The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-12-10

of the st. Louis Cardinals, is detective
in Toledo, Ohio, in the winter. They say
he broke into the business because he made
reputation catching men stealing second.
As soon as Roger started sleuthing there
was a noticeable decrease in crime in To
ledo. Bresnahan became rather chesty
about this, and some of the men who live
around New York by the dexterity of their
fingers heard about it. Roger visited New
York to attend a baseball meeting, and
his watch and pocketbook were stolen.
After he returned home he received them
back through the mail, with this enclos-
ure -
We admire you as a ball player, but
your work as a detective is crude. Just
to show you that Toledo crooks are bush
leaguers compared to those in New York. -
Bresnahan ceased to pursue his trade
as enthusiastically after that, and this
winter he is paying very little attention
to it because he is so busy with the
affairs of the st. Louis club, being abun-
dainty reimbursed for managing it.
Cincinnati club, is dentist off the dia-
mond, practising in Cincinnati. Hobby"
is said to be a very popular dentist and
is building up large and lucrative prac-
tice. He is also something of society
light winter and summer. He carries a
dress suit with him on the road wherever
he goes and devOtes considerab bic time to
wearing the wax off the ballroom floors.
1t was once said that big Larry"
Mclean. the catcher on the Cincinnati
club, was society man, and an anxious
reporter. eager to make a little extra
money. thought to write a story about
this ball playing Beau Brummell, so he
wired Mclean
do you wear a dress suit every night?"
Think I'm lucky if l have one union
suit" came back the answer.
Many ball players have become lumber
men. No, not on account of the construc-
ton of their heads. Frank Bowerman,
formerly the Giants catcher, is in the
Fielder Jones, formerly the manager of
the Chicago White Sox when the team
won a pennant and a worlds champion
ship. has such a remunerative lumber
business in the Northwest that he has
turned down several large sized offers to
return and manage the White SOx.
Perhaps the most peculiar profession of
any ball player who ever chiselled his
way into the big league is that of "Rube'
Ellis, the left fielder of the St. Louis Car
and playing ball ION the side in Los
Angeles when he was adopted by scout
for the Cardinals. Since making good in
the big show he has gone into the under
taking business for himself and has a.
place of his own in Los Angeles.
Lured Back to the Game.
Many ball players work SO theoretically
during their winters that they build up
businesses which require all the time that
they can give to them, and they retire
from the game before their time. But
the call of the game" brings
them back.
At the end of the season of 1910 Jake"
Stahl, the first baseman of the Boston
Red Sox, announced that he had played
his last game of big league ball and that
he was going to retire to become the vice
president of the Washington Park Ma
tional Bank, at Sixty third street and
Evans avenue, in Chicago. For some
time before his retirement he had de-
voted his winters TO banking, his father
in-law being president of the same bank.
Jake" Stab; was established behind q
desk, with a push button
handy to call his Office boy and a ste
right at his elbow. On the
door it said:-
y. Garland Stahl, Vice President.
Nothing about first baseman.
The vice president got through the win
ter all right and did pretty well in the
spring training season, having only two
Or three slight relapses from u, Garland
% Jake" But it was in the summer that
he attacks became acute and the Jake
Stahi, first baseman. began to get the
upper hand of ]. Garland Siahl, vice
president. He lasted through he morn
ngs fairly wen, but in the afternoons he