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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-29
iBASEBALL'S GREATEST PLAY As I SAW 1T

lam never was heard, for there
seemed no possible chance for
.Merkle to realize anything other
than a home run.
Out of the half gloom in the
dull autumn day a long shape
climbed into the air and pulled
that ball down with the tips of it's
fingers. The shape belonged to
EgAn, Cincinnati's second base
man, then being tried out. He
steadied himself and threw to
first, doubling up Crandall, who
was more than half way to sec
ond.
There is no doubt that if the
ball had passed Egan it would
have gone to the fence and the
New York players would have
tied the score, for every man on
bases would have reached home.
With a tie score there is little
doubt, as base ball was going in
those stormy days, that New York
would have won, and If they had
won they might have laughed at
|Coveleskie, the board of directors,
or anybody else.
Folks said after the game was
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-29

Editor Spaiding's Base Ball Guide.
To write a story about the
greatest play 1 ever witnessed on
a base ball ground" is a most de-
hghtful task, and would be more
delightful could l make up my
mind as TO which is THE greatest
play l ever saw.
l am like the country swain
who admired Sarah for her cook.
ing, Jane because she could make
her own clothing, Celestia because
she could bake divinely, and Mar
tina for her gentle domesticity. and
finished by marrying youne
woman who had none of those
qualities over developed, but q
temper which made the chickens
break for cover.
There's such a variety of plays
which are above the ordinary
that one must necessarily see. and
so many of brilliant personal exc
cution, which, on the spur of the
moment, appear TO surpass all
others In recollection, that 1t is
no easy task to select one from the
other.
Nor is 1t easy, I find, to &c
digging into the cobwebs of ones
brain to place these plays, which
are securely enough packed away
and which would only need the
faintest note of the right reminis-
cense to bring them back. For
instance, l remember part of all
the details of play, which took
place on the old Kennard St
ground in Cleveland years ago
which often seemed to me to be
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-29

Butch Macginnity sat lingering
la law book and smoking a cigaret
His mind was not on torts or con-
tracts. He was thinging of the old
days when he scored many a
touchdown for Lalapaloose college
His cigaret went out as he
unused, and he frisked himself for
a lucifer without success. Doggy
Coot opened the door in time, and
gave him a life-saving light.
81 saw Clock-Face Rice today
said Doggy.
who's he?" asked Butch.
Don't you remember Clock
Face? He played end the year
after you left. and made the all
state team. He was a peach"
"Sure, l remember him." said
Butch. whats he doing?"
Driving a milk wagon" said
Doggy, mournfully. "Such is fame
"a fellow gets reputation playing
football, he lives easy for fou,
years with his board paid and
some change on the side, anG
never goes to more than three
tfecitations a week"
E Yes" interrupted Butch, "ant
EHe makes. the Baked Potato Pie OIL
Ithe Delta to Dayton fraternity anC
acquires half a dozen sweaters
@sAnd then" continued Doggy
1he gets cast out i'm the colo
kosld and if-he doesn't get a jol
coaching he has to get job driv'
ing coach or running a stree
car"
"Iv known some to start sell
ling books about the discovery o.
the north pole or the kidnapping o.
BILLY Whitla," said Butch.
(Which same books" remarked
Doggy, was written by some
|goosenecked boy who didn't have
strength enough to lift a ping pons
racquet when he was in school,"
Which," said Butch, "remands
me of Percival Pettibone, who
went to Lalapaloose my senior
year. He weighed about 100 ant
never played football in his life
but once. And then he won the
game against Wrestleyan.
How was that?" asked Doggy
as Smiler Wright, Piggy Leonard
and some more Lalapaloose
alumni came in.
ut was this way" said Butch
eve were up against the Wrestle,
yam bunch and they were hard te
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-29
BASEBALL SCRAP
MAY Be ENDED
TODAY

Congressman-elect McCredie
will meet Dugdale of Seattle in
Portland today and try to arrange
a satisfactory settlement of the
baseball situation whereby the
Portland team can stay in the
Northwest league this year. the
Coast league magnates voted
against it and their say goes.
But McCredie will try to get Dug
dale to agree to the formation of
an eight club class A league, taxi
ing in California, for next year.
and, with this, as an OFFER to the
Californians, McCredie hopes 70
get their consent to allow the
Northwest league team in Port
land another season.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-29
TO PARENTS OF CHILDREN
BORN THIS MONTH.

