Show Germany Can Hit With His Cro Crooked Bat Any An time you boys hoys see flee mo me ml step up Uti to that plate with this bat In my hands watch out for a safe safo hitI hitI hit I can hook that pill pili over third ba base e or lamba t it Into right field or Mow low 10 the pitcher If It they thoy let me use It in the big games ames Id I'd bat SOO easilY Thus spoke Germany Schaefer captain manager and first batter up of or tho ho sausages sau situ sages M in Atlanta Germany appeared for batting practice with a n crooked bat bat- batU U It was presented to him last winter by a friend nd In Chicago o Schaefer with his trusty war nr club raced laced Walter Waiter Johnson In practice and to the amusement of the players Informed them lust where he was going oln to clout the ball bali Vatch n ml zinc this 1 over PT third he shouted and sure lure enough h ho he hit the ball bali about three Inches from the tho bat end and It sped true aa ll a die to to short left lert field 5 e Here goes Joes one oven even Hal Chase couldn't get JeL Crack went vent tho the ball against th the bat near tho the handle handl and tho the sphere struck ten feet over or the tho first baseman baseman's head Now ow look out Walter Horos Horo's where I low Mow bridge o you Tho The new ball pitched was met squarely on tho the arc of the circular portion of or the bat and Walter ducked Just lust in time to escape being hit Germany armany declares that the tho curve CUI bat hat batIs batIs Is the greatest invention of cf modern times and emphatically states that if it was allowed in the big blE Ica leagues there thero would be twice as many hitters as at Present pres pres- ent |