Baseball Joe, Home Run King; or, The Greatest Pitcher and Batter on Record

s face beaming with pleasure. "I never saw

d. He shook Hughs

f games you've pitched, Hughson," he s

at the Bostons think. It was a hard game for them to lose, ju

," said Joe. "He pitched a peach

hard luck to be pitted against a better man. They got only one clean hit off of you. The other was a scratch. A little

sy meat. The other pitchers are glad to see us come up to the plate. It has got to be a proverb that pitchers can't hit. But you gave the lie to that proverb to-day. Those two hits of yours were tic

enken put the ball on me, but I wasn't sure the umpire would see it the same way. But he di

her days when I can't lift it without pain. I've been down to see Reese again about it, and he can't see anything radically wrong with it. Sa

The boys are all rooting for you to get back into harness again.

g," answered Hughson with a smile, as

d admiringly to Jim, as they wat

," returned Jim. "Here's hoping

he auspicious start by the Giants, a feeling that was the more pronounced, because of the feeling that had previously

ting reporters "spread themselves" on the way he had held the Bostons in the hollow of his hand. To allo

as a twirler had kept his other qualities in the shade. Comment was made on the perfect way he had timed the ball and of the fact that his homer had gone nearly to the end of the grounds almos

e pitcher who achieves that distinction, he should also have a perfect batting average for the day. That is what occurred yesterday. In four times at the bat he was passed twice

isfied. In the ninth, with two men out and two strikes called on Mylert, he put the game on ice by stealing home from third-as

itching disposed of Chicago's chances for the pennant. We said it again when in the World Series he bore the heft of the pitcher's burden an

ch importance was to be attached to that. It was probably one of Matson's good days, and one swallow did not make a summer. But whether he

xt morning. It was pleasant to know that his work was appreciated. But he was far too sensible to be unduly elated or to get a "swelled head" in c

l the article that warned against expecting him to be a b

paragraph in question. "I just had luck yesterday in straightening ou

ts. You timed them perfectly and soaked the ball right on the nose. And look at the way you've been lining them out in traini

r kidding," p

n truth. You'll win many a game this year not only by your

g told to come in, handed Joe two telegrams. He tore

op. Simply ripping

and passed i

he old boy, doesn't

one was f

Not surprised though.

that was nearest his heart, the same one that carried the little glove of Ma

at day, and they had no immediate weight of responsibility on their minds. Markwith, the left

o-day the way you did yesterday," r

n hitting him. They'll be out for blood though, and if they put in Belden against him it ought to

onged their walk far up on the west side of the city. As they were approac

glance, and then clu

Joe!" he exclaimed.