Show JIMMY JIMMY GOES TO BOSTON Well Known to Salt Lake Fans Figured in Sensational Play in This City 4 Anaconda Mont March 4 James 4 4 McHale lust last season eason a member of tho 4 4 Stockton Cal Cat club has bas been sign siSTI signed f f ed by the Boston team or of the Amerl Amen 4 can league 4 T M 4 M tt 4 M t M M t HH Perhaps In no community of baseball tans fans in the country will wilt the announcement tha Jimmy McHale has his at last broken in into Into into to a major league be bf b received with as much joy as in Salt Lake Of all aU the old players who wore uniforms in Salt Lake when this town had real baseball McHale was one of ot the most popular While he never wore a Salt Lake suit Bult yet while I play pla ng with Butte he was as well liked I by Salt Lakers as members of the home team But McHale figured in a play j I on the Salt Lake diamond which h will wilt be remembered remembered remembered as one of the most heartbreaking incident jm of local baseball history Jimmy was always fast on the bases and andIn andIn andin In the field He was a remarkably good fielder but was weak at the bat In fact lie was always placed near the bottom of the batting list on this account and only held his place on the team on account of f J Jis JIs ls fielding ability Since then McHale has haa improved as a hitter and it was on the strength of his batting that h b he was yas as signed by Boston His improve improvement Improvement ment nent in batting started from the incident herein related and many claim it was this that gave McHale encouragement to make a study of the hitting game Back Sack in 1903 In a k game between Butte and Salt Sail Lake Lakein in 1903 Big Jimmy Wiggs was pitching for tor Salt Lake and it was one of those days when Wiggs was invincible Butte simply could not n t find him and for eight long Innings the Miners could not get a aman aman aman man across the plate The score at the beginning of the ninth stood 1 to 0 in fa favor favor favor vor of Salt Lake In the ninth the first two men up for Butte fanned McHale came up and with vicious swings missed the f first two balls thrown Another one and the side would be retired and the game would be over for that day looked at McHale with one of those grins which only Jimmy Wiggs could wear wea when he had things coming his way and the crowd felt sorry for the Anaconda lad it Wiggs hesitated lor a minute and then lobbed i up a n floater right across the middle of the plate McHale swung some claim he cl closed sed his eyes but he caught the ball fairly and sent it Il sailing over the left field fence for one of the longest hits ever recorded on a local lol diamond Of course it was a home run and tied the score Flannery Was Mad Jack Flannery one of the hardest ball players that ever wore a uniform was in left field when It h happened Jack was one of those fellows who did not use parlor language lan when things went wrong on the ball field and Jack usually let a fellow n know what he thought of him In his forcible waY on these occasions Flan nery nerv law sa the ball sailing through the air end then started for Wiggs on the run Of course cour e those thole tho In the grand stand who had not fainted could rould not hear what Flan Fan npr nary 1 1 1 but the he bit uhe way came carne In ln fr from m left field and shook his hi fist under nose and from the motion of his hiEl arms and expression on his face it was not hard har r 1 to te tell teli that at was getting Keing about as a choice a Hi lii of talk as was ever eyer left len o ot oit t or of a R dictionary fH le had sauntered around the th bases with the tie score ore long lons before Flannery bad worked the wrath nut of oC Ills his system on who stood like a sma small boy y naught Caught aught in I the th act of eating his mothers mother tam Jam Jam Wl VI a dl SHY say a word back hack for Ve he kop knew he had bad It coming The game ame con coni WI Wigg S fanned the next net man out retired i the side Butte could do noth nJ sr more with wit delivers hut but In the Salt Lake pot got another man across the and won the game Th Tb crow crowe crowd breathed e CI essy sy S after this hut for lays the JOn talked aked or of that great hit nt of Timm MeHales and messed at what Flanner Fianner EI win swing to from fm the moment he h left h hi his Is position In the field until he ht slow sow 1 ly walked back still his head and muttering to |