The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-03-23

stand Eli the idol of Tucson lesurely Proceeoeu ~
The man from Bisbee stood up in the front ont row row
of the grand stand and announced tha' he pun DA
shouted cheerfuy cone to two that Moreno ud The
western sky became overcast Not soul had Leisure ;,
to note this All listening TO ''siyer hi'i
At the end Of the customary announcement, Silver
Bill shot in phrase e on t his OWN Se Shouted Silver
Bill was Tucson man heart and soo, out ne @ wa
also square umpire much respected III 'ne COM
In the silence which when men and women
Walked as up the ss Iii him
self and sent strike ball whizz'ng over the p'a'e'
'nS Why bs the s1 Moreno
drove the few Bisboe men crazy when he struck out
peerless Mss n iii Si0 hit ifsa weak Foul back Of first
Eli retaliated by keeping the ball high up on Inc
walopers. who could not hit it out of the diamond
Eight he famed in six innings and Pete ads Mersn Ts
Of p'tle the Eagles throw away their bats. :. 49,.
Considering it contest between pitchers, 1t was
vasdsd
had been hit safely three times ana nag giVen g
first Single and hi had issued no transportation The
score was represented by double row Of ciphers on
h ssa5d x nns that
pitching they had never seen him pitch before.
AT the end of the sixth inning "h'te iouhu
1sBetter let 'er go in this inning he whispered. red
in one or two runs, and it II stiffen this Mexican
backbone They I'll never get foul Off him II he gets
Eli looked at the sky The wind was bringing great
masses Of black la clouds % tho out IT,, Of the wes' h'Fe
string along with me, jake was the answer.
'ssame old signals -
artistic temperament. He could not help thinking
of the pifnl disappointment of the pretty girls in
peer He wasted no sympathy on Patsy Delaney, for
instance Patsy, who had bet more money than me NE
artistic temperament often to overlook
the main point In argument
Joe Dorsey, the weakest hitter on the visiting cluo
who waited on pitcher because he was afraid to hit
and miss opened the seventh inning and Eli soon had
might look izgood, y the last ball drop curve
aimed about two feet low. No man with any JIdg.
wo"d aVo at it, Dorsey
bad batter and he he S There @ was ] gh f0r
and Dorsey hustled for first base.
White straightened up with the ball when Joe Joe
blind bin s heaye ten tel feet over Smiling Kelly glove The
right fielder was taken entirely by surprise and Dor
We're beginning to cali for three
to keep that man on third base
cul hated drop curve but he could ok knock the
cover off straight ball, and that was what Ell
come. Eli stuck out his hand mechanically, the ball
hit his glove and dropped dead at his feet.
and n ss5as a s S S sfS Fl ns for i Ell irGT @
self And there was the ball at his Feet and Joe
Dorsey halfway between third and the plate
ground for ten feet. When he did pick it up, he
to the Du Ds he and as
thudded into the big catchers mitt, Joe Dorsey slid
No the plate low and SAFE hs G crowd WAS stunned
and run for Bisbee What going to happen
next7
:, They were not kept in suspense very long Eli,
thinking of the money, made up his mind that since
the public idol had to have clay foot, he might
knew well that Smiling Kelly had fatal weakness;
ball low down on his bare hand side would get away
throwing M win al tho strength Mi his low down
ping to the bleachers, Culpepper went hopping to
second base, and the Tucson crowd was hopping mad.
Eli threw W, his glove on the ground and walked in
circes White ran in as if to steady him, but what
he said was:
quick. Look at the clouds!''
Eli knew that Slattery, the next hitter, liked high
satty had pnt in mail oder f he sona not
have been better suited sattery knocked that free
scored. Tucson was very sick. Delaney, on the
bench, desperate.
Then suddenly the Eli of blessed memory blossomed
forth Just as if he had never been under eclipse
He struck out two with seven pitched balls and
the third one fouled into White glove.
There was an ominous rumbling in the west as the
teams changed sides and omnous grumbling in the
grand stand. If Eli expected applause for locking
the stable door after he had stolen the horse he
laney ''Don It let that greaser pitcher beat YOU,
Mouse, you're duel You fo overdue Get out there
and bust that egg in onei Bates, what for did yon
go and give that Slattery high ball? He can t hit
anything else! And, George, that awful throw
to first Seemed me Ike you'd ought to have held
the ball But let's not holer about what has hap
pened, fellows! We ain t licked yetl'
One game guy!" whispered White between his
teeth to Eli Bates It's too bad it has to be
good fellow like Patl''
q Now, Mouse!'' urged the manager ouce more,
take your time out there! Look 'em overl This
gTeaseT wsakens % after the sixth always But what
Pete Moreno looked at the figure t'2' on the score
board for the first half of the seventh and it struck
him that these Eagles we're not fierce after all
Easy picking Then Pete fcl into the common error
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