armeo
pitchers thrown in to boot But who are
As 7 said. I didn't have wind enough 70
saw anything. So Pinch had TO tell him
/ An they'd never heard OF u.s. Think OF
that An they'd never heard OF Iufl
l Frinn and Grabber CachOOk, the original
/ leather handed ketcher an rubber-arTneo
shOrtsfOD I say original because they
/ were original with us These refers mere
claimed to be the only rubber-limoed mar
/ wells in the country.
why. yes" says the big felier while
/ him with the ,lastic arms got US some
/ thin to eat. They call me Hickory HANS
/ cause my hands were tanned with hick-
/ ory bark witch 1 claim IS better than any
1 other kind. The other ketchers in the
/ league are HemlOck Harry and Tamarack
! Tim and Spruce Sam. / got the best rec
/ ord ketchin'. but Spruce sam is better OF
! THROWN cause the leather on his hands
is more pliable. An then Reacher Rufe
/ this shOrtstop here, he can reach twenty
! three feet while the shortstops on the
other teams. bein' young fellers, an not
/ quite got their growth yet, can't reach
/ but tweney feet"
Great heavensr' says Pinch you fel-
7 lers as wastin time Why don't you sc
I an apply for a job in the American OF
| National Lacquer Think O. the money the
/ New York Giants would give you
/ Il don't know them leagues you speak
/ Of I never heard of them Giants.
4 Never hear o. the Giantsg' says Pinch