To-day I receive following reply:
“Your intelligent letter was read by our Puzzle Editor who is dangerously dead.”
Yoni Hashimoto, Japanese boot-cobble, have gone entirely mania on subjeck of Baseballing. He oftenly speaks of White Sox and Giants with voice, and many Japanese Boys supposes he is right. Of recently he come me with National League expression of teeth to say it.
“Togo, we are gathering up a Japanese baseball 9 for play with.”
“How many must be in such a 9?” I ask to know.
“About 15 are sufficiently numberous,” expose Yoni. “There must be 1 Catch, 1 Stopper, 3 Bassos, 1 Pitch—”
(“A Pitch in time saves a Nine,” I report for cute smart quotation.)
“Also 3 Knockers and 6 Herders.”
“What are duties for them Herders, if they got any?” is query I make.
“Herders is most skilful of all ballplays,” parade Yoni. “They must be able to play inside & outside of Grounds. They must be fearless fence-climbers & able to arrive over before Hon. Ball do. They must be reckless about colleckting Ball on 3d or 4th bounce when all others can’t do-so. Lots of teams loses entire games because they has not got enough of them Herders.”