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Show ENGLISHMAN HAD HIS OWN WAY j OF REPORTING A BASEBALL GAME j; Fielder Jones Tells of His Experience In Sending Account of World's Series With Britisher at the Key. j 'TT RAN into something absolutely I new, I believe, during the last world's scries," Bald Fielder Jones, onco leader of the wprld's champion Chicago Whito Sox, recently "something that gave me an experience experi-ence that is good for a laugh any time I think It over 1 camo all tho way from Washington tho state, not tho city to sec the big sorlfs and was commissioned commis-sioned to report the doings for a Chicago Chi-cago papor. When I arrived in Philadelphia, Phila-delphia, credentials in hand, I was told that a specially clever telegraph operator oper-ator hud been assigned to work for me and that I would find him a dandy. "This naturally pleased me, for I know thoro would be need for a quick man and a skilled one. When you arc covering that nort of ball gamo you must work fast, work accurately and have a key pounder with you who 1b little 3hort of superhuman. Tickled to death at getting a real Mors sh.irp, I hurried out to Shlbe park and soon ' located my reservation. I "Thero was my operator all right, and It was easy to ceo by the way he handled tho key In the preliminary sendlngs of comparative nonsense that he was a star. But my spirits fell with a chug the next moment, when he opened his faco in speech and I realUed that he was an Englishman! t "Now, can you Imaglno any spot on 1 earth whero an Englishman la moro out of place than at a baseball game? An operator nt a ball park must be not only skilled on tho keys, but must bo a genuine fan and an expert In all tho language of tho game, and horo was an Englishman detailed to handle-the handle-the most Important games of all. He turned to me with a genial smile. 'Beg pardon, old chap,' said he, 'but I'm not acquainted with tho flno points of your blooming gymc, y"know. You can Just; dlctyte tho stuff, though, and I'll get It hacross, y'understand. "I looked at him hopelessly, and Just : then the gong rang. Sheckard camo up is) to bat and missed tho first one. V " 'Ono Btrlke on Sheckard I dictated. ( " Oh, I sye, old chop, cried tho Eng- j: lish operator, 'you're wrong. 'E never r 'it the ball, but honly tried to 'it It.' ft "I moaned in misery. 'Just take It the way I tell It,' sold I. It will bo all ' right.' 1 "A. long foul fell beyond the rope. j 'Sheckard drovo out a long foul to J left,' said I. 1 " 'Aw, nyc, sye," cried th English- i man, 'why doesn't tho beggar run? Woll cut, yknow, bally well "cut. 'B should myke six lion that, yknow.' "With' difficulty I controlled myself and tho Englishman. He paid good attention at-tention for a little while, and wo got along nicely until Baker broke oft th first of his great two baggers. 5j, " "Baker hit- Into the crowd for two 3 bases,' I dictated. And the enthuslastlo 1 Englishman, rj0' thoroughly Interest- ,, od, rattled madly on the key. A few minutes later thero was a Btlr In the perch whero tho chief operator was ' roosting, and ho came hurrying toward . mo. With him was a furious messago I frdm my Chicago papor, asking what tho blazon I meant by the stuff I was h sending. I took ono look at the copy, t and then, forgetting tho play, tho lm- j portanco of tho occasion and tho dig- 1 nity of Shlho park, I converged upon 1 that English operator. Ho fled boforo 4L I could connect, and a young sub took M the key, m, "Tho Englishman had sent this mes- Mi sage regarding Baker's two base hit: ia 'Overall bowled a fast chop that 3n seemed about to topple Baker's wicket. j Baker cut It out magnificently, the ball !j going over long leg Into tho gallery 4 beyond tho outbound a. It was woll 8 hit, and ho could havo scored sixteen I runs, but did not run It out, stopping jt when halfway around tho blooming 9 amphitheater.' " |