Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-23
Amateur Sports, Athletics

with his stick. At home the knockers
have tied his goat and he makes errors
where he would make a perfect play
away from home. Give him a chance
and see him go to it.
Mel Nordlinger is doing lot of pri-
vate practice at tight rope walking
and Saturday night he gave a private
exhibition for a few friends amuse-
ment Mel has got so good at the
stunt that he can walk the rope back
wards and do the disrobing act while
on the run without missing step or
wobbling much. Baronial Long says
that Mel is a wonder and good enough
to hit the Orpheum circuit
Tom Stevens occupied a seat in five
different boxes at the Chutes yester-
day while the exciting game was on
between the Angels and the Cutups.
Every time an error was made by the
Angels or that the Angels lost n
chance to score Tom would move.
Finally he walked around his chair
twice and Immediately the Angels
made two runs. In the eighth ana
ninth innings he walked around his
chair so often in his efforts at pulling
over the winning run that he almost
became dizzy. Hen told him to go
rent a theater if he wanted to perform
or get into a cage and play lion. Tom
got angry at this witticism at his eX-
pense and crossed his fingers and spat
upon the press box table just to put
the jinks on his dear Angel band to
spite Hen.
Finney has not been a success as an
umpire in the southland and the fans
will be pleased tomorrow afternoon to
see some other Indicator man on the
job. His decisions on balls and strikes
have been remarkably poor for the last
fortnight and it looks like time for
him to try to improve in some other
Coast league city for awhile. 1t seems
strange that Frisco is permitted to hog
everything in the desirable line. 1t re-
quires two umpires to give the Seals
a chance to win, but one is considered
enough for Los Angeles and Portland.
1t is about time to start another row,
and unless Los Angeles and Vernon
get a fair shake from the league, that
row will be Forthcoming.
Baron Long left last night for home.
Somebody asked him last evening
where he was going and he said: Il
am going out on the Lark this even
ing" The fellow to whom the truth
full statement was made misconstrued
it and said: why, Baron, I thought
you were on the wagon!" He is, since
Saturday night. News that he is fig
uring on coming back to Los Angeles
after the legislature adiourns a year
hence and get back in the fight game
here caused a little flutter among his
friends in the southland.
Jack Ripper, who has been visiting
his pal, Jeffries, for a fortnight, will
be back on the job tomorrow some
time That is, he will if he does not
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such a fine time and wants to put in
as much time as possible with his
partner that it may be he will not
change his mind. He has been hav-
ing such a fine time and wants to put
in as much time as possible with his
partner that it may be he will not find
it easy to break away just yet All
those who want to be convinced that
Jeff will kill the coon July should
apply to Kip for information as to the
condition of the big boy. He gets so
excited when talking about Jeff and
his enthusiasm runs so high that he
hardly can roll the words out with
proper spacing, making articulation
rather indistinct.
Charles Spielman Is quite a charac-
ter in his way. He is an A. d. T.
now and has been with the
company for several years, working
in nearly all the large cities of the
country before coming to Los Angeles.
He was known as the king of the mes
sengers down in Wall street. where
he often carried thousands of dollars
from brokers' offices to banks and
other offices, but says that he has
stuck here longer than in any other
city and intends to stay as long as he
can hold his job, which probably will
be until he is retired on a pension.
No. 35 is about the best known mes
senger boy in the city and Supt ]. f.
Krause is a bit proud of the record of
the young man.