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Show AIDED BY TYPO ERROR ! Joe Cantillon Tells Yam on Manager Man-ager Jack Hendricks. Unmercifully Scorched Recruit When. He Was Called Upon to Run Bases for Player Who Had Just Made Safe Hit. Here's a Joe Cantillon yarn. Ii' concerns Jack Hendricks, now manager mana-ger of the Indianapolis American association as-sociation team : Jack was surprised in the middla of one season to learn that he had been purchased from Spokane by Washington. He sat on the bench 11 days. On the twelfth day the game was close. In the ninth inning the Washington catcher got a single and lumbered to first. Washington needed a run and needed it badly. Cantillon, who was coaching off first, called to Hendricks, who divested divest-ed himself of his sweater and trotted over to first. "Run for this fellow," instructed! Cantillon. "Go down when I tell you." In wonderment nendricks took thd I base. On the second pitch Cantillon yelled with all his lung power:" "Beat It!" Hendricks got up his best steam, but was intercepted 25 feet from sec ond by the baseman with the ball in his hands. He strode back toward the bench,-trying bench,-trying his best to avoid the irate Can, tillon. "You easy mark," breathed Jot, rtith the deadliest venom. "1 ' thought you could run bases." "Who told you I could run bases?' demanded Hendricks with spirit. "J ' never claimed to be a base runner." "Why, you stole 65 bases in Spo--kane last year, you cripple," Car tillon told Hendricks, ending with 9 "didn't you?" "I stole only 15 bases in Spokane last year," answered Hendricks, truthfully. "The record book says 65,. but that was a typographical error." Cantillon tore his hair. He screeched and fumed around the baseline base-line until his players grew so nervous-they nervous-they blew up and lost the game. "Get out of here," Cantillon stormed at Hendricks. "I don't want you around. Get out, you typographical typograph-ical error, you." |