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But Hecker didn't wait for the committee to get through considering. He just turned Corson out and put in Blake, the first sub. On Tuesday the committee declared Corson ineligible and Blake sprained his knee in practice! With Corson and Blake both out of it, Hecker was up against it. He tried shifting "Slugger" Bannen over to right and putting the full back at left.
'Why, old dame, ought I be anxious to have myself hanged in the end, as I understand this Slugger was? 'Bah! you haven't courage enough to earn your hanging. I do not know what the captain wants to bring such coves as you here for, she said, darting a malignant glance at our hero. 'I would be ashamed to eat other people's bread and accept their shelter, without trying to make myself useful.
W. F. Davis has been sentenced to a year's imprisonment for preaching without a permit. Evidently rum-selling is more popular than Protestant preaching, and pugilism is more popular than either, as the mayor and some councilmen participated in putting a $10,000 belt on John L. Sullivan, the slugger, before the largest audience the Boston Theatre would hold, on the 9th of August, 1887.
He was being slowly overhauled by the Santos-Dumont, with the queer tail-rudders. "I'll get him!" muttered Tom. "I'll pass 'em all!" And he did. With a wonderful burst of speed the little Humming-Bird overtook one after another of her larger rivals, and passed them. Then she crept up on Andy's Slugger.
Orme was getting close to the subject he most desired to hear explained. "Why, one of the cops was walking along the shore and he found a Japanese, stunned." "A Japanese!" "He evidently had wandered in there and somebody had hit him over the head with a club." "After money?" "Probably. There've been a good many holdups lately. But the slugger didn't have a chance to get anything this time."
Dick, who had been the leading slugger on the nine, was peculiarly qualified by his "beef" and strength for the position of center. Bert's lightning speed he had made the hundred yards in ten seconds, flat, and won a Marathon at the Olympic Games together with his phenomenal kicking ability, made him the leading candidate for fullback.
"See here, Sim, you'd best shet that trap-door of yours, it's letting out too much blue smoke, and the dominee don't permit swearing among the boys. Cal'late I can give you some assistance if you're needing it," said the seaman, coming uncomfortably near. "As for that there slugger of yourn, he's nothing but a white-livered cur of a coward."
It was unusually level, and stretched away to such a distance that it must needs be quite a slugger who could make a home-run hit on those grounds. Still it had been done.
The fact that he had stood up in the police court with his eyes blacked from some other fray was noted. He was described as a bully, a hoodlum, a rough-neck, a professional slugger whose presence in the ranks was a disgrace to organized labor.
"Are we going to throw the game?" demanded the slugger who had so angered Hudson. "No; but don't get caught at anything. Better not do anything. We've got those milk-diet infants eight to nothing now. Play their own kind of kindergarten game as long as we can hold the score without rough work."
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