[“Larke jumped into the chute.”]
“Talkington sneaked down the line on a bunt which caught all the infield pickets napping while the captain dusted the near bag with his sun shield.
“Robb’s fat was a foul that went into Hollins’ pan and the inning was in the soup.”
And Jacob Morass, of the Farm Weekly and the Country Banker was killing two birds with one stone like this.
“In the eighth act the curtain rose with Little Tommy Beach in the center of the stage.
“Tommy hit a bender on the wishbone and boosted it to the middle gate, but Talkington hugged it for an early demise, and his wishbone was where his backbone ought to be.
“Church winged a broiler to the poultry farm back of first and Case wrung its neck. Hollins pushed a fresh-laid one over the edge of the plate which Gibbie scrambled and Eddie reached his nest.
“Larry knocked four over the barn and then straightened the kinks in the next one which went for a repeater to Tris and Eddie wiped his feet on the ‘welcome’ mat at home.