Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-06-07

plate. Is there such a man on the job
todayT"
~oid Hank Ttbbets." says caiam
ity. There ain't no better Judge q
play goin'. IN interducs him."
30 he did. and I looked old Hanl
right In the eye. and says:
Excuse me. but amt your eyesighi
q little worsefn II vas q year axoi
Amt II failin' q BIT Ny partner
sings EN- IN 30 fast I'm afeerd no
bory but them with the keenest eye,
will Q the ball AZ II flashes over the
pan"
or course he haffed right up. and
says: Let me alone for sein' 'em
when they flash over. young man"
and q lot more about his bein' In the
business twentythree years.
So the great game started. and the
cheerups' first batter came forth. rea-
dy To swipe the ball off the map OF
Anxiety township.
Pinch Fans EN-.
Pinch had the bali In his hands. a
brand new ball. And then the old
feiier wound up just like Dummy Tay-
lor and coniorted and twisted and
spun around OF o leg. and all OF q
sudden he let his arm come down and
make the most terrific hurl you over
seen.
"Biff." I soaked my fist into my
mitt, and threw back a brand new bali
10 Pinch.
"str-rrike." yeiis the empire.
Then there VA n riot, The Cheer
ups crowded onto the field and
claimed Pinch never threw the ball.
"of course, You thought he never
threw a." says the empire. He
threw II no fast nobody but me and
the ketcher seen II. II went directly
over the middle Of the plate-just a
little TO the outside"
He marked with the bat just where
II came across, and the Anxiety Cen
ter people cheered him.
Keep your eyes peeled. now." says
he. an yon1l see this one."
Again Pinch contorted and swung
and pivoted on n leg. and again they
heard a tremendous thump In my mitt
and I chucked back n BAH. This time
they made q hall hearted kick when
the empire called Two strikes. and
backed up when he says:
THAT was a beauty! Waist high.
and straight over. When ! was young
we made homers off them"
The first man struck out. and the
second and the third and whenever
a batter kicked the empire would
laugh nj him and say his eyes were
| gettin' bad, and that the ball went
over four feet from the ground.
GOSH" no says to me after the
innin'. How you al ketch them
don't see: they 30 like iiehtnin'."
chssrups Get Game.
I allowed they did. and went and
sat by Pinch on the bench. while he
squeezed eight base balls into the
back OF my shirt
The next innin' was the same
Three men struck out on nine pitch
ca balls. In the third he let two Of
them hit II, but II wal only long flies
and did no damage.
Things run along TN the ninth, NJ
two runs ahead. He pitched two lolly
pops To the first two men. and the,
rot on base. Then he struck out tws
men and got two strikes on the las
man. As he contorted for the las
throw his hand slipped. and insteas
or snappin' It up his sleeve. he mad
i beautiful wild pitch and two mel
came In.
He struck out the last man and W
went In to win. / was up first an,
drove q long liner to deep LEFT an
started round.
4 should have stopped at third. Blu
Calamity Kelly's first baseman toll
me to 10 In and l went. II was
slide sure. and I dove for the plat
inst a the ketcLcr stopped FOR ~
hall.
He Il ,oped for one ball. that comm
from the shortstop's hands. But. h
reached his hands Into . cataclysm Q
about d dozen Eiass.stained spheres
that hurst out .. the back o. my shir
rs 1 hit the dust. and fairly floodes
the diamond
The kcteher dropped the real bal
and reeled srornss a. though he sas
sDooke AMI I xae sxfs. but the Chees
NJ cams at W wttA hats. ! couldn'
explain A>out - halls. and befor'