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Show I MAMAUX TELLS HOW HE PULLED BONER Tossed Ball to Opposing Coacher, With Men on Bases, and Almost Lost Gams, The batsmen are not the only ones who become victims 01 stage fright on the basebail diamond. Albert Mamaux, one of Plt;abure:'s young flinders, telie a story which shows that a man may forget for-get how to think in a tight game before be-fore he has become used to the big league. "I'll never forget one of the first big league games I pitched." said Mamaux. "It was in Chicago, and I obligingly tossed a ball to Roger Bresnahan of the Cubs ami darned near lost the ball game then and there. "There were two men out and Chicago Chi-cago players on first and second bases. Roger was coaching at third base. H was talking to me not trying to ktd me or get me up In the air, but chatting In 1 a friendly sort of way. Finally there j was some sort of an argument at the plate. The ball had been returned to me by our catcher, and I was standing; i near the pitching mound tryins to steady i royeelf and looking at the ball, i " 'Kay, Al, toss that ball here so I can take a look at It,' Bresnahan yelled to me. "I 4Idn't give the thing a second i thought. I just tossed It to him, and darned If he didn't stop to one side and veil to the runners to 'Com on.' They came, all right. Each advn need a base, and they would have nono further If Jimmy Viox hadn't run like an Indian i and retrieved that ball In a hurry. "Well, maybe our gan? didn't ride me. : I heard nothing else tor a month or more. Eut It curd me. I wouldn't toss a baseball to an opposing coach, r now If ; the umpire told me to do It. I'd hand the onion to- the ump and let him do what he wanted with It." And yet Mamaux made a mistake that any number of experienced pitchers might make. It lust happened that Liies-nahan Liies-nahan caught him napping. |