The Washington herald., 1912-07-28
HEARD AT THE BALL GAME
By a Feminine Fan.

knees and acting as though he had St
| dancer on one toe, mimic everybody In
his neighborhood. talk TO people in the
grand stand, and jolly along the Wash.
| ington boys fast enough to take ones
breath away. I timidfy asked my crusty
| neighbor who the funny man was
| That's Dutch" he said. Guess you
don't come often not to know Germany
Schaefer." I>subsided, for / didn't wan,
him TO express his opinion of me. bu,
| the woman behind me leaned forward
| and said that Germany had earned the
! $50 given every player who hits the big
bull.
Somebody near accused a man Of steal.
ing a base, but I counted them and
| they were all there. couldn't help won.
iderins what they had in them, for they
| seemed to be both hard and soft al
the right time, and nothing spilled out
of them when the men jumped on them
with those wickec-looking spiked shoe
lets" that they wear.
dig 'em up. Ump. Get the stun ou,
Of the subtreasury." called a man &c
Mr.. Evans. when he replenished missing
balls from covered box sunk in the
ground near where he stands behind the
catcher. Refrigerator. you mean. They
have to cool on after Walter johnson
pitches EN-" said the man beside him.
I've heard that life insurance compa-
nies refuse to take umpires as risks on
account of danger from bats. balls. gin
ger ale bottles, and irate grandstand
patrons. and / can well believe IL. A
llusty-lunged fellow In the back row OBJ
tected to the umpire's rulings and hurled
this advice at him: You'd better hang
crepe on our nose, for your brains
dead" Another fellow was mean enough
to call him a '.potato-faced-pippin-
sneezer"
shanks Gets . Fly.
Once when a. ball was knocked 80
high that it was lost in the heavenly
blue. the gray-haired lady in front calm
ly remarked. That's a hoater. You
need wings to get that; legs and shanks
won't do" But Shanks caught 1t. and !
was really sorry that he did, for 1t must
have hurt his hands dreadfully. Tha,
same gray-haired lady had one Of those
advertising booklets containing q sheet
for keeping the baseball score, and the
fierogIyphics she worked into those two
pages aroused in me determination to
know how to do likewise"
At the dinner table that evening ev-
erybody remarked on how good-natured
I was. and urged me to go the next day.
The next day / didn't need a BIT Of urg-
ing. but was right on hand. this time
with q sheet for hierogiyphics, and sit
ting IN almost the same spot with the
same people about me as the day before.
saw Bob pitch that fatal game: heard
the gray-haired lady admonish him TO
tighten up; got acquainted with
-Downie" Bush's trick Of coaxing "the
kid" on his base. and the woman back
of me told me that Bob had walked .
man In on a home run. SO they were
warming up'' another pitcher. She also
said the Tigers were putting in pinch
hitters"
Thursday ''double-header," and I
wished for a double head to see
and hear everything that went on. This
time sat in the midst Of crowd OF
men. cigar smoke. and good humor, over
near third. generally object to cigar
smoke. but famed enough Of It away
to see what was going on out In the
field. even after one young fellow asked
another II he were smoking onions That
was the day, too, that man was re-
moved from box seat for rudeness and
three Of our own players were sent from
the field for tallxing back.
I've got to give up that ticket next
week. but IT'S baseball for me after this
instead OF ice cream and soda water. I've
learned almost as much from the game
as from my own children. and they've
taught me more than i ever taught them
Hereafter III meet the newsbqy At the
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