Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-10-10
incidents Of Daily Occurrence,
But Not Seen by People.
Hugh Fullerton Digs Them Out and They
Arc Well Worth Reading.


GRAFTON of fans have forgotten him. al
though the old timers never will. Sadie
is out Of the game because his arm
is so weak he has hard time sliding
q stein Of beer the length of Bill
O'Prien's bar.
Last winter EN- Gross pulled off ono
on Sadie that it too rich to keep SADIE
was on the right watch at O'Brien !.
and suddenly the electric lights went
out. leaving Sadie sitting in the dark
IN top Of the cash register. fearing
hold-up men.
Just then Providences old star
catcher happened in and called out;
Whats the matter with the lights.
Sadie"
minute ago"
why. you idolt remarked I'm. you
left the front door open and tn" cur
rent frozc in the fuse box Their" by the
door"
For the next half hour Sadie stood ~.
n chair and wrapped hot t"N.!, ar"UnI
the fuse box. trying to thaw out The
frozen electric current.
Dnc of the oil tricks Of bIll payers.
ono which is p"rp"tratcd every l"a',
wa. | believe. original with Larry or
coran. IT is the custom Of "V''y dub
in the big leagues to maxi, ~ least
one trip year between Boston ana
New York on the Fall River lincrs. ami
the veterans in the clubs always lay FIR
the now man.
About the time the steamer i,".jI.. t.
feel the sWcll 90 the sound nr .! III"
hay and roll a bit ono ~ the veterans
proposes II game Of billiards and sends
the @rc"n !nHn bunting AL over thu
boat for the billiard room
IT seldom fails - work. ami Whom
the pr,ir;" born victim finally tumble
to the joke he is certain t" suffer during
the remainder of the year.
Half = dozen or more green player ;
have been persuaded % sleep in lii"
preservcrs through the entire TIN. but
il is hard {" find Il victim n"W.
Bert Briggs. the Ianky t1cvc'anh"r
who preferred the out laws to Er""klyn
this yea probably wanting - play
real baseball handed on" T." l'"" Rice.
his old sid" partner. on" spring when
the rhicrG, club was training 1T Gal
weston
The team MAS stopping at tn" l!"h"h.
une of the swell hotels of that tim.
and one evening some Of til" wealth
lest society p"opl" Of tho city had ar
ranged a dinner dance in tn" hotel The
affair was to be- one of tn" sweetest g
er held in Galveston and tn" hotel WhH
in buStl" of preparation. After dinner
that evening Doc Ric" Str"Il"d int" III"
lobby ana found PriEgS, who was III"
only player in sight.
Where are the fellows" demanded
Doc.
up dressing for the party" replied
Briggs, calmly.
Are we invited" asked Doc in sur
prise
OF course. They invited cap to
bring us all
why amt you going
Haven't got any dress suit. Amt
you going"
Sure | am" said Doc.
"All right" said RriGgs. I'll help
you dress
And h, did He arrayed Doe in Il
long frock coat. Il pair Of white cotton
gloves. flowing tie and a lay-down
collar turned M. and then. csc"rtirg
him to the door a the beautifully dec
Grated reception room, turned him
loose.
Doc appeared in about an hour in
search Of Briggs He had hunted MI
through the crush for some ban play
or until some on" took him I-id" AMI
whispered Il few things t" hiu-
BILL Dahlen won A game Of bah for ON
raco orce ny one Of tn" odds! littl"
tricks that ever happened. II" ddut
mean it. but it was just as effective. 1t
was in game against Boston. and Her
man Long of course. WIS at short. Long
and Dahlen were great friends and they
always were scufiling AMI pushing each
other around iokinglv. on the bases.
Dahlen had stolen second. sliding around
Long. and was kidding the ImtChnlan
about II. while Herman was making cv
cry effort to catch Dal off the base. Each
time he went behind Dal there WIS a
scuf'ie Finally Dial. standing on the hac
drew his handkerchief ont Of his hin
pocket. and as he started to blow hi
nose Long pushed him Dal. diving back
I" the bag. arose and tiAtcd his hanils'r
chief across Longs face
Just a moment later Long again ran to
the bag. na' was 10 feet IN the line in
tent on blowing his nose. and Lewis. who
was pitching. whirled and shot the bal!
toward second
At that instant Longs face contorted
aEonzinGly. his mouth opened and he
sne"zed The hall went to center sri
pahlen scored pa,'s handkerchief had
been filled with the crumbs Of cigarette
TOBACCO. which made Herman sneeze, and
the sneeze cost Boston the game
Here Is a new play that happened long
ago Perhaps it never will happen again
Did anyone ever hear Of a base runner
scoring from first base on a line driv,.
That was caught by a third baseman and
when the ball never left the third base
mans hand?
The play happened in this way: >n,x
Moynihan now known as Father" Nov
n'han. was playing third base for the
pastimes Of Chicago in 1858. when a tour