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Show BASEBALL ENGLISH. Contribution to Literature That Ought to Live Long. A neater article of the national had never been put up on the home grounds, says the Yale Record, and when the visitors picked up the stick In the final with the tally standing at 2 to 2 everybody from the oldest fan to the youngest paper seller was standing stand-ing on his seat and yelling to the local slab artist to serve up his choicest assortment of round-house benders and keep whatever guy . was handling the ash pivoting at delusions. The twirler was up to business and laid 'em over so fast that the receiving end of the battery, who wears a bird cage and liver protector, looked as If he were shelling peas. The first two victims vic-tims only tore rents in the atmosphere, but the third guy connected and laid off a flaming grasser, which would have made a projectile from a thirteen-inch gun look like a bean bag tossed from one baby to another. The man on the difficult corner was right there, though, and flagged the horsehide pill with his sinister talon, assisting it over to the initial hassock in such short order that some one yelled, derisively: "That fellow runs likejinjpiigestreet automobile." auto-mobile." The home aggregation came to the bat. Every one was confident that they were going to pound the sphere around the lot, but the opposing oppos-ing team ran in a new guy with a slow south, wing, and before they had expected ex-pected there were two men down and two strikes on the next guy. But, oh, Phoebe! On the next delivery he became be-came the father of a bouncing swat, which landed in the last row of potatoes pota-toes in the outer garden and enabled him to pass down three buttons and scratch the rubber. "Did the crowd go wild? Say, did you ever see a game of ball? |
