Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-12
By Revere Rodgers.
Jerry Freeman's Query.

Jerry Freeman, the big first-sacker OF
the Washington club. is person OF cpl
curean tastes 1t Is claimed that MIR.
Freeman Is the terror of all the walters
and that he can make the most ar!sto-
cratic hotel manager become servlle
proposition In almost the twinklng OF an
eve solely because Jerry makes the Iact
very apparent that he is familiar Win
ali the various dishes and composite STUN
that is usually lad!ed out to a notei cues.
and when the push about the hostelries
visited by the National outfit once gel
onto the fact that Freeman is up to all
the fine points in the dining business they
at once exert every art to win Jerry over
to their interests.
ington club stayed Freeman ruled like
car. He had everybody on the jump, ana
the Washington players Jared like princes.
One day a waiter by the name OF SAM
who was detailed to look after the oaLl
players table. brought along a big soup
tureen. and. Of course. he asked Freeman
first If he would take some of the liquid.
Freeman told him that he did not care
for soup at that meal. ard SO the waiter
served the rest of the boys Then ne
him the second time If he wouldn't have
some SOUP This caused Jerry to flare
up. and he angrily cried out:
Look here, Is this compulsory!
mo. subj" answered the humble serv-
itcr; "'tis vegetable soup, suh
Sam Crawford's Comeback.
Since Hughey Jennings graduated from
the Cornell law school Hughey has be-
come one Of the Chesterfields of base ball
dom.
Prior to Jennings reincarnation. and
when he was a member of the lamb-like
In hut highly
expressive If not al all ornate. and his
conduct would have secured him certif1-
cate emitting him to five pink tickets.
But now Hughey can give French
dancing master points on etiquette. while
mis- politeness on the field is the wonder
of his old-time assoc .ates.
On the cars the other day. when the
Detroits were coming from Hot Springs,
Ark. Hughey was explaining to Bill
Coushlin, Ty Cobb. Schmidt. the catcher:
and big Sam Crawford. how it had paid
him to be polite, and how he was SO much
more successful by adopting this line of
conduct than he was In the days when he
played with the Baltimore team
mo, sir declared Hughey; no one
ever loses anything by being polite"
'Oh, I dunno drawled Crawford. who
is one of those matter-of-fact fellows. Il
was in crowded street car the other day
when lady got in. and 1t cost me my
seat by being polite.
How Tim Hurst Lived.
Of course every one who has followed
base ball must know TIL, one Of the
quickest men at repartee that the game
has ever known Is Tim Hurst, the stocky
little American League umpire.
Tim has more fun following his line of
business than any Of his colleagues. for
nothing ever occurs on a ball field that is
Sll 1Ct taS Ri n rat N
lose any rest over the matter or to get
''het up on account of 1t.
But it was not alawys So. If one takes
Tins word for 1t. because after he had
Pa. club. Tim took up umpirinc. for in
those long-gone days. he had gi.en eyi-
dence Of the fact that he was a nervy
man, and in those times it took a man
with nerves of steel 10 hold down an in
dicator handlers position, Lecause the
husky base ball players were mostly
rough and ready and always had punch
handy for the umpire who Weulu render
decisions that did not coincide = it'll their
views.
While telling about the players of that
period and relating some portions of the
strenuous times he had then. Tim said as
he sat in a comfortable chair in the LOBBY
of Washington hotel one night last
winter:
Why. in those days l used to live like
bird"
Live like bird echoed Charley Hick-
man, who happened TO be one OF the party
present.
Sure" cried Tim: Il used to fly for my
life Most every day them
What Monte Cross Would Do.
Socks Seybold is one Of the biggest men
I'm base ball today. and aside from being
A good player, a genial fellow and one
who ran number his friends by the thou
sands, Socks is the possessor Of the
largest pair of feet in the American
League.
Well, the slugger is a big man. and, Of
course a Chinese woman's feet would be
a decided hindrance to the husky right
fielder of the Athletics; yet when he ad-
vances this argument In defense OF his
pedal extrelmities his friends admit the
logic of his argument, but counter on him
with the retort that though pair of feet
along the lines laid down for
the s-eminine gender of the Flowery King