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Show Why Chesbro Quit I lis "Sptt-Hrl i Cleveland Players Annointed th5 , HorsohJdo With Liquid Firo, and ' It Didn't Tasto Good to Jack. ji i A Cloveland paper says: "Many fani i who saw Monday's first ball game won. , J dered why Jack Chesbro of the N6w Yorks did not urn his celebrated "spit' j ball" of tenor. It was noticed that Jack'i 1 hands traveled but seldom to his mouth, 1 and that when they did, Jack's fatj i looked afterward as1 though ho ha! tasted something unpleasant ;j "The secret leaked out after the game, ono of the New York players havlnj J done a little Sherlock Holmes work which resulted in his discovering the plot. Tho Cleveland team, Iw relatei, had basely purchased a small bottle of . a drug called tincture of capsicum, the same being a liquid which Is hotter than i tobasco sauco by several hundred de-', grees. "With this stuff did they carefully an- ; nolnt each ball put into play. Addis ' Joss did not, as usual, dirty any nt ball thrown out to him, but pitched, It Just as received, desiring to leave al! ) the capsicum on the ball for Chesbro. i Tho latter, In order to use his "spit' ball" successfully, has to draw hlj ; fingers across his lips, thoroughly moistening them. Any fingers that had.-rubbed had.-rubbed over that red hot mess were bad medicine for the Hps, as Chesbro , soon discovered, and the spit ball had to be discarded, possibly to the great ! benefit of the Napoleons. In fact, they Beem to have pretty effectually solved tho problem. 'What shall be done to overcome the "spit ball?" ' " 1 Jack Haskell tells a pretty fair one on ", "Scoops" Carey and Rochester, the i deadest baseball town on earth. Last spring Rochester started off i with a long losing streak. One afternoon, after-noon, by actual count, there wen eighty-eight people at tho lot. j "Are you going to play?" asked Carer " of Haskell. "Of course ; why notT' queried the umpire. 1 "I just thought if we should happen to 1 win," explained Carey, "that there are not enough people here to prove it" And still it is thought in some quar- ters that the Eastern league won't ur to get rid of such a town. Ohio State , Journal. Plucky Barney Dreyfus Is said to hail put up $11,000 this year for player. 5 What man, with the prospect of losing ' out staring him In the face, would have done so much? He has never tired In : his efforts to provide a winner, and he j has a right to feel now that he has done , his best. 1 John G. Clnrkson, the daddy of then ' all at the pitching game, sat in the , stand and for the first time saw Walter ,& Clarkson pitch. John liked his work and was tickled as a boy when Walter struck out the side. "It's In him," said j John In the evening, "but I will have to tako him In hand for a month and tell J him a few things. Walter thinks tw 1 much of a strike-out record." Detroit J News. 1 |
