“Captain Larke pushed a vacuum cleaner to La Joy which picked up dust all the way and reached first when Larry couldn’t stop the motor and Gibbie was beating the rug at the near station.”
Tim then asked Van Lent, of the National Detective, how he liked the game and the latter handed him his report of the next half inning saying, “You can see what I am saying about it.”
“Larke wirelessed Gibbie the code word for the double pilfer and although Pinkerton Roger received the message too he was afraid to leave the home station without an operator and couldn’t prevent the captain from committing the crime.
“Mellen pinned four stripes to Talkington’s batting suit, filling all the cells, and then Robb tried to arrange a get away for the bunch by a breakaway over the center fence but the Chief Hawkeye of the Jefferson outer guard stone-walled it and the prisoners were all sent to the yard.”
S. C. Rice, of the Bakers’ and Confectioners’ Daily was kneading his report of the game into shape so that his folks could see it and he was going along like this.
“Hollins, who was the first to stir the batter in the sixth, hoisted a wad of dough to Ty whose fingers were buttered, however, and Eddie was presented with the first bun.
“It tasted like more and Eddie reached through the kitchen window and stole the second.
“Larry loafed around the office door and they gave him a pass to the free lunch counter. Warcford started one toward China which Hal dug out of the turf, and snow balled to Arthur, who congealed to it in time to put Hollins on ice.”
Passing back to his regular seat Tim heard the operator for English Society who happened to be Buckingham Roseberry wiring this to his sheet.