The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-09-24

fed. constituted my inglorious record
waS back i'll my old batting slump.
deeper than I; begged steer.
We lost the two games and the pen
uant. and the only Kisses that crowd
bestowed on anybody We're directed ut
the troubled head Of WaIloper Murphy
Two days later | got call from my
special policeman, who was more of n
sleuth than gave him credit for being
He had followed Il clew that led him to
one of the biggest hotels in the city
My google eyed-man had been seen so
Ing in there, carrying II bat that an
swered the description of the war club
of Dinjir Meb.
was ut the hotel as quick as gaso
line and daredevil chauffeur could
take me. hadn't any more than
stepped into the lobby than saw Doc
Bilstruther sitting comfortably in an
armchair and reading pink sporting
section. grabbed him by the shoulder
and fairly yelled:
"You're mixed up in all this business
Now you tell me where Diniir Meb has
taken my bat!'
81 see it's all up, Walloper." says
Doc, gentle as lamb. Come up to
my room and III tell you the hull
thing
dismissed the special with my bless
entered Docs room. than ! saw Dinjir
Meb's bat leaning in the corner. l
pounced upon it, eager-like, and us J
stood there in the middle of the room.
grooming over that stick and swinging
it, Doc lit cigar and laughed.
Its shame to tell YOU about it,
he said "I've good notion to freeze
up"
AT your peril" | says. and so he
told me everything.
I'm the first place there amt amy
Dinjir Meb." he says. giving me the
cold shock right at the start. I'm
all the Dinjir Meb there ever was
You know Eve always been interested
in the study of the effect of the imagi
nation upon the human organism.
noticed your batting slump and deter
mined to find out how much of it was
real anG how much of it was due to
your own realization that you We're ap
| preaching the age when, according tG
all physical laws, your eyes must begin
| to fail little: happened to be in
| Calcutta. and it occurred to me that Il
little touch of oriental mysticism would
| help along the case. got this cheaI
bat of IN American business man.;
| baseball fan in exile, 1t probably didn',
! cost over four bits ut the most and is
bat that you wouldn't look ut any
more than Kubelik would pick out i,
mail order fiddle instead Of Strad.
But the charm of the bat was in the
story that accompanied it. You though
the bat had magic qualities, and tlla
thought gave you back all the self con
fidence you had lost. You hit straigh
and true and picked out the good ones
and that was why you sent so man!
balls over the fence After hat
reached over that little gate and hat
snatched the bat from your guardian:
hand it was different with you. Yo,
lost your self confidence once NOR
! and were back where you stood befvr,
the bat reached me. That was wh.
you were struck out seven times ant
lost the pennant for your team. IT.
been a mighty interesting case for me
and I'm going to write it up for IN.
medical journal. leaving out names, 0
course. You don't object, do you"
just stood swinging the bat withou
answering. All the tingle had gone on
of my arms. The bat, as looked Mt i,
assumed its true proportions rs an Il