The Alaska citizen., 1913-12-01

troubled those happy -go-lucky atn. letes t. finish in the second division Some horses must r,u with the Iaacemakers; others mus rail in the dust. Eve.y town cannot have a first-division club, else where would be the yearly pennaut race? Some clubs must lose the games which the leaders VII. and the Ponies were a permanent sacrifice. They had been i'll the second diyisi n for so many years that it hal become q habi.-
 Monk" Lawson was he manager. Monk ls retired pitcher-a ma-- vel in his day-Nha did Bot believe that 1 made for the health of q club 0 have teo many married men upon its pay roll This Is a poiH; up Il which many Wise managers do not agree with MT. Lawson. Some of them prefer married men he more extensively married the better. II is all matter O: taste. as the bashful curate sa d when he spill sd the mustard into his tea.
 Monk believed in unat ached young men, with no family cares to snatch al their flying feet He Hls no wam- an hater. was Monk He often said that women were all right in the proper place. but he held that the Pullman car of q big-leaguc team on tour was not the proper place Again there are managers who do not agree-first-d vision managers at that. There is mighty little sen i ment in baseball-if by sentiment you mean the gOo-eoo grille in the grand stand who inspires the hero 10 knock the ball over he fence but there are many ball players wives who take an ntelItgently keea interest i'll their husbands work. and know as much about the game as the m-st rabid fan thaJ ever parked for an umpire's blood.
 There were times when Mouk conquered his prejudice as. for in- stance. when he signed Charlie O'Malley. the famous flash of light ming who operated left fell for two seasons, and left such gap behind him when he cleaned the traps out of his locker and turnel his back on brilliaa. career
 "Marr1ed2" asked Monk.
 "M-m-m, yes"
 "YCur wife a fan"
 Never saw ball game in her life! She wouldn't know bunt from a balk"
 Monk heaved a sigh of relief, and placed his crooked foref nger upon a dotted line
 Here's where you sign" he said
 Yes, Charlie O'Malley had d wife. He had not had her very long when he came under Monk I.awson's man agement, being, as the saying goes, in the second quarter Of the honey moon Mrs. OMalley was what hey husband would have called some woman None of that delicate, clinging-ivy business abou: her,
 Before Rather ne Jamieson under took the position of general manager of Charles O'Malley she had earn, ed her own living. and, in addition to this, she had found time to join several women's clubs of the sort where maiden ladies lecture mothers upon infant culture and kindred subjects Mrs O'Malley was f rm believer ill votes for women, and a valiant warrioress for what she con sidered to be the common g cd"
 You may wonder how it happened that such woman should have mar. ried a professional ball player. Look around you at the pairs travelling In double harness, and you will be forced to enc Of tHo conclusions namely, that Danl Cupid s CD a very careless, or @ a most indiffer, ent marksman q beg that you will not run away with the idea that the professional ball player of the period l. not mentally morally, and physi- cally the peer of any young man, whatever his calling. It is only that women of Mrs. O'Malley's kind do net usually thinks this to be the case.)
 And then, if you are still feeling around for mitiga ing circumstances, Charlie OMalley was a handsome wretch. That counts in the matri- monial handicap even when the lady in the case is hopelessly high brow" Many a man wins a perman- ent boarder on his hair, teeth, and complexion. + more men were bald, for instance, there would be fewer marriages.
 Charlie O'Malley was not paricul- er,V, clever, but he was clever enough to realize that his lady wife was not at all like most of the women he had met. He was also wise enough to point out that baseball was a profession. and he laid stress up. on the point that nine-tenths of the big leaguers were college grad uates. (O'Malley began his career