Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 241, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1916 — GRIFF RECALLS HOW TRICK PEEVED VETERAN BATTEF [ARTICLE]

GRIFF RECALLS HOW TRICK PEEVED VETERAN BATTEF

Senators’ Manager Maintains That Tommy Tucker Was Maddest Man He Ever Saw on Ball Field. “It has been my luck,” says Clark Griffith, “to see a large number of peeved and angry people In this old game of’ baseball, particularly gentlemen against whom I have been lucky enough to do some successful pitching. “I still think, however, that the maddest man I ever did behold was that grand old Monolith of the old Boston team—Mr. Thomas Tucker. The occasion on which I beheld the fury of this famous warrior is still green in my memory, and can never forsake me. “Old Tommy Tucker was pretty nearly on his last legs so far as big League baseball was concerned, and hits to hlrn were more precious than rubles and diamonds when we bumped together one summer afternoon* It was a big game, a most Important game, and I really had to win it. I loved Tom Tucker very much, but I loved my salary more.

“The battle was a hot one, running along on pretty even terms till near the close, when we managed to get a couple on the bases and good old Uncje Anson did the rest with one of those murderous hits that they don’t make now, the‘old man not being there to soak them. That Boston bunch was never whipped till the last man was counted out, and they went after me strong in the death rally. First thing I knew they had the cushions populous, two down, and old Tom Tucker standing firmly at the plate. I worked him into biting at two wide ones, then fed him two more, which he refused to reach after, ft was- coming down to “Just at this juncture I happened to remember a trick of Indoor baseball —the enormous upshoot which Is put on an Indoor ball by swinging it, underhand, with the knuckles uppermost and the ball rolling off the palm. It causes a huge upshoot ball, but is not practicable for outdoor ball because, at tbg greater pitching

being the largest of all the European countries. state of California has ample quarters for seven European countries, but its population is only a little over 2,000,000, whereas little Roumania alone harbors just about 7,000,000 ing - —~~ Austria-Hungary fits rather tightly across the shoulders in Texas, which has a scattered population of nearly 4,000,000, whereas Austria-Hungary has more than 51,000,000 of people accommodated within its boundaries. More striking, however, is corpulent Idaho with ita 325,000 inhabitants living in an area sufficient to quarter 16,000,000 of Europeans living in four large countries. Then there are Montana and North Dakota with their 900,000 people enjoying enough room for Spain and Portugal’s 25,000,000.