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Show BOY'S 5KXTLL BROKEN BY BASEBALL BAT NEW TORK, May 19 During a game of baseball In a vacant lot at the foot of East Twentieth street, one of the players, play-ers, alter hitting the ball, threw Ms 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 hojna plate. .Murphy rolled -backlpnslble. and Dr. Vanderhoff took him to Bellevue. The- game was ' "called." ' Nobody knew the name of the man who threw the- bat, except that pis name was "Bill," and ha been hired for the occasion. oc-casion. The boy's father hurried to the hoepltaMn- time to hear John tell the doctor .not to let his mother know about the'accident. "She's sure to worry, and besides, I got to be' out tomorrow, for my nine plays the Swallows, end I must be "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'. condition condi-tion was "critical." ' |