Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-07
THE MINUTE
INTERESTING STORIES OF
FAMOUS BALL PLAYERS
GR1FF1TH's great first

baseman, the merry King Hal, is
a kidder of the eighteen-carat Or
der. He is never at rest, except pos
sibly when he is asleep. Being only a
youngster and, Furthermore, being en-
dowed with the health and spirits Of
the hardy athlete, life to Hal Chase Is
one continual round of pleasure.
What Hal enjoys more than anything
else is the playing Of jokes, especially
when these are pulled off at the ex-
pense of his elders.
Now Clarke Griffith, the manager of
the Yankees, is never much Of a humor-
list, even when his team is taking 'em
in row, but when the New Yorks are
trailing behind, as they have been do
ing the present season. anything in the
nature Of joke comes lretty near to
making the dark-browed little chap
weep.
Just before the New Yorks left for
their swing around the eastern cities
the last time Clarke was standing up
against the grand stand enveloped in
thoughts of the gloomy kind, when he
was suddenly awakened from his rev.
erie by the high pitched voice of Chase,
who slapping the little manager on the
back, excitedly exclaimed:
Look here, Griff, If you don't turn
the hose on AL Orth before the game
begins this afternoon then I'll refuse to
play"
"Will my troubles never ,cease?"
moaned Griff, as he clutched at the wire
netting for support. What in the name
Of all creation do you want the hose
turned on AL Orth for?' he queried as
he looked wildly UP in the face of the
first baseman.
"Come, and I'll show you," grimly
replied Chase. And Griffith. following
young Hal in dazed sort of way, ar
rived at the. home plate, where the
smiling Orth was batting 'em out to the
other fellows. He found that AL had
unconsciously put his stockings on
wrong side out.
When Tom Brown Played the Game
When Tom Brown was in harness
there was no fleeter outfielder in the
business, and Tom was all there, too,
when it came to using the swatting
stick. Tom is an Englishman born, and
can lay claim to the fact of having been
the first Johnny Bull ever to play pro-
fesslonal baseball.
The fellows in Tom Browns day used
to good naturedly kid Tom on his rather
broad accent and the fact that he would
unconsciously fail to pronounce the let
ter "h'' at times, particularly when he
When Tom was a member Of the st.
Louis bunch there was crowd Of mer-
ry kidders then working for Chris Won
der Abe, chief among whom were King,
pitcher, and GlaSScock, shortstop. One
day, when the fellows were in Won der
Ahe's private room over the saloon he
kept, Tom went downstairs for some
thing, and while he was there the at
tention of his teammates was attract
a1 hxy a
dropping something on the bar room
floor. After listening to this sound for
few moments Silver King turned to
Glasscock and said:
"I wonder what is that dropping
noise downstairs?"
"Oh," replied Glasscock as he bit the
end off a Pittsburg stogie, 1T suppose
It's Tom Brown dropping few of his
| his"
Where Huehey Jennings Felt 1t
Every one knows that the Detroit
team has a sneaking idea that it has a
fine chance to land the rag, and every
one knows also that Hughey Jennings
surely has a fast bunch of ball players
under his care.
On leaving Philadelphia short time
since the players got to talking about
their chances to corral the bunting,
and they were each giving their rea-
sons why they should get the pennant,
when big Sam Crawford, in his blurt-
ing way of speaking. declared:
"I Just know that the old rag is ours
this season, for 1 feel it in my bones" "
at feel it in one particular bone my
self" mildly announced Hughey Jen-
nings.
what bone is that, Hughey?" asked
Cobb with a puzzled expression on his
features.
"My wish bone," replied Hughey with
an angelic smile on his expressive If
not Adonis-like countenance.
What Charley Hickman Saw
Charley Hickman of the Washington
club is studying dentistry and is also
in business with "Doc" White, the Chi
cago dentist pitcher.
Now, White is one of the most stu
dious dentists in the teeth repairing
world, and it is his delight to discover
new phases in his business and also
to learn of anything strange and start
ling connected with dentistry.
Charley Hickman Is well aware OF MS
partners ambition in this respect and
when the Chicago club was last In
washington "Hick" took doc" White
to one side out at the ball park and
said to him in voice filled with the
seemingly important nature of the COM
munlcdIlOll' ,
"Harry, I saw girl today who had
four sets of teeth in her head"
White, of course, was staggered at
this announcement, but he held on to
the burly form of his partner until the
excitement occasioned by the extraor-
dinary announcement had somewhat
abated, and then in a scarcely audible
voice he said: -,
"Where-where was it, Charley?'
"It was down on F street." merrily
cried the big first baseman, "and the
girl was wearing side combs in her
hair"
And then, before White could assault
his Jolly partner with the steam roller
the slugging first sacker of the Ma
tionals had skidooed.
Kittredge Wanted to Know
When Bill Wolf was pitching Tor
Washington one day he threw a couple
of his ribs out of order by reason of the
fact that he made too sudden jerk at