Show I STORIES OF BALL PLAYERS I I Talk about your close finishes Perry I Werden Verden tells of oC a game he won by b a nar narrow narrow narrow row margin The two teams had been playing most of the afternoon and it looked as though it would be a tie tic when the 6 whistle blew The score stood 2 3 to 2 nobody on base two men out and Perry at the bat The twirler tossed up one orie of those slow balls halls sort of ot a teaser where you can see seethe seethe seethe the on the trademark as the thc ball bali comes floating toward you With Witha VItha a terrific swing awing Perry met it square on the nose and away it soiled sailed 5 led headed for a boarding house across the street As it cleared the outfield the ball ban burst and of ot it rattled up against a lIlt Hit me for Cor a pair of slices shoos sign on the left field fence Perry was running around the tile bases like hike a race horse jumping high and short but not getting over mer very much ground The fielder not to be baffled quickly returned the half halt ball ban to the in infield infield field The catcher touched me with It says Perry as I steamed In home and claim claimed ed I was out but our fellows got to the umpire first I forget just what we told him anyway he rendered what I call can an equitable decision he gave us tho the game VA 2 to 2 But would you ou believe it says sas Perry the next day that tightwad whose fence sign I 1 hit sent me an order on his store etore Good for one shoe only Willie Keeler Makes Good My Baltimore club had an off ort day da at Newark a couple of seasons ago and I 1 went over to New York to see my old pal Willie Keeler says Hughie Jen Ten Jennings Jennings New York was playing Washing Washington ton that day and I saw Jacobson the southpaw warming arming up to pitch Keeler had a very bad leg and told me he hardly expected to play and I Iwas Iwas Iwas was sympathizing with him when from the grandstand came the Harvard yell eIL Keeler had coached the boys that spring and they had come down to see him play before they met Yale in their final game They finished up with nine for Keeler and Willie Wilile was touched I mean to play pIa today said Bald he hl but now Ive got to What Bill with that leg and a left handed pitcher Watch Vatch me Im going to bat twice if it kills me meVell Wen Well the first time up laced out as pretty a single as you ever saw sawn It n sailed right over second base a mile milea a minute Bill winked at me meThe m meThe The second time he chopped out at once It rose up gracefully and looped over the head of ot the tho third baseman It was one of those pretty things a a really scientific batter can do and make it look easy cas Of course the Harvard HarvI rd boys greeted the performance with loud acclaim and more ralis for tor the coach Willie quit with the end of at the inning as he said sald he would for the game was won Ion and he was saving himself all aU he Ite could As he passed me hR he shot from behind his a hand a little remark 11 I 1 guess that will about fix me inc up at nt Cambridge for tor next year ear wont itT said he And It did Such Is Fame There Is a St Louisan born and bredIn bred bredIn In the precincts of the Mound City who confesses that she sho has never heard of ot Jimmie McAleer Of course its a wom worn woman woman an It be otherwise but at that It seems extraordinary President Hedges wanted to talk to Jimmie He called calle 2 for r McAleer at the Mineral Hot Springs hotel h San Antonio Texas The hello girl had heard of San An Antonio Antonio Antonio tonio also of ot Texas She even had heard of ot the Mineral Hot Springs but she answered somewhat on this wise when McAleer was asked for Who Vho is McAleer Manager of the Browns stuttered Mr Hedges after he had recovered suf sufficiently suffIciently au to answer Is that a tailoring firm sweetly in inquired Inquired the dimpled darling who wears an ear car mask in the telephone battery Mr Hedges does dolS not use profanity He on this occasion but gazed about at the scribe who was present and rolled his eyes like a bovine about to kick Rick the bucket No Xo it is the American league lea e baseball team responded Mr Hedges Hedge Is the American league lea e located at San Antonio was the next query of the demure damsel and the same samp being translated caused the scribe to fan him himself himself himself self with a lead pencil for some minutes Mr arr Hedges finally succeeded in making It clear that the Browns were a bona fide tide baseball team located during the playing season In St Louis and that members of ot that organization were stay Ing at the Mineral Hot Springs hotel and that he desired very ery much if central would be so kind as to allow him to communicate with James McAleer man manager maneger ager eger of the organization Rube Is a Fisherman Rube Waddell may not be as ag eccentric as aa he was in the days daS of ot old said a member of the Cincinnati team who has known the tho big southpaw for years but he is not entirely balanced yet I noticed It the tho other day just before the ics lea left Marlin Rainy weather prevented us from working and Rube decided to togo togo togo go out and try to lure a few of ot the finny tribe from their watery pastures A word to tho the wise is go fIsh In said Rube as he came into the hotel corri corn corridor dor with lila Ills rod reel and trolling min minnow minnow mm now at the end of ot his line Then he proceeded to cast the be hooked decoy in the direction of one on of the tho female guests missing her pompa dour by about on un inch Next he angled tho th collection of ot hooks In front of ot Larry Laro McLeans nose endangering the symme symmetry symmetry symmetry try of the big catchers proboscis Then he ho walked into the bar and came near hooking the barkeep In the eye What his subsequent moves were I dont know for I was getting a bit frightened myself But he ha sure show wis rom P dom om In the handling of fishing tackle |