Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-26

wished that day should be able to fill his shoes.
All of the regulars and the newspaper
signed the lower berths. There four left and
had to draw for those by putting slips into derby
hat the winning men getting to sleep down stairs
they call it. The of the recruits made to sleep
in uppers. 1t is ancient custom in baseball that
regular must always have lower, while the busher
must always take the upper One OF the ways OF wound
ing the pride of regular player-and the manager
sometimes does it punishment-is to make him sleep
in upper That hurts his dignity more than striking
out four times IN succession IN close game. But
busher must think of taking lower under any
consideration until he that all the regulars have
been cared for.
WHEN we had finished the drawing for the four
w extra lowers and had lost we were all little
better acquainted For fear that should be considered
fresh took seat by myself and began to read maya
zine.
In the at the time big, heavy set who
was formerly catcher a championship team He had
grown fat; but he was full of fun, and without
knowing anybodys name began to make us laugh with
his witty sayings Hes carried along every spring train
the young pitchers and to keep the club in good humor
One of the pecuiarties of this old catcher is that he
never gets mans name right For instance one of the
young pitchers whose name was Fulenweider was i'm
medately called Woolwinder, and it stuck Another
player named Groh called Grow, and the old catch
could never be made to understand his mistake.
Say young fellow, he said to me, you don't seem
to be having good time. I'll introduce you to the
boys" He didn't know them himself; but that made
difference to him. He privileged to introduce
anybody. He reached out his arm and stopped red
headed young fellow who was walking down the aisle
and brought him to where sitting.
"Red, he said to the other man by way of introduc
ton, II want you to meet Mr. Dash. He is of
new pitchers, and he pointed to me.
81 am very glad to meet you | said as extended my
hand which he gave vigorous shake
Same to you," replied Red with a peculiar smile;
"but think you liar. I'm pitcher myself"
At first this stung little and then laughed 1t
took me sometime to the point; but newspaper
man sitting back of me laughed heartily, and week
later | saw the incident in print You see, Red meant
that he and were both working to get the job,
he had doubts about whether glad to meet each
other each other around. He big, rough,
uncouth fellow of about my age. He told me that he
own-lot ball player and had never been to school
much. He natural wit, and his first remark is
but when | got to understand him became great
friends. His philosophy often worth to both
of us than education
"Red what the ball players call "stringer"; and
for awhile he told some of the most impossible
stories, which | believed and this always furnished
great to the odtimers For instance, he told
me that he raised in place where the children
not allowed to eat at the table until they
twenty-one years DID, and that they did shoes
until thirty.
"Yes' he said with great emphasis, "they make the
youngsters eat out of long trough until they grown
and can take a trial at the table knew one fellow
once he said who always looked forward to the time
when he could the table. The occasion finally
arrived but at the first crack he stuck fork his eye
and the old sent him back to the trough for
years
Of course couldn't fall for that one but it made
all laugh just the
"One Of them Rah-Rah boys?" he asked of me that