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Show I Oil) TIMER OF ! BASEBALL TALKS BY" JACK ;KKi:XLL Thds lv the first nf few rcnil nlaoences by a widely known Ogden -itc. 'who started playing semi professional profes-sional ball in Ogden 10 par ago and played almost continuously for more than 25 years. I was asked to give some rcmini--e.neee of an "old timer" of baseball It Is true that T am an old time: . for I started to play baseball m than 10 years ago as a kid in West 'W ehc but there are others in Ogden who are more "old tlmerish" than 1 ana. ! There Ik Al llestmai k and Sain I Browning, for instance. Or Wallace Boyle and Asa Farley. These and a few others were representing the town in baseball when sme of u l ids were still aand-lotters. tVhen I first began to play baseball, base-ball, we had a red covered ball, verj well made. This seemed to be the standard ball of the day. And how j it would suli If we gave It a go. id 1 lick! We had bats like those in use to- , day. but no glove. Picture a catcher I behind the bat today grabbing hot , .nes from a pitcher with his bare hanes. Zj It any wonder we used to1 1 get. Wack from the plate and get the rirx two strikes on first bodnee? I pmeraber thil v. lien I was playing play-ing catch for the home town team A'.bern Allen was one of the first men 1 to pitch to me. He Had quite a Wing. Often he would say: "Arc they coming com-ing too hot, Jack j "I would say. "No, let 'em fly," I but at the same time those last one.s were nearly tearing the skin off my hands. ; But in a few years the catcher vas supplied with a pad. ft was small I affair. 1 believe Al Hestmark has one now that he lias been keeping as j a Souvenir. Ball players today e 01IJ lauali at it. Still it was better than the bare hands. Soon the basemen and fielders were given gloves also. The mustach was aimost as neres-sary neres-sary to a ball player then as spiked hoes now. Everybody had long mustaches. mus-taches. And we woro padded ball pants, rather tight. Wo thought wo looked handsome In them, mustaches, padded tight pants ami ail. oo |