Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-03-28

| Maybe McGraw is merely going to scare
the big bruiser. and toss. If he can. Il
little dacency and grace into him through
the medium of the scare. and then take
him back. =,
But that isn't so much the point. The
point is that any ball club that has a
crab of the likes of Cy Seymour AZ a men,
Der of it's roster is In bad. bladder and
baddest. Seymour has been one of those
on-his- muscle gluSs now for a good many
years He's imbued with the idea that
folks are picking on or guying or kidding
him something all the time, and he s
mumbling i'm his sleep at night about how
much he wants to swing on 'em just for
luck.
In essence. he's a crab. and therefore
he's a nuisance to any ball club that has
the papers on him. a crab ball player is
worse than the shingles, the seven years
the head combined. Nothing can be done
with him. Generally he hasn't enough
gray matter to know and understand that
he's a crab. which makes it all the worse.
If ball player has lucid intervals in
which he appreciates the fact that he's
crab and therefore a nuisance. why.
there's always faint. bare possibility
that. after long. long trying. something
may be made out of him. But when he's
too much of a fathead TO know that he
crab. why. he's hopeless. and the club
that has the dokkyments on him Is in
just one slmerous mizzahle condition and
no mistake.
I'D TO about five or six years ago, the
Washington club had crab of this kind
on its roster. an infielder. and not such
a bad infielder at that. Gosh. but that
fellow was a crab. He wrote it. Crab
was his middle name He was crustacean
from the top of his hair to the heels of
his kicks-crllstacean inside, outside. hind
side, foreside. all over him. just k-r-a-b-b.
crab.
Nothing could be done for or with him.
I.Iy,"f h, hay, 10
couldn't be jollied ioshed. kidded. or
connerinoed out of his crabbiness. He
! couldn't be bulled out OF it. He couldn
be scared out of 1t. Nix. Crab he was
loved il.
He couldn't endure the thought of being
anything else but a crab.
He hated loathed. despised and de-
tested everybody. He hated himself
He hated the blue sky the brides singing
on the boughs. the pansies blinking in
their beds. the tail-wagging dogs that he
saw on the street the ba bies in the bah
carriages-hated. loathed, despised EN-,
each and all.
of the fiftyseven varieties would have
tasted like jujube paste or toasted marsh
mallows by comparison with him.
Wouldn't associate with any Of his
mateys on the club. Nix. There were
all buns who were trying to hand 1t out
10 him. 10 pick on him. to nag him. TO
make his life miZZa ble-that was his
dope. That's the way he saw it through
the blueblack isinglass with which he
gaZed upon life and the activities of life.
There wasn't any truth in his dope. of
course. They were a decent enough
gang of ball players well dispositioned
enough. True. this crab made them
tired 1t gave them the tizzy- why and
the lid buzz just to study his crabby
curves. But they let him alone They
had nothing against him. They'd have
things If he'd only have cut the crab
junk and given them half a chance.
But nix He'd glom and gloom
around in dark. shadowy corners of the
hotel Hobbies. chewing his pepsin gum as
if he hated that, too, with hard. vindic-
tice. crunching chaws. On the bench
during practice or play at the ball yard,
he'd mOoch off to the end of the seat and
twiddle his thumbs and scowl-oh, MARCY
muh. how he did scow-owl.
Being the crab that he was took away
what ability he possessed--no inconsidera-
BILE an amount of ability at the outset,
either. The crab disposition ruined him
He became useless as a player. He got
so crabby that he couldn't play In ca
boots with his messmateys of the infield
He was noosance for sure. just dead
cumberland he had to be canned Last
bling it as a member of a skinned lot team
in little town that you'd hate to sleep
I'm over night. and all because he was
determined. dead-set and bound TO he one
heap big crab.
The ball club tina. has a crab on it's
membership list is doomed to disaster
even before the starting flag is dropped