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Show Ball Player Refused to Accept Home Run Clout Baseball players ordinarily are about as willing to give up base hits as Henry Ford is to quit making flivvers. fliv-vers. Consequently Springfield (111.) fans were handed a real shock when Buster Chatham, one of the big favorites favor-ites of the team, refused to accept a home run last season. Buster, on his first trip to the plate, had been robbed of a homer by a circus catch by a Peoria fielder, who crashed into the left field fence to spear the drive. On his next attempt Buster sent the ball a mile. As he rounded first lie saw the fielder against the fence and immediately started to walk to his place in the outfield. The visiting first and second basemen base-men told him to keep on traveling around the bags, but Buster, had been kidded before and refused to listen even when his own coacher frantically called to him. Manager Bill Jackson had to rush wildly from tbe dugout and order him to complete the round before he could be convinced that he had got a home run. |