The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-10-27

derer who reached first base took
a long lead to draw the throw and
then went back to the bag feet
foremost. Dolan lodged half a
dozen men, but finally Pete Raj
ferty avenged his teammate by
tripping four inches of cuticle from
Dolan's shin. At the same instant
Dolan hammered Rafferty, on the
bridge of the nose with the ball,
driving that useful organ into
Rafferty's face.
Guess l tagged him little too
hard" said Dolan alphabetically
to the umpire.
81 guess you did," said the
judge of play. Looks to me like
you broke his beak."
Dolan limped back to the bench
after the inning to show the hon
orable scars of war to his team
mates.
That's a nasty one," said Gull
len. you'll be out of the game
for few days"
Dolan laughed. What was
scraped shinbone to a man who
had played one whole game of
! football with two broken ribs?
In the seventh inning, with Gull
len on second base and Fowler on
third, Dolan squared matters by
smashing a liner over the short
stops head for a triple. There
was sprinting chance to stretch
the hit into a home run, and Do
Ian rounded third without slacken-
ing speed. Madison, the Wander
er's catcher, squatted on the line
in front of the plate, blocking the
way as he held his hands for the
relayed throw. The ball and the
runner arrived at the same time,
and the runner came headfore-
most, hitting Madison just as he
used to hit the line with a foot
ball tucked under his arm.
Madison went out of the game
for a week; and Dolan, bruised
from shoulder to hip, busted off
his new uniform and marched
back to the bench with the shouts
of the populace making music
in his ears.
That was Dolan's introduction
into professional baseball. Per-
haps If he had played against any
other team in the league, the
complexion of his future might
have been changed. But he be-
gan by fighting fighters, and It'll
was war from the start. Having
made a reputation, he was given
many an opportunity to live up
to it. Word flew from one end
of the league to the other that
Cullen had signed a man-killer,
land the baseball DULLES cheered
up and hoped for an open season.
At the end of his first month
the new first baseman was chris
tened "Rowdy" Dolan. He had
been in collision with most of the
picked fighters of the various
teams, most of whom wore scars
and discolorations. Three men
had gone into the hospital; he
had seven knockouts to his dis
credit, and was beginning to haul
lumpires around the diamond and
fight for decisions. The sporting
editor of the Perryville TimesI
said that Dolan was an aggressive
ShiIoAo IL
other cities said he was a hood
lum and a thug and that the good
of the game demanded his release.
1t makes a great deal of differ
ence whose OK does the goring.
The Perryville club, rechris-
tened the Scrappers. plucked up
courage and began to win games.
There was one man on the line
up who refused to subscribe to the
popular sentiment. That was
Fudge Hollins, sour and uncon-
WINGED.
Nothing to it," said Fudge.
This fellows got a yellow streak
somewhere. Wait till some one
stings him good and hard. I've
seen plenty of his kind before;
he'll dog it, tell you"
Better not let him hear you
say it," said Cullen. '"I suppose