The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-24
Cricketer Pulls
a Funny Stunt at
a Baseball Game
Englishman Makes Many Runs Be-
tween Home and Pitchers Box
Lost Game for Team

y have seen lots of funny things in
BASEBALL says Joe Kelly. the great
old oracle and latter day nag
but ] still believe that the richest
happenings of All came off at Toronto
while ! WAS still now to that Canadian
ager.
The two newspapers of Toronto
the Globe and Wnrld-were deadly
rivals, and showed their rivalry i'm the
most fashion. Finally. the
hostility between them settled down
7" baseball. and they arranged for a
great and desperate game. to be play
cd at Island park: a %favorite resort of
the Toronto people. with teams limit
ed To employees of the office. and With
myself playing as umpire, the Toronto
club having a day off. Some game,
too. judging by the public interest dis
played in Toronto where excitement
WAS AT fever heat. n every citizen
seemed to have his money up on one
c1un or the other.
Each club had OUT its cohorts daily.
taking turns in practirins at my hall
YARD. and they had some fearful and
wonderful muff"rs on parade. The
World. however. seemed to have a
shade the hest of it. especially in the
batting, and the eve of the combat
was at hand. with betting 8 to l on
the World array. Al this juncture
tho Globe people discovered a new
apondencv--a linotype man. newly ar
rived from England. He brought with
him credentials showing that he had
been n of the best cricket batsmen
IN England. and declared thai he
would like to go into this blooming
American game. They took him out
for practice and to the intense deligh.
nf tl1a ,,rnyt-j 1,n lrn,-, ~,,o., l,,1I xt~.k
was thrown him clear over the fence
or two miles down the field. 1t was
evident that MIR. Englishman was a
great natural slugger. and the Globes
decided to put him in right field. trust
to his batting. and pray hat no bies
would ON his way.
a Toronto turned out to the great
game, and the excitement was ire
mendous as the Worlds, first at bat,
scored out three runs. mainly on err
rors. The Globes took their inning, lit
hard upon the ball, and soon had the
bases fun. W men put up pop flies,
and then the great Enslishman strobe
to bat amid frantic yel1s from stand
and bleachers. The second ball came
across knee high, and the bat fairly
crashed as the Briton put all his
strength behind the blow. Blipp went
the ball; it scared IN high, it passed
over tho center fielder's head and it
rolled way down the lane. while three
runs came in. and the Globe partisans
shrieked for JOY.
And the Englishman. carrying his
bat. rushed out. not to first base. but
TO the pitchers slab! Here he whacked
his bat sharply or the slab. and then
galloped back to the home plate. He
pounded the plate with his bat. then
rushed out again to the pitching slab.
After once more hitting this, he
sprinted back to the home plate. and
was humping it when the ball came
in from deep center; the second base
mar got it. threw it to first. and under
the rules had both to call the Eng
lishman out and to declare that none
of the runs he drove in counted. as
the third out was made on a ground
ball thrown to first ahead Of the bats
man!