The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-03
ONCE MORE CON WEIGH is
THE IDOL OF THE FANS
CAUGHT IN PATHFINDERS'
CAMP WHILE ON ROAD.


pervades al things said by one of those
rugged characters with big hearts, and
small morals, is lost in the reduction to
sentences for the public, and stories
of the sayings and dolngs of the men
who hold the interest of ut least one
community. suffer much in the trans
formation to PRINT.
Mullaney, the Big Chief of the Path
finder tribe, is one OF those characters
who has been up against nearly every
thing from an unbroken broncho, to
az cold night without a lodging place.
He makes no secret of the hard times
he has seen, nor the good things he
has enjoyed. and to him is due much
of the pleasure enjoyed by the younger
members of the team on the trip just
completed.
Naturally Charleston lis a curiosity
to the uninitiated. The tribe stacked
arms at the St. Johns, formerly. the
Mills House, and scattered all over the
historic old city. Bill Oyles and Null
we're strolling along the ''battry" when
Bill remarked that at least the old
town was well laid out.
Null just couldn't let the chance
slip. Il guess she ought to be, If you
had been dead as long rs this place
has you would be well laid out too"
That same afternoon they came very
near laying Null out at 'he park.
When Mike Hempleman burnt
match and scratched his signature to
"A Pathfinder contract in Charleston
! Saturday night he Immediately hustle1
off to make love to his landlady for his
belongings. He soon returned radiant.
with a priced relic of the Civil War
i H., . -. ID
| chinChilla oVercoat.
| I'm -- if they don't arrest you be-
| fore we get up to the hotel in Column
| bla, for an escape from he bug club
! If you carry that Benny and knapper.
| But Mike would swing to the Benny,
/ throwing it. like a mante of charity,
over the offending knapper during the
rest of the trip.
But things came to q climax when
Red Kline joined the aggregation at
/ the train in Columbia with a paper
| bundle, but little larger than bale
of cotton and a straw hat. Null eyed
| him suspiciously for a second and then
exploded. "Well. if they don't take us
for a bunch of immigrants when we
get off the cars I'm liar. Say, what
have you got in there anyway, Red?
Bunch of clippings about your record.
The practice of some of the younger
members of the team inclined to soft
glances for the fair sex has provoked
the older members of the team to or
ganize an A. o. o. M M. club Dan
Burt is president, Mullaney is royal
keeper of the shy glances. Tom Ray is
chief pink note compiler and Mike
Hempleman Is junior masher. The let
tiers mean Ancient Orders of Old Men
Washers"
Fr.a-
self the reputation of being one of
the most gentlemanly clubs in the lea
que. The best hotels in all of the
cities where the team goes are patron
lied, and managers everywhere speak
in the highest terms of the boys.
A great practice of Mulrs while on
the road is to have all of the boys
start into the game singing in chorus.
Every man is drilled to sing HE ram
! bled, he rambed, he rambled till the
| butcher cut him down." and it has
! the same effect on the opposing play
ers that the hymns of the Christians
did on the heathens in the early CEN
turtles.
1t does not take long for every man
on a ball team to have a nickname
| attached With but few exceptions,
the Pathfinders came home with dubs
| or all KINDS. SaNldge is called Rip
Van Wrinkle among his fellows for
his sleepy ways, while lounging around
the hotels Secrist is Sir Walter Ra-
leigh, Bob Kennedy, Bull Durham Oy-
! Ter, Suds Ogle, George Washington;
Burt, Big Fellow; Hempleman, Red
Nose Mike; j. Kennedy, Masher and
Mullaney Shorty.
Jack Grim seems to have finally won
out in one of the hardest struggles a
manager ever had. In the opening
game in Columbia, Grim appeared on
the lines with a light grey suit on,
white stockings and long snuff color
ed coat He was a perfect picture of
Quaker Oats, and the crowd was soon
bowling sit down Grim, Sit down, !
Grim" But he stuck to the lines, and
on the following day a petition was
handed around for signatures in which
Grim was asked never to again appear
in the hoodoo outfit which he wore
on the former day. Since he played
the Pathffnders a tie, and then beat
them decisively, and has added another
scalp to his belt by defeating the
Macon bunch, he is all the goods with
the Columbia fans.
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