Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 229, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1911 — SMITH ON YOUNG CATCHERS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SMITH ON YOUNG CATCHERS

Would Have Law Enacted Permitting Hunting of Them Jn Season, Like Wild Game. ( fToung catchers are great stuff,” says Frank Smith, now with Cincinnati. “The more I Bee of them the more I wish that the laws permitted the hunting of them, in season, same aa partridges or snipe. Over in Bos? ton they assigned a kid catcher to backstop me. Pretty soon there was

a runner on first, and this -hoy signalled 196 for three successive pitchouts. I sent three wild ones, the runner never moving, and then Settled myself to get them over, when that kid signalled for a fourth pitchooti I walked over to hint. ‘Kid,’ said I, 'you are signalling for a base on balls.' Lost your nerve or lost your memory?' The boy had lost all track of the number of balls I had thrown to him.”

Frank Smith.