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Show to catch the ball while standing on the cement, for If It should escape me. nnd hit the sidewalk and then poke me under the chin ou the rebound I might have to send for the smelling salts. "So I sent word up Into the monii-nipnt monii-nipnt that the next ball was to be thrown out from the monument, so that I could stand on the grass and make the catch. This was dune, and after two or three trials I got the range properly and made the capture. I caught the ball over my head, and only felt the Jar of the impact as far as my elbows. "I don't suppose that any other catcher would have any particular trouble In repeating the trick provided provid-ed the authorities would let him make the trial." THE BASEBALL BOUNDED 60 FEET Catcher Street Tell6 How He Caught Ball From the Monument. (By C. H. Zuber, In the Cincinnati Times-Star.) While much has been said of Charley Street's feat of catching a baseball thrown from the Washington Monument, Monu-ment, a distance of about 500 feet, some details of the stunt have been overlooked. "The firbt ball that was thrown out of the little window near the top of the monument the day tho trick was turned was a sort of pathfinder," said Street in Cincinnati the other day. "We wanted to see what direction it would take, and so just dropped it over the side of the monument. It came down with frightful velocity, striking the cement pavement at tho foot of the monument and bounding fully ful-ly tdxty feet into the air. "When it came down the second time I caught it and found that the Impact with the pavement had ripped all the seams and partially mashed the ball. "That shows that when a batsman swings on a ball and meets it fairly he doesn't put near the force into his blow that is created by a drop of about 500 feet. "Tbe fact that the ball bounced so high into the air after striking the pavement also warned me that it would be dangerous for me to attempt |