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Show ISBELL'S HOME RUN MEMORABLE DRIVE The last day of the 1903 season the Chicago White Sox won a game from the Washington club in the ninth Inning that mean(t a lot to them. s "Chicago needed but a run to win," said Jack Hendricks, who was playing right field for Washington on that day. "I was out In the right field, and Jimmy Jim-my Ryan, who was laying off, was sitting in the 'clubhouse looking lazily at the game, dozing ever and anon and sighing because he couldn't hobble around and take a hand. "Suddenly Frank Isbell hit a hard liner. "It came right at me. going- a little low, and I set myself for the catch, figuring fig-uring that It was a chinchavo. "The infernal thing took a down shoot as it approached me and shot bang into my big toe. "Oh, Moses, but it hurt! "It went on without much abatement of its speed and flew through the clubhouse club-house door. 1 "Jimmy Ryan was still sitting there, with his attention averted for the moment, mo-ment, and tho ball caromed onto Jimmy's head. He went down and out, and the ball kept on moving. "Tsbell made a home-run on the hit. and 'when he crossed the plate he lay: down on the grass and. screeched and howled, with the old bald head glittering glitter-ing in the sun. "Ryan was sitting up nibbing his head. "As for , m, my foot was so badly mashed up I had to limp to the clubhouse club-house and take off my shoe. , "It was the quickest and funniest ending end-ing of a nine -inning game that I can ever call to mind, and I have seen a lot of them." |