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Show A GALLANT YOUNG CATCHER. His Baseball Experience Aids Him so Safe XJfe. Wiea, at tie "beginning of the season, Oeorgti ifowly, li-year-old New York oeTraboy, ulimeij ae catcher for the Young Buffaloee, he probabl bad Uttle Idea that later ea Ids proficiency ia handllnir tha bail would stand him in good tead and aid him to s&re a human life. But it did. Thi is the way it happened: George was jitrolUng down, fkmta Fifth avenue the ther afternoon ujp when from above YJ Wm came a crash j V and a ecream. He r0f looked up juet in H,, time to Bee a baby itfc'V.iiX carriage fall from fiir story tenement. It J landed on a pile of " 3 J baled rags, and "-. frf tn0 big bounce hi JS($&0m threw out 3-year-' v ?4f old Amelia Schna- ble, whose tender ? M body plunged downward toward tiff tej the stone pave-j pave-j Wl ment twenty feet 4 L 1. below. Young ,J0'S Mosely was equal to the occasion. GEonou moselt. He braced his less nd held his hands as was his wont when stopping a hot in-curve, and literally caught the baby "on the fly." He staggered under un-der the burden, but did not lose. his grip. The child was saved, unharmed and not even frightened, for she looked into her rescuer's eyes and . gleefully remarked, "Baby failed down." Amelia's perilous tumble was due to carelessness on the part of her brother, in whose charge she had been placed. |