| Show BASEBALL THE SAME OLD GAME aint w Vt t it II used t I he be beIa Ia says s the old chap who now never even een asks asle what whal the score Is No It ft In ancient times lines the tho batter asked for tor the sphere Just where ho could rould hit the Jobman tried to place It Just In the line requested by bythe bythe the fellow at the plate So different cant get It where you OU wish the pitcher en endea endeavors deavors dea VOlS to throw to Lilly other place than mart where It IR llod rays aS the De Dc Unit Evening News The rules rilles In old olden n days must be the reason why wh Casey as e never nver struck out and when he did tan three times limN it Il ws wis because the tho speed ot of baseballs hat had Increased the curves cure rent around his neck instead of at over the plate Then there woe was It a time especially In th the south when seven the th balls were rubber Yes Yea like th the kind thrown into Inlo the game by bp Charlie Frank but bul Just solid rubber nut But then every ever one had n 11 chance to punch it 11 with the bat batand and It II n a Title mile In those tho o days It seas called tows tOWI ball The fhe sphere was 8 thrown at the tho runner instead In of at his being gently t b by the fielders At Al this Juno Junc Juncture ture there was souse some pitching The Th ball was waft thrown s enough to tad tair the tho runner on the fly and he Will was out when struck The boys boye who lived In and about Atlanta At Atlanta lanta durIng and after the tho war are able to te testify how they used to steal he ath railroad passenger cars In tM the dead of at night and ch rl rubber tram fromn the spring bearings This was la cued carved Into a ball That ThIt wa was before the days ot of th the palace eRr car which now have hae giant iron 1101 springs lit of rubber Talk to n 0 pioneer who engaged ena ed inthe In the national sport pori 40 years ago lie will tell you OU that the players secured n a field four our or tWo times timeR as largo large as the fields In which the game Rame is III now nol played When the tho batter balter struck the ball it would go halt or ot of a mile On many the ban ball was lost In tin th woods It was nothing then to secure n a homo home run Sometimes the b ball 11 knocked far enough Into the distance to allow the runner to make three or tour four home runs Why In the olden days ae ac to antediluvian players the they were like this to liI 1 O to 76 or 50 to 40 The bats were long keen hickory sticks cut cui from a small mall sapling A batter could reach each several yards ards with the baj bab Just like a cattle driver with II a lengthy whip |
