The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-10-19
HUMAN SIDE OF
BALL PLAYERS
DEMAND BEST ACCOMMODATIONS
AVAILABLE IN sEASON-LlvE
cHEAPLY AT OWN
EXPENSE.

zone of the merriest things I'm base
bal." says Frank Chance, ''is-to my
mind. at Ieast-the difference I'm the
hotel and living Accommodations which
hail player will demand i'm the diff
Terent seasons OF the year. OF course.
being a ball player myself. | have To
stick up for the boys during the play
ing season, and to see that they really
get the best that the market can aft
ord but there are some rich bits of
comedy in 1t just the same.
Take, for example, young MIR. Jones.
pitcher new signed by one of the big
league clubs. Mr.. Jones Is fresh from
the backwoods, and I'm his little league
the manager of the club Thought he
was doing the royal thing when he
stabbed the boys at a hotel that ohaIg-
ed them 81 per day. Young Mr. Jones
Is an intelligent, likable athlete, and
one of the veterans. Bill SlSink, the
shortstop, takes a fancy to him.
MIR. SlIinlI proceeds to instruct Mr..
Jones as to the things Il big league ball
player has the right TO expect and to
,emand-especially to demand. The
Youngsters eyes bulge out for a day or
two and then he falls quite naturally
into the ways laid down for him by
his mentor. Any man will gladly fall
into any groove that means an expect
ancy of better eats and sleeps than he
has been receiving-if it was the other
way he'd be extremely slow to learn.
by the time May l arrives, Mr..
Jones fumes and frets If the consom-
me is not steaming hot, and raises a
rough house i'm the dinning-room
when the Neapolitan ice cream is a
tribe melted. He also rags like n
Gagged hyena If his room isn't an out
side room and contiguous TO the eleva-
tor. Pierpont Morgan. paying $1,000
a day for a suite, couldn't want more,
ask more, or insist on getting more
than is the demanded by young Mr..
Jones And every player on the team
backs him up I'm his requests, while
old Blk Skinls grinninsiy says That's
right kid The club gifts enough out
OF us as it is. Don't you let 'en bullcon
yuh-never forget that yuhre a big
league ball player. and that big
Lacquer is entitled to the best there is.
october comes and the season
draws near an end. The boys meet in
the clubhouse and begin to plan out {
terrific incursion into the jay ham
lots-a two weeks trip that ought e
yield at least $97.SS of extra coin. Mr.
Sknk is going to manage the tour
and Mr.. Jones, by virtue of his hav
ing had a collegiate education, is un
animousy appointed secretary ant
treasurer. The whole gag assemble
TO discuss ways, means and probable
finances.
"'Now fellers.' says Mr.. Skink 4
we take the D. m. train to this frs
stop the farrell be 1891 each and tn
sleeper is 81
"A howl of protest from the ganl
Aw, nix, nix on that sleeper thing
Bill cries Catcher Hoxx. We kin pla
poker just as wells not, and put the s
in our jeans
Without q dissenting vote II !
there and then agreed that there wi
Nv eiNNpti uotu oil tht NiiHs ~
they debate hotels.
We kin stop at the Ambodar
house. Says Mr.. Jones, for $3.50
day. Another unanimous howl.
Cut out the fancy hotel thing
bawls Left fielder Swizzle. We'll sta
at the Dooley lodging house, one bea
each, and If we eat at the lunch room
We can plant rs cents easy, every day
1T is agreed to eat at the lunc
rooms, and that no player shall Ia
The treasury for over 25 cents per mea
ana then those pampered young mel
VINO howl like wolves IL stabbed at n
expense Of less than $3.50 per day fror
April to October. and who rage man
"cally about upper berths, go fortl
camping in ninth-rate shacks. catin
at quick lunch rooms, and sitting mp a
hsht ON their railway tours. They ar
saving money see? That is the Who'll
story. Human nature Is human natur
everywhere"