The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-03-29
A BASEBALL STORY
BY CHRIsTY MATHEWsoN

ing out the glovcd hand without touch
Ing IT. with the other means send
straight ball waist high right over the
plate"
II was an extra copy of the signals
which Hughie had sivene out in the
morning, Hal WAS mad, lie never was
so mad before in all his life He was
mad enough TO kill some one
such q thing, and am going to Start
in right now on the bunch OF YOU.
The first fellow he started for was
liughie. Just then Hughie winked at
him. and he stopped and looked AT Nc
Grew. .McGrew was laughing, and so
were all The rest. for by this time the
room had filed up with old graduates.
and and II suddenly began 10 flter through
harmless practical Jokes that he had
heard about. He thought it was cruel.
Of course. but McGrew said he had heard
2, lot about Hal and among other things
pered that he wouldn't fight with my
body and they wanted to see what It
would take 10 make him fight, Tney
pended upon TO fight al the drop OF the
hat Whenever there was anything worth
fighting about.
Then they showed him that each fell
low on the graduates team had type
written copy OF the signals anyhow. fur
nished by HuGhie. That was one Of the
rights which every player on the alumni
team could enjoy for one day i'm the
year. The old graduates club was cx-
psrelt,. peeted always to win It's game with the
have any show against these modern
Lowell teams with their inside baseball
and their new trick plays II they didn't
have the signals?
Then they all shook hands with Hal
and told him lie was member OF the
Tried and True Club" OF Lowell and
made him understand that this was an
honor very rarely given 10 freshman.
but that they wanted him 10 have II
because OF the wonderful work he was
doing as first baseman. When he
got another bump.
Better give me back my sl25 now,
old boy. | suppose you have 1t with
you
money which had come from the maga
zine. and IL WAS in his trousers pocket
mat moment Was this another one OF
their Jokes. and how did they know he
had it2 was what he thought What
he said was. What do you know about
my sl25, brother2'' and they all laughed
at Halls quick guess this time.
Well said Fielder James, you don't
out Door Weekly. bug the other boys do.
The editor. knowing ahat / was coming
up here. showed me a story In recent
issue OF the magazine. and asked me TO
Case, and arrange with him for some
more OF them ] had seen your name
mentioned in the Reporter every week.
but didn't connect YOU with the author
chap. because they have called you Hal
lately in the paper, So when / arrived
was looking for Harold Case. the au-
thor. ! found only one person in the
town by that name. yourself. so ] asked
my friend Jimmie Hamilton. the cashier
Of the bank, TO help me find the author,
he having been here for twenty years.
and | told him why.
He said II mus, have been you, as you
were In the bank a few days before cash
ing a check from the Out Door Weekly
for $3.50 and dividing it with Hagner.
and then Iagncr deposited Sl25 TO his
own credit in the bank and he guessed
you must have divided with him. That
was the first time l got the idea that
Hans may have been real live person,
because in the college news he is OF
course referred to az Hagner. We just
your pockets. and so we arranged the
practical joke 10 1T what we know. Now
was II real story or not?,
Let's go and ask Hans, was all Hal
would say. When they did get TO Hans
they made him tell the whole story over,
and NcGrcw said, III YOU come to New
York again let me know and I'll lend
you my auto.
Hal was happy 1t meant great deal
to him TO be recognized by these class
graduates as their equal. and he had
right to be happy, 1t was recognition of
his merit by those whose opinion he val
ued because they had had enough prac-
tical experience of the world TO enable
them to recognize true worth. None of
the other freshmen on the team was let
into the secret OF why the old graduates
were able to beat them 40 badly, They
marvelled at the fact that the old timers
were on TO every play that the boys at
tempted and they had a great respect
for the old crowd that licked the var
sity that day by the one-sided score
of II 10 >.
But in the evening the graduates club
gave the team a little dinner, al which
This tradition OF the university was eX-
planned for the benefit OF The other
Ty. Iris and Radams.
Ross and Huyler. Then they were all
initiated into the mysteries OF the Lowell
o. X club. which meant that the team
had been Inspected by the old boys, who
had won laurels for Lowell In the past
and was good enough in their minds TO
go against Jefferson