Happy? OF course you are!
Rich, too, perhaps not in this
worlds goods, but In love
there's no estimating your
wealth.
Already you are dreaming
and planning for the child's flu
ture. May your fondest hopes
be realizel. Why not prepare
now for his or her education?
Deposit a dollar now, and
then 81 week. letting the
child make his own deposit
when old enough, teach thrift
as he grows.
With 4 per cent interest
compounded semi-annually he
will have when
5 years old. s2S7.97; 8 years
old, $489.49; 10 years old,
$637.S3; 10 years old, $1064.-
40; Is years old, $1364.05; 81
years old, $1701.43; and in ad-
dition will have learned the
value of money, the fact that
money gets money. What bet
ter heritage could you leave
him?
BANKERS TRUST co.
Bankers Trust Bldg. Pac. Av.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-29

And the next day he had football
suit on and was learning the rudi-
ments of the game.
I'VE didn't use him till the end
of the Wrestleyan game. The score
was 6 to 10 in Wrestleyan's favor
when Spike Duff pretended to get
hurt and we rushed Percival in.
Wrestleyan set up a howl when
they saw his spindle shanks. We
had two minutes to play. Perci-
val rolled up like hoop. tuck
ed the ball into his arms and gave
him push. He rolled around end
for a touchdown while Wrestleyan
stood in, trance.
"a great player was Percival--
but we could never use him
again."
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-29
FOR PAVING
OF CLIFF AVENUE

Petitions will be presented To
the council "Wednesday night ask
ing for the opening and paving of
Cliff avenue from Eleventh to
Tenth streets. There is drive
way there now but it is not in
shape for the heavy teaming that
is coming across the bridge. With
the erection of the new CONNER
|cial club and Weyerhauser build
ing the demand will be greater
than before for a good road and
it will be pushed to completion as
fast as possible. The work will
probably be done by private con-
tract.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-29
SHIPWRECKED
men SAVED
(By United Press Leased Wire,

(By United Press Leased Wire
PORTLAND, Ore, Nov. a.
Captain Snyder and ten others
from the Inflated steamer Argo.
which went down near TallamooK
Saturday, are alive. When two
lifeboats put off from the ship just
before she went down it was re.
ported that the one containing
Snyder and his party had disap-
peared. and fears were entertain
ed that they had been drowned,
but the boat reached the Column
bia river lightship Saturday, and
its IL occupants have been sent
on to Astoria.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-29

beat. We hoped to win, but Wrest-
leyan looked good and was rack
ing my brains for a trick to beat
'em.
1.-TWO nights before the game
/ happened to stroll into Fresh
man Petitioners room. He was
difying a bunch of his classmates
turning back somersaults and
twisting like a rubber man. He
closed by curling himself into a
ball and rolling down stairs.
Where did you learn that?' 1
asked him.
Uncle in a circus. He taught
me- said Percival in a high, pip
ing voice.
You're the boy for me- said.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-29

[board of directors of the National
league. and the Giants hardly X
pected they would get the gafne
after the pronounced stand in n
|vor OF the umpire taken by 6e
president of the National leag6e
On the other hand, If New Y6fk
could win three out of four from
Cincinnati, there was little chance
that they would lose the cham
|pionship. They would not have
minded Coveleskie in Philadel-
|phia.
Two games were played with
Cincinnati on this particular aft
ernoon. New York lost the first
and the crowd began to grow res
tive.
The second had been played I'M
ill the fourth inning. Dubuc was
pitching for Cincinnati. Seymour
started with two-bagger. Dew
lin went out. Mccormick and
Bridwell hit safely in succession,
and so did Crandall. Tenney had
started to play in the game, but
his foot hurt him, and he was
taken out, Merkle batting in his
place. The score was 5 to 0 as the
inning began, in favor Of Cincin-
natl, and the gloom was thicker
than the paste in country
printing office. Z
On Crandall's hit Seymour had
scored, and there were three on
bases when Merkle walked to the
plate.
The crowd was not kept in sus-
pense long, for Merkle hit the
ball an awful crack toward right
field and higher in the air than
"a mans head by two feet. In fact.
the hit would have gone between
right and center fields IL 1t had
ever reached the destination for
which it started.
For just one second such bed
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-29
M'VE|GH TO BOX d.
LOUIE LONG IN
TACOMA DEG. 10

