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The manager of the Torontos disclaimed all or any responsibility for William. "Nay, nay, Pauline," he said gently, when the Buffalo manager repeated his request, "if the boy annoys you, put him out yourself, or ask the police to do it." "You know what'd happen if I tackled that boy," answered the Buffalo man heatedly: "why, that crowd would eat me."
"Fans and fan-esses," he said, addressing the crowd through the megaphone, "why don't you root? Make a noise like you meant it. The Torontos have simply gotter win this game; they need it, but you gotter help 'em. Now then, every-body ROOT," and "root" they did, arduously, continuously, joyously. The din was terrific, ear-splitting, and weird.
That afternoon, when Raddy let Toronto down with three hits and the boys played a magnificent game behind him, and we won 7 to 2, I knew at last and for certain that the Worcester team had come into its own again. Then next day Cairns won a close, exciting game, and following that, on the third day, the matchless Rube toyed with the Torontos. Eleven straight games won!
Then, in a lighter tone, "Didn't I see you at the game a week ago Saturday?" "You did, you did, sir, I sat right behind you, and and " "Go on." "I guess I slapped your back when you got kinder excited in the " "Seventh innings, with the score three to nothing for Montreal, Torontos with two men on bases and nobody out" the judge was talking rapidly now "big Bill Hannigan at the bat, and "
"The way them Torontos is playin' on the road," he added by way of explanation, "has me goin'! They won five outer the last six games, and they're up against the Buffaloes to-day, and that's a hard team to beat. But Torontos can do it, b'lieve me two outer three from Buffaloes my guess have you got any?" "No I don't care who wins. Baseball doesn't interest me." "What's that!
The Rube insisted on pitching Monday's game against the Torontos, and although poor fielding gave them a couple of runs, they never had a chance. They could not see the ball. The Rube wrapped it around their necks and between their wrists and straight over the plate with such incredible speed that they might just as well have tried to bat rifle bullets. That night I was happy.
'I hope when it comes to me I'll be as worthy of it and as true as you have been, and then why, he was the real William again in a flash. 'Say, he said, 'why don't you go out to a ball game once in a while? Lots of ladies go, and the way the Torontos are playing this season it looks like they'd be champions again for the second time in four years.
"He's a good one, a prize winner; and the cop says Briscombe the banker owns him." "Well, what are you doing with him?" "Me! The dog just nat-ur-ally adopted me, Lucien. I was standing looking at the bulletins and the Torontos is leadin', don't you forget it when I feels something rubbing at me leg, and here's his nibs making up kinder friendly like.
Nobody thereafter heard what the umpire said, they gathered his decisions only by the result of the various plays, and when, in the ninth and last innings, the Torontos batted out the winning run, one prolonged wild "root" spread the glad tidings to all and sundry outside the gates for many blocks around.
The twinkle in the judge's eyes reassured William. "Well, sir," he said, "that fellow said the Torontos was selling games. He said they had it all fixed about who was to win the pennant before the season started." The judge, himself a baseball fan, looked up and down the corridor, and thus addressed William. "Did er that is to say did you " he paused.
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