The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-03
NEW YORK SCRIBE
 PROVES A CHUMP
SANGREE DESCRIBES DUsKY DAM SELS OF TENDERLOlN UNDER DELUSIoN THAT THEY BELONG TO SoUTH'S EXCLUSIVE SET.

From the Atlanta Journal
 Compared to Allen Sangree baseball scribe of the New York Globe, travelling
 with the Giants, Messrs. Ananas and Munchausen were but feeble. unlnsplred and nonprolihc geniuses
 At any rate these two gents might be classified as cheerful liars while MT San gree should be ranked as a malicious.
 vindictive, interruptions and scurrllous cartoonist of the truth.
 In recent account sent out from Blr- mngham and head-lned Giants in So- ciety," the writer In question sends back the following slanderous and garbled ac- count of southern women
 'The moment one steps across the Mason and dixon line there Is felt the 1 difference between north and south. Talk as you may about That's all showed be- hind me, you can get an argument down there any time on negroes, lynching, or state rights. Customs. thoughts and prece dents are all in bold contrast to those of the north, and swinging the circuit in baseball company Is an education of itself.
 If Teddy Roosevelt could get close to the people in this section like A ball player he would know how bitterly south ern folk feel about the President enter taining Booker Washington. how they re- sent the idea of a black man holding of- flee and how curiousy they retain notions of aristocracy and white supremacy.
 Some of the boys on the New York
 National league team who think about other things besides baseball are deeply interested in the southern spirit and af- ter supper spend the leisure hours in ex-
 changing their impressions and experien-
 ces, instead of flaming.
 "Mathewson and Bowerman last night
 at the athletic club had the privilege of
 meeting few of the local Mrs. Stuy-
 vesant Fish society, and you must un- derstand that introduetions here are re- garded as the Mohammedan's prize. a I ticket to heaven No. [. Indeed. flirting as generally practiced In the north Is | quite unknown. at least In Alabama | Adonis himself, or Solomon in all his 1 glory. might pace the flags and never be | noticed by woman. Let stranger be | properly introduced, however and the | most exclusive woman in town will fan i with him on the street corner in front of
 pool room.
 | Tt is something of bruise 10 hear a beautiful young lady between acts al the theatre sing out to a fery-eyed youth ten
 seats away: Hello, honey-d' you get my i note this afternoon?' And Dixie lad re- turns Sure huff. hon; see you all after show"
 Prank Bowerman beamed in happiness
 when he found himself making a high av-
 craze with one of these belles, and enjoy ed the sensa ton of furnishing her with
 q little shock. producing both his hands when the electric light glowed most free Iy. After explaining what bunt fig and telling about his trained ball team of cin-
 namon bears in Michigan, conversation
 Jagged. and by way of diversion Frank
 narrated his impressions of southern hanging.
 '"The lady yawned just when Bowerman
 thought he had reached climax of
 thought and graphic expression. She was visibly bored
 "Is that the first hanging you ever
 sawT she inquired, with far-away look. "'First-and the last-for me replied the Michigan logroler, decisively. T never want to look on such thing again
 Says Girl Burned Negro. "rhe girl observed him contemptuously
 and growing somewhat eager. continued {:
 Well, I've seen eight or nine. They don't affect me much because I know the brutes deserve all they get. One lynching down the country. though. did unnerve me You may remember it. Took three and one half hours to burn him. They cut off his ears" Bowerman shifts feet.) Then they cut off his hands (Bowerman makes low gutteral sound of alarm Then they cut off his feet (Bowerman draws his base runners under him and gives 'Matty' the high sign of distress.