Arrangements are being made
aow for another boxing match to
be held here under the auspices of
the Ruston Athletic club between
Louis Long and Pete McVeigh.
The bout is scheduled to take
place December 10 and details are
low being arranged.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-29
sII5,000 OFFER
FOR FIGHT

NEW YORK, Nov. 2s.-The
Great Falls, Mont, Athletic club
is the latest bidder for the JEFF
fries-Johnson fight with an offer
of $115,000. All the bidders
must put in sealed offers to the
management. They will be OPEN
ed Wednesday. Some big offers
are looked for.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-29

PLAY not only conveys the idea
of skill, but of Importance, /
think that THE greatest play l
ever saw-a play fraught with all
the Importance of settling cham
pionship - took place in New
York, Sept. %. 1908, in the game
between New York and Cincin-
natl. And the play, which follow
ed the Merkle episode, contained
all of the elements of base ball
tragedy, as Merkle figured in it,
too.
New York could not count on
the protested game with Chicago
on account of the slowness of the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-29
SPORTING NEWS OF THE World

lover that Egan had made a
miraculous catch. John McGraw
said to me in later days, that just
that particular catch put New
York out of the championship.
Losing the championship cost
them chance to play for the
worlds championship, so there is
reason why Egan's catch should
go into history with unusual
fame.
Further than that, think of the
hard luck of Merkle, who, had
that drive gone safe to the fence,
would have received as much, or
more credit for making the home
run than he received criticism for
failing to touch second base.
Twice within a week the fates had
treated him with scantest cour-
tesy.
That catch cost the New York
CLUB not less than $4,000, From
such small incidents does history
arise, and the costliness of the
gilt-edged play is another valid
reason why it belongs on the
greatest shelf.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-29
GAN OPEN BIDS
ON FIGHT IN
NEW YORK
(By uniteH Press Leased wire.)

(By UnitcH Press Leased Wire.)
NEW YORK, Nov. 29.-Police
Com missioner Baker has announc-
ed that he will not permit tao
bids for the Jeffries-Johnson fight
to be opened publicly in this city.
Baker said that arrang ing for
the fight is violation of the state
law. even If the fight does not
take place in New York.
"If an attempt is made to open
the bids publicly" he said, "I
will prevent it and if necessary
will use half the police force to
enforce my orders"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-29
NORTHWESTERN ATHLETIC
MEET IN TACOMA SATURDAY
SEATTLE, EVERETT, BELL
INGHAM AND OTHER CITIES
TO BE REPRESENTED IN T..
NJ. G. A. CARNIVAL.

Arrangements are being made
at the Y. M. C. A. for a big attn
lethic meet to be held here Sat-
urday night.
Tacoma will put in 90 men, Sc
attic will have IL, Everett, Bell
ingham. Portland, Victoria, Walla
Walla and probably Spokane will
be represented by from 6 to 10
each and there will be IL events.
This will be the biggest indoor
meet ever held in the Northwest.
Gold, silver and bronze medals
will be presented to the winners.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-29
ACADEMY BOYS
LOSE TO Y.M.C.A.

The Tacoma Y. M. G. A. basket
ball team ran away with the Park
land academy boys Saturday
night, defeating them n to II.
The Lutherans were no match for
the local fellows. The next game
here of the Y. NJ. c. A. will be
December Is when she meets tn,
Washington university.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-29
DR.. ROLLER TOTAKE
UP FIGHT GAME

dleweight boxer. has taken. DR..
Roller under HIS tutelage. and de
clares that he has the making of
a fighter.
Roller, who is at present at
Mount Clemens, Mich, intends, he
says, to devote himself to the
ring game exclusively after tns
Christmas holidays, and he will
have Ryan as a steady boxing
partner.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-29

