The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-07-29
WRITTEN FOR THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC.


Mr.. ]. Emmett Heidrick, center fielder for
the ST. Louis baseball team. and some
times referred to as a phenomenon" IS us
you doubtless know. passing the time
away these days with one Of his legs snug
Iy incased in plaster of paris: and the rest
OF his active, muscular. hearty and hand
some young person aching 10 be at work
on the diamond.
Nr. Heidrick who has been about as un-
fortunate as numbers OF Others on the team
this season. sustained an injury to his
muscles early IN the summer. but with
what his admirers called pluck and his
surgeons called foohardinsss. he essayed
10 play more than once and greatly to his
discomfort. There appeared TO be no other
cure and certain means OF keeping the
young fielder quiet except by pin.oning him
10 a couch: and with what the gentleman
himself calls ''fiendish alacrity." his ex-
pe1ienced advisers proceeded TO fell him
and to make lovely clay model out OF
him, or at least out of a part OF hts anat-
omy.
So while the team is away winning and
losing in the Far East Mr.. Heidrick. IN
pale blue negliSee gracefully reclines upon
a luxurious couch In his suite at the Nor
mandis Hotel: devours all the books which
the summer has produced: chaffs his con-
frere. Mr.. Donlin. who IS stretched out on
a nsi-hboring couch in exactly the same
predicament: and joyfully welcomes all the
visitors who come TO see him.
For sick man. he looks astonishingly
well. Nothing IN the world the matter
with me-" he remarks. grabbing my hand
IN a hearty clasp. Eat like a farmer
Sleep like happy child. Everybody's good
~Dcuch n n Of. ~
me up; and 1 tell You I'm not having a
half bad time, on the whole" And then
Mr.. Heidrich beamed upon me and asked
me II had read TO Have and To Hold.
wish they'd leave the love story out OF
some OF these modern novels" he grum-
bled. 1T spells the whole. Can't under
stand why an author has TO drag in a
lot of lovemaking when the story would be
a corker without it,
Mr.. Heidrick is "a years old-the 9Th OF
this month. He has spent most OF these
twenty-four years In active brain work I'm
school and college: and in equally active
muscle work IN his fathers big Wisconsin
lumber camps and in baseball nines There
Is a marked absence Of feminine photo
graphs inscribed ITO Emmett from YOUR
dear little Dotty." OF Yours. lovingly
Maude." IN his rooms; also an astonishing
6earth OF sofa cushions embroidered in
long and short stitch and cockeyed butter
flies; also an awful paucity Of baby blue |
envelopes addressed in variously illegibIe
girlish writings. "Ir. ]. Emmett Heidr,ck.
Hotel NormandIe. Town." lying forninst |
the aforesaid luxurious couch
Mr.. Heidrick doesn't make proud and fire. |
ouent references 10 his lady friends" He |
never even once quoted a girl he used 10 |
know" He has O. face like an open book |
a nice book. Just look at his picture and |
see II some old familiar phrase from the
poet or. more likely. the poetess. doesn't |
come Instantly to mind-like Heart whole /
and fancy free" Sweet sixteen and l
never been kissed or ~ could no, love 1
thee. dear. so much. loved / not baseball
more {,
Clearly no interest in young females here |
or am no student OF human nature But
the facts bear me out. Mr.. HeIdrIck's gen.
eral and specific good looks, his athletic
achievements and his consequential public
prominence have tangled him, more or
less. they doubtless do any man SINH
larry situated. for feminine attentions No