. Old Boston boys and the games they played . ut I had to do something, so I tossed theball into the air, whereupon everybody atonce caught on, and the yell came. i8o OLD BOSTON BOYS Indeed, tiny, faint echoes of this applausehave filtered down through the forty inter-vening years, and I am, to-day, often askedquestions about this catch by persons whoare utter strangers to me. I have actuallybeen asked, Did you see it coming ?Did you know you had caught it? Was nt your first impulse to dodge it ? etc., etc. I afn giving this matter much more spaceand prominence than it deserves; but Ihave been
. Old Boston boys and the games they played . ut I had to do something, so I tossed theball into the air, whereupon everybody atonce caught on, and the yell came. i8o OLD BOSTON BOYS Indeed, tiny, faint echoes of this applausehave filtered down through the forty inter-vening years, and I am, to-day, often askedquestions about this catch by persons whoare utter strangers to me. I have actuallybeen asked, Did you see it coming ?Did you know you had caught it? Was nt your first impulse to dodge it ? etc., etc. I afn giving this matter much more spaceand prominence than it deserves; but Ihave been asked to set forth the incidentas it really occurred, as many people sawand remember it, and it has been sug-gested that they might be interested inhearing the facts at first hand. I will onlyadd, simply as a matter of record, thatupon four later occasions, I repeated thiscatch, but in none of these latter was thevelocity approached with which Amesdrove the ball at me. It has always been a feather in theLowell cap to have had Ames (now Dean. Drawn by C. D. Gibson THERE WERE FANS IN THOSE DAYS OLD BOSTON BOYS i8i of the Harvard Law School), upon its ninefor about a year before he entered college,as his ability as captain of the Varsityteam, his coolness and good judgment atcritical moments, his ever alert fielding assecond baseman, and his superior battingplaced him easily in the front rank of ballplayers. CHAPTER XVIII ON July 25, 1866, in a match withthe Phillips Academy nine, fromAndover, we had the pleasure ofmaking the acquaintance of that modelcatcher and universal favorite, the lateArchie Bush. Later on he entered Harvard and suc-ceeded George Flagg, whose fine, pluckycatching and brilliant base running madehim famous during the four years in whichhe wore the gray and magenta. We won this game only after a sharpfight, by the score of 32 to 20. Like all winners we had lots of friendsat this time, from the street gamins up tothe Chairman of the Committee on Com-mons and Sq
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