The Alaska citizen., 1911-08-14
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BY James Oelehanty.
nave seen lo' OF pays tha'
were great. extraordinary. that were
/ startling ana set he crowds crazy.
II is usually hard to plck the great
est, but the one ! recall was III a long
] forgotten game III Mite MINOR
/ league, ana Il was mace by prayers
/ VINO shone Tor a tline III the Dig cur
/ cut and were slipping back.
The play was the headlest, the
/ most surprising ana aHogelher the
most wonderful ever Witnessed ana
although 1t was made more thah
twelve years ago never nave Tor
gotten one OF the circumstances.
The play happened during the lat
ter part OF the season oil 1898 at Ian
caster, Pa, IN game between the
teams OF Lancaster ana Allentown.
/ Ola Piggy ward, who mad been Ia
nous before that, was piayihS sec
"nd base Tor Lancaster ana SproSle
was pitching. The game was close
one. Inc score was tled, Z TO III
the eleventh inning. and the two
teams were battling desperately Tor
the victory as they were rivals III the
/ pennant race ana at that time 1t
seemed as II one or the other would
/ Win the pennant.
Ollie Smith came to bat Tor Al
/ !entoWn with runner on thlrd base
ana Two out ana another runner ON
ilrst Sprogle was a SLOW bail pitcher,
ana with TWO balls ana Two strikes
/ called. he foated up a slow teazer,
ANA smith mt That ball as hard as
ever baseball was hit. He had
called the nln on the slow ball, and
/ with all his might. 1t went like a
| shot straight at Piggy Ward. The
/ bail was hit so hard that Piggy set
himself and braced 10 break 1t down
and throw out the runner; and just
as he was setting himself his loot
| shipped ana AT the same instant the
bail TOOK a bad bound and jumped
straight at his shining bald head
Ward had dropped his hands to save
himself from falling when he lost
his footing, and ii looked as if the
accident had beaten his team. But
Piggy was game. He saw the victory
slipping away. saw that he would
not be able to get his hands up in
time to touch the ball, and shutting
his eyes he ducked that old shining
as hard as he could
Piggy sal down rather hard daz.
ed and stunned and mt his hand mn
to the sDot the bali had hit The
whole trademark was branded ON
ton of his head, and there was a
hmm that WAS swelling like q hal
loon being filed with gas Rut the
han he limited hounded az straight
and ,rue ae if if had been thrnwn
straight INFO Snrople's hands and
Surogle turned and threw Smith ont
at first base old Sam Iaoue getting
The nutout And in the nevt inninp
Lancaster won the game
In all NV han plavjns exuerience
if was the greatest headv NAV
ever saw and il was baadv in =, dom.
HE sense for ola piggv tb,n.bt El,o
a flash and when ha cav he could
nor oct the hall win his hands he
went after if with his head I havan,t
seem him for vaarc hnt IN hot now
if anyone can go, him 70 take hi,
hat off tbavT find Reacb,s ,rada-
mark stamned on thu, hala cnot
which covered moro h.sobo1I h,aine
than can no found in . LOT ~ taans
Crocheted hatpins.
The wide popularity of embroidery
and crocheted laces used on white
gowns this season has called into
effect touches of the same in a
great many instances in the form of
embroidered and ciocheted hatpins
Such a hatpin supplements the sim,