The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-02-04

Z his homemade bat under his arm. He
came with the speed of Phil Sheridan,
to save the day as Phil did at Win.
chester, AS the school teacher entered
the grounds with foam-decked horse
another shout went up. AS Hal leaped
called out: "Say, boys, has the game
startejfo
"Yes, and it is over. They beat us
so to by their pitcher throwing a
crooked ball. Hal then says to me:
Manager Sullivan. will you let me
see if my boys are telling the tru.h7
I want to bat your. pitcher before he
ply. "Mr. Radbournie, go to the box,
boys go to the field Captain Hawkins
wants to sample Mr.. Radbourne' IS
pitching" Hal took his position.
Fans Cheer Slugger.
When the crowd heard what the
teacher said they cheered and said:
"That is right, Hal, don t let them
ere critters leave. Just show them
that you can hit their pitcher An
other spectator remarked:
Hal will knock that ball out OF
Hooppole county and will straighten
out his crooked balls. -
The first ball that Radbourne pitched
went over. the plate by Hal like the
Empire express passes Schenectady
with zip, Hal hit at its shadow when
the catcher was about to throw 1T back.
Rad - came at the yeoman with an
other delivery-with one Of those slow,
dropping "fade awnys." The school
teacher was waiting for it, thinking it
would never come to him.
He made one lunge at it-nearly hit
ting himself on the shins. He then
turned to his players and remarked; !;
"The darn, Fostering thing Well,
Sins and outs.'' "drops and slows, -
he turned to his players and said:
eyes, boys, he throws a crooked ball
with waves On it,
AS we were leaving for the depot
some of the crowd asked Radbourne to
show them his hand, as they thought
that his fingers might have been
'crooked.'' - too.
Stealing Ball Ideas.
Stealing a man S thunder is often
used in political literature, but it is
beaten by 100 yards in baseball mental
thefts.
/ must say, however, that the major
ity of the major League magnates and
officers will disclaim any knowledge
ol DelHE dn expert on Ine pluy1nS rules
of the game, ETC., but leave such ques-
tions to their managers.
But once in n while you will find one
of those magnates and presidents of
leagues who wants to pose before an
unsophisticated press and gullible, cred
ulous fans, that he did not gain his
baseball position by the high tide of
baseball politics, that came in from the
baseball seas and took him off the dry
dock Of obscurity-and floated him out
in the midstream of baseball waters
and kept him there on the crest of the
wave.
ca. no, that would not. do, to tell his
admiriug auditors that some braipy
person in lesser league or IN umpire
could give this Colossus Of baseball
acumen any ideas pertaining to base.
ball rules or anything else
l remember some years ago, when
Hank O'Day, the present manager of
the Cincinnati club. suggested to GER
tain baseball magnate that the best
way to do away with the tedious way
of fouling off balls by crafty batsmeu
was to call the first two fouls strikes.
What do you think this magnate did
with this stolen mental goods? Why,
he told his colleagues he worked out
this algebraic problem himself. AS we
all know O'Day's idea was adopted,
but who got the patent2