The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-10-11
PETEY SIMMONS
FROM S|WASH
IS some FAN
George Fitch's Friend Sees
New York Giants Trim
Red Sox.
By GEORGE FITCH.

NEW TURK, oct. l1.-Whfle the
Giants and Red sox we're locked in
their third desperate clinch l sat be-
side "Petey" Simmons, now a rising
young business man of Chicago. but
not so very long ago a student at
siwash College, and one Of the most
tropical Of its campus exotics. .
Great crowd" said he as four men
raced for the last bieacher seat. zine
mess OF people for little burg like
Boston. We don't do better than this
In Chicago. See 'em dropping over
that bleacher fence like molasses fiow-
tbS9s sbos moson I've sc ra
can't. tell me that lecture here on the
brainstorms of Browning would draw
any crowd like this. Boston Is all right
6he may BIO little dippy on sacred
knows q million-volt ball team when
she sees one. I'm proud Of Boston"
just Surprising.
!. Il wish they'd stop scattering auto
mobiles around, and play ball." he
Growled a minute later as Speaker
drove on in his prize car. That's the
wOibt IuinB dDOut tneEt pOSt-mOrtsH
games. You always have to hang
around while they parcel out the auto
mobiles and silver bats and private
yachts. and country houses. .
Baseball makes me nervous It's
getting too wealthy. Suppose Speaker
should pound OF 5000 finger nail to-
night while he was heading up his
share OF the days receipts. What
y.yl, hax H.
lose 10000, four dozen automobiles, a
bale of vaudeville contracts. nine
farms. and . trip around the world
Suppose Matthewson should break
Nb.oO worth Of arm this winter. be-
cause nickers worth of gasolene
fhould back-fire. Think what II would
DO to real estate around l60th street In
New York. The tariff problem doesn't
GorTy me- but whenever s ..-o o think that
TO pay the taxes. on his ball park, and
that Ed. Walsh has only one money
"Oh. here they start.
Gosh. watch that man Devorc 20 to
FIRST. Has he got two legs or severn
He doesn't have to have a batting aver
age. He's got a Logging average OF
about 5000 foot tracks a minute. There
oBrisn stops Watching him long
enough to wink his left eye. he'll have
second. Looks bad. First man up got
q clean hit. In some towns i know
the fans would be starting home now.
That's the difference between pennant-
winning towns and others."
Marquard Some Statue.
Petey subsidized until New York went
out on two long files. and the tall. sad
Marqusrd came out and posed
gioomily.
Help Petey muttered. impatsently,
will some one kindly wade out and tell
Rube that the sculptor has good like
ness now. What's he trying to do?
Wait until Speaker forgets how to bat?
He looks fins leaning up against moth
ing. with his poor. tired hands draped
on his shirt front. but I've got the
o pose by heart.
''Ye gods! watch him stretch. That
ball will get dizzy II he holds It any
his mind to part with It he doesn't bet
II loaf any. I'll bet he's shot Chief
Meyers full of holes this summer. But
why does he waste SO much time?
watch Herzog on third" continued
Petey eagerly. "He's been making q
political speech ever since he got out
there. He's one Of those men who
and feet. That makes ninety-two re-
marks he's made to RUDE In. the last
minute. What's he asking him to do.
fight Mexico? He's pure tobasco. Her
xog Is. Watch him. He's mad al the
universe. I'd give lot to see Herzog
and Johnny Evers in talking
aSay, those Giants are pure fight
today. They're the fercest bunch
when they are ahead that / ever saw.
watch those three chaps after that
foul, watch EN- yammer at the bleacher
hungry for It? That's baseball of the
est-'em-up sort, when you see team
going after raw meat the way these
Giants are today.
ing on his shoulders and holding onto
that two-bagger he's Just cut or In its
youth? That's football nerve. A good
fieiders got to be cross between a
halfback and porch climber anyway
II was a fielder In one OF these new
the management put rope ladders or
the walls. It's hard on the finger nail,
climbing 'em without any hold"
II was a great game. perfectly fedec
and almost perfectly pitched. but 4
didn't seem to suit Petey' At the hftf
Zine game" he said. dreamily, Every
fne. Regular old master. / wish Il
would get littly sloppy like yester-
days game That was the real thriller.
baseball Is like humanity. You can get
It too perfect. There isn't any romance
p water. But when he sins once In a
while and repents the way Yesterdays
game did II keeps you guessing. Not
an error today. Nothing doing. Very
He stopped abruptly, because Her.
cog had doubled and scored and o'Brier
had gone up In a beautiful spiral. walk
ing tue men and filling the ba SEES