The Homestand

Bats distributed: 21. Ballgames worked alone: 4.

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Marshall left Thursday in the wagon. Said he had something to see to and he'd be back Saturday. I had an appointment on the South Side with the Chicago Fixers. I went down on my own.

Before I went I ran off five more sets of the lab report. I bought six binders. 255 pages at 15 cents, and the binders. $59.25 all told.

I walked over to Addison and took the train straight down. Half an hour. My first time to Comiskey. I carried four bats and one binder.

The man I saw works on their hitting side. I got to him last week at Wrigley. They were the visiting club. He had read both reports through before I sat down. He said the wood looked good. Then he asked whether Wallop could turn a torpedo barrel. We're not set up for it right now and I told him so. I left the binder with him. He gave me forty minutes on a game day. I appreciated it.

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Atlanta was in on Thursday, one makeup game for a June rainout. Grant Holmes had a no-hitter going into the seventh. Benintendi broke it up with a single into left, nobody out. That was the only hit the Fixers got all day. Holmes got pulled right after. 2-0. Seventeen thousand on a Thursday afternoon.

Then the Outer Borough Club came in for three. Twice as many people Friday night. The visitors were up 4-0 into the sixth. The Fixers hit three home runs in that inning and came even. They won it in the ninth on another one with a man aboard, 6-4. Six hits, six runs. Four of the hits were home runs.

The middle game they lost, 10-5. Seven home runs in that ballgame, five of them by the visitors. The wind was out to center at 11. It went better than three hours.

Luis Robert Jr. played six years for the Fixers. They traded him over to New York in January. This was the first time he'd been back in the building. Friday they put him up on the board before the second inning and he took his hat off. They booed him when he came up. Cheered him louder when he struck out. Saturday he hit two home runs.

In the last one nobody scored for seven innings. The Fixers took their starter out after two. The next man went four and gave up nothing either. The visitors' starter went six and gave up one hit. The Fixers got one in the eighth. The visitors got it back in the ninth. Then they brought in Senga. He was 0-8. He got the first out and then Peters hit one 406 feet to center to end it, 2-1. Senga now 0-9.

The home team took two of the three.

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Marshall wasn't back Saturday like he said. I sent him a message after the ballgame that night. He wrote back Sunday morning. He said he was all right and would be back.

The homestand is over. He's not back yet.

— Cecil Tate