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Show It Lord Tells of funny Home Run i ""RUNNIEST home run that 5 ever my peepers wore laid ? J on," said Brls Lord during n c if fanning boo, "happenod ,ln Chi- $ f csigo six or seven years ago. The J Athlutlcu were playing tho Sox, rf- and It was on iho old grounds. - Ono of our fellows, can't Just J $ recall his name now. whaled ono J In the air out where Danny -R jt Green held forth. Now. the J scoro board was thoro, with a . sf platform in front of it. Just HJce Z they have on tho Phillies' f grounds. The ball hit tho plat- 5. J form, and, by gosh. It stuck up J there. Danny waited for the ball f to come down, whllo the hitter 5 J was sneaking around tho bases, j J After ho waited about a few sec- I onds and tho ball didn't come -X down to earth Danny sneaked s up tho ladder that ran up tho jf platform and started to get the J bull. Darned if ho didn't get to J the, tpp nine of lho ladder and was Just climbing on the plat- form when the ball up and rolled J oft the boards again and fell J down where he had been stand- 1 ing. Of course the batter got all " the way around, while every- 1 body gave Daniel tho merry ha- ha!" j $ 1 jttrJbknrTttr |