He wuz as outspoken as a norwester he wuz, but I tole him I hoped the fall wuz from so high up thet a feller could ketch a good many times fust afore comin' bunt onto the ground as I see Jethro C.
Again Grant attempted to put the ball over high and close, but he simply got it across the inside corner slightly below the batter's shoulders, and Crispin made a successful bunt that rolled along just inside the first base line.
It was a bunt or a sacrifice or a long fly to the outfield or waiting for a base on balls or anything else he wanted.
An error, followed quickly by a base on balls and a successful sacrifice bunt put Bear runners on second and third bases with but one out and Holleran coming to the bat.
I would not peach who stowed it away in the buntof the sail.
Try to lay down a bunt along the third-base line, Tommy, and run like thunder.
But, although Tommy Hughes laid down a sacrifice bunt and put the runner on second, he got no farther.
It was his speed and his ability to bunt and his tireless waiting at the plate to make all toilers in the box pitch that had made him a great player.
He spends weeks in the spring preparing himself to field short hits in the infield, and it is fatal to try to bunt against him.
Cobb to bunt with a man on first base and no one out.
Tom" Needham never beat out a bunt in his life, and he destroyed all McGraw's plans because, with him in the game instead of Bresnahan, the style had to be switched.
This is usually successful unless the bunt is laid down perfectly along the first base line, so that the ball cannot be thrown to third base.
Badger followed with a buntthat advanced Merry to second.
Hiram obeyed and laid down a bunt on the line toward first.
Not being able to work their hands loose, they rolled toward each other, and began violently to bunt heads.
Heady puzzled them even more, however, by scratching off just such another measly bunt as his brother had failed with, and when he was put out at first Sleepy and Tug realized that their running had been in vain.
Speaking of the bunt in wheat: "It appears certainly to be contagious, from numerous experiments, which shew that the contagious principle lasts a long time.
Used for smaller sails; the end is made fast to the yard-arm, and serves to bind the sail as far as the quarter-gasket on large yards, but extends quite into the bunt of small sails.
Short pieces of rope with a thimble in one end, the other whipped; the buntlines are rove through these thimbles: they are attached to the tie-blocks to keep the sail in the bunt when hauled up.
To bunt a sail is to haul up the middle part of it in furling, and secure it by the bunt-gasket.
In "handed" or "furled" sails, the bunt is the middle gathering which is tossed up on the centre of the yard.
It is used mostly in top-sails, because courses are generally cut square, or with but small allowance for bunt or compass.
The men on the yard who gather in the bunt when furling sails.
Bunt-gasket ties up the bunt of the sail, and should consequently be the strongest; it is sometimes made in a peculiar net form.
An order to stow the bunt of a sail snugly in furling, executed by the bunt-men dancing it in, holding on by the topsail-tye.
The bunt holds much leeward wind;" that is, it hangs much to leeward.
That he came across with a home run didn't change the fact that at that point in the game a bunt was the proper thing, and nine times out of ten would have gone through.
On the next, Miller lay down a bunt that rolled slowly along the third base line.
In the Brooklyns' third, Joe made a great play on a well-placed bunt by Reis that rolled between the box and third base.
Barrett lay down a well-placed bunt along the third base line that the Cub third baseman got all mixed up on in his efforts to field.
Pod beat out a bunt but Bert surprised his friends by striking out.
Day was given a base on balls, Lorrens advanced both runners with a bunt down the first base line and the bases were full.
Larry tightened up then, and although a clever sacrifice bunt put Fred on third, he was left there, as the next two batters went out on strikes.
A sacrifice bunt to the right of the pitcher's box advanced him to second.
The first man up laid down a bunt that Hicksley picked up, but threw wild to Durrock, and the batter reached second before the ball was recovered.
Particularly is this the case when a bunt comes that the first baseman can take care of.
Once he made a fine stop of a bunt that, had it been a safety, would have done much to lower Yale's lead.
So Jack, after one swing at a spinner which he did not expect to strike, dropped a neat little bunt along the line toward first.
He was advanced to second by a fine bunton the part of Fred Badger, which the new third baseman found it difficult to handle, though he did succeed in nailing the runner at first.
When in the sixth Harmony managed to get a man on first through a fluke Texas leaguer, and began to work him along by bunt hitting, it looked dangerous for the locals.
When that calf gave a sporadic bunt that squirted milk into my eye and variously plastered me, I wanted to give him a six months' hoist with the toe of my boot, but I restrained myself.
Though he carried his leg in the air he could still bunt vigorously, and though he sometimes got knocked over, he would immediately return to the fray.
While he is wrestling with the beginner other calves will try to get into the pail or to get nourishment from his coat-tail, occasionally administering a bunt to express dissatisfaction with the taste of the cheap dyes they now use in cloth.
Martin at the bunt stood on the truss and clutched the chain sling.
A favorite trick of the second mate's was to tug slyly on the bunt and leech-lines--breaking the twine or yarn which kept them from chafing the sails.
They got the rolled-up canvas on the yard at last and were passing the bunt and quarter gaskets when someone gave a guttural yell in the blackness, and two of the men instinctively felt that a man was gone from between them.
Stone took in the situation and also did the unexpected, dropping another bunt in front of the pan.
His confidence in Nelson was not misplaced, Jack sprinting to the plate, while the baffled home players bestirred themselves too late even to get Barker, whose bunt went for a safe hit.
Sleuth, staring at Chub Tuttle, who was walking to the plate with his bat held in a manner which seemed to indicate that he would bunt the ball.
In an instant the gaskets were off and the bunt dropped.
