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

often mentioned as among those present
when the scorer is marking down the
lineup. Said Fred Immediately after the
worlds series
Il am going to dig for California right
away and invest the money made out of
the worlds series in California real es-
tate. That is the great life-up at day
! light and around with the COWS and
horses and chicken
Il don't like that up at daylight thing,
said Josh" Devore. who was in SnOd-
grass audience at the time and is some
what of humorist. but that part about
{ being around with the chickens listens
good to me-
Clarke Griffith. formerly the manager
of the Cincinnati Reds. is another ranch
owner. having saved the money he made
| from baseball and invested it in property.
! 1t is surprising how many ball play
ers practise law durin" the off season
and make a success of it. No doubt that
comes from the experience gained in ham
ding umpireS. But, on the other hand,
haps with the end in view of being able
to take care of ball players.
Besides getting $1S,OOO season for
managing the Detroit club in the Ameri-
can League, Hugh Jennings has a lucra-
tive law practice in Scranton, Pa, where
he spends all his time in the winter.
Just to show that he is versatile, how
ever, besides the law and baseball. Jen-
nings picks up a few hundred dollars
each fall writing accounts of the world S.
series games for a newspaper. And he
is not one of those authors by proxy.
either, but insists on "writin his own
stuff
Il got so for each story he told a
friend after the last series. and / was
worried to death during that close fifth
game in New York for fear that the Ath-
letics would win it. which would give
them the championship, and my career
as an author would be cut short there
and then. and, worse yet, my pay would
stop, too
As an attorney Jennings really sparkles.
They say in Scranton when he has charge
of case and gets worked up to the
proper pitch. he stands on one foot, his
attitude on the coaching line, kicks the
other one in the air, and emits his famous
"Eee-yaah." After this happens oppOs
ing counsel throws up his hands and offers
to settle.
Eddie" Grant. formerly the third
baseman on the Philadelphia National
League team and at present. affiliated
with Cincinnati, is a graduate of Har-
ward Law School, and has a practice in
Boston which he leaves in charge of his
partner during the playing season. In
his case. as in those of many ball players,
baseball is simply a means of support
until he can build up a sufficiently large
practice to live as he desires.
Fred Merkle. the first baseman of the
Giants, has been studying law two win
tiers at his home in Ohio and expects to-
be admitted to the Bar there this year
Merkle has tried many cases in petty
courts and has reputation as an orator
in his home town. He is we'll read and
intelligent, and it is due only TO that one
incident when he lost a championship for
the Giants that he has been rated as a
bOnehead. Even Connolly, the umpire
who fined Merkle 500 in the worlds Sc
ries, admits that he is an orator.
Lawyers and Writers.
Dave" Fultz, who used to play centre |
field on the New York American League
team and was one of the best outfelders |
tiers and practsed until he had a re-
munerative clientele. He then retired
from baseball and is now a successful
practising lawyer in New York.
John NJ. Ward, once manager of the
Giants, is another baseball lawyer who
began to practise while still in the game |
The newspaper business is beginning to
claim more and more ball players in the
winter. Eddie" Collins, the second |
baseman of the Athletics and, in Cap
sacker in the game to-day" spends his
winters writing in his home in Lans-
downe, just outside of Philadelphia. He
has done some very creditable work for
magazines and wrote a story a week for
last winter. He is gradu-
ate of Columbia University, where he
specialized in English. --..
"Christy" Mathewson, generally con-
ceded to be the greatest pitcher the game
has ever produced, is something of
writer, and hopes to progress along this
line of endeavor. Mathewso1 has done
work, and covered the recent
worlds series for the papers in such
creditable style that the st. Louis Re-
public printed an editorial which declared
that when Mathewson had passed as
pitcher be still had future as writer
Before leaving for Cuba with the
Giants Mathewson started a series of
articles on Inside" baseball, the data
having been gathered from his expert
ence Of eleven years in the big league,
which win be printed soon and which