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Show GAME TO THE LAST Injured Boy Thought Only of His Coming Contest. NEW YORK, May 19 During a gam? of baseball In a vacant lot at the foot of East Twentieth street, one of the players, play-ers, alter hitting the ball, threw his bat from him. It landed on the head of John Murphy, aged 9 years, of No. 329 East Twenty-fourth street, who was sitting on the ground not far from home plate. Murphy rolled back Insensible, and Dr. Vanderhoff took him to Bellovue. Player Was Unknown. The game w.13 "called." Nobody knew the name of the man who threw the bat, except that his name was "Bill," and had been hired for the occasion. oc-casion. The boy's father hurried to the "hospital In time to hear John tell the doctor not to let his mother know about the accident. "She'3 sure to worry, and besides, I got to bo out tomorrow, for my nine plays the Swallows, and I must bo there. Don't tell ma about this." The doctor was obliged to perform an Immediate operation for fractured skull, after which they said the boy's condition condi-tion was "critical." |