Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-03

| were put out by the accommodating
Howard for his inspection.
Rube was hard to suit, and finally How
ard said to him:
ED, here is an extra fine French clock
that will give to you for half price"
''It's a pretty piece of work, all right,
Howard replied the Rube, as he began
scratching his head, land L wouldn't
mind owning 1t, only, you see," he ex-
planned, ''it wouldn't be any good to me,
as want a clock that I can understand
when it strikes."N
One on Sam Crawford
They are telling funny story about
big Sam Crawford up in Detroit. 1t deals
with the time when Sam was barber out
IL Nebraska, long before he stepped into
major league baseball, although at that
! time Sam was clouting EN- out on the
nose In the semi-weekly games he used
to play out in the wild and woolly.
Sam, as every one who knows the great
ball player will tell you, is a ready -witted
fellow and quick at repartee. Well, when
he was running barber shop in Ne
braska he was also the western agent for
a hair restorer, and Sam tried his best
to work the stuff on his baldheaded GUS
toners. Sam is himself inclined to the
aforementioned affliction. But the story
goes, Crawford was one day trying to
work off bottle on customer when the
man turned to the ball player and said:
"Why, you're baldheaded yourself. Why
don't you use bottle of the restorer?''
"Well, you see," glibly replied Sam, "I
represent before using, and my brother at
the next chair over there represents after
using"
The story doesn't say whether the GUS
toner bought bottle or not, but Sam
laughs every time he hears any one refer
to the incident.
Fielder Jones' Fear
Fielder Jones of the Chicago Americans
and Johnny E!vers of the Cubs come from
the same vicinity in New York state, and
although they perform in different
leagues, yet ther are firm friends, and
when they return to their homes for the
snow-fying season they are often to-
gether
Last fall when baseball was thing of
the past Fielder Jones happened to be on
a visit to the hustling little town of Bing-
hamton, and while there he met Evers,
who was also visiting some friends in that
neighborhood.
Acting on a suggestion made by Jones,
little Evers accompanied that great play
er in a stroll, and while they were walk
ing down the street 1t was noticed that
lot of the passers-by turned to look after
the two spiked-shoe laCs.
Just about this time there had been a
lot of revival services in Binghamton,
and in consequence exhorters had been
coming and going for the past couple OF
" eeIrs ard when Fielder saw so many
people loking at himself and Evers he
turned to that gallant little second-sacker
and said:
'T wonder, Johnny, what makes those
fellows all rubber at us so?"
IT think it's because they imainge that
we are some of those church speakers
who have been holding forth here" re-
piled Evers.
"Great Scott, they gave me a scare"
cried Jones with well feigned express
sion of fright on his countenance; II
thought they might have sized us up to
be pair of baseball players"
How Heydon Trained tho Dog
That bulldog which Davy Altizer lost
and which has furnished much copy for
the press lately was a dog that had his
likes and disnkes. Some of the Washing
ton team he cottoned to and some he did
not.
one Of the players on his black list
was the catcher, Mac Heydon, whom the
dog would growl at whenever he would
appear. Now, Heydon, who comes from
away out west, one day declared that
owing 10 his familiarity with the savage
beasts of the section of the country he
hailed from he could II he tried, con-
ouer any dog. and could so train him
that the animal would follow his orders
to the letter.
when the Chicago National club was
making the long jump from New York
back to the stoclyards city by the lake