Baseball Joe Around the World

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laimed Jim, giving Joe a

and saw Hartley comi

" he said. "And, for a won

league, now that the playing season is over. Maybe Hartley thinks he has a chance to catch on somewhere. Like everybody else that's played in th

ly. "And one of the best pitchers I ever sa

tried to give away our signals in that game at Boston, the Nationals wouldn't touch him with a ten-foot pole, and I don't

The bitter feeling he had for Joe, however, was too strong to resist, and he came over to where they

but handsome suit that Joe was wearing. "I could have glad rag

though not unkindly. "I never did y

me fired from the Giants and did me out

hing but your friend. Do you remember how Jim and I put you to bed that night in St. Louis when you were drunk? We 7

ou!" sneered Hartley. "And take

nly, "while the going's good. Roll

took Jim's advice and with a m

rmured Jim, as they watch

nd he'll never forg

grouch against you?" a

d out of the box and Mac sent me in to take his place. I won the game and B

last time I saw him was in New York, and the m

him transportation

g as a house, but he hates a traitor. You see, though, Joe, I

ment Larry and Denton came along with broad smiles of welco

p around the world. The managers had chartered a special train whic

n was to be their home for the full month tha

d Jim, as he stretched out his long legs luxuriously an

ife," chanted

rrow," chimed in Denton.

his way along the aisle. "These games, remember, are to be the real thing-there's going to be no 79 sloppy or careless work just because yo

that augured well for the success of the trip. It is true that the players had not the

h. At the end of the fourth inning the score stood 1 to 1, and at the

getting anywhere in this g

three more innings to

three men on bases with nobody out. It looked as if they might score, but Joe to

d a pop fly, which Joe

sang out one of his companions

st a two-bagger, bringing in probably three runs. Instead, however, he knocked two fouls, and then sent

the Giants got the bases filled exactly as they had been filled before. Then, more amazing still, the next man was pitched out, the second man knocked a pop fly to

on each side was exactly alike, with the exception that our th

nning the Giants added another run to their score, and held this lead to the end,

of the Giants. "Too many of ou

r sisters with them, and defeat would have bee

and, the All-Americans were anxious to show that even though they had not been in the World's Serie

Giants in that last desperate race down the stretch for the pennant, and it is no wonder that the crowds kept getting larger in every city they played, that the gate receipts made the manag

y was working to a charm. He wound the ball near the batters' necks and curved it out of reach of their bats with a

ames won by the Giants before they reached Colorado. Two other games had gone to the All-Americans in slap-dash, ding-dong finishe

e, for the first time, instead of fighting it out between thems

," sighed Mylert, the burly

wipe up the earth with these

greed "Red" Curry, he of the flaming mop, who was ac

up before their home crowd," chime

the field for practice. If the haughty major leaguers had expected their humble adversaries to roll

in a snappy, finished way that brought frequent

sauntered over to Thorpe, the local manag

o give them a run for their money. Suppose I lend you one o

slow smile, "but I think we're going to m

an, with a facetious poke in the r

on in a blaze of glory as the leading batsman of the National League came up to the plate, swinging three

," he called, "and if you can put