The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-01-16
LAJDIE TELLS
STORY ON SELF
Hardest Ban He Ever Hit Brought
70 Him Nothing but Generous
Round OF Laughter From
the Fans.
a FUNNY CONFIDENT
While He Was Win Philsdelphia He
Gave Pill Vicious Smash
Ball Hit Fence and Boundes
Back to saseman.

AdASy % course. BlaQe quite q
fen long hits and hard hits in M
time, said Napoleon I.ajoie in a rem
iniscent mood while playing in the
hot stove circuit around Cleveland.
Some Of them vent q good deal
farther than Others. and some OF them
we're smashed v-lth 3 coed deal more
vigor than the rest an depending
largeis- OF course, upon the way the
bat met the leather. have a keen
aud painful recollection. however Of
WE1at | think was the hardest hit
syer made The recollection is espe-
cEaisy keen and extremely painful be-
cause wasted 50 much eaerg On
the blamed thing. and because the
best got vas the haw-haw
II Was way back in The days when
vas on the old Philadelphia team,
and as ron VIII remember, II was
scEe aggregation OF swatsuisns. Al
though was rather new TO the big
league in those days, seemed 10 IT
in HiTh trat bunch al right, ana
VAS hitting along with the rest Of the
tribe We needed al the hitting ne
could accomplish, TOO. Tor someaow
or other We Eesen winning any flag
and il took ali our Singing to keen
the opposition fran reaoing on our
lsaesbonss. IN those dags the rgh,
Reid fence IN Philadelphia vas close.
TOO close and the feeders used 10
play 10 take them On the bound IS
tfey came from the fence IN oae
gsms- II remember nghtly. three
men weTe throEn OH 4. first On what
saould have heen tEsA safest KIND al
hitstur that Is aaoe4er story. pass
ms right on please. 20 the description
of ny o#n- sp44eaal. Individual sor-
rOws
The Afternoon / made ny great
hi VS. ore OF good hassF batting.
Life re miserable for al tie PITCH
ers. aa1 especially for osur perform
esrs When The last aasf Ct ne nznth
arrived, Ee vAre 10 tie bsd s.or1e-
thing Ike Z 10 :. There Vas Z Hi IN
oEt base On halls. a1s Dol, IF.
! sa-ze H VIII zsa On first and SCR
ona- -Wo gore. AID the eaaas7s 10 VII
or TIE before re TIE bal care ever
kissing h0- grzEad Il, and thar vas
AL Tie rs1r me -st asTe t.eer II
tended simply As tesse-. for Il
trsftssd exer 50 siox gRa easy taz1
fss pr cDasd hare liz i with Z sfre.
AethinGs the hHTzar never meant 10
se9 i near tie pan ba- vas pEayssix
vice - get possible fan out Of tie
raanaT. nyhoE. il came oTe- the
sac Of 2 fat asilooz- ca pr said
Z ard I lezasd he bal against tie
bal 7Fita III 1uy nighE a1d muscle.
o tle a4sE of uY rscoIleeztozss. /
raTeT 5efGre og s5aes lit H %
hard - Taaz oaa co1d faa he
being drsTen ITO IT, co-s
q ne ysrd and rab1ar br IKE 1ovce
q zasE Tremendous dr5ve aad tie
Ezzng IN NJ TIE 1T rta szeh rezo-n
rnzt my aazas aad Kr5s-s aEazaa
DEraiag hDL TEe b2h wszt cst not
sraIzzsng lat sailing. but tzste-. nore
Terzzaeassy sDee1y, taan anyealzg
essr aid the 1900 agaElss II III ny
lie
There Fas gsad rar fron II
EaVsltztede. and Eeax down % arzt
',Aazed neEt for Z aoze rEz. sazie rxo
zaea NeE for hone Round first 7 rsnt
and stesled for tLe middle Garner.
Suddenly nan rose - mY 1raek
aHd struck 1be ban into my d.
DssTsHa-it ~as the thIrd ose sad re
game Tss oTer
fow szd ~asEefores Oaly
LAD als TIE aali - feerplly hart tazr
y Teoo7nded bsck from TT righr
field wali Ike : SNAPPED gsase q NIB
Der band. i sfo- straight bscE ali
the Eay 70 the diamond. snd lespad
right into the second bsserzns
hands for z sure trap and The East on
OF the afternoon And that KIND gen
tlernen, is tie story Of the hardest
ball ever hit-do xoa wouder thar
the memory gives me paint