Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-08
H|NR|CHS TO LEAVE RAID BOYS SCHOOL
Invalid Pitcher Starts This 'Dotheboys Hail. Returns
Evening for the Coast. Lost Son to Mothers Arms.
GRAY TO ACCOMPANY HIM NINE LADS ARE RESCUED
Recovering After Attack of In Physical Suffering Filthy
fantie Paralysis Conditions
NERVE HELPED ALONG CURE RELATIVES DUPES OF COUPLE
He Ball Agan-Popu tion-Maloney Boy
lar Dead.
Invalid Pitcher Starts This
Evening for the Coast.
GRAY TO ACCOMPANY HIM
Is Recovering After Attack of In.
fantile Paralysis.
NERVE HELPED ALONG CURE
Determined to Get Well, and Says
He Will Play Ball Again-Popu-
lar With Teammates.

Bill Hinrichs, the young pitcher OF
the Washington base ball club, who
came out of the far western country
last May with bright prospects for
successful career in the base ball world
but which was cut short by an attack
of that mysterious and unusual disea Sc
known as infantile paralysis, is SO far
recovered as to be able to leave for
his California home this evening.
Dolly Gray will accompany him to
his home. which is at Orange. about
thirty miles from Los Angeles.
DR.. S. Clifford Cox. the clubs physician,
who has been deeply interested in the
young players case since he was first
stricken, about the middle of July, says
that Hinrichs is on the road to recovery
and he feels very hopeful of the future.
When Hinrichs was taken i'll he was
simply languid and felt very badly at
first, but by July -, when he was taken
to George Washington University Hos
pital, infantile paralysis had developed
and his right arm was entirely paralyzed.
His legs became affected as the disease
progressed.
Determined to Play BAH.
He was placed in quarantine and every
precaution taken to prevent the spread
Of the disease and to bring about his
return to health. 1t was not long be-
fore sensational reports began to be cir
culated, first that he was totally paralyzed
and then some enterprising newspaper
man with d vivid imagination, as Dill
said today, actually killed and buried
him. To-Day he is able to. walk about his
room and the paralysis in his right arm
has been SO tar overcome that he can
sAove the arm and fingers of the hand.
Mhile he realizes he will perhaps not
be able to use the arm and hand in
pitching ball again. the doctor gives as
surance that with constant use of the
muscles strength will return and both
will ultimately reach condition where
they will be useful for the ordinary pur-
disease, during which DIR. Cox says there
is some fear of Infection, lasted about
month. Since then recovery has been
gradual and certain.
Hinrichs, who Is ardent in his love of
base ball, said today: IF l can't use
my right I'll develop my left and bob UP
again before long as a sOuthpaw.''
Hinrichs has been a good patient in
every respect. He has not lost heart
and is sensibly sanguine Of the future.
ed his face with smiles this morning.
and when the doctor wrote his discharge
from the hospital he was o>ite jubilant.
Walter Johnson, Charlie Street and
George Mcbride, fellow-players, called
to see him while The Star reporter was
present. The invalid is only twenty -one
years old. He had just finished his
course in the public school of his home
town when he came east for base ball
career. He is naturally disappointed at
the fate which sent him such hard luck,
but he seems to be made Of material
o
DR.. Cox Discusses Case.
Speaking of the disease with which
Hinrichs has been afflicted, DR.. Cox said
today: "Infantile paralysis affects pri-
marily the spinal cord and the peripheral
nerve. Areas Of Inflammation appear in
the cord, which result later in degen-
Grafton of certain cells supplying the
muscles of the body. The muscles cor
responding to the destroyed cells remain
permanently paralyzed, but the muscles
corresponding to the regenerated cells re-
cover their activity. Little is known Of
the etiology OF the disease-that is, its
causation-as the specific germ which
causes 1t has never been discovered
1.-The special treatment of the disease
is, of course, directed to the restora-
ton of the muscles, and the progress
made in Hinrichs' case seems to indicate
that the permanent result of the disease
will not be nearly as bad as was original
ly feared
Hinrichs is a protege OF Walter John
son, the famous pitcher of the Washing
ton cluo. ED the hard luck that befell
his young friend has touched Johnson
not little. The three players who called
this morning were more than tenderly
sympathetic, and their words of en-
and good wishes cheered the
patient considerably.
Hinrichs Is anxious to get back to
his home. and DR.. Cox thinks he is now
able to make the journey with safety
IF can't pitch ball." said Hinrichs to
the doctor, Il can pitch hay for time,
can't I?'' He appreciates fully the
gravity Of his case, but he has made
up his mind, with encouragement from
the doctor, that he is going to get ali
right again. And his friends on the
ball team heartily echo the determine
ton with good wishes.