Washington, D. c.. Nov. 23.
Dear Dad: The insurgents in
the house are surely Matching
trouble for Uncle Joe. / am re-
liably informed that there are AZ
members, all republicans, pledged
against Cannon and his rules.
Now there is dynamite in that.
When going down the Mississip-
pi on the big waterway junket,
Speaker Cannon said. This talk
about my being car is all bun
|combe. The house is ruled by the
majority, and If the rules of the
speaker are not satisfactory, ma
iority can change them"
a Which challenge has been ac-
cepted. Victor Murdoch has sent
word to the speaker: "Give us rec
ognition and we will show you the
That is the only difficulty now.
The only way in which Cannon can
protect himself in his abuse of
power will be to refuse recognition
to the insurgent members.
II The insurgent movement in the
house of representatives is much
more vigorous than it was four
months ago. Contact with constit-
Iuents has made some representa-
Itives strongly anti-Cannon. They
are willing to accept Cannonism as
IAN issue to save their skins. But
the danger from these new adher-
|ents is the substitution of some
equally reactionary member in the
place of Cannon. Already there is
talk OF Walter I. Smith of Iowa
for the place, and some have gone
so far as to talk of Jim Tawney
|of Minnesota. OF course It is the
system more than 1t is the man
that is responsible. and the substi-
tuition or q Tawney Tor Cannon
would do no good at ALL
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-29
BIG ANNEXATION
MEETING FOR
FERN HILL

r'ern Hill is getting ready TO
come into the city by an almost
unanimous vote. The election
will be held December 7 and a
mass meeting will be held at Odd
Fellows hall, Fern Hill, Wednes-
day night, to boom the movement.
Fern Hill will come into the
city under petition separate
from the Greater Tacoma move
ment, by which the territory from
Puyallup to Steilacoom is to unite
with the city.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-29

Mortified his grandmother, Mrs.
Maria Taylor, Of Nebo. Ky. who
writes that. when all thought he
would die, Bucklen's Arnica Salve
WHOLLY cured him. Infallible for
Burns. scalds. Cuts, Corns.
Wounds. Bruises. Cures Fever
Sores. BoiIs, Skin Eruptions, Chill
blains, Chapped Hands. Soon routs
lP1les. csc at all druggists.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-29
SECUREs THE SERVICES Oh
TOMMY RYAN AS A BOXING
PARTNER.

SEATTLE, Nov. 29.--Dr. b. F.
Roller. wrestler-physieian, has
reconsidered his decision to de-
vote the winter to wrestling and
has resurrected his old ambition
to become a pugilist.
Tommy Ryan, the veteran mid
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-29
HIGH SCHOOL
PREPARES FOR
BASKETBALL

Captain Frank Jacquot of the
High school basketball team
called the aspirants for basket
ball honors together today to or
ganize for the season. Jacquot
and Warren are the only ones Lett
of last years team but there are
other promising players in line.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-29
How Hippo Spencer
Promised to Reform

When IL comes to soft pedal
chatter, Manager Jim McAleer.
late of those blasted hopes, the
Browns. is there with Ginning
bells; but the one-time king of the
outfield met his match in Hippo"
Spencer, the roly-poly backstopI
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-29
POLICE TO WATCH
FOR FLAT WHEELS

Chief of Police Dudley has Or
dered all policemen to report Nat
wheeled cars whenever they APP
pear on the streets. The I. r. &
P. company has agreed to take off
any car condemned by the city
whenever. notified and the police
men will keep a watch for them.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-29

Imported Bulbs for fan ana
winter planting. Tacoma Imple-
men & Seed Co.. 1854 Commerce
street. sfs
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-29
SkSs>lNTlMkTE
0RRESPO NDENCE
h al ttHS@S BY-RATA =
BY- RATA

like some other programs. it will
be largely ornamental. Sincerely.
RATH.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-11-29

a large amount Of conversation
Will mark the coming session of
congress. Its results. as l see it
now, viii be nil. President Taft's
program will be elaborate. But,
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-11-28

