The sun., 1916-08-26
BASEBALL AT THE SHORE.
Authentic Record Of y summer Re.
sort Dissipation.

To THE EDITOR or THE SuN-Sir. A.
| write his my hand is 50 stin that I
can hardly hold a pen. and my right arm
IL so sore that 1t II only with difficulty
that ] can raise my elbow to the desk.
There is an old aging which says "A
shoemaker should stick 10 his wax or
something like that. I believe II. Had
! stayed In the bar Of the summer hotel
where bill and I went in search of my
lost blonde sister-in-law-of course 7
mean We searched for her In the hotel.
not IN the bar-instead of essaying to
pitch in a ball game. 1 should no, he snf-
ferinC the physical disabilities which
now beset me.
The hotel We stopped at was typical
of the summer variety of moderate cost,
the kind in which the waiter orally gives
You the choice ~ two kinds OF alleged
nourishment and then brings you "A small
portion OF the only kind they really have
and with II several microscopic samples
nf overlooked vegetables served in ca
nary BIRDS hathtubs.
II was after a noon dinnei-a meal
that was not AS filling ~ Il free lunch
In the city--on a sizzling hot SATURDAY
afternoon that SOM. idiot suggested Il
hall game bet cen guests and the help,
By which he meant that one nine was to
he made up of the male victims of the
establishment aud the other "f the col
orcd walters. In my usual retiring way
| offered TO captain the victims nine
and Was elected. We were one short and
50 | persuaded a professional club
swinser who was in tn" "rowd to help
us out. Because Of his enormous
shoulder and arm development sent
him out to centre ii"ld, h.lievln; that
with his wonderful muscles he could
throw home with ease. But In the game
| found he was :" muscle bound he
couldn't throw to second. As for bat
'inC. any one Wouli think he VAS Jug
Cling clubs In u show. with not , base
bah within miles ~ him.
I put Bib at first because that was
furthes, from IN. var, and I" get I" II
/ n" would have to pass me, Poor Hi.
he didn't last long. The fourth bali I
' pitched. which was. r~uriously enough.
tho fuurth hit mad. Icy the other side.
was thrown Ia him hard 10y short Ne
cause Of tho peculiar way in which ~
held his hands. the ball PASSED between
tiA'l'N "''t "H- bN iA''' ="
the eyes. After he had cot through gaz-
ing at his private astronomical display
he said he had had enough and was go
ing To get a drink.
A. have limited. 7 Pitched I did
this because thought n III" most dig
niiiod position, and then again J didut
want To break my hands fielding
promised my men wouldn't ticll q bail,
and I didn't except once, when ] stopped
2 swiftly hattcd ball with my liver. In
most games I have seen II seemed tn
me that the pitcher took all the glory
and the other players had comparatively
little to do. This is especially true in
a professional game. However, all tho
members Of my nine were very busy all
the time va were in the field. ! don't
want to say too much about my pitch
ing, hut the fact that with nine nut of
every ten balls I pitched I hit tn" swiftly
swinging hat of the hatsman sQuarely
speaks VOL. 7 think, for my throwing.
We should have been worse heaten than
We were had not | had the foresight Ia
have the colored head waiter unp,re.
Forcsceing tho possible loss Of tips. he
l]arrangcd to give our side seven strikes
Ia the other sides usual three, Then.
too. AT times most oprortune for us ne
was stricken with blindness. AZ soon
a. the bandaSes are removed from RMS
head We will resume the search,
NV YoRK August %. 7. y,