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A hiss, a crash, a deafening thud, and a gigantic wave curls overhead and batters down the toiling men, who hang on for their lives and struggle for a foothold. 'Up with you! yells the mate, directly the tangled coil of yellow-clad humanity emerges like a half-drowned rat, 'Up with you, boys, and give her hell! Yo ho! To hay! Yo ho harrhh! 'Turn that! 'All fast, sir! 'Aloft and roll her up!
I write leading articles for his newspaper, and when he was in town last spring he favoured me with the anecdote; and proposed to amuse the Member for Newcome by publishing it in his journal. This kind of writing is not much in my line: and, out of respect to you and your young one, I believe I strove with Mr. Batters, and entreated him and prevailed with him, not to publish the story.
In about the sixth inning of the last game, with the score four to two in our favor, the first two Chicago batters reached their bases. Kelly then hit to George Wright at short, who passed the ball to Farrell, retiring the runner from first, but Jack threw a little high to Start and missed the double.
For example, sour milk 48 hours old contains more acid than sour milk that is kept under the same conditions but is only 24 hours old. The proportion of these ingredients that is usually effective in batters and doughs for hot breads is 1 level teaspoonful of soda to 1 pint of sour milk.
William Batters realized that he had lost favor in both places, and anxiously longed for a sight of John Thomas's red face, vote or no vote. At four o'clock John Thomas awoke much refreshed, but very hungry. He went into the house in search of something to eat.
Facing the striker before pitching, the arm should be swung well back and the body around so as almost to face second base in the act of delivery; this has an intimidating effect on weak-nerved batters; besides, not knowing from what point the ball will start, it seems somehow to get mixed up with the pitcher's arm and body so that it is not possible to get a fair view of it.
Go and thry it yourself, Misther Frisbie, an' I'll stand at your back till you're black in the face. But when I went through the camp, everything was quiet and orderly, and Jack Batters' bar was not only closed it was gone; vanished without leaving so much as a bad smell behind it." "And then?" said Ford.
This, however, is often the case with many pitchers who are more than passably successful; to the outsider, to the watcher from the stand or the bleachers, the pitcher frequently seems to be the man who is pitting his brains and skill against the brains and skill of the opposing batters and delivering the goods, when the actual fact remains that it is the man at the "receiving end" who is doing nine-tenths of the thinking, and without whose discernment, sagacity, skill and directing ability, the twirler would make a pitiful show of himself.
"Verse!" he replied, with tragic emphasis "Verse which nobody reads verse which nobody wants verse which whenever it struggles into publication, my erudite friend here, Mr. Longford, batters into pulp with a sledge-hammer review of half-a-dozen lines in the heavier magazines. Verse, my dear Miss Vancourt! verse written to please myself, though its results do not feed myself. But what matter!
The bewildered infielders knew they were being played with. The taunting "boo-hoos" and screams of delight from the bleachers were as demoralizing as the illusively daring runners. Closer and closer the infielders edged in until they were right on top of the batters. Then Dale and his men began to bunt little infield flies over the heads of their opponents. The merry audience cheered wildly.
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