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Show CHANCE "BEANED" MORE THAN ANY OTHER PLAYER "Thar hare barn three men la the) history ef the blf rescues,' Bid Me-Phso, Me-Phso, tha old second bsassua, aaid tha other day. "who stood oat above all others whan t came to bains alt by pitched bails. Those three man wan Curtis Cur-tis Welch, Hufa Jennings and Prank. Chance. They have never had any rivals, ri-vals, and I don't soppoee any players are really anxious to equal tha records they made. "Tha atraagest thing of all, so far aa two of theaa men were concerned, was the fact that they didn ' mean tt. They were game, all right, but not game enough voluntarily to run the riaka they seemed to Jake, and the countless bruises they received were not endured to help their teams, but because be-cause they couldn't dodge. It'e a fact Hugh Jennings eoulcf not dodga a ball, and Frank Chance cannot duck one now. As for Curtis Welch, ha was a different proposition. Ha got hit in-tentionnlly in-tentionnlly time after time, and never, perhaps, without full meaning. "The bos aeores of tha old Baltimore Kroea seldom went into print without e words, 'Hit by pitched ball, Jen-sings. Jen-sings. Time after time Hughey" was eannonaded, and, aa a rale, was bumped herd. His serve and gameaess ware widely praised, while soma of tha critics crit-ics said he was simply foolhardy. The latter opinion was almost asiveraal when, after Baltimore had aafsly won the flag. Hughey continued to get hit. All theaa years ha had been unable to dodge. He seemed unable to convey the sense of danger from his brsln to his limbs quick enough to spring aside, sad on aevaral oerasioas ha was knocked cold when ho knew tha ball was coming, aad waa eager to get out of the way, but simply couldn't soaks his muscles move in time. "Frank Chance has been hit on the head thirty-eight times aad stunned on twenty oeessions, whila he haa received innumerable amashes on shoulders, ribs or legs. Chance wants 'to get out of tha way, but ean't. Ba stands oat-footed, oat-footed, resting heavily on his pins, when batting, almoet Imbedding them in tha ground, and ha cannot sidestep or make his feet meve in time to savs him. I doubt if ba can eves dodge a slow ball, his feet move so rebelliously, aad yet, aaca aa bases, he is iigkuuag runner, "Curtis Welch stood lightly set npon his feet aad could spring away from tha fastest pitching if he desired. But he didn't deelre, and so agile, so snske like waa ha, that he could seem to be grased by purest accident every timet He swan developed a way of glancing the bail off bia forearm, apparently dodging, yet leaving the arm exposed and letting the ball tick anlnst if." |