Show Has as Prize Delivery I i i- 4 4 4 Busher Trains Bugs Th M I I c nt JAta T IT y r S I i.- i. 2 L I t MAcON Ga April 10 Hughie Jennings leader lender of the slugging Tigers has been handicapped for years by the lack of competent hurlers Everybody knows that So when Joe Doaks rookie pitcher t her from the wilds of Tennessee began unlimbering in the pitchers pitcher's box the other day after two weeks of practice Jennings and his regulars were just about paralyzed with joy For h d who hh had left a steady job as ns clerk in the grocery store tore of Schneer t Brodie Brodio at Bleeker's Blecker's Corners to try his hig skill had bad a 3 hop bop hopon on his fast ball Hint that made Ty Cobb Bobby Veach Ira Chick Shorten and arni the ot other ler slugging brothers look foolish When tho the kid kept the whole crew mystified for days das Jennings said Hes Ues there The rhe Tiger Iger Ica leader er quizzed the tho kid about obeying obeying obey obey- In ing the now rules rutes regan regarding in freak deliveries and Sand Ute tWo kid replied They cant can't catch Joo Joe Doaks I dont don't apply no foreign substance dope to tho ball ban and T rub Iton it iton iton on my clothes or Uko that IhaL There aint no rules can catch cath me Jennings quizzed zed the tho lad no quo fur Cur ther But the secret leaked 1 e out theother tho the other night when Joe got too much milk chocolate tt in him together him together with a n. couple of and a a. afew few sandwiches his this u ml mIdnight midnight mid mId- night lunch Joe in his Idle moments in tho the store had captured and trained a a. dozen flies to do his bidding When Joo Joe took hold of oC a ba baseball ball and called to tho troupe thc they climbed out of ot his uniform pocket and sat in a row on the tho seam eam of ot the ball They hung there like glue while Joe wound up and heaved tho the ball batt Their presence had the same effect as roughing up a seam seam barred barred by bythe bythe bythe the ru rules es This platoon of ot tIles flies formed a wing and causing added resistance to to the Ule air made the ball hop Then Just as lS the tho ball came within range of ot the be befuddled befuddled be- be fuddled batter tho the flies let go eo and went back to Joes Joe's pocket It t looks like a big bib year ear for tor tho the Tigers The Tho will t have no noWa noway Wa way a of or tellin telling when tho the flies flics are rl riding on the tho ball Seeing the flies tile I they'll therIl have no way of ot proving that the they arc are the tho ones Joe Joo brought along Joo Joe can den deny ho he talked In his sleep About tho the only thing for the tha opposition to do is to step up to toward toward toward to- to ward the pitchers pitcher's box bor s some me day and knock that platoon of ot flies for lor fora a a. homo home run before they leave |