Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1914 — Wanted—A New Baseball Rule. [ARTICLE]

Wanted—A New Baseball Rule.

Walter Johnson was pitching for the Washington team, and Mr. Jennings, who was trying to pump optimism into his despairing players, sent up an ambitious young man to try to make a hit. He acted briefly. After swinging wildly at two of Johnson's offerings,, he majle, a third wild swing, and, entirely by accident, popped up a little fly to first base. As he loped down toward first, and was called out, he turned to Jennings, let out a stream of emphatic and picturesque language, and wound up with this observation: » y - “I’m a son of a gun if there oughtn’t be a rule making that guy hang lights on the ball!” Jennings, who got hie start in life as a miner, smiled grimly. “Where do you think you’re working,” he asked softly, “in a coal mine?”—Popular Magazine.