Evening Star Newspaper, February 16, 1929, Page 23

BEDTIME STORIES Danny Does His Part. ! Jealousy doth move to rage And leedless is of size and age. —Old Mother Nature. Though Danny Meadow Mouse seemed to be merely having a good time, leav- ing all the care of the big family to Nanny Meadow Mouse, he really was keeping a watchful eye on that little home all the time. He was never very far away from it. You see, he was anxious. Trouble of some sort might come, and if it did he wanted to be around. Several times when Nanny came out | that strange Mouse. to get a hasty bite to eat, Danny start- ed to go in to look at the babies. But | £ BY THORNTON W. BURGESS was discovered and by a Meadow Mouse quite as big as Danny. Danny wasn't at home at the time. He was off getting something to eat. On his return as he drew near the home where Nanny and the babies were, he heard sharp, | angry squeaks. He hurried then. What {he saw when he came in sight of that | little home was a strange Mouse doing | his best to get in, while Nanny was ! doing her best to keep him out. | Great rage took possession of Danny. It was a jealous rage, and there is no rage | quite so great as jealous rage. With | a sharp squeak of anger he rushed at The stranger | turned and in half a minute they were locked together, rolling over and over and biting with their sharp teeth and | digging each other with the claws of their hind feet. Now, the stranger was fully as big as Danny. He was younger and quite will- ing to fight. There was nothing cow- ardly about him. In fact, he seemed to be enjoying that fight. Danny soon | realized that here was a Mouse who would not be easily beaten. Tve got to win.” thought Danny.| “I've got to win! If he should win he would fight Nanny, and he might be too much for Nanny. Then he would go in and kill those babies. I've got to win!” Danny was right about the matter. The stranger had every intention of doing just what Danny thought. Had he been able to get into that nest where | the babies were, he would have been very likely to kill some of them and perhaps eat them. Strange Mice do such things. each time Nanny objected and each time Danny gave up. “Why shouldn'l I go in to see them?” he protested. { “You may when I am in there with | them, but not at any other time,” re plied Nanny. And with this Danny had | to be content. 1 Now, Danny had discovered that there | were other Meadow Mice living under the big haystack. He had met two or three and he had found plenty of signs of others. None of them, however, ap- ared to be living very near to Danny's ome, and so far none had tried to pay that home a visit. In fact, Danny doubted if any of the others knew jusf where that home was. He knew, how- ever, that sconer or later that snug little home would be discovered. It was bound to be. But Danny wasn't giving him cny chance. Danny was biting and kicking for all he was worth, and the stranger was doing the same thing. They rolled over and over, and though Nanny watched for a chance to rush in and help Danny, they moved about so fast she didn't get a single opportunity. After a while both were out of breath. They lay there locked together and just panted. Then they resumed fighting. At last the strange Mouse began to try to get away. ‘He was beaten and he knew it. Danny let go for just an instant. The other Mouse pulled away suddenly and then scrambled to his feet and darted off. Danny Meadow Mouse watched him go. Then he sat down and began to lick his wounds and smooth his fur. He had done his | part for Nanny and the babies and he In this Danny was right. That home The Sidewalks knew it. of Washington BY THORNTON FISHER. With the published schedule of the league games for the coming season the sidewalks of the city are beginning to buzz with prognostications and hopes. ‘There is no city more base ball mad than ours. This game called base ball has an | interesting history. It originated near- ly 90 years ago in this country, and “scarcely a man is now alive who re- members that fa- mous day and year.” The fleld, as it was laid out in those days, was called a *“square” instead of a dia- mond and the strange thing is that with all the changes base ball has experienced, the original dimen- sions of the square or diamond have remained the same. The first base ball club to be or- ganized came into existence about 15 years before the opening of the Civil War. The Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York had that distinction. ‘The game was played in many prison camps during the war. Of course, there has been a marked change from the original rules. For example, a team in order to be declared winner had to score 21 aces or what are now called runs, regardless of the num- ber of hands played. An inning was called & hand in those days. Each team had to play an equal number of innings or_hands. The name, “home plate,” is still in | use. ‘The designation is not merely base ball vernacular, for the first home plates were actually made of iron. In 1848 a rule was adopted that “a player running to first base is out if the ball is held by the opposing player on that base before the