The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-19
FORGET BASEBALL
Giants Rush Into Preparations
for Winter Vacation.
Josh DevOre Decides Not to
Leap From Bridge.
(Ry Damon Runyonl


| New York. Oct. 19.-Having been
assured that there is no possibility,
under the rules of the national COM
mission, OF there being any more ball
games played this season in the
worlds series of 1912, Christy
| Mathewson, the author, has left this
island extremely flat and gone on a
| hunting expedition, denying with
grave emphasis that he intended pot
| ting any center felders or first base
men out of season.
Richard De Marquis de Vanguard,
| the noted thespian, is out with his
| states that he is going to play Hamlet
| eft handed. He will receive real
| money for appearing on the stage, but
not from us, oh gentle reader, not
| from us!
1t is said that Manager John J. Nc
! Graw is also going to take a whirl in
| vaudeville with mOnOlogue, and if
| the manager of the Giants agrees to
| tell all he knows about unpires and
things, as we'll as something of what
| ne thinks he ought 10 knock 'em out
| of their seats.
Speaking of umpires which we do
as inoffensively as possible. Bill KLEIN,
| the National League motion man, was
wandering up and down Broadway
| this afternoon with $1,000 in his pos
session and a glad grin on his frontis-
piece.
It seems that the national commits
sion intended paying Elem, silk"
OLoughlin, Bill Rigler and Billy
Evans $3.50 for their work in the
worlds series, but after duly consider
ing the fact that everyone of the ia
nous gesticulators escaped from Bos-
ton and the Polo grounds without once
being taxed with larceny, arson or
murder by the players OF fans, the
commission tackled $3.50 to each mans
salary. The commission will never
their from
the series.
The Giants will soon dispense to
their yarious homes.
Josh Devore. who left Boston an
nouncing that he intended leaping off
The Brooklyn bridge as SOIL as posi-
BILE. changed his mind en- reaching
spends his $4,000. Josh will probably
go to Terre Haute, or some other re-
mote western place out among the
buffalo and the Indians.
Charley Herzog, who shares with
Mathewson the honors of the series
so far as the Giants are concerned,
will take a course in agriculture up at
Cornell Charles is interested in per-
fecting a rineless cantaloupe for his
farm at Ridgeley, Md. Lean Ames is
going to Warren, Ohio, where $4,000
IS considered some means, but he will
return later to go to Cuba with an all
star baseball team being organized by
Bill Rig1er.
Several other Giants NAV take this
trip, including Charles M. TeSreau, the
bear killer, although Charles is first
going home to Perryville, Mo-, to show
The home folks some of the yellow
backed city money which he has pick
ed UP around here. Otis Crandell will,
of course, go to Wadina, Ind, for a
winter in Wadina without Otis would
lie a dreary social season, indeed.
Fred Snodgrass and Arthur Shafer
will probably go to their homes in
Los Angeles. Grover Cleveland Hart |
ley will just naturally knock 'em dead |
in Osgood. Ind, when he shows up !
with his Broadway apparel. while Fred !
Merkle will resume bowling and legal !
PURSUITS around Toledo. Ohio. Arthur |
Fletcher hikes for Collinsville, I'LL, and !
Arthur Wilson gives Bloomington, Ill, |
a strong play.
Ghadow of Mount Roubideax, at River
side, California, where he is investing |
in a grove of orange trees, and Larry
New York, where he can buy better
gasoline for his new automobile than
he could secure in Breeze. Ill.
Jack Murray has already vanished.
Jack holds himself in the winter some
where at E1mira, N. Y.
1t is the judgment of the baseball
men that Fred SnodSrass' muff in the
tenth inning of the last game at Bos-
ton while very costly, is being very
much magniied and that as a matter
Of downright fact the Giants have
nnly themselves as a team to blame
for not winning the series without
having to play eight games at all.