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Show SKILLFUL SHORT-CUT ARTIST IS EXPOSED Tough Pitcher Finds Way to Stop Crookedness. Landi Stunning Olow on Runner1! Jaw 41 He Attempted to Take Cutoff for Second Date Umpire ' Saw This Short Turn, Cotton Tlerney, persistent story teller tell-er with the Pittsburgh Pirates, snys that on a team he played with In a certain minor league, there were two or three other sharps who made u practice of cutting bases and getting away with It pretty often, since only one umpire to the game worked In this league. Ithal teams howled, but the short-cut 111 lists wore clever and the umpires always ulibleil they didn't see the hiise cutting. In one game olio of these persistent persist-ent Imse cutters singled and as the umpire ran over toward third to take a possible play there the runner cut first about ten feet and landed on second. The opposing team howled as usual, and ns usual the umpire Iiml missed (he play. The opposing pitcher wns a tough guy and he was mighty mud about It. He told the blind umpire: "You're going to see It If another one of thcxi! dudes tries to cut a Imse, for I nin going to tlx him so you'll have to see It." About three Innings later one of the base cutters hit, the chance for him. as the umpire was busy elsewhere, else-where, mid It wns evident be meant v2J-i. XI-w. 1 ".TTTbH.iMi Gr Cotton Tlerney. to tnke the cutoff for second. The tough pitcher started toward first base as the runner left the plate, nnd met the player Just as he started bis short turn, out went his list, It landed full on the runner's Jaw mid be went down cold, completely knocked out, well Inside the diamond. The umplro turned around about that time and there lay the runner like a dog. with the pitcher standing over him. "Did you see this one?" shouted thp pitcher grimly. "Como and look j ut his tracks where be cut the base, j then tell me If he's out." The umpire solemnly nunouueed that the runner was out for cutting first biihe. , "Yes, mid he's out because I tnggod , him on the Jaw," sarcastically answered an-swered the tough pitcher, "mid he'll i stay out until somebody brings him n ' drink of water." I |