The Washington herald., 1911-02-25
By WILLIAM PEET.

By WILLIAM PEEIs
During a tanning bee yesterday the
subject of ball players and where they
hail from came up for a generous dis
c1Ission, and it was found that the Ma
rionals as a whole are about as cosmo-
polltan a team as can be found in the
big leagues, for no less than fifteen
States, are represented. and the nearest
approach to home is Kid Elberfeld, who
owns a farm in Garrett Park, Nd, just
over the District line.
A glance at the Nationals roster shows
that fifteen States are represented, as
follows: Ohio. Pennsylvania, New York,
Indiana, Illinois, California, Missouri,
Maryland, Massachusetts. Tennessee,
Kansas. Wisconsin, Virginia. Alabama,
and New Jersey.
Manager McAleer. Reisling, Conway,
Otey. Sherry, Corbin, and Keefe all vote
in Ohio Pennsylvania sends the next
largest delegation, in Street, Ralston,
Gessler, and Miller. Bill Cunningham is
the sole representative from New York
State; likewise Milan. Tennessee; Walker.
Alabama; Johnson, Kansas; BuSsey, Vir-
ginia: Mcbride. Wisconsin: Groom, Mis-
souri,; Conroy, New JeSey. and Somer-
lott, Indiana Ainsmith~ and Henry are
Welt, and Hughes hail from Illinois.
Len Stanley, a graduate of the local
sand lots and a brother of Joe Stanley,
the American Association star, will in all
probability sign up with JohnstOwn, in
the Tri-State League, again this season.
Stanley had a good year in the box with
this club in 1910.
Dallas, Tex, sees no objection to
''EIuggsy' McGraw, of the New York
Giants, using his own umpire down
South. as the following from a Dallas
paper would Indicate:
Following the announcement by John
McGraw that he will carry with him one
of the new umpires who will break into
the National League to umpire the ex-
hibition games the Giants play in the
South this year, some of the managers of
Southern League teams have announced
that they will not play if McGraw's UNI
pire officiates.
The same prejudice will not exist in
Dallas. Some of the fans would prob
ably want to see the National League
umpire work. None of them wants to see
the National Leaguers get the worst of
the decisions. and there will be no OBJ
lection to MCGraw's man umpiring here.
Il is probable that the double umpire
system will be used in the Dallas games,
McGraw furnishing one umpire and
Gardner the other.
Beanie" Walker. who deals out merry
quips for the Los Angeles Examiner,
pulled him a good one Of Jim Jeffres
the other day. jeff" be it known, is
not a taIkative fellow, and answers most
Of nj at i'm nv
A few days ago Walker says he went
over to 'Jef's" thirst-quenching bazaar
in Los Angeles to get some dope from
JEFF about his Mexican trip with Bar
ney OIdfieId. Jeff went through the
thumb-strengthening exercises by push
ing the button on the side of the wall.
Guess you fellows will cause some SEN
sation along the line" Walker led off
with. Are you going to travel incog-
nito?' Without batting an eye, JEFF"
slipped back, II have to talk it over
with Barney but 1 think We are going
to travel by Ell Paso over the Mexican
Central
The following is from the pen of the
veteran baseball writer. Elmer Bates:
Out in Cedar Rapids, where Neal Ball,
of triple-play fame used to play, there
is an unwritten rule that the men occu-
pying seats in the grand stand shall re-
move their hats. Generally the rule is
as faithfully observed as is the regula-
ton in the modern theaters about wom-
ems headgcar. But one time there was
an exception Ball tells the story.
Practice was over, and there was the
usual hush preceding the beginning of
the actual battle" says Neal TT was
he
jammed to it's full limit. In Cedar
Rapids the proportion of women patrons
of the game is very large, and this day
they actually appeared to outnumber the
men.
while the two captains were discuss
ing the ground rules-there was a big
overflow crowd-the umpire said to me:
Pipe the guy in the grand stand
with his hat on
/ glanced around, and sure enough
there in the front row sat a man weigh
ing, l should say, 800 pounds, wearing a
sombrero of proportiOnate size. Behind
and around him were perhaps 100 or
100 men, every one of whom was hat
less.
1.-The time occupied by the captains in
reaching an agreement as to whether a
hit into the crowd should count for two
or three bases gave the fans a chance
to take their eyes OF the diamond, and
the first thing these same optics became
focused upon was that big cowboy hat,
looming mighty large and pitifully alone
down in front Then came a chorus of
cries that could have been heard down
town: on with that Hdr 'Douse the
dice! Back to Texasr and similar or
ders were shouted in unison.
For a long nme the big man gave
no heed. He sat there, his elbows on his
knees, gazing out on the field. evidently
keenly interested in every movement Of
the players. When at last he became
convinced that all these remarks were
directed at him, he got up majestically,
and facing the crowd, said:
Ladies and gentlemen, do you blame
me? Do you really blame me?'
Saying which, he swung his broad
brimmed hat from his head, revealing
Uranium as red as an October sunset;
q Uranium on which from ear to ear, and
from forehead to the nape of the neck
there was not only no hair, but not even
suggestion of the fuzz that sometimes
takes its place.
The effect was startling. Men, women,
and children leapcl to their feet and
cheered and yelled, even as they did later
IN the day, when one of our boys put
the game on ice by hitting the ball out