Evening star., 1909-05-02

! sits in the rear of me at the beginning
| of a game of ball is going to sit in front
of me before the game is over. even II
! have TO take chance on standing for
pinch. My neck is blistered Yet where
that fellow breathed on it with all OF his
! blast-furnace might.
AS long as this thing already has de-
veloped into a sort of an experience meet
| ing permit me to inquire. again, if you've
:, ever sat next to one of those Take i'm
| OUT fellows?
| Foolish question at that. OF course
| you have. Time and again YOU have.
Wants to Commit Murder.
And did you, or didn't you. feel like
| finding out where he lived. so that you
! could sneak out to his place in the middle
of the night and set his domicile on fire
with bunch of kerosene-soaked rags?
| Because-wei. I'm not going to own up
to any more criminal impulses than
| have to: but | sure have thought many
deep. oh, deep-deep things. often and
| often about that Take out chap.
| And how the pitchers, old and new, do
! love him.
| If YOU want to hear pitcher make a
noise like a deepesea drum fish buckinS
| ac'in the tide. just casually mention to
! him one of those Take uncut hom
brevs and then stand by to have a peek
at a sulphur-surcharsed atmosphere, and
to see sparks fly if there were nail
factory CHIMNEY SOfileWIeTe dEOulO
| The Take i'm out sink begins his
baNl lust as soon as two batSmen III a
row have connected with the ball.
]. doesn't max. aiy difference, whether
, the two slaps at the ball so for hits or
not.
1t doesn't make any difference if the
ta,, lttters VIC ha--o SNditcd the pellet
arc notorious fattencrs of the sphere, no
matter who is dishinS em up.
1t doesn't make any difference if the
ipS ffi,.ian IL
and n;!s..t yet "at mt his StI idc.
1t doesn't make any difference if the
pitcher has been little shy of work
lately, or been out of the game on ac-
count of Illness anything.
Nothing-nuthink whatever-makes any
difference to the Take i'm OUT glug.
Just as soon as two batsmen in a
row have connected. in amy manner what
there. and immejit. the Take i'm out"
person desires and demands that the
HEAVIER BE- tax n or, just like tnat.
Take i'm out!' he roars and rumbes.
making funnel of his hands. Hi taas
The manager of the team declines to
obey the. Take i'm out bug. Yep.
that's what he does. Startling. and all
that. but. nevertheless. it quite often
happens that the manager positively. il
pigheadcdly, refuses To take the tCsser
out i'm response to the emphatic and
peremptory demand and command of the
Take i'm out dictator
Because. y'see. it generally, il rot near
ly always, happens that there exists no
occasion whatever why the pitcher should
be taken out. This fact. oddly enough,
is viewed by the manager as sufficient
ly potent reason why the pitcher should
NOT be taken out.
Make People Glare.
! Rut the Take i'm ont howlcr is in
sistent lie keeps right at the Take
i'm out howl. People glare at him.
men mumbic things about honeheads.
everybody i'm the neiEhborhood of the
Take i'm ont imbecilc hopes tiiat he
will develop Il painful boil on the tip
of his nose about next TUESDAY week.
But tina. stuff doesn't fnazc him. Nix the
feaze Take i'm OUT he bellows and
hawls. ''Hey. why don't you take i'm
OI-ID?'
The pitcher hears that stuff. of course
everybody within radius of half mile
or SO has to hear il. II doesn't do the
pitcher any good to hear il, either. Pitch
ers. yknow. arc human beings. They
can be, and often are, ratified. Nothing
rattles pitcher more than to hear that
lunatica Take i'm out belch when he