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Show FLETCHEB OFTEN ! J E BYP!TCHEH ' I Won Prize for Grabbing Base 1 f "Comps" While With H McGraw's Outfit I If rumors recently circulated to tho I effect that Arthur Fletcher is doomed fl I to become manager of the Phlladcl- I phia Nationals ever comes true, there v M who are going to have a good stiff i I jH lecture about Issuing Red Cross passes I il to batsmen. Although perhaps riot , 'JH generally known Fletcher is one of the ' i H real champions of baseball when it H comes to bping hit by pitched balls. j H For several seasons he has held this I H While a member of the Giant clan, -i H Fletcher started to explode when hit i H by a wild pitch, but always McGraw H was there with the soothing balm, and jl H Mr. Fletcher would trot on to the firs' ( iH sack and apparently forget the lnci- 'H denL lie will do no such thing If I H he Is elevated to the managerial berth ' H Fletcher not only carded, off thp j H palm for several seasons for casualty 'mH compllmentaries. but it was nothing ' jH unusual for him to he hit as many as j mH two and three times in a day. Flelch- H cr was hit so many times. McGraw it came to regard it as a joke and not ' mmH infrequently had to rout a smile be- '' tM foro gottlng close enough to Plotchpi- to toll him lo qulQt down and forget it. """H The former Giant novcr r?ally be- , i '''H came wrnthy over being hit but on one mmH occasion. On July 13th, 1917, In a J "'mH double bill at Pittsburgh, Fletcher wa v'mH hit twice by Cooper of the Finite?. mH in the first game, then in the sccoml attraction Pitcher Sanders deliver. one of his speediest benders to Fletcn l'mmH or's spinal column, between the shoul- 4 H dors. On that occasion 'ljtcher I started after the hurlcr, but the iu.'ury 1 mH caused him such pain he niit in hts i mH tracks and cat down on the diamond H The fact that Fletcher received -so H many wild pitches on various patt '; IH of his anatomy gave John McGraw an. ,m IH opportunity to Josh him quite freely I ''H and at times strenuously about boihg j JaaH hit McGraw frequently told him na rJH wus too awkward to tcp on: of th nH way. but Fletcher always cime ba . H ith the charge that he was a victinl H among the pitchers who "marker! ' rl liim and passed the work around 1 aH Fortunately, ho was never -iiiocked "cold" by the wild heaves. ''j'H |