The San Francisco call., 1910-10-16
WHAT SENATOR GORMAN'S
INFATUATION COST HIM

INFATUAIICN COST HIM
Did you know the late Senator Arthur Pue Cor, 1,
when he d ball player of the first rankH"
asked one OF the group who was something OF base
ball historian
"Only slightly the captain answered Senator
Gormans connection with the professional game was
only of short duration. You know the senator was
page in the United States senate for IA years. begin
ming when he Is years of age. 1t was prior to
1870 that he played ball. for about that time he be-
came general superintendent of the Chesapeake and
Ohio canal company and the following year ITS presi
dent l playing with tine Athletics of Philadel-
phia that time. having only just got into profes-
sional lffe myself I've never known much about
Senator Germans career player and I've never
found anybody who could tell great deal 1
believe he with the old Baltimores when they
first organized
II once heard a little story of an episode of the
senator's early ball that shows what kind of
who had yet spoken "If you would like to hear
esty.
Let her 60" said the captain and the Others sig
nihed similar desire to hear the story.
1T isn't much of tale" began the narrotor, "but
1t made quite an impression on me when | heard 1t
from the lips OF the only person now living who hg
ured in the little affair 1t happened just after Cor
man had ceased to be senate page which was when
he was 27 and had been APPOINTED collector Of inter
nal revenue in the fifth district of Maryland AT that
time Git must have been in 1866 baseball was begin
ming to a little from the backset it had
tanned during the civil war; and there was nobody in
the state of Maryland who intensely inter
ested in the game than Arthur Pue German How
greatly engros5ed IN baseball he had become is ap-
parent from the circumstances going relate
There very charming young in Bal
tmore, the daughter of of the leading ministers
in the city, who had many admirers, of them
more openly devoted than the young revenue col
lector The affair had proceeded far that although
promises had been exchanged, both of the young
people had made up their minds that it only
question OF time and opportunity German made
of his preference and it understood by the
friends Of both that the matter practically set
tied
1T seems that the young had promised to call
at the rectory a certain afternoon and take his
charmer out for drive The appointed hour arrived,
but German didn't The young lady properly
disappointed, but inclined make the best of it,
supposing, of course that the OF the broken
engagement would be amply sufficient Toward
evening a, weary looking and disheveled young man
in the uniform of ball player made his appearance
at the rectory and demanded audience with the
,fectors daughter 1t Arthur Pue German come
to tell how it all happened
When he stood in the presence of his fair namo-
rata crushed and almost hopeless figure in his fear
and penitence he obliged TO confess that he had
been SO furried by sudden fill the place
of derect that all idea of his engagement had flown
his memory. The young lady declined absolutely to
accept the If you had forgotten me for any
other reason than BASEBALL she declared, might
shave overlooked it. but | don't care to compete
against such powerful rival -
The narrator paused and hicked the ashes from his
cigar
well why don't you go on?" asked the captain
why should l? The courtshp didn't" he returned
simply.