Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-07

youth of the land and his slowness in
| grasping the pitching situation In the
major league he soon won for himself
the can that is built of tin.
When Ewing told him it would be 18
and for his Clark, with sad, sweet
smile, which was no doubt facial ex-
preston acquired from some one of the
! heroes who paraded in the highly ir-
| tellectual matter he was so fond of
reading, said to Ewing:
1T seems, then, Mr.. Ewing, that I
have missed my destiny"
you've missed that, all right" GRIM
ly replied Buck; but I'll see that you
do not miss your destination" he added,
as he gave Clark a ticket to his sunny
southern home.
How Ferris Preferred His Coffee
| When Jim Mcclure first went to Bos-
ton few weeks ago to look over the
baseball situation there with the view
of taking up the managerial reins, it
was noticed by the players that the
gray in Jim's hair was fast crowding
| out the brown.
| This led to a discussion among the
players as to how the sight of gray
in a ball players head is always made
the subject for remarks on the part
of the spectators, who seem to consider
that any ball tosser who is so unfortu-
| Hdle DIS IO IldNe HIS LOCKS SpTlTkl6Q WITH
the hairs of white Is surely back
number.
Some one remarked the fact that Jim
! O'Rourke, who has been playing pro-
| fessional baseball for thirty-five years,
and who is still playing in Connecticut,
had gray hair when he played in the
National league fifteen years back but
| that his hair is now dark, and that he
/ doesn't look near his correct age.
| DnriDO thtc 1ic0,1ccfnn Hnha Forric
| was deeply immersed in the report of
the Pettibone affair out in Idaho, and
! he was brought into the conversation
only when Freddy Parent said to him:
"If you dip your hair in coffee, Fer
ris, that will make 1t good and dark"
To which Hobe, not getting the gist
of the matter, haughtily replied:
II prefer my coffee darkened in some
other manner"
1t Made Rossman Uneasy
When the Detroit club was last in
| Washington a local representative of
| one of the papers in Detroit rode down
the avenue with big Rossman, the first
| baseman, and O'Leary, the shortstop
of the Wolverines. When the car got
to Fifteenth street and the avenue
large number of ladies boarded 1t, and
| just as soon as Rossman caught the
eye of one of them he politely arose
and gave her his seat.
O'Leary and the newspaper man also
got up and took chance at the stand
| ing game, while the clever shortstop,
with look of puzzled inquiry on his
features, said to Rossman:
at always notice, Ross, that you make
1t point of being the first man up in
a street car to offer your seat to a
lady. How is that?"
"Well, I'll tell you." said Rossman,
as he looked O'Leary squarely in the
face. at has always made me uneasy
since boyhood days to see a woman
with strap in her hands"
| Collins Was Indignant
Just after Jimmy Collins Joined the
Philadelphia team the whole bunch was
out at the club house preparing for
morning practice, when Schreck, the
famous one-handed backstop, was read
ing the police news in morning paper.
Now Schreck reads this kind of news
with languid interest, of the average IA
year-old kid who plods wearily through
a Diamond Dick classic or falls to sleep
while following up the adventures OF
Dick Merriwell and when Ossie finds
any particularly spicy bit of saucy
police gossip he retails it to the other
fellows.
Schreck is also bit of humorist, and
when he is engaged in keeping his team
mates abreast of whatever happens to
be coming off in the courts throughout
| the country he generally works a joke
in by some method or other
Now, Jimmy Collins paternal parent
is a captain of police up in Buffalo and,
on the strength of the connection,
James is popularity supposed to be an
authority on all matters relating to
police and criminal court doings, so he
was easily caught mapping off his base
when Schreck said to him:
IT see here, Jimmy, in this newspaper
account where a judge sentenced a fell
| low the other day to serve twenty years
in prison for stealing set of small pic
| lures"
Twenty years for stealing a set of
small pictures is entirely out of pro-
| portion to the crime" Indignantly
snorted Collins.
But they happened to be pictures of
some Of our presidents" glibly con-
| tinued Ossie.
"That doesn't make the crime any
greater" cried Jimmy with righteous
Indignation.
But" explained Schreck, as he
moved over near the door, where he
could make a quick exit, "these pic
lures, it appears, were engraved on
! bank notes."
TIC m mdH WHO iOON w duuCi = dTl
The only George Edward Waddell,
who in the course of his young life
hath played many parts, was recently
regaling some of his team mates with
choice collection of his adventures
while he was educating the American
theater-going public in real acting.
Mr.. Waddell, it will be recalled, once
starred in classical show bearing the
title 1.-THE Stain of Guilt" 1t was a
bully good show, according to George
Edwards high ideals, and were it not
for the fact that Mr.. Waddells en-
gagements with divers convivial
friends interfered with his theatrical
affairs, 1t is confidently predicted that
he would have still been on the stage,
and that by this time the public would
have recognized the well-known Thes-
plan ability of the actor ballplayer.
But cruel fate robbed the actors hall
of fame of shining light when COM
mercially inclined manager got real
harsh with the talented George Ed
ward, when, after many warnings, that
hilarious worthy refused to take heed
to his own shortcomings in the trivial
matter of failing to show up once in
while at the op'ry house where the
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