Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-24

duty. yet sometimes a little difference
will arise between them when it happens
that one wants to take in a cert hin
theater and the other picks an entirely
different showhouse for that particular
nights visit.
Sucn a difference arose when the st.
Louis club was playing in Washington
this spring. and when it happened that
Charley Myers was performing in the
Wizard of the Nile at a local theater.
Myers and Spencer are old-time friends.
Both had attended the Mercersburg Acad-
envy and Ed wanted to go up and see
Charley Myers work out in his first at
tempt at Frank Daniels old part. while
Tom Jones wanted to take an electric
car ride up the river.
AS neither one would yield to the others
wish and as Tom Jones fatty refused to
go to the theater. Ed finally losing his
temper. turned to him and cried out:
why, you great big dub, you are as
full of airs music box
That may be so, retorted Tom. but
all the same l don't go with a crank
Tim Hurst and Pete Chiles.
The suspension of Fielder Jones on
Umpire Connolly's report of that players
actions on the field while the White Sox
were playing in Philadelphia has bred a
lot of discussion and brought forth q
lot of "reminiscences about the various
run-ins that ball players and umpires
have had, with the umpires always get
ting the better of it in the long end.
AS Tim Hurst tells the story. the only
player who ever bested him was Pete
Chiles. who worked at second base for
the Philadelphia National League team
about ten years ago. This spike-shoe
genius would never say anything 10 such
a way that Hurst could get back at him,
but he would let Hurst know alright that
he was knocking him and he would go
about this way: While standing at the
bat he would start in on the angry, but
powerless Hurst as follows:
Dear me, Mr.. Hurst. you will soon have
to be wearing strong eyeglasses, won't
you? / suppose as old age and dissipation
get after fellow they are bound to af-
feet persons sight. l hear that they are
going to appoint a man as a National
League umpire who has just lately come
out of blind asylum: but I am not sur
prised. are you? Anything in the umpire
line appears to go in this league. judging
from the men who are working here now.
Honest prize ring referees Tim was then
a prize ring referee) are mighty scarce az
tices nowadays. amt they, Mr.. Hurst?
It's pity that One-eyed Connolly IA
noted sporting character) never broke into
the umpiring business. ain il. Mr.. Hurst?
l suppose that he still possesses some
shreds of conscience"
And Chiles would keep this line of talk
up. with variations. asserts Tim until he
was almost crazy from the jibing yet
Pete was entirely too shreWd to do any
thing that Hurst could openly charge him
with when he wasn't slurring me-"
said Tim. The would come up and. in the
presence of a crowd. would pretend TO
see "A mosquito or something else on my
cherubic countenance and in knocking II
off he would do ii with SO much force
that he might as we'll have taken a long
arm swing. he had paw on him that
was like ham. and when he did this
apparently friend mosquito brushing act
could imagine that my jaw was beng
broken. But thank the stars" added Tim.
''Chiles was the only man in the Zig
league who was clever enough to get by
with his stunt. tor if there had been more
like him il wouldn't have been great
while before murder WAS committed.