Evening star., 1932-05-01

dangerous he was. He swung into the first
pitch with terrific force and drove it far over
the center fielder's head. 1t was easy home
rum and the score was 40 in favor of Chelten.
A few moments later the side was retired,
and Carpenter came to bat in the last half Of
the sixth, determined to get some of those
runs back. The head of the batting order was
coming up, with the Shortstop leading off, Buzz
hitting second and the deft fielder and first
baSeman, both good hitters, following.
The ShortStop took two strikes, but the third
pitch brushed his leg, and the umpire waved
him to first. Buzz who had gone hitless along
with most of the other members of the team.
felt that he simply must do something to atone
for that error, and when he got pitch to his
liking over the outside corner, he drove it
sharply down the third base dine for double.
The shortstop stopped at third.
The next man up managed to lift long fly
and the shortstop scored after the CATCH with
Buzz taking third on the throw to the plate
Then Buzz, with long lead off the bag, raced
for home when the next batter hit to short, and
he managed to slide in safely fraction of
second before the catcher put the ball on him.
It was smart baseball and Carpenter had
scored two runs on nothing but hit batSman,
hit, sacrifice and a fielder's choice.
The next batter tried desperately to advance
the first baSeman but he hit into double
play, and strikeout retired the side. Even
so, a score of A was better than one of 40.
DUT Bob Wayne was not encouraged. In
- the seventh inning he had weak moment,
and Chelten scored another run. Therefore,
even when Carpenter put a rousing ninth
inning rally and pushed over two more runs,
Chelten won the game by final score of 5@.
We'll" said Buzz gloomily to Fran that
night MY error cost us that game"
1T wasn't all your fault" said Fran stoutly.
Bob Wayne wasn't so good in the pinches.
And no wonder after last night"
Buzz looked at her closely. Evidently he
also had heard that Bob was breaking training.
well, that doesn't help me. I've got to do
something about that one kind Of ground ball,
or I'll be warming the bench
'I know" said Fran And have plan"
"You have?" said Buzz. well. let's hear IT,"
Fran explained her scheme, and after some
protesting, Buzz agreed. And so it happened
that every morning from that day on, strange
sight might have been witnessed in the big back
yard of the Hendricks home. Shortly after
$50 boy and a girl appeared with bat
glove and baseball. The boy took q position
at one end Of the yard with the glove the girl
stood at the other end with the bat and the
ball There they remained for almost an hour.
and time after time the girl took the ball tossed
it into the air and then drove it along the
ground straight at the boy
At first she hit them fairly easily, and Buzz
handled them without difficulty. Gradually
she put more into them, but still Buzz took
them without an error. Then one day, on a
particularly vicious bounder that nipped off
the tops of the dandelions, he involuntarily
ducked away from it.
That's the one!" cried Fran. 'There's
your weakness. I'll feed you nothing but that
kind from now on"
(To Be Continued Next Sunday)