Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-19
What Murphy Got.

During hot weather of the excessive
kind managers Of professional ball teams
are very solicitous concerning the welfare
of their pitchers, and the various trainers
employed by the different clubs all have
specific directions as to how to handle
the slab men who happen to be working
In a contest.
Connie Mack. aside from having the
trainer place iced cloths and SO forth on
the heads of the heated slabmen, also
believes in giving them cooling drinks
that are pleasant to the palate as well as
alleviating by reason of their GOODNESS.
Now Comics players also have the
same kind of palates as have the petted
slabmen, but Connie ignores them in this
matter. One hot day last week, when the
Philadelphians were up against the Chi
cago fellows. the fraternity composing
the Athletics began to put up kick
about the matter and Murphy, who is a
born leader, was sent over to where Con-
ME was busily engaged in filling cooling
glass of some mixture for Eddie Plank. in
order to see If Mack would allow Murphy
to come in on the deal.
But it happened that Murphy had been
guilty Of stupid piece of work during
the inning before by which the White Sox
had prof1ted to the extent of an unearned
tally, and Connie proceeded to fay the
second baseman numerically
When Murphy Joined his waiting team
mates Nichols, the heady shortstop, cried
out to him in excited tones:
We'll, how did you make out, Murph;
did he give you any stuff?"
"All he gave me-" slowly and reluc-
family replied Murphy, twas a chin-fizz?"
And before Murphy could be murdered
by the push the umpire ordered all hands
out on the field, for at that moment the
last White Sox flied out.
Nick Altrock's Narrative.
Nick Altrock, the comedian pitcher Of
the White sox club. and one of the very
best fellows in the game today person
ally, related in his usual inimitable style
an experience that he and Jiggs Donohue,
the first sacker of the Sox, had when
they were on their way east The way
Nick gets the story off is in the following
manner:
when We was all coming back east"
started off Altrock, who cares not a thing
for grammar. and who no doubt holds
Lindley Murray and his work in the ut
most contempt, men Jiggs Donohue
slipped away from the bunch one night
and took trip bout Cleveland, and along
bout IL o'clock that night Jiggs he got
hungry, and a. we all had heard how the
fish you get up In Cleveland are the best
in the world. AS they catch them right
out Of the lake there, we went into a res
of lake trout; but the waiter, who was
one of those fresh guys, who wore side
whiskers and looked like he might be
something in the sky-pilot line. like Billy
Sunday, couldn't see at all when it
came to producing the fish, and he told
us that they didn't have any fish.
But" went on Altrock, men Jiggs we
put up a holler and swore we wasn't go
ing to leave until the whskered guy pro-
duced something in the scaly line. and we
LIZ ~l>@ f@l1 H.
back water. and as he did so he called
funny face 'sinker hustler who came
over on the run, and he told us what the
other guy had said, and then Jiggs he
shouted out: But 1 know you have some
fish because I can small them And
that nervy garcon he smiled sweetly at
Jiggs an me as he said:
But that amt fish that You SMELL
mister; that's only the perch in the bird
cage
And then concluded the merry Nick,
men Jiggs knew that it was high time
to beat it for the hotel