Show Texas Tate Giant Fighter On Once e Pitched Against Phils TEXAS TATE TAB the tile heavYweight heavyweight heavyweight heavy heavy- H HENRY weight pugilist who Jumped into Ito the spotlight by winning from Fred Fulton on a foul may earn In the roped arena the fame famo he sought on the baseball diamond Tate as a ball bail ballplayer ballplayer player wa was not a howling success Duthe out nut he has won eleven out of fifteen fights over the knockout route and if his cam cam- am- am ami i sized fist should jolt the tho crown crow from Jess Willards Willard's brow he will receive the thanks of Larry McLean wi one of baseballs baseball's most moat noted athletes who once tried to wallop I the circus actor Baseball ha has lias produced many fighters The man having the tho most consistent record record rec roe ord i is John McGraw who always Ys gets knocked out Charles was a fighter until he went up to Ty Cobbs Cobb 5 room one night Kid Gleason late of the Ph Phillies lies late of the champion White Sox is a real fighter and at bear style rough- rough tumble and-tumble there is no one in the tho big leagues who values his eyeball who would deliberately lock himself himsel in the room with wih the Kid and talk tale war language I I But this tale is about Henry Henr Tate now flow i called caled Harry by Billy Bly McCarney the former forer Philadelphia manager of boxers who developed Young Erne and nd Unk Hussel Kussell Kus- Kus 1 sell seli sel and then carried Luther McCarthy up the footpath The Athletics were training at Savannah Savannah Savan Savan- nah nab Ga in 1910 when a broad dered young giant reported to Connie Mack Macl The lad stood 6 feet 1 Inch and I weighed about pounds He was sent to the by a scout and tipped upped I as a pitcher with wih a lot of or the old buzz on his stuff Tate for 1 It i was he did have speed in fact this asset alone aone caused causel so 50 shrewd a judge of or pitchers pitcher as Connie ConDe Mack Macle to bring him north for develop develoP- ment meat Tates Tate's trouble was with wit his delv- delv ery cry He wound up so tight that all the theIn In Infielders fielders ran to their bags expecting a but nevertheless nevertheless throw in that direction less when Hen lien let go he had the old zip They called caled him Hen lien in those days because he liked to lay around inthe inthe In Inthe the sun PITCHED AGAINST PHILLIES PHILLIE Tate Tate came north along with the Stack Mack men and that famous flivver r Pence Fence Cracker Bill Bm Hogan Tate pitched in the opening game against the Phillies Philes al allowing allowing allowing al- al lowing six hits hit and three runs but ne gummed his start The megaphone man announced the theAs theAs tIe As battery batery as Tate and Thomas as asDig Big Dig Hen strolled out to the hill hl some someone ome one in the press box shouted Good luck lck Hen and Tate who had taken the sIgnal signal signal sig sIg- sig- sig nal from Thomas paused and waved his hand to the press box and exclaimed in accents that reverberated around the lot The same same to to you all al The umpire said eald to the studious Thomas You are going ging to have a fine afternoon if the bleachers start to kid I th this Tate afu guy struck his gait gai and he hurled good ball bal but made the bushers busher's fatal mis mistake I take of trying to to throw them past the I bats of the enemy when bs' bs stuff was wasI nicked and the only time he agreed with wih the crafty Thomas was when some one I struck out out In the training camp was whre Hen was at his best One day he strolled out outto outto outto to take his batting practice It I seems that he used to bat them so high while in the tile bushes that frequently an a outfielder outfielder out out- fielder felder starved to d death ath waiting for the ball bal to come down C. 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A Bender happened happened happened hap hap- 1 1 io be bo working that day Tato Tate nad never heard of Mr r. r Bender The Chief wound up and making a snake-dart snake motion motion moton mo mo- mo- mo tion ton he threw w one of his lila floaters foater Tate took three distinct wallops at the ball bali bal and was hauling back for the fourth when the pill pm floated over the plate The next pitch was a floater foater also Tate took one swing then waited and just as the ball bal tempted him and he whipped his bat batoff batoff off of his shoulder the pesky pm pill veered off and Hens e bat cut the air i with a hiss tl tT f I The bat was still on Tates Tate's t shoulder h e when I Bender cut the plate with the third strike one of his fast ones Tate I declared that night that Frank Baker BakerI threw the third strike strike I TATE BUTTED IN There was a fence surrounding the I Savannah hall hail hal lot and Henry Davis DavisI claimed that several seasons before he had lowered his head and charged I through the fence Tate never missed a word and the hint was Wa dropped that if this trick was duplicated by any of the youngsters It I would cause Connie Slack Mack to sign the one who did it for a along along along long contract at a good salary Tate had drawn about a month with the Texas league team Two days later the complained that he be could not keep the tho fence and diamond in shape for the champions until the cows in the neighborhood neighborhood neighborhood neigh neigh- had been dehorned as they tore through his fence every night That had hd been practicing I Walter Waler Hoban the cartoonist left let a note on Tates Tate's bed one day which which- read Big league ball pitchers do not sleep with their shoes on This is rube nibe stuff And Arid Hoban signed another scribes scribe's name to the note I Tate wrote the following reply Where I comes from their aint no dam dudes we ropes and brands them kind Harry Tate Tate TatE had hal heard Philadelphia was wa I cal called d Sleepy Town and he quizzed Harry Davis about o n it I. I Davis assured Tate that last fate year alone players had be been n caught off of first base In Philadelphia Philadelphia Phil Phil- Phi Phi- adelphia and that the high skies made madea a player drowsy after being out In the theair theair theair air for awhile Tate said Harry Har me and you ought to catch 1000 this year ear Lets Let's Lets let them get to first PULLED A GOOD ONE II Jack Jace C Coombs pulled the best thing tiling on the big good natured innocent cowboy Jack Lapp told Tato that Coombs possessed post possessed pos pos- d such wonderful spee speed that he f could t throw g an Invisible Sti baI O one h a that flew so fast from his fist to the catcher that the batter and umpire could not Se SeIt see it travel The umpire called caled the pitch according according to where the catcher held his glove Coombs according to Lapp only chucked this ball bal in the world series and that is why he never lost a world series game Tate had one experience with Bender and he was willing to believe anything right at that moment To add to Tates Tate's woes he had written on a apiece apiece apiece piece of paper one morning moring and Chief Bender Bender had looked at it and sent air all messages to Jack Lapp and Eddie Collins Col Col- has lins and they had read out loud what Tate had witten written without seeing it I. I Bender had signaled tho the pair pall with the finger deaf and dumb code and Tate thought that baseball did have magical inside stuff Coombs promised Tate to show him his his' invisible pitch if i he would take Barry and Ira Thomas Thoms aside and urge them to toI I let champagne alone for a while Thomas and Barry Barr never took tool toola a drink drinkin I in their lives lives and and two of the most our pur- ur- ur prized men in il baseball listened to Tates Tate's plea In his room one night that they give up the demon booze Coombs had a clever trick of palming a baseball and dropping It into his trousers trouser while Lapp I back of the plate produced the ball bal after ater Coombs apparently made the pitch Tate with his great geat strength and speed did not stay long enough In the big league to learn the secret Tate was a young oung giant then just budding into manhood oung He le was verdant and when suddenly flung fung among the masters of baseball who could do wonderful wonderful wonderful won won- things he was ws just as any other busher bushel would have ha been He le look ook the kidding and never once beI became became be- be I came angry angy He le was well wel liked by the j I team and M Sirk k told him hm when he sent sentI I him hi back hack Back So Soth h that If I he mastered coni control con con- i trot he would certainly come back to the I big league legue |