Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-05

RAT KILLED 200 FEET AWAY,
CLASSY stunt OF Herman Long--,lirnn1Y
Callahan Conyinccs Cubans That +.
..ltoundhonsc'' Fling Is Good.


..RoundhouSc'' Fling Is Good.
One thing about baseball that aston
isles foreigners more than anything
else is tile remarkable accuracy of
the throwing. This is especially truc
OF those who have played cricket. the
batting and the catching and stopping
OF balls is not nearly so impressive to
them as the way the players shoot ttl@
ball around tho diamond With the uts-
crring aim OF a rifle shot.
The reason for this is probably be-
cause the foreigners cannot get the
llnack pf accurate throwing down ike
The Americans do. An instance of this
Is given in the following story in q
recent issue Of Tit-tSits, q London pub
licntion:
THE other day an amusing incident
occurred al l3oSal, when II hare dashed
IN among the players. j. L. Hearne
who was about TO howl tried to his
the hare instead of the opposite wicket
A. n. Hornby threw his bat ut the ami
NAL, but II was TOO sharp for him an0
ran to cover point. Horribly. Spooner,
and Frank Harry made desperate cf-
forts to secure Il hare tic, but in vain.
The hare escaped from AL tho players
a professional baseball player would
be dlsgraccd for life If he got within
throwing range of an animal as Biz
as hare and failed TO bring hlln
down with Il throw Of Il baseball. AS
against this failure by tho English
cricketcrS, there was an incident at
Philadelphia park few years ago
which well illustrates what d baseball
player can do in tho throwing line.
LONGS REMARKABLE THROW.
One afternoon the Phillies were play
ing the Boston teun. BILLY" Hamll-
ton was in center field for Boston and
Herman Long was al short stop. Dur
ing the game there came a cry from
Hamil ton, who was seen cxcitedly point
ing to an object which was dashins
across the ground toward the flag pola
in deep center field. The shooting OBJ
icct was a rat. Long was standing
in his position at short stop with the
ball in his hand. Herman heard Hams
ilton's cry, wheeled around, took one
glance at the rat running across the
field, gagged the direction Of its fight
without the loss of y second. and let
tho ball GO The ball hit the rat and
there was ono less rodent IN the world.
Longs throw was fully 200 feet but
he hit the flying animal as If it was
q stationary object. No sportsman
ever made a prettier shot at a bird on
the wing than Long did that afternoon,
When it is considered that short stops
usually throw at q man standing OH
base, Longs Judgment in gaging just
how far ahead Of the animal he was
to throw in order to make the "kill''
was really wonderful.
Throwing at an object in the air IL
one of the hardest feats. for looking up
at the Sky when taking aim is much
harder than when a player has the
grand stand or the bleachers for
background. Last spring one or tha
Delehanty boys gave an exhibition OF
clever throwing at Columbia park.
y foul ball wedged into the screen on s
top OF the grand stand over the visiting
players bench. Delehanty picked up
an old ball and threw it against tho
screen, missing the object aimed at by
yard This one test though, was
enough for him to get the gage On
the second attempt Delehanty let the
ball go with all his might and 1t not
only struck the imprisoned .'horsehide.'
but also landed with such force that
the latter was driven clear through
the screen.
WHY THROWS ARE LOW.
One thing about the throwing in
baseball that foreigners cannot under
stand Is why the players in getting tho
ball TO the plate from the outfield al
most invariably throw it low and mako
front Of the Mate IN. basaha,, NJ,
ers claim that n In thrown IN ~ ,i liz
and made IA ..shoot,, ,fT tha sro,,i,d vii
reach tbc cafrbe, o,1icls,. fha,,i, baii
thrown to him on the lily.
ton TO ;IfsnIte fbis theory hnt tt,s -
eraI nractise or he strn,, ~, ,,I,,n,
in mnkinp M Ian ..silont,, If ~,
ground nToves mar +,a,. I,s,;n,,a +h.;,.
ijea IL ,G1.rsct .go,,r, !, ,,t,s.,,. tt,,m
those 1oon.tI,a.rno,, rf.,i,.s. n.ti,t, 80,
armed outtiaidars hayn Il, ,.,sl,,t ~ 81
flom catch :, bsss r,,,,n.,, ,,.b;Ia ~,
low. ground bumpinu- throws do in a -
most every game.