Evening star., 1923-01-19

adays one or two ball players may go
out together at night. In those days
we all went together =.
we knew. that we had A great ball
cIuD ana for that very reason, l think,
We we won a lot of ball games. We
-oI,1s, each 0ther, of course, but such
rows were the result of some PLAYER
making mistake. We fought for
the welfare of the team. Each nIav-
er regarded himself as the manager
OF OF tne other. Hanlon had little to
- o'Ier than TO encourage us to keep
on. he had bu 1t well.
Durlng the training period we nor
tecteu many inside plays. such as the
nIl ana run, the unexpected bunt and
hG hGG.on: On: heeIer was a marvellous place
NJ, - l was not so bad at it myself.
Wy iohB SUIT, though was nv owe
was good waiter and rarely MI a.
q PAD ball. For that reason Ied the
pattIns order. Keller on account Of
ms place-hittint; ability, followed me.
Experts ON Hit-and-Run.
, thlnk. with all due modesty. that
We worked the 1ft-and-run pIay more
PPeraecLly I y than have seen since. If
reached first T would give the sign
ana keeler: almost invariably, would
nv the pail IN The right place. Then
we mao Kelley and Brouthrrs. the
I1ns nltters. to clean up. If we
Sippeu. there were Brodie and Rob
9rder to clean up after Jennings and
iNeItz mad started something
WORD mad reached other clubs Of
our new style Of play-this trick STUFF
the N,uss Iaasna as they called it. All over
posed to kid us / shall never forgat
our start that year
w went up against the New York
Giants, managed by John Montgon-
TLa nard' IN four-game series.
,nsy mad trained at Charleston and
u nau come direct to Baltimore from
the camp TO start the season. The
Grants had been touted as sure pen-
naht winners. They had a staff of
famous pitchers-Amos Rusie. Jouett
Meekln, Dad Clarke and Hyler Wes-
, terVelt
-Four Straight From Giants.
All base ball has was astounded by
our feat of winning four straight
games from the famous Giants. Right
or the reel, in the first game Willie
keeler and ] stood them on their
heads by pulling the hit-and-run
play
They thought it merely bit of luck
mat We SHOULD happen TO hit the
ball. through a hole just left by the
baSeman going to cover the bag. Not
for moment would they believe such
play was prcarranged.
Just a lot of horseshoe luck" said
tory.
Not until we had won four games
by these so-called tricks did Ward
grasp the system of team work and
new plays that had been sprung on
him. He sincerely believed them to
have been accidents. Later he awoke
and acknowledged that we really had
pulled something new in base ball.
What we did TO his four star pitch
ers was a-plenty. 1t happened to be
my luck to win the last game by a
hit in the ninth inning.
Thought Up New stunts.
That one series made the Orioles.
Seeing that our stuff had worked. we
were full of confidence and cockineSs.
Jennings, Keeler. Kelley. Robinson
and myself organized ourselves into
a sort of committee. We were
scheming all the time for new stunt
10 pull on our opponents. We talked.
lived and dreamed base ball. That
was the secret of our success. Woe
betide the player who failed us, His
life on the bench was not a pleasant
one. He never forgot the roasting
and Eever failed to deliver one if
somebody else failed.
Last fall / heard much of the sem
sational invasions of both the Giants
and the Yanks in the west. Well.
that year the Orioles made an inva-
sion that was even greater sensa-
tlOn. w e started on the last western
trip a half game in the lead. We
finished four games ahead. having
won eighteen straight games and
twenty-four out of the last twenty
five. But for an accident to Wilbert
Robinson. who slipped in the mud
while about to make a play. we would
have won the whole twenty-five.
Best Work at Pittsburgh.
Our best work was at Pittsburgh
where we gave the prettiest exhibit
ton of place hitting that l ever hope
to see The left-handers poked the
ball into left field and the right-hand
ers poked it into right time and time
again. The Pirates We're completely
confused and daZed. They had never
seen anything like that before
neither had we.
That fall we lost the Temple Cup
series to the Giants, but Jennings and
1 got back to st. Bonaventure as
heroes. We were champions. 1t was
a royal reception. But, speaking of
receptions-well, tomorrow.
Copyright, 1923. United States and Canada,
by the Christy Walsh Syndicate.)