| Show IS A CHA OX ON IllS HIS BATTING B. I I Parrott an alt Old Timer Ono Olm of the Most IJ t Superstitions of tr Plu elo Dill Billy who vho pla played ed second base for fOl the he last sea season on until he hewat was wat traded to SL St Louis Loui has the following following fol fol- fol- fol lowing story to tell Talk Tall about aboul superstitious ballplayers ballplay ballplay- I ers era but old Tack Parrott an old Southern league player Is 18 tho the limit says He Is a n. crank on batting batting batting bat bat- ting and can cami tell you ou his batting average average aver aver- aver I age an any time In Iii the season or 01 for that matter any time In tho the game He Ho I carries a a. little piece of or chalk chall challIn In his shirt pocket and after each time atthe atthe at nt the bat he figures out lila his average a on the tho bench One day Mike lIke Kelly batted 1000 He was as up UIl four foul times and got sot the whole list from a n base hit to a home run Pam Parrott Inquired of Kell Kelly what he ho ate for dinner ant and Kelly lelly told him I ham and e eggs s. g-s. After the game g-ame we lost Parrott Ho lie turned up UI about supper time with a a. big ham under his arm aim and two baskets of eggs He lie wouldn't eat eal nn anything for fot a week but ham and eggs I r 1 roomed with Parrott In Frisco part of one one- iiO season eason I had taken a slump in my batting and Parrott's batting eye had also algo gone zono on a vaca vaca- tion He came caine to me one ono morning and with much mystery In his voice imparted the information that I was wasa a Jonah That ni night ht after supper when I went up to my room I found m my trunk and all m my clothes out In inthe the tho hall hail The landlady had to give me a a. new lIew room Parrott positively refused i to room with me any more because e he said It affected his batting batting bat bat- ting e eye eIf e e. eIf S If a man mami on a 0 team got ol a new bat bal anI anti and was hitting well ell with it the lie next day Tacks Tacks' would show up UI with the same kind of a bat He had a special trunk made to carry his bats and ho he always had hal It full I have seen him go so far fat as to u use e the same sanie brand of tooth toothpowder toothpowder toothpowder powder that another player used who was hitting well vell Out in iii Frisco Tacks STacks was hitting hitting- well one day The first two t times up Ull he ho got sot two safe saCe ones About the time timo he went to the bat the tho third time the official scorer came down and sat on Oh the tue bench with the players Tacks struck out When ho he saw sav the scorer there thelo he cha chased him off orr the thc Held declaring de he- he clueing claring him responsible for tor hl his striking ing lug out He lie w was s the most superstitious superstitious LIous man I over ever saw saw sav |
