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Show BILL DONOVAN SPINS STOVE LEAGUE YARN Bill Ponovan dm; down into the moth balls and came up'wilh this one, says a ' New York writer, and it is up to you to decide if ho loses; "VTe had to play an exhibition game near Colfax, Pa., once." said the Yank manager, "and it was agreed before the game that we would go through with it rain or shine. The local management held us to it. "The little park was in a low bottom with embankments on the sides. A "storm sewer opened near it, and this reallv caused the. trouble. It began to rain in torrents during the first in ning, but to get our money we had to continue. The big sewer overflowed and ran a regular river into the grounds. The outfield was three feet deep in water in some places, and T can see Cosev Dolau now the old Cosey Dolau standing up to his armpits iu rain water waiting to catch a fly ball. Finally we got to where we didn't care what happened. hap-pened. Xoi': "In the seventh inning a. runner was nn second base when a batter. Jimmy O'Brien. I think it was, hit a high fly ball to center. Xobody could reach the ball and O'Brien slashed around the bases and scored. Finally Dolan saw the ball floating twenty feet away from him and. wading toward it. he grabbed it and swam in to second. Diving down he touched the ball to the bag, claiming that O'Brien was out because he had left the bag before the ball touched the L ground. You see. it really never had touched the ground, there being no rule vn floaters. "And that ain't all the umpire allowed al-lowed it '. " ' |