Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-09-30

''TouflBtB, discovers GnafleB daddy
Neligan. deaf and dumb catcher, who
10 wonder After much argument. Jim
persuades his manager to engage the
mute wonder. who has whip like
42-centimeter' and bat without any
holes In 1t.
'Gabbys" prowess as a catcher and
batter are soon established, and it takes
only a little longer to prove that he can
play poker and administer knockout as
we'll as he cayorts through the national
pastime. His keen brain and all-seeing
eye enable him to devise new plays for
the Tourists" now nicknamed the
Dummies" and to build stonewall in
field almost impossible to pierce:
In "Gabby's' third season, "Sockless
Shaw" named because he picked
up in the backwoods barefoot, and an
old friend of the mute. breaks in as the
lending slugger of the Wanderers.
Toward the end of the year the race
narrows down to nip-and-tuck fight
between the two teams.
THESE teams had been nagging
I each other a game or so apart
for two weeks, and, as sometimes
happens-would that 1t could happen
oftener outside OF baseball fiction
the contest narrowed down to one
game, the third of n series in which
each team had suffered defeat.
Naturally, the noblest Romans on
the payroll were hurled into the
breach. Cassell. the best of the sea-
sons pitching finds, and n sort of
human iceberg. was sent into the box
for the Dummies. with Gaby Nelli-
gan behind the wind pad. Cassell was
chosen because he had always been
able to make a good showing when
opposed to the Wanderers, having
won five out of the seven games he
pitched against them. He had a
nasty drop ball. which seemed to die
in the air for no reason whatever, and
when a batter went after 1t as a
| usual thing he disturbed the air some
inches above the dropping sphere.
n HH Wanderers, hopeful as &c
4 many monkeys, trotted out POL
| ly'' McPartlin, the veteran who in.
vented all the ways of delaying q
game In order to annoy a hitter oil
rest his aged wing. SANDY" Penn
berton worked behind the bat, a red.
| headed giant with catapult in place
OF throwing arm.
Passing over the preliminary chills-
and-fever period, we arrive at the
end of the sixth inning, with the
score at A.. and several thousand
pop-eyed, delirious spectators unable
to speak above a whisper.
|
moved incessantly while on the bench
between innings, for Mr.. Nelligan wal
peevish. Boiled down, the red-hoi
| residuum of tho wireless messages
which ne was flinging about him was
| to the effect that but for the bone
headness of Steve Cassell. tho score
should have been Al, with the Wan
derers on the ace end.
| In the fourth inning, the DMnmie,
had leaned up against the nged ant
deliberate MoPartlin, and crowded
him off the mound, said act netting
them four large, healthy runs. Ma,
tied his shoes, tied both shoes, ant
had trouble with his belt buckle; bu
his stalling could not save him. H
was overdue for n beating, and he go
1t; and Paul Howell went into the boz
In his place. That made tho scor'
4 to 1, and 1t should have beer
enough; but in the fifth inning th
Dummies contributed a measly inf1elt
error, Casse1 dished up q base ol
balls. Sockless Shaw advanced to th
plate, Cassell hung a fast one in tn
groovewhangl Score tied. All this
mind you, with two mon out. Is l
| any wonder that a sulphurous haz
seemed to cloud 4abby's nytnl
flngersf
TN the last half OF the eighth innint
i our speechless hero hit doubl
along the first base line SO fast that i
nearly removed q leg from the Wan
derer who guarded that point, ant
came winging home on O cheap Texas
Lacquer. Then the loyal but voiceles