The sun., 1908-05-17

through tha fast Eating dsrhneap Iiks ".
ME swell dnyhow. Il made the h&li ~
u was dead easy 10 ace.
.The pitcher wossid shoNt tho lustroue
ball over the illuminated plate, and crackl
r--when the batgman connected with u
you'd $40 o hery cQ1Bet arohinG over the
field only 10 corps 70 rest in some OUT
heldor's waiting hands. .t.,
The only trouble was that for the Attt
few innings II was hard 70 keep track OF the
RUNNERS when they were between bAsas.
But tho players hahds soon got bright from
handling the pbosphorpscent ball and altar
that you could keep track Of EN- a. veil ~
II II had been broad daylight. f~-8
IWell. sir. the game dragged along for
hours and hours without sIther aide scoring.
Shortly after midnight 1.-The thirty eighth
inning. think IL was--ths ,Roarers had TO
take Cy Priest out OF the box. Homo Run
Hankins caught him on the head with
line drives
/, Il think IL must have raised lump on
his' bump Of generosity. because bofors
the swelling went down he gave two meu
their bases on balls and would probably
have given the whole game away II they
hadn't taken him out when they did. HOW
ever, Spud MoKaig, who took his place.
struck out the next three men and nothing
further happened until the wee small
hours Of the morning. is hsl$SS
! sThen came that eyenHul fifty-seventlL
Bull Thompson was at the bat for ths Lilies
and two were out. McKaig. knowing that
Bull usually lot the first one 20 BY. decided
to take chance with strslEht pne I tSsi
4Whackl 5TsSSfiS5 fzffgT$
Say, you may have seq, home spps IA
your time. but never q hit Ike that ess.
On, on, up and on 1t went Hike 4 BAH of tire
in the starlit sky. You can get sorns idsa
Of what walloP IL must have been whsn
tell you that the professor Of astronomy
at the Polytechnic Institute three nailes
away took an excellent photograph d II
from his observatory and has since written
a very scientific paper proving qonolusiysiy
that 1t is inhabited. q sssss3Es
-What? Yes. Thompson scored.
Then the Roarers came TO bat for their
half and, it was do or die. Dean Bralsy,
the Lily pitcher. apparently weakening
under the strain Of fifty-six consecutive
innings, gave the hrst two men their bases
on balls. The third man up sacrificed,
putting men on second and third, with only
one out. ~9.@ 1853
AS Bruiser Browne, the, Roarers' hard
hitting catcher. toed the plate the excite-
ment- was intense
Dean Braley drew his arm back. and
whiz! came the ball like streak of light
ming square across the plate. Strike one.
Then two balls and another strike In rapid
succession. Another ball. Three balls and
two strikes
4Brliser Browne, realizing that every
thing depended upon him. was all on edge.
He kept tapping the plate nervously with
his bat, and the beads of cold perspiration
on his forehead glistened weirdly in the
uncanny light Of the phosphorescence.
80 great was the hush as Dean Braley
raised the ball above his head that you
could almost hear the ftful flicker Of the
lamps upon the bases. He paused mo-
ment and then ~
4Zipi
Like flash he shot the ball over to
second catching the runner OF base by a
good three yards.
-At almost the samo instant an innocent
little freely started up out Of the grass and
fitted across the plate, 7'
"Swish! 80
NERVOUS and overstrung. Bruiser Browne
had struck viciously at 1t. Three strikes
and out. Double play. Side out.
Just then, clear and triumphant through
the still night air, sounded the Growing Of a
cock in some distant barnyard. Dawn was
breaking. -r 'i'uHf@'
"soore: Lghtfoot Lilies. 1; Ringtail Roar
ers, o. n'd -e 7,a"- /