Show I IJ Wf J l ASThALL Dt PO PeAR Dr f ILL V I Io 1 0 o 13 13 nD nOME HOME REX RUS I CIR EER SAW The shortest homo home run I ever saw 1 in a major league ball game e me struck not oer 01 er 10 feet In III front of the home plate After so striking in fair fall territory It took a 0 rc erse English came Into contact with nith onO one of ot the players In tho field and finally settled on foul terri terri- tern territory tor tory close to tho grandstand Inci Inci- Incidental Incidental dental It was as as the first homo home run I Ie Ia e a er r saw made by hitting the ball In iii Inthe ii the th wrong direction Perhaps It would be more correct to say A d play in which the bateman bat ma managed to make maico tho the circuit rather rother than hit lilt a 0 home run The Tha contest was stated staged at Washing Washing- Washington Washington ton about 1 15 bears ears ago aco I well recall the fact tact that Howard oard Wakefield as aas doing the th catching for Washing He had been secured toured In a trade with Cle Cland eland Likewise I well remember that Tim Tim the um- um IHunt Hurst and myself were wera doing wring Tim was working the p ato I 1 r was stationed on the basesT bases T Two Too 0 1 were on the tho bases base at atHie atthe I the Hie time timo tim when the tha batman bahiman hit a fly ball bali that for fol altitude records record com corn compared I pared fa favorably with those tho no now hit by Babo Ruth A high wind was wag blowing making the Judging lne of fly bali balls a very difficult difficult cult matter mottEr When tho the ball sas nas w first hit It seemed that It would drop some somo someplace place back of the th pitchers pitcher's pitcher a bow box a fl fI ball bait that would bo be handled either Lytho bythe by Ly bytho tho the shortstop or 01 second baseman ba ba eman The wind got hold hoM of ot tho ball bait and blew it back In the tho direction of o the th Ih plate plato finally deciding deciding de- de that he ho would make m ko the thc pla pia pl He circled under the ball but missed jI Ill lit entirely It struck perhaps 10 feet in front of tho the plato and nd about three feet In front of Wakefield As It hit the ground It took a 0 re- re cra English and bounded back at WakefIeld who tried to get ret the ball lie l he dl didn't touch it but Hurst ln he did This of course made mado it a fair ballI ball bait I The ball after aner eluding Wakefield rolled to the stand Wakefield at first argued the matter at length me Ith HUlSt Huist and then I finally nail decided to get the tho ball bait T Two 0 were out at the th time timo and the batter and base base going I 1 that when heu heri the ball struck tho the ground the batter wa IU nas well on his Ills way nay ny to second so high had hadIt hadit hadIt It been hit By the time Ume It became apparent to 0 tho the tho Washington club that Huret Hurt had bad ruled t It a fair fall ball e Cr e had scorEd Then Theil the th argument broke out again with Ith Hurt Hurst the leading l role It certainly V Vas nas ag as tho Shortest circuit s wit at I OHr c r sin for EW E tor for length not altitude TOMORROW The TOMORROW most lun situation I Hr saw 91 |