New-York tribune., 1917-12-09
Canadians
Were Full
of Glee

Stewards arrest, tne Cdilau'"" N, .
kept up their gleeful shouting We
were sure up against IT. .Lo
Here was the situation. III was Lue
last half of the fourth inning, ana I"o
vJoce ont II. by luck, we managed 20
get the third Canadian OUT, ~ woG,o .i,o
bc AN easy matter Tor them TO rellto
ma in the next inning, because our
weakest batting order was up; heli
Tho canadians would come to bat ahu
IN. slaughter would commence.
was in despair. Stewart must hase
realized that the game was nopeless
unless il could be finished IN TINS Inn
ing, because, as he passea me- ri ii
whispered, Watch out Tor gas, Il
mata them hunt for their gas helmets
It;Ii ne a long time before that ounch
of smsnle leafs forget this game. Now,
cot wise. Delay the game as mucn as
5ossibIe while getting dub to pltcn IN
-, ,Iace Then watch for happenings
Get me? Are you wiser m;
didn't "get" him, nor was / WISE
hut I answered in the affirmative.
foiiowed his instructions, while out oil
tSn corner of my eye watched him on
hiI n" colIed 10 a man named Stein, a
r,ar,ber of our company, who thought
mo more of losing a franc than ne did
of having his right arm shot OH. oIeIn
v,ert over 10 Stewart, who whispered =
hin, and passed him something. What
struck me as strange was the tact thal
| Stoin who had fifteen francs on the
came instead of coming back TO watch
fhe game disappeared behind the billet
while Stewart was marched OH 70
"clink."
The rooters were getting impatient,
so put big Welshman in to pltch.,
| told the umpire that according TO the
rules a pitcher being put in cold wa,
allowed four balls over the plate 20
warm up. The umpire agreed TO TINS.
I whispered to the Welshman: "Get out
in that box, and take your time, delay
ing the game as much as possible be,
tween pitches. Now, you are allowed
four balls over the plate in which to
warm up. Slam 'em into me, but If you
| put one of them over, our goose Is
cooked"
The Welshman was mystifod. but fol-
lowed my instructions to the letter. lie
threw four balls which nearly broke my
back to get. Then the umpire held up
his hand and called "Play ball!" | i'm
mediately went over to him and eX-
planned that these four balls had not
gone over the plate. He fell for this
and agreed with me. After that rube
of a pitcher had thrown about fifteen
or sixteen balls, several passing me
which | chased 10 the billet to waste
time, the umpire got impatient and the
rooters were yelling like mad to carry
on. I still insisted that none of the
balls had gone over the plate, and the
umpire was in a quandary. just then
one of our men passed in the rear Of me
and whispered: Stewart says to go on
with the game" Wondering at this in
| formation, started in
The pitching of that We1shman was
awful. He hit the first two men up and
walked the third. | was in despair
bases full and two out. Some of the
Canadian rooters we're jumping up and
down, throwing their hats in the air
and one fellow was whistling "The
| Star-Spangled Banner" This got my
goat completely.
Near every billet hangs a gas gong
| This is triangular piece of steel or
an empty she'll case. Beside this gong
| hangs an iron striker. Upon the sound.
| ing of the alarm, by striking an the
gong with the striker, every man is
/ supposed to put on his gas helmet and
repair Immediately to his proper sta
| tion. These gongs are to warn soldiers
that German poison gas is coming over