Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-10-19
AN AWFUL CASE OF RINGING. a"
Baseball Game in Which Kittredge and
Hutchinson Started.

One Of the best. as well as the most cost
Is, instances of ringing in baseball was
pulled of in little town about $50 miles
from Chicago. and the ringers on this oe-
casion were Hutchinson, the great Chicago
piichpr, and Malachi kttredge In those
days. with the White Sox club, the Hutchin'
sen.Kittredge battery was considered pow
erful. Now, in the little town Of Dawson
or to be more exact, just outside OF 1t, me
Chicago bankers association had club-
house with golf grounds adjoining. They
also had good ball diamond. As usual
thing the "rubes' put it on the Impractical
money handlers and this made the agrlcuI'
trrists exceedingly chesty and the homely
iibes that they continually threw into the
city 'felIers" made the Chicago boys writhe
in anger. Then again, the soil tillers had
copied good bit Of the bankers money as
, result Of the victories. The Chlcagoltes
determined to teach the children Of Nature
a lesson and at the same time separate them
from some or all of their hard earned coin.
Thus runs the tale Of a writer who IS inter
esting. II not true.
So the crafty bankers formed themselves
into a committee and, calling upon kittredge
and Hutchinson, declared that they could
and would not stand for the merry hay.
makers ies,s and cheNiness any longer, 50
a deal was framed up whereby kit and
uUntch" would on the following Sunday
pose as a couple Of full-aedged Chicago bank
rrs. and as such would do their utmost to
smear defeat over the jean-clad lads. All
during that week the bankers were busIly
covering the yokels money, and the coming
game was the chief topic Of conversation
throughout the country. So easy mad the
bankers been heretofore that every man or
IA han d an HnlluF
yure TO bet il on the Dawson team. Indeed,
a score or more farmers, whose places were
mortraged. confidently expected to clear of
MI the Indebtedness and to restoek their
farms on the money they would win on that
DAYS game To further inspire the rustics
with confidence kittredge and Hutchinson
decked out in flannel trousers and gaily'coi'
ored outing shirts, topped off with the cutest
little ''Wille boy tennis hats that could be
purchased in Chicago for money, were put
ont on the lot in front of the. farmers to
practice. And right here is where the fun
began. for Kilt is q natural born actor
and mimic So is Hutchinson and as they
we're both young and chock full Of mischief
in those days, they acted the part Of willie
boys to the letter.
When Hutch" would throw the ball to
kit" he would send it up in the exact
way woman losses ball. using the same
nanneri5ms and so forth. Kilt, on
catching the ball, would dance around and
wiring his hands, at the same time calling
ont to Hutch" Dash take it, Percy, do
not throw them so hard, they sting like
fnryl" Well, these two 'cut ups kept
the villagers gufawing continually, by their
manner Of acting and their line of CONVEX
sation. In the meanwhile the foxy bankers
were circulating among the rural gentry and
taking all the bets in sight. For all the
countrymen had to do in order to get then
nerve up to the wagering point was to take
one look at the bankers battery This was
enough.
To make the affair look like 'cinch
for the rural club was the tip quietly given
out to the soil trimmers that the Dawson
team were going to work in professional
batterv-think Of the duplicity Of the "Reu'
bens''--on the unsuspecting bankers. These
professionals were the kind you see playing
around at county fairs, and whom the vii
lage papers, in all their rustic simplicity,
compare to Lajoe Hans Wagner and other
great major leaguers. This type of player
occupies high position in the estimation
of his townspeople, and talks and acts as II
he really were it The battery that the