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Show USED HIS HEAD FOR A BASEBALL BAT Negro Stops a Pitchod. Ball With His Cranium Catcher Wants Him Called Out. From a Butto paper conies the following follow-ing story charged to Theodore Breltcn-stoln, Breltcn-stoln, tho veteran, who 1h Just now rebelling re-belling against a claim of tho Newark, who drafted him from tho Southern league. Tho yarn has much tho odor of a "pipe," but nevertheless Is a good one: "Tho funniest thing I ever Haw In a basoball Held," said BrelL, "happened In a gamo between two negro teams at Memphis. It was a ocorchlng day and several sev-eral of us who were not on that day went out to sco It. They played It In an open lot, and I bellcvo half tho colored so-slcty so-slcty of tho South wero present. The two teams wero ununlformed, but they mado up for It with enthusiasm, and averaged av-eraged about one light to an Inning. "Tho thing I apeak of happened In tho sixth Inning. The nogro at bat was ono of thoso short heavy boys, with a head llko a league ball at tho close of a double-hoader. double-hoader. Ho was pitcher of his team. Tho other pitcher had fanned his last tlmo up, and ho wns evidently Bore at his brother. Ho was a long, rawboncd coon. Ho wrapped himself up llko a watch-spring, watch-spring, and when ho unwound a dlrtv streak would Hash toward tho plato and something went whop! In tho catcher's mitt. Whenever thoy accidentally hit ono a search party was organized in tho next township. "Well, the short pitcher forgot to dodgo ono of them, and It lilt him right on tho domo of his forehead. 'You could hear tho report all ovor the field. It sounded llko hitting a ripe pumpkin with a bed slat. "Now, hero Is wln.ro tho funny thing comes In. Tho ball bounced off that negro's ne-gro's head way up In thb air toward first, and the first baseman ran about twonty feot back of hl3 bojo and caught It on a fly. "That's a fact. Tho ball must have bounced over eighty feet off that negro's head, and It never feazed him. llo swung his bat around his hoad and let It drlvo at the 'pitcher, and when thov got them Hcparatcd ho went right on with his batting. bat-ting. "And tho first baseman claimed tho ball ho caught was a foul and wanted tho man declared out." |