Show amal villa er me plays OR NO ew e w S f durw fu fa rW BY JOE premier short stop of th the retinal NAT enri league and captain of the cube cuba who appears appear to lm 1 ni prove with age just jug t about the time a fellow fallow lafi be has ahna pulled ott off some something taing and escaped with it he la Is likely to discover dincov that hat t the h a other fello ellow w was doing so 11 thinking tor for himself I 1 believe the worst break I 1 over ever bade made on a ball field wn ana a in trying to put over some visa stuff tuff and it was old silent fred titus who ito slipped it over on me I 1 lintl had a chance to make a kick I 1 simply had h d to swallow hard a couple 0 of times and tako take off my hat to him and it lost a game for or us we were fighting tor for tho the pennant that and doing everything ve we could to hold our own as both ritts pittsburg burg and new york were giving us DB a battle the tha other teams knowin kno know wit it but wo w did that our pitchers were tired out and not verb very good and we were worried torrie d in im spite of the fact that w V liot on oft telling it ft was easy for UK uc we vo had a long lead for the pennant but were counting every game and figuring whether we could last or not and there nover never was a club that had a 11 hauler artier time cinching cin ching a pennant after it was within reach than we did we were playing philadelphia and I 1 think the hie game was between neul henl bach and parl I arl afore lore who always gave us a lot of trouble tho the score was very close cloae and we we were re hanging on with nith ono one run to the good hoping that at bouly lucil would last it out although wo we joe tinker knew he was vas tired lie ile had bad worked a double header in brooklyn Dro oklyn only a fow few days before and we expected that he might tire toward the end we hoped he be would tad last it out and give the other pit cheris a rest as everyone was in the tha same boat titus got on first with one out I 1 dont remember how and blageo smashed a hit bit past me ina so fast that it was a thousand to ono TItue go to third I 1 dived at the ball then straightened up and as titus crossed second I 1 cut across s in front of him just to throw him ou out t of step and make him slow alow up with out interfering with him or touching him at all hodman Ilo had fielded the ball and was vas ready to throw in so eo thero a chance for titus to go to third even it I 1 moved you ma may judge my surprise when that quiet guy took a running jump at me lumped bumped me as hard haid as 03 lie ha aull could threw his bla urma arms around me and wrestled m ina down to the dirt I 1 aboab loose wondering what had hap reneil r eneil but titus was gone ito ha was waa running at the umpire claiming I 1 had buind him and held him titus had seen that neither umpire was waa looking and wasy I 1 cut across to blow him bm up tip ho be grabbed me and when the umpires did look they saw us nil hit mixed up so eo they lot let him jog joff on to third on account of my interference titus scored on an out tied it u up and they bent beat us out 0 of the game and I 1 coul dat as my a word vord lie ha haa bad slipped it over me the other kicked but I 1 knew huew I 1 bad made a blunder and that ho he had bad taken nd ad of it and won by W 0 chapman |