Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-14
OUTF|ElDER MAGEE
LEAPS FROM WINDOW
Has Nightmare and Imagines
He Is Chasing High
Fly.


grapes and ham sandwiches. eaten before
retiring Saturday night and accentuating
tendency toward somnambulism. nearly
sent Sherwood Magee, the star left fielder
and batter of the Phillies. to his death
through an open window of the Junction
Hotel. Broad street and Lehigh avenue,
early yesterday morning.
From a third-story window of the hotel.
Magee. with a shrek that he was after
a high fly, jumped more than twelve feet
to- the roof of stable below. Had the
roof not stopped his fall he would in all
proba bility. have been killed upon the
stone pavement of the hotel yard.
AS it was. the base ball PLAYER proved
to be only slightly injured. The physicians
at the German Hospital could not find a
broken or sprained bone, and. after an
examination. sent Magee back to his
hotel.
I'll be back in the game in three or
four days. declared the ball player. OPP
timistically talking over the phone last
night
DR.. John A. Boyer of 2213 North 18th
street who was called in to attend Magee,
says that the ball player has been working
under mental strain for some time. He
was completely absorbed in the race of
the Phillies for the pennant working like
a beaver and wanting everybody else to
do likewise
Worried Over Pennant
Members of the team would say that
Magee had a crouch. He was always
kicking against decisions made by the
umpires and the work some Of the play
ers did. His friends, however. knew that
it was all caused by his anxiety to have
the nine win the pennant. His heart was
in the fight.
In an extremely nervous condition after
the double header Saturday afternoon, and
always subject to Somnambulism, Magee
aggravated matters before retiring in the
evening by eating bunch of green grapes
and several ham sandwiches. AS Magee
himself said. Green grapes and ham
sandwiches always did have bad effect
on me, but l thought l would take a
chance"
The chance almost proved fatal. Magee
is married and has two children. His wife,
who was asleep in the same room. was
awakened by excited cries from the ball
player. She listened for a moment and
heard the following:
Get together now, get together. Come
on now. pull out homer.
We've got EN- now Sweeney'S fumbled
my grounder. Titus is coming in
There was silence for a few moments
and then Mrs. Magee heard some more:
''Oh, that double of mine .in the first
was the deuce to pay. They said / should
have been benched, but Kelley got it in
stead"
Mrs. Magee arose and asked her hus-
band if there was anything the matter
with him. Some water he said. Il
want some water"
Mrs. Magee went to procure the water.
AS she was returning with a pitcher she
saw her husband spring out of the bed
with wild leap and make for the win
mr. fol n ha c q
to catch Magee in time. The pitcher was
smashed to pieces.
After "High Fly
The ball player was evidently after a
high fly in his sleep. In his minds eye
he saw it soaring just beyond the open
window.
With frenzed leap. one arm raised
high in the air, he jumped through the
open window.
Mrs. Magee stumbled over to the win
below, upon the roof of the stable. was
the form of her husband in Il heap. The
ball players wife hurried downstairs to
phone and told DR.. Beger to get there
as soon possible.
Everybody in the house was aroused.
All expected to find the ball player dead
or dying. DR.. Beger arrived in few
minutes with carriage and Magee was
driven to the German Hospital.
Not broken BONE said the doctors.
Just shaken up and bruised bit
1t was one of the most exciting games
| ever played even though / was asleep,
Magee declared. Il was going after a
high fly Why even when l jumped from
the bed l thought / was simply jumping
a fence that seemed, somehow, to have
grown up near left field on the Phillies'
ground.
II guess the grapes and ham sand
witches caused the trouble. They never
did agree with me. But / will be back in
the game in three or four days.
The Magees have been married just two
years. Magee. his felIow-players say, has
been much exercised over the pennant
outlook and has been working hard for
the success of the team.