The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-10-10
The koAzsaNp
By W1lzle West
He Tells a Baseball Yarn and
Touches on Other
Topics.


late regarding the doleful lack of able
fighters and wrestlers in England.
Both these historic pastimes seem to
have been greatly neglected in the
tight little isle of late years.
The only able heavy fighter Britain
has developed in a score of years was
Charley Mitchell, and Charley fought
largely with conversation and newspa-
per interviews. Yet he always showed
up finely in training. The way he
would knock down spindle shanked,
knockkneed, hollow chested sparring
partners was wonderful.
Charley's pet gag has been de-
scribed to be as follows: He would hire
four or five two dollar day pugs,"
take them to his gymnasium and wrap
their heads, arms and shoulders with
nice, clean white bandages. Then he
would lay them around on the floor
and whisper to his manager, "Now let
the reporters come in"
Then Charley would wipe imaginary
perspiration from his brow, and as the
scribes entered would be heard to muir
muir half audibly, as though to himself,
Poor lads-clever, fast and strong, but
l seem to use them up pretty quickly"
(Groans now heard from two or three
Of the victims) Yes, it's a tough
game for the lads, big, strong fellows
though they are. 1 guess I'll have to
ease up a bit on them
Turning, Charley would discover the
reporters, quite by accident, and apollo
gize for delaying them, and later they
would depart to spread abroad the
news about the terrible, 'orrible man
killer.
A rare feat in baseball, triple play
unasSisted, was accomplished by First
Baseman Murch of the Manchester
club of the New England league in a
game with New Bedford recently.
Murch caught fly from a batter and.
after putting out player who had
been on first base, rushed to second
base and caught runner attempting
to return from third.
Mahanoy City. Pa, has a pitching
marvel. Striking out forty-six bats
men in two games he pitched is the
performance of John Wolfe. eighteen
years old, pitcher for the Lost Creek
Athletics. On a recent Sunday he
struck out twenty five men, allowing
only one hit, and that home run, the
only run of the game. In a later game
he struck out twenty-one batsmen, al
lowed one hit, and again lost the game
through the erratic work of his team
mates.
A big point is made of the fact that
Joe Cans gave his word to a San Fran
cisco man not to fake. 1t really is a
thing worth mentioning when Cans
keeps promise like that
1t was an ideal afternoon to sit in
the sun scorched bleachers at the ball
game and rootfully shout, and timidly
entering the private office of the greaI
man, the small overworked boy sadly
remarked:
L would like to go to a funeral this
afternoon. Mr. Smith"
You won't, though" replied the cold
hearted boss who was wise TO excuses
of that kind.
II know it, responded the boy, still
more dejectedly, but 1 would like to
just the same
Whose funeral?'' asked the boss.
with a touch of sarcasm.
Yours defantly cried the Office boy.
making a wild dash for the door.
Colonel Jim Douglas was second and
Colonel Bartlett third in a race at Lou
isville recently. ColoneIfHamilton hung
out the numbers and, the other colonies
went in TO cash their tickets.
Johnny on the spot isn't in it with
Billy on the jump