runner reaches it.”” ‘This rule is still in force. It was in 1857 that the game was divided into nine innings. Pitchers tossed an underhand ball, in striking contrast to the method in vogue today. Also the pitcher was permitted to take a short run in delivering it. Up to this time there were no called balls, but just before 1861 strikes were called as they are today, | with the exception | of foul strikes. The Civil War was well on its way when the rule went into effect that the pitcher could not take a step when he delivered the ball, but had to have both feet on the ground. At the same time a rule was adopted that no base could be made on a foul ball. It was ruled also that base runners must return to the base in the event of a foul and could be put out in the same manner as the batter when running to_first. In those “primitive” days a batter ‘was called “a striker.” A year before the conclusion of the PTOHERS TOSSED war, the first professional ball player ¢ was transferred from one city to an- other for a stipulated sum of money. Reach was sent to Philadelphia from Brooklyn. Today this shipping of players has become an epidemic. About a year after the close of the war a young fellow named Bob Addy stole a base by sliding and he has been followed by thousands of his brethren. At or about that time the batter had the privilege of calling for a high or low ball. One can scarcely imagine Abe Martin 7Says: Babe Ruth or “Goose” Goslin “MDB‘ up to the plate and shouting to the op- | posing pitcher, “Hey, Bill, shoot me over a nice one just about fifty-fifty and then put on your specs.” And just| imagine an opposing pitcher saying, “I got cha” and doing it. Toward the close of the sixties a bright young fellow began to acquire a knack of putting some tricky stuff on the ball. His name was Bill Cummings. Cummings had something on the pill and that something was the well known curve of tragic interest to many pres- ent batters. In 1868 the Cincinnati Reds became the first salaried team, and in order to live up to their professional reputa- tions, and salaries as well, they played the following season without a single defeat, winning 81 games. It is well to | r;member they were not wearing gloves | then. | In 1871 the first professional organi- | zation or league was established. This | was the beginning of the league idea. | A few years ago McGraw took his Giants across the ocean. John wasn't original, for two teams from this coun- try visited England as far back as 1874. Although base ball as we understand it originated in this country, 1t is really an offspring of the ancient game of rounders. The foregoing history may interest the “sidewalk” fans, who are looking forward to the few remaining weeks before the season starts. * ¥ ¥ k¥ Not a few Washington motorists are using a squeaking horn. We do not know just what the technical name for the instrument is, but there is some- thing reminiscent of Paris in the sound. One seldom if ever hears an electrically blown horn in the French Capital. ik o A new phrase being heard on the street to describe one’s contempt for another, “Oh, he's just a big cup of coffee.” Such an expression of con- tempt may be without grounds. Willie Willis BY ROBERT QUILLEN. “I didn’t hurt her old baby. I was just holdin® it up by the feet 'cause it swallowed my dime.” (Copyright, 1929.) LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. Tonite I was late for suppir agen after getting about 3 special wlmllf-ngs this week, pop saying, Now this is just about enough, Ill go even ferther than that and say its too much. Well holey smokes, pop, G wizzickers, 1 got a good reason, I sed. I did a good action, I sed. O, reely? pop sed. Produce the evi- dents, he sed. Meening wat good action, and I sed, Well I was hurry up quick coming home and I saw some old lady in frunt of me. Well well, and she slipped on a ban- nana peel and you carried her to the ho;pi"le single handed, I sippose, pop se No sir, she was looking for Howerd Street, I sed. She asked me ware it was and I sed it was about 6 blocks back the other way, I sed. In wat language? pop sed. Sir. I sed. Inglish, I sed, and pop sed, Well, your about 20 minnits late, do you meen to say it took you 20 | minnits to give an old lady a stmple instruction like that in your own native | language? No sir, wait a minnit, pop G wizz, theres more to it, I sed. Ah, the evidents is not all in, pop sed, and I sed, So I quick kepp on hurry up wawking home and all of a sudden G wizz I remembered Howerd street was the same way she was wawk- ing and not back the other way, so I had to run all a ways after her and by that time she was about 3 blocks “Next to gittin’ all cuddled up in bed to read an’ findin’ the pages uncut, the most provokin’ thing is squeezin, into a dinette an’ then findin’ you've fergot to put the butter on,” says Mrs, Lafe Bud. (Copyright, 1920.} s away. How far? pop sed, and I sed, Well || THE CHEERFUL CHERUB a block and a half anyways. G wiz- zickers pop, dont you call that a good action? 1 sed. I call this a good suppir, sit down and eat it pop sed. 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