The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1907-05-23

I LuOuSn SI1euL HAL Oh the uSiu, ID d
companionable and talkatiye chap
when at leisure. He has seemingly
inexhaustible fund of anecdotes to
draw on, while his memory is a mar
yelous thing.
Before the present season opened
Gilbert and Billy Murray, the man
ager of the Phillies this year, were
having a tanning bee in Green's Ho-
tel in the Quaker City, and the two
old baseball veterans were regaling
one another with yarns they had
come across during the years that
they had been identified with the
national game.
Ever hear" asked Gilbert, about
the time that Luther Taylor, the
pitcher, lost his speech and couldn't t
talk at all?"
What are you trying to give me?''
shot back Murray. Why, Dummy
Taylor has ben a mute since BIRTH
Yes replied Gilbert, as he flick
ed the ashes from his cigar, but [
refer to the time that we were play
ing the Bostonians, and Fred Tenny
caught one Of Luther's fast ones on
the end of his bat and it shot down
to Taylor so fast that he could not
side-step it, so to save himself he
put out both hands to keep it away
from his body, and it struck him with
so much force, on the tips of his fin
gers, that he was speechless for over
a week.
When the only Geo Edward Wad-
dell was an actor and toured in eel
ebrated play entitled "The Stain of
Guilt, he was given many opportun
tiles of displaying that metallic and
strident-toned voice of his, as the
gentle George who had to say Hands
off," and william, unhand that la
dy." in voice so loud that 1t would
fill the gallery gods hearts with glee.
They used to give the Rube a heavy
hand every time that he would roar
out, which was frequent, to say the
least. One day, when the show was
playing in st. Louis, he was standing
outside the stage door. basking in the
respectful admiration of a group of
his friends, who were telling him that
he had Richard Mansfield and John
Drew left at the post, when a pert
maiden, the sister of a prominent To-
cal politician, came up to Waddell
and asked:
Are you the actor with the COM
and far-reaching voice,
whom [ just saw vanquish the villain
in the play that is now running at
this house?"
Madame said Waddell, Il must
be the same party, and what" gal
lantly asked the courteous George |
Edward, ''can l do for you?"
We'll, if you don't mind" replied |
the st. Louis damsel, who is noted |
for her self-assurance, ''I wish you |
would use your commanding voice
in calling out for my carriage, which |
do not happen to see at the present |
- Z 4es...
down at Galveston during
the present spring, several of the
boys got taken down with various
which though not of a dan
serous character were still mighty
unpleasant, and much grumbling rel
ttive to the climatic conditions of the
Texas town ensued. One night a
,roup of the players were assembled
n the hotel lobby discussing Calves
on as a health resort and vice versa,
vhen the hotel clerk, native born
'roduct and a loyal soul, exclaimed:
Il tell you, no matter how much
ou people knock, that Galveston is
mighty healthy place, and people
ont Gle often here -
Where I come from" blurted out
ut Charley Hickman, 'they only die
nee
Sammy Strang of the New Yorks
5 about the only professional base :
all PLAYER up to date that is known
0 be interested in the flying machine
port Sammy, be it known, is a col !
ege man and the son of wealthy par
nts down in sunny Tennessee, where {
he Giants outfielder halls from, and :
whose name is not Strang, by the
way, he having assumed this fictitious
ppellation when he first started to
lay in the Southern league. Any
way, Sammy is a great aeronaut, if
lot in practice, at least in theory, and
le never tires talking about his fav- |
rite subject.
The other day he and Dahlen, the
hortstop, were discussing flying ma
hine subjects and Sammy made some
emark relative to the joining of an :