The Washington herald., 1911-11-05
With the Horsemen Marlboro Races and Other Turf Gossip
VIEWS AND COMMENT
Continued from Page One.

The minor leagues have been kicking
like a steer against that very thing, and
the national commission has a whole
book full of rules supposed to be aimed
| at farming. Despite the prohibitions, the
| Chicago magnate allows it to be stated
publicly that he bought the Des Moines
| franchise for the sole purpose of plant
| ing his sprouts there to see whether they
| would develop good heads. President
johnson might we'll look into these little
matters in the American League before
| throwing his bluff about investigating
! the way in which the New York club
disposed of its share of the tickets But
| it would be the same in one case as in
| the other-a lot of talk and nothing do
| ing.
Just how the national commission in
tends going about blocking the athletes
from vaudeville and newspaper work
may bring on another argument. No one
contends that such player contributions
to art and literature add anything to
| the gayety of nations beyond a half
! stified yawn. But this part of it isn't
| up to the commish; which appears to
| have enough troubles in camp without
! instituting a search hunt for stray ones
| up and down the road.
There have been more than two dramas
DdStu upon WI 81 lll6lItS bllSill NllShN u q
mysterious trunk packed with 1900 world
series TICKETS carried out under the cover
| OF dusk Ambitious dramatists looking
| for up-tO-date color and atmosphere, are
| welcome to the tip provided that Ban
Johnson hasn't copyrighted the idea for
the commish to offer unto the highest
bidder.
In the old days football players were
=,
day Unless a man was radically in
jured he was supposed to take part in
Egrueling practice every day. He would
have resented being told to take a rest.
Now. things are different Potter, the
tall and lank quarter back of the Har-
ward team, practices only about twice
week and Arthur Howe, of Yale. quarter
back and captain, has been in the sCrlm-
images very little: PendletOn, of Prince
ton has also been used in practice very
sparingly. The reason for the change
is that football no longer needs the rugged
athelete of former days. Speed is now
the main requisite. and a PLAYER with
speed cannot ha used as truck horse.
\ good bulk of space. piCtorially and
otherwise is taken up in depicting what
a great aid football is TO the medical
profession The truth of the matter be-
ing that if football We're universally
played the medical profession would soon
sink into dizzy decline. For every
patient which the mOleSkin pastme sends
to the hospital there are twenty to whose
allotted time Of existence from ten to
fifteen years are added.
Four years of football may work an in
jury to three in every one hundred. hut
in the survival of tn" tittcst the other
Mn a PO1IDtg for Np1lTb
which is not even to be tied, much less
surpassed.
Ping Rode has returned to his home
in California. Ping was once an iCeman
in Vallejo. but he never cut as much ice
there formerly as he does now. a big
delegation met him at the station and
the band played his ruVOrite anthem the
first line Of which runs Ping BOdie, he
made good. The golden West has in
creased its assets with Bodies return. as
h.. had with him $50 which was his share
Of the spOls from the White SOX-Cuhs
Series. Ting picks Walter Johnson as
the best hoNman in the American League.
for the reason. as h" explains, that john
son WAS the pitcher who gave him the
most tr Uble. AS a modest violet Ping
is a headliner.
Connie Mack. in Western newspaper. !
tells the following story of that great
hut eccentric lcft-hander. Rube Waddell. !
He says:
we used to put RUhe in center field 7.
when We weren't pitching him. He never
wanted to sit on the bench. and We had !
to humor him or he wouldn't have stayed (
on the lot that's all. He was a bully |
fielder. too. One day we were having /
quite a battle with some team. and RUbe I
was covering center field for us. We were |
being hard pressed. With only one out |
the other team filled the bases in the |
fifth inning and a brace Of good battcrs !
were up. We had TWO strikes on tho |
next man, and then something happened. !
A black cloud of smoke appeared in /
the sky back of center field fence, and a
little later a blaze Then came the clash |
ing and changing of fire bells and the Clat-
ter of horses hoofs. ] happened to look /
in tn, direction Of the blaze. High up on |