Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-17

there was a hectic spot on each OF his
cheeks and an anticipatory glitter In MS
lamps.
We'll" said /. you'll be- out yonder
looking that young piano-mover or yours
over pretty soon now. eh?
Gee don't mention 1t, Will YOU: the
poor chap gasped. I'm trying TO hold my
self in till we get the last man out In the
railroad train or every time turn ana
look to the west / feel like letting the
hull thing slide and beating 1t TO Wnere
that red-headed snoozer is Waiting 1oI
me. He's redhead. like his mother' you
know" and then the good fellows eyes
sort o. filmed and burned If L dldn nave
a kind of a lump somewhere around the
neckband.
have noticed right along. by the way.
that ball players, just like all other rug
ged men of the athletic type. are eX-
ceptionally fond of children. Lounging
around the hotel when they're on tour
they're always espying some Kldole
through the window and talking over the
young 'un's points in an appreciative way.
Not infrequently they'll pick up some tyke
near the hotel and haul him around to
the lODDY ana IOSS Hill III tHC az eAAi>A
play with him like a gang of over
grown boys, to the keen delight and salts
faction of the young un-for there are
none of 'em so young in TINS proao lanu
that they don't know when they're IN the
presence of heroes, and. of course, base
ball players stand at the top of their
list of heroes.
A lot of players-like Tenney of the
Giants, for one eXample-have large lam
lilies of quite well grown children, and
these men are Solicitous Ior tne euucd-
ton of their progeny.
81 have not had much of whack at the
education thing myself one of the play
ers-a man who has been In the game
for many years-said to me one day last
summer. But I've got three daughters
and a son. the Oldest girl getting on TO-
ward fifteen now; and don't you ever be-
lieva for a minute that I'm not going to
give them all of the trimmings that are
to be had by way of an education. I've
heard It said that it's a poor sort Of an
ARRANGEMENT where the young ones have
1t on their parents in the matter of edu-
cation. That. in my opinion, is all moon
shine. l don't care how much mine get II
on their dad in the matter of being wise
to all of the mental curves; and I'm go
Ing to see that they do get 1t on me In
that particular way. They'll never nave
anything on me. 1 dare say. in the matter
Of seasoning, experience and all That stun
but that's just it; don't want EN- to be
walloped around the world the way I've
BEEN"
Another player, a veteran with the Ath-
letics, was down at Atlantic City over
Sunday a while ago. and, meeting him
on the boardwalk, we took little stroll
together for ourselves. In front or one
of the nifty boardwalk hotels we heard
young woman talking French to a
French maid who was perambulating a
beribboned and belaced BABY on the DiS
plank parade.
THAT'S French she's talking. isn't ft?"
said the veteran player to me. told
him it was We'll" said he. and his
eyes were twinkling with delight. I'm
nothing but a DANCED old lump of bat
swinger and all that stuff, but say. hon.
brey, would you think it. I've got a
daughter at home that can stand and
unreel that French talk until the cows
come home? Yep, that's what I have.
She attends school at convent, and she
cops out all the prizes right along every
year for her French game-hits pretty
nigh a thousand at that French thing,
according to my understanding OF 1t.
Kind O. poor, Ell. for an old bOnehead
like me to have one like that calling me
by the name Of dad?"
And that's the way it goes. The ball
players who've not enjoyed the educa-
tional advantages themselves are mighty
keen to see to 1t that their own offspring
gain those advantages. Ball players, you
see, are up and down the country lot,
and they've a lot of look-around time on
their hands, and they have every chance
on earth to see what an advantage an ed
ucation is. They know. a good many Of
them. in their own cases how the lack Of
an education initiates against a man.
Most of them swing their boys along
toward professions. They want the young
fellows tried out lat the brain thing" as
they put it. The girls are sped along the
finishing route. I've been in the homes
Of some ball players that. for refinement
on the part of the families, could easily
be compared with the finest homes in the
land. Last year visited the home Of a
ball player in New York city-it was a
handsome apartment close to Riverside
Drive-where l heard some Of the bulli-
est music imaginable. all contributed by
members of the players family The
eldest daughter presided at the piano. an
other girl played the harp. one Of the
boys tore mighty sobby stuff out Of a vio-
lin. and another of the youngsters held
down the cello. 1t was classy music, and
you ought to've seen the old man lolling
back on a settee looking 'em over as they
played!