I out the civil war, married, had chill
dren and never laid up "a cent.
Wherever YOU find them, the Bal
fingers We're and all Of the rolling
stone variety, ana while they gathered
no moss they fed their i-maginations,
acquired polish and accumulated ex-
~pericnces; also I've yet to learn that
moss possesses transcendent value as
a vegetable. That, however, as saith
kipling, the aggressive, is another
story.
The hero of this tale was born just
half a century ago in the state of
Iowa. village of B%oonsboro. which
latter hamlet a cowboy could throw
the loop of his lariat about and re-
move with his pony. The Ballingers
must have romped across the river
into Illinois about this time. since it
was from the latter commonwealth
that Ballinger pere Colonel Dick"
who licked his fellow editor, led a
regiment to the Civil war.
Returning from that trifle the elder
Rallinger was in succession all those
divers things that have been re-
corded.
our Mr.. Ballinger. barefoot and a
boy, went Loyalty with his father from
trade To profession. from office to
place, enthusiastically. When his par
ent owned sheep, he-like another
NorVal without the Grampian hills
tended the paternal flock. AS the
elder Ballinger turned from this to
that in the way of bread winning. our
Mr.. Ballinger sold groceries, ran a
news stand, set type, pulled a hand
press, wrote stirring locals" telling
how Jim Smith is painting his barn
red" or Mr.. White. our urbane drug
gist. tsee ad. in another column, has
laid in a fresh consignment of Little
Giant Pills" and in truth did every
thing and anything save so TO school.
The R|allingers moved To Kansas.
state, now a garden. was at that
time raw and new. The elder Balm
ger bought cattle. our. Mr.. Ballinger,
years in a cow-saddlc punching
them And an the thine. by his own
story. he was resolved to become a
lawyer. and per consequence. felt
deeply his lack and corresponding
of education.
Abroad upon the prairies hoy Bal
linger studied books. while the cattle
and his pony dozed. he began
TO dig into Greek and Latin. He was
10 recite his Latin lesson to a
hospital steward at Fort I-arncd. As
Greek. they say that once a week
rode seventy miles 10 read Homer
with a certain eruditc clergyman
adrift in those parts.
Seventy miles, Greek, He must
have liked to ride.
Permit me to say that there's a deal
~ conventional claptrap concerning
and Greek. Two hundred years
ago f-yes Then the whole of a
worlds literature was. fairly speaking.
up hard and fast In those Ian
You could have read all Of
English printed books that exist
20 in the evenings Of onc winter. But
translated Homer. Others with
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-11-28
By Alfred Henry Lewis.

ana an u%ngrateful annulment of "his
policy They speak harshly of Mr..
TAFT n With glasses raised drink 10
Theodore over the water" and thai
day he shah return. He is to come
back TO them by way of san Francis
CO., over the national back fence. so
TO speak, He win bring the west east
with him, also the occasion of that
bringing so argues the iron-bound,
not to he converted or subdued Roose-
volt man-Will prove a sore one for
the rccrcant Mr., Tart.
These things make Mr.. BaIlinger
worth writing about with more real
authority than any other of Mr.. Taft's
cabincteers He is also the only one
who has shown signs Of decisive life.
Tootlcd out n Few High Notes.
Commonly the cabinet is no more
than just a fife ana drum corps. in
vented To- totle n rumble in har-
mony with an administration Mr..
Ballinger. however, blowing his in
terror department fife. has tottled out
q few high notes IN his own account.
For his originality in that behalf, even
though his effort has resulted in a dis
cord, the world should at once inform
itself about him.
Mr. Ballinger was baptized with the
name Of Richard Achilles The
Richard he got from his father.
But wherefore "Achilles? ." Thus far
no one has met the question or stood
forward TO explain.
The Ballingers have been Americans
some time Being not "a little of a
NarroWist myself and cke exceedingly
tribal the older a g~entleman's Ameri-
canism the better / like him.
Apropos. | recall "a conversation l
had with Mr.. Roosevelt q delight to
dwell ON that lost lion huuterb. The
anccdotc tells by what quaint trails
conclusion sometimes reaches that
fact of an old "Amcricauism.' do
you know Yellowstone kclly?" de-
mHnded Mt. Roosevelt.
Modc-tly. I confessed that that gem
temau OF restless gun and accurate
eye had so far escaped my a|cquaint-
ancc
clio was here "a lunch with me to-
day said Mr.. Roosevelt Then In q
manner 40 once meditatiVe and argu-
Wentativc he continued. You might
think from his last name being Kel-
ly' that Yellowstone Is Irish. don't !
think hc Is. however. I believe he
came cot an old American family. be
cause his father was hanged as a
bushwhaCker."
Returning to he Ralingers. one
or them was with Mae Anthony"
Wayne in the Revolution and fought I
the British at such heated involve
as Monmouth. stony Point and
yorktown.
Nj. Balinger's own immediate par
emit Colonel Dick halingcr. In his
TING kept store. served as postmaster
1f she Illinois town OF Warden. edited
q country paper. licked the rival
studied law with Abraham
Lincoln. failed NJ farming. lost Out rs
sheep raiser. became bankrupt A.
d cattlemau. led = regiment through