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Well, believe it or not, the first club to come in for an exhibition game was the Cleveland team: Napoleon Lajoie, Terry Turner, Elmer Flick, George Stovall and the whole bunch that I used to carry bats for. When they came on the field I was already warming up. "'Hey! a couple of them yelled at me. 'What are you doing here? Are you the bat boy here? "'No, I smugly replied. 'I am the pitcher.
Then the Cleveland Naps after Napoleon Lajoie. Anyway, after the regular season was over, a lot of them would barnstorm around the Cleveland area, and sometimes I'd be their bat boy. "Later on, I even pitched a few games for Bill Bradley's Boo Gang," the shadow added proudly. "Boo Gang?" said Lisa with a little shudder. "Boo like a Ghost?" added Hootsey. "No, no," laughed Rube's image.
You know that Browning was one of the hardest men who ever entered Yale. He is a natural athlete, but he's lazy, and he has allowed himself to become soft. Why, he knocked out Kid Lajoie, the professional, in a hard-glove contest of three rounds. Lajoie was easy fruit for him. I fancy he means to go up against this fresh duck Merriwell and do him.
Some of the groups discussed the antagonism between Merriwell and Browning, and all were confident that the king would do the freshman when he got himself into condition. It was not strange that they believed so, for they remembered how Bruce had knocked out Kid Lajoie, who was a professional. Browning himself proceeded directly to his rooms, where he sat himself down and fell to thinking.
The dramatic moment came in the ninth inning, with the bases full, when the famous Frenchman, Napoleon Lajoie, pinch-hitting for Baker, advanced to the plate and knocked the ball far over Von Kolnitz's head for a home run and the game.
So you see, I was constantly hanging around the older kids and playing ball with them instead of hanging with kids my own age. When I was about thirteen or so, I used to carry bats for some of the Cleveland Indians, such as Elmer Flick, Napoleon Lajoie and Terry Turner. Of course, they were not called the Cleveland Indians then. They were called the Cleveland Bronchos in those days.
As he was leaving he said, 'Richard, you're a nice boy, so I want to give you some advice before today's game. Be careful of the Frenchman. He meant Napoleon Lajoie. He said, The Frenchman is very sharp and he's been hitting terrific line drives this past week.
He's almost killed three of our own pitchers in practice, so there's no telling what he'll do in a real game, even if it is just an exhibition game. "I thanked him, of course, and went back to warming up. Well, I pitched the whole nine innings and beat them, two to zero. Lajoie got two hits off me, and I think George Stovall got a couple, but I shut them out and I wasn't killed, either.
M. Lajoie is a pleasing writer, and discharged his task with much fidelity to nature.
"Well, I shall do my best." "I don't think you need to train to do that trick," said Punch Swallows. "A man who can knock out Kid Lajoie ought to polish off a freshman in a minute." "You haven't seen Merriwell fight?" "No." "I have." "He is clever?" "He is a corker. Of course I believe I can do him, but I want to do him easy, and that is why I am training." Another party of sophomores came in.
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