and flack , yes , flack was very fast , but luther had some sort of cannon in that skinny body of his and that ball shrieked over the green field and flack trampled the ground like a stagecoach and then went airborne as the ball slapped into aeneus james 's glove , and aeneus , the big guy ruth had first encountered playing center field when he 'd come out of the trees , swept his long arm down as flack slid on his chest toward first and the tag hit him high on the shoulder and then his hand touched the bag .