Judge — July 25, 1908 — page 4: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

A CLOSE GAME. after a ball made all in one piece, guaranteed not to get the divorce PEAKING of fever. Well, the rest of the game we made four runs and they five, S close games al- 80 the final score was seven and five-eighths to six in our favor. I ways puts me said final, but the next day, when their piteher and catcher were in mind of a having acatch in our field, before taking > train for home, the game we played a catcher suddenly went into a conniption fit and began jumping up aan and down to beat the band. Looking in the same direction as the ppened in catcher had been gazing when taken with his fit the pitcher saw the our game with the cause of his excitement in the shape of a baseball, a good way off, Sluggers. They came but rapidly approaching. Following a sort of second nature developed to Lemonhurst’ to by ball-players, he got under it and caught it. Then it dawned on play us, and we used him that it was the same ball that Bill had hit the day before, He acoupleof those new Promptly called the umpire, who identified the sphere and declared balls, made in two Bill out, and the final score six and five-eighths to six in our favor. ‘That was the closest game I ever see. CHARLES L. PUNNELL. parts, you know, and are “guaranteed to i last a full The first inning went off fine, but in th beginning of the se ond we went to the bat, and Bill. Nigh, JUDGE'S FAVORITE. our centre fielder, was FANCHON CAMPHELL IN "¢ ” up. Pretty soon he You warm t na slow in com- Unless we be but chutls wg his way, and he And e’en the oldest eynies hind stepped bac Vhat naught 's so tepped back and ear as pits! ‘ lammed it. It hit on the edge of his bat fo the air, Bill he set sail for first head and so went all and then went off on th ost straight i ot there, though, ly rubbering skyward ad of waiting to slap hir The ball hadn't cor Well, the umpire he looked plumb through the rule n't find nothings to fit the dl if it didn't show up then he it, that ball never 1 was pretty nervous be- We get arun the pur favor when hook five times v0 allowed he'd give minutes n ome down, v resumed the game, and the 1 ell, would you belie down, W cause they didn’t know just where that resumed with the other tw: rest of that inn we went to th third. Our sec being a south ke it crossed the plate, ‘The ball busted in two pieces, and our man ran to first, The pitcher stopped half the ball and shortstop the other, The pite ng rather slow didn't catch on to the racket, but short- stop threw the half he got to first and put him half out. Pi made the motion with his half and runner went to second, where he was put a fourth me fof the ball first threw to sec- ond. Force of habit made the runner leave second when pitcher made the next motion, ht on third by alf of the ball, ether seven- cman got up, and, w, he favored ins and w fone just as “TWAS ITS NATURE ‘TO, “Hand luck, old chap! But 1 was jroing to buy dh, that went up long ay ed in that airship that the making him alte eighths out. Third threw his half to pitcher, and catcher threw his at the sume time, and while pitcher was trying to catch on the runner got in, making one-cighth of a run, Now the pitcher stuck the pie together and threw them both to batter. Be c though, ted company, and the the batter knocked right into firsts h the second, which eam ute later, he | a home run, 1 arun, Then the had been teaching: th keeper all keep score, called for the oth- er | nds, but umpi bra so he could INFORMATION WANTED. s her first phonograph)" Wondhettul! An ‘shall Of give it bitd-seed an’ sich, Inike | which hadn't come Voruh (just over, liste down yet. So we sent a kid th’ others, orde itate atthe le wid yee comicbooks.com