The Detroit times., 1912-10-07
MASH NOTE IS
SUBJECT OF J.
WOODS TALK
When Mrs. Gibson Interviews
i Boston Star He Talks Of
Love.
CONFESSES THAT THEY
SEND HIM LOVE NOTES
Woods Ambition Is to Be the
Greatest Pitcher of
Them All.
sv IpAH MeoLoNE GIBSON.

ASK Joe Wood about the girls
sending him mash notes." said Jake
Stahl. with a laugh. had caught
Stahl unawares and made him own
np that foolish girls wore the bane OF
the ball players life, but he disciaim.
ed getting them and referred me to
the Red Sox star pitcher.
Just then, youth with shoulders
OF a heavyweight boxer, the mouth
and smooth skin OF a boy, and steely
blue eyes which look you straight in
the face, strolled up. He wore rah-
rah suit OF clothes and a dinky little
hat. both hands in his trouser pockets
and a most engaging smile.
Let me present Joe Wood, our star
pitcher" said Stahl.
mo wonder the girls send you
mash notes thought j. but | asked
What do you say to the girls who
write your
Wood turned reproachful eyes upon
Stahl, as he stammered: Il pay no
attention TO them"
Where does the reason for your
paying no attention to them live?
was my next question.
That's right" chuckled Stahl.
Grill him good"
The boy-for the 22-year-old pitcher
who has made such a phenomenal
record this year is very boyish, turn
ed at bay and fused up.
We'll, II you mean the real girl,
he said. she lives In Kansas City.
II must have been a boy and girl
AFFAIR. for young Wood lived and was
graduated from the high school In
Kansas City. He started TO take a
law course at college. but as he says
baseball became rather interesting
about that time"
big league and he certainly Is max
ing good.
Continuing on the subject OF mash
notes. he said II can't see why
any girl should write to a man she
has only seen on the diamond, for ]
think that We in uniforms are only
surpassed in ugliness by the fellows
In football togs.
IT'S a funny thing. though. that n
fellow gets these letters just after
he has made good play. | have
doped IL out that little Miss Home
body is anxious TO get into the lime
light I'll bet she is the same girl
that writes to the man who murders
his wife or gets I'm jail for having too
many OF them" From which IL will
be seen that the girl letter writer's do
not get much satisfaction out of Joe.
Wood has an ambition to become
the greatest pitcher OF all time. He
did not say this while | was talking
to him, but could see II nicely en-
bedded in the. back OF his closely
cropped head. a pst the same.
II never touch liquor OF any kind
and do not drink coffee or tea while
I am playing ball" he said. Il at
tend strictly to the game, for ] have
seen many a promising player sen.
back to the tall grass because he
could not resist eating and drinking
with the friends who called him a
good fellow. This restaurant good
fellow business never gets you any
where"
You can see from this that Wood Is
nursing an ambition which II looks
as II he would accomplish. Holding
the American league record for pitch
ing. at %. after only two years ex-
perience in fast company. he is likely
TO surprise the oldest baseball statistt
clan before he Is 25. At present he
Is very Ievelheaded. very enthusiastic
and very much determined to play
the game for all that IL Is worth, and
he stands for a type OF young base
ball players which does honor to the
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