Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1912-05-23
CHAPTER a.


-and aud Join his companions. LOSE no
time on the road. By five o'clock che
tall younEster was busny engaged in .
an argument. accompanied by prac
IDEAL demonstrations pro and con. aF
to tle utility OF ,hc Iauee steal Some
twenty OF Brockcyts fricnds-cier'ye F.
like himself. colesians home on vaca. .
uol. and even the two sons of a Siam
ese legation 0Mcicl--tobatcd the prac .
ticabulty OF the trick by which BIZ
Bnl LANCE. the great star OF the long
ago. was won't 20 annex the middle
station. Brockctt and half the crowd
maintained lhat the steal was MOE
only possible bat almost unacceptable
the Siamese youngsters and the rest
OF The little gathering declared that
an alert battery. backed by quick
. thinking infciders. would make Gao
f play a certain loser.
"You have a catcher with any head
and any arm at an" detained Chula
Ian Kon OF Siam and Princeton. "and
second basoman who can come up
fast 90 the bag. and you can't put be-
over. No chance excepting on a nun
or a wild throw
"You don't grasp the point" Brock
EFT responded. The catcher doesn't
figure in this steal az ALL he Isl e.
dead one He ga exactly as f he had
never existed. The trick in the Lango
steal is Co stop on drst uu tho pitch
Ga over and tlon. when tho catcher
begins 90 return the BAH t0 the pitch.
or. you go down. les three 60 one
, easy. that the pitcher viii set ratified
and throw wide. or that the second
baseman. not dgnring on O. steal. hos
moved away 90 play for the batsman
"A pitcher who keeps his wlt.
b about him." negatived Ramon Solano
the junior cashier of the Cuban 90
b bacco house. wouldn't fall for tina
Z play az all Try d.. with me on th,
q slab. and see how it goes through"
+ The experiment was immediatoL
r made Chula Ian kon. dOnning th
J. mask, went behind the plate. Solan
took a pitching attitude on the slat
z and Brockett impersonated the DARN
I base runner. Second was covered b
a fast little inhelder from Annapolis
b. and a Dartmouth shOrtstop prepare
D. 20 take alternate throws. Il took
10 teen minutes TO fully work out th
theories OF the LANCE steal. and Oh
d sentiments OF the whole throng weI
voiced when Chula Ian Kon r
p marked didactically. IF you make
10 you are a hero. and II you don't nal
3. Il you are a bOne-head."
Ia Darkness dispersed the crowd, ar
TX Brockett. dead tired but fun OF q
"a sheer Joy OF living. strolled away wi
% Ramon Solano-his chosen friend AZ
coufdant. and linked IA comracesh
Is By that strongest OF youthful ties
the brotherhood OF the ball fel
OF Brockett was an undergrad clerk.
en- ing his best 20 care for q widow
mother and younger sister. SOlan,
IL father was the lord or broad acres
*. Matanzas and Havana. and the jun
to- SOlano had an Independent incOu
f. aside from his liberal salary. n
3ss would have turned the brain Of 4,
average American boy. AS far as I
IT, friendship went between Cuban a
Of American, however. sOlano's wea
w counted exactly as much IN the sc
ere as Brockett's poverty: nothing VII
md ever. The alliance cemented w
les both played on a team OF tsn-year-o
d." had only grown nrmer with the ial
,Or. OF time. until Ramon SOlano. pitch
TN considered Harry Brockett. cen
old aelder. the finest fellow OF his nun
,er- Gus acquaintance. while Brock
sed classed the Cuban as bis most 10
yful friend.
- We so for q vacation 20 the
Iowstone.~ said Solano. IS the b
.ple nsared Brockett's home. MY fatl
" % brother. and two or three friends :
,.ta come over % got met win b
roo Jolly crowd II could persuade 20
BToekska laughed Eayly. some 1
tAe Ramoa. bst hardly this ysAR,
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