The Alaska citizen., 1913-11-17
THE BULL MOOSE

d peculiarly h $ oaH No othes ball player ever coveted it
 Andy found 'he Moose the aa, ls lost Bush" Haalcy's tiy ball iu .he sun. This sor; of an accident hap. pens to every outiieldcr, for ;h-r. are days when the kycnest eye he- trays is owr,r and the ma-t hri' liant bal player goes wrong
 The situation was 8 critical ng. and An4s MS up on hts toes at rh crack of he 5a. The Paa.as fisht- ing for ths leadership ot tE- s.=aa division, had managed to gaf fze men on 'he bases. vith tao haa.- out Then uP came Bush Ha2Iez, ! desperate youth ~iah t htHt Of breaking ID ball elmes.
 Andy hal eue gIimrsa as .ae vf-,tc speek as il rosa agatHst The dark back ground thr aad. 1u. aheE !t passed beyond tho spcrk disan- reared completely. swallowed up n thin air
 The home fans. who had heayed sigh Of relief when Bush chose aerial suicide saw tho able And cone flashing ia toward the dia- mond They did not hear he sH~G warning given ny Louie Crah5e. tho center fielder. hu, they witnessed its effect when Andy hesisaeH an .h- stant. and then. whirI Hs Saa }anfs. ilunsel hack toward the fence.
 Andy did the hes; that 1az il him. but the ball which ho should have caught in his teeth" draa,eI 10 the turf twenty yards in from. f his drumming spikes, and tvo runs careened across tha p!a.e An derson's present to the Ponies.
 To m!sjuigo q fly ball .s 8 capital crime in all autfteltor. and tn hleacher jury brought in yerd et immediately. without recommendation to mercy.
 "Aw rof.en, Roten,"
 Buy him some smoked g'asses!"
 Wipe the tears GU, of your eyes. and watch the ball."
 These and many more rama,te- rained Nh on Andy in a perfec- :olnE hat ne .etasa.a sHgeef=at presence of mind to Dal GgsA 6G second base This du# performed hhdy beGar to walk n sh1r circles heHailing his luck and crrsiae 1T, nigh sky which had trighel hin. The jargon of condemnatory ou erie sounded in his e2rs afth D n.oa3- ly voice to shout: "Htra lt-H Il | o-c-y! Hard luck" NoaoGa cures to encourage all outfieIaes when he loses fly ball in the sun He is po'i to have an eye like an easle
 Gildersleeve was meparna 10 Pi.ch to the next batter and oy Gcarece the noise died away so tha' f was in comparative silence th4f 'He B#l Moose tn,r ducea himself. An4r heard a preliminary rumble in 1he crowd behind him, as il mi=ht have been a pipe organ warming uu, ant then a roaring blast cf sound beat down all lesser 'sturha9>as $ JIas. of vocal dynamite, deop pi-cE,a. ro- sonant, and filling the air with Ire ineudous yibra ions.
 IL vas truly q remarkable voice one that might have moved a regi- ment of cavalry or stampeded a na- tional convention. It halted the bali players in their tracks. and it caus. ed Andy Anderson to cock bo h sun burned ears in the direction hence it came And this was the message it conveyed, each syllable reyerberat ing across the field:
 Bean head. Bean head Andor- son Take him back to Copenhagen."
 The bleacherites greeted tl.s bril liant sally with laughter and cheers. The humor of the baseball! fan ie VI udt anu t4tillFIIldI III iIIt tAtlblIlf', consisting fir the most part of ear worn phrases and jests as old as the game itself It is very seldom that originality finds its way into the b!eacher seats, and the crowd at first startled by the booming tones so near at hand, recognized the refer ence 10 Copenhagen as new stuff" and applauded accordingly. Andy, stung by the ins nuation, ch ked down a desire to proclaim that he was born in Sioux Falls. Andy Was young-not quite two seasons in the big league-and bleacher con demnation was a new thing to him.
 The commotion q ed away when the next batter smote weakly and was thrown out at first, and Andy trotted back to the bench, meekly presenting himself to the gTillina which he expected t3 receive from his teammates. He was not Gisap- pointed. They told him exac,h what they thought of man who would lose ball in the sun witA two On and two out
 Andy made feeble excuses out of the far corner of his mouth and bus jed himself at the bat pile It sell dom tails that when a player has .l l.;.