Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-31

you, thinking of nothing else but that
catch, who are now settling back in their
seats, happy and content every one of
them, excepting, of course, the few root
ers for the other side.
The next ball pitched is good one.
fast and straight over the plate. The
batter sets himself to meet 1t fair and
square. You do likewise, as if you
his bat, he swings, he meets it fair:
you can tell by the sound it makes that
it is long hit. You see the center
fielder look once to get the direction,
just as hard as he knows how. You
stand up, everybody stands up, not a
word is spoken 1t seems as though
minutes are passing until the play is
half way around to look, and then he
goes on running. He is still too far
away. You see him getting near the
ball, but not near enough 20 catch it.
BY this time the ball is going over his
head. He has lost it. No, he makes
one try at the right moment. He takes
hand. the ball hits his glove and sticks.
he comes down to earth. he rolls over
half dozen times on the grass, but
he comes UP finally with the ball in his
you start TO jump up and down, you
wave your hat, you throw IL up IN the
air, you wave your arms and you try TO
yell louder than your neighbors. Ii you
doing the same. Yelling and cheering
and waving arms. hats or anything that
comes within reach. You are cheering
the other side. but you don't mind. 1t
was wonderful catch.
And so it goes, through nine whole aw-
fully short innings always. Time flies
so quickly at a ball game. It's over be-
fore you want 1t to be. Our side wins:
You go home happy. Our boys lose? Well,
better luck tomorrow.
I1Dlf - f1,n apfI Il IN
ming of the game with Chadwick. this
Lowell team just had to get at least
three runs, so Hughie told the boys. and
he would be obliged If they would get
half dozen. Everson was the first man
up and he got an infield hit to short
which he beat by inches. Then the
Lowell boys on the bench commenced to
get busy for they had sensed the
"break" There comes q time In almost
every game of ball. which has become
can be won for one team or the other.
There is no definite period OF the game
when this occurs, but the players seem
to sense it. Let a batter get to first
commence to reach for their bats. swing
them q few times. laugh. get excited and
dance up and down like boys with new
toy, you will know that the break has
come then and that the game will be won
or lost right there. So 1t was at this
point In the game with Chadwick
Delvifi was the next man up. He got a
single to right field. Next came Hans.
He hit a grounder over second base which
couldn't be stopped. and the bases were
full. Ty came up with his little black
bat and hit the ball over third base for
two-bagger. and Everson and DeNin
reached home for runs. Hans got to
third, and Ty reached second. Iris
knocked the ball to shortstop. who was
nervous by this time and made an error
Hans got home and Robb reached third
while Iris was on first. One more run.
Larke hurried to the plate. and. after
fouing off couple, hit one fair and
square, and the ball made a high flight
straight for the leftfield fence and went
over. A home run. and Robb and iris
scored ahead of him. The break was
over. and the opposing players settled
down. The pitcher steadied himself, re-
covered his nerves. and the next three
men went out In order. The rest of the
game went along without any further OK
element The break in the seventh in
ming was the most of the whole game.
Parker and Hal went through the in
ming like all the rest. 1t got SO exciting
to Hal that he forgot all about Parker,
and when he did remember him he saw
that Parker had forgotten him. Parker