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Updated: May 2, 2025
The Charlestonian who had lined out the beautiful base-hit proved himself the possessor of a pair of heels as good as his pair of eyes, and just as Reddy had declared by his motions such a readiness to pitch the ball that he could not have changed his mind without being declared guilty of a balk just at that instant the Charlestonian dashed madly for second base.
Then, if fumbled, he may still have time to get it back to the infield before base runners can take an extra base. The instant an out-fielder gets a ball in his hands he should throw it to some point in the in-field. The habit of holding a ball is extremely dangerous. If the bases are clear and a single base-hit is made the ball should be sent at once to second base.
Sawed-Off barely escaped falling victim to a double play by beating the fly to first. Again Jumbo labored mightily to advance Sawed-Off, and did indeed get him to second on a well-situated base-hit.
This complimentary spirit seemed to fill the short-stop also, for he sent down to his rival Jumbo a considerately easy little fly, which stuck to Jumbo's palms as firmly as if there had been fly-paper on them. The Charleston catcher now found Reddy for a clean base-hit between left and center field.
Then Jumbo appeared, and played a waiting game he was very fond of: while pretending to be willing to hit anything that was pitched, he almost always let the ball go by him; and since he was so short and stocky, "built so close to the ground," as he expressed it, the pitcher usually threw too high, and Jumbo got his base on balls a dozen times where he earned it with a base-hit or lost it on a strike-out.
This added to his confusion, and seeing at the bat the Charleston catcher who had in the second inning knocked out a perfect base-hit and made two bases on it, Reddy left the wily fox at second base to his own devices, and paid no heed to Tug's efforts to beat the man back to second.
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