The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-22
ANOTHER PRIZE
 BASEBALL STORY BeWhiSkered Gent Hits the Pill
 a Mile BUT REFUSES TO RUN When He Does, Crazy Ira of the Bug house Batty Eaters Never Stops Until Headed of
 At Home Plate.
From the Milwaukee Sentinel.

From the Milwaukee Sentinel.
 Bozeman Bulger's "Swats Mligan' was some story, but a Milwaukee man has gone the famous and not too truthful baseball expert one better The fan in particular is Harry L. Pugh. local base- ball bug, who formerly resided in that thriving little town known as Racine
 MT. Pugh, who travels ehrough the cen- tral southwest, has always been noted for his veracity, but his latest yarn will hardly go down, not at least without a liquid appetizer. MT. Pugh, in writing Milwaukee friends of the wonderful game describes 1t in every detail, and it Is hardly probable that he missed any of the trimmings. Understand, we don't stand for this, but 1t is too good to keep, so here goes:
 T am going to give description of the most remarkable game of baseball that ever saw.
 ''The great 'Sunhower State of Kansas, chiefly famous as the birthplace of the Populist party and Sockless Jerry Simp- son, and for the enactment of the famous stringent blue laws making it crime for man to kiss his wife. was the scene of this unusual chapter in the great national pastime.
 "At Ossawattomie, Kan, is located the State Hospital for the Insane, and by the courtesy of one of the doctors connected there, I was invited to attend a game of baseball arranged between two teams, chosen from the milder patients of the institution. All the players on each side were insane, and there were assembled possibly 150 of the mild and peaceable pa- tients to cheer their favorite side to vic- tory.
 '"The umpire alone was not a lunatic- that Is. he hadn't been discovered as one md aAvnaI lxA AL. ants, and about a dozen more of these attendants, together with the medical staff and myself. were on the side lines to watch the unusual scene of truly crazy ball game
 "A tense strain of excitement was man. ifest as the game was called, but to look over the players as they took their posi- tions one would never imagine they were all lunatics. In fact, they had been more sane in their preliminary practice work than many of their saner brothers, the regulation players.
 ''The first man up to bat was a yer itable giant a man probably 35 years of age, with a lovely growth of ambrosial whiskers. and attired in a flaming red shirt and white overalls, a picturesque figure as he stood nervously swinging his wagon tongue. waiting for the pitcher to wind up.'
 l keep score of this wonderful game. He was Ira Bazeek from Forsha, Kan. He had been in the legislature, where he went daffy over his pet measure of nine- foot sheets for all Kansas hotel beds
 "The pitcher whipped nice one right over the pan. Ira leveled his bat and hit the ball squarely. on the nose It sailed away out beyond the center fielder's head
 "F'rantically the fielder chased after the horsehide, and the crowd was amazed to sec Ira stading quietly at the plate lean- ing on his bat. He seemed to be lost in admiration of the moving picture show that was going on out in the middle gar den.
 Run, Ira, rum yelled the crowd.
 'sRun?' said Ira, settling himself even more comfortably against his bat, run nuthin'-why, you mutts I've got two more swats at it. His team mates rushed around him and explained that he must run On the hit and away started Ira, at speed that would make " Cobb look like selling platter Around the circuit he flew, and before the center fielder got the ball Ira had passed third base and was sprinting for the plate. Then ensued the most remarkable chain of events that ever happened in base- ball game.
 ''Instead of stopping when he reached and touched home plate, Ira kept right on running. As he successively passed first, second and third bases, on his sec ond trip around the first baseman, the second baseman and then the third base man, in the order named, started in to chase after Ira. The center fielder in the mean time had the ball, but refused to throw it in. Instead he came running in from the field followed by the other field CTS, and directly the entire nine players were madly chasing about the bases af- ter Ira. Next Jra's team mates got into thetGame and round and round the boses ran IS men, old Ira leading the race. The attendants immediately got busy 'round- ing them up. and directed their first attention to getting Ina The old boy was game and when he saw them lined up at home plate to stop him, he made a head long slide to the plate and came up from under the half dozen attendants who fell on him. shouting with all the strength he had left, judgment!
 ''The game ended right there.''