The Washington times., 1913-04-30
Accumulation of Double Head
ers Makes Change in timer
ary of Climbers Necessary.
By SENATOR"

PHILADELPHIA April rilaO.-Thorough-
Iy dissatisfied with the steady ac-
crmmulation of double-headers facing
his Climbers, Manager Griffith is about
to throw away an exhibition game in
Rochester. n. Y, in order to play on
one of the postponed games in this city
on May %, an off day. according to the
American. League schedule.
srring finds the Climbers in Cleveland
and the Athletics in Detroit. Both
these cities are less than a day away
from Philadelphia. According to the
schedule, no games are to be played
on May. g. Knowing this; MANAGER
Griffith has booked an exhibition game
with John Cancels team. in Rochester,
N. Y, for that day:
The heavy rain here. however, has
put an end to that. 1t Is better FOR the
big leaguers to make the quick jump
out Of Cleveland and Detroit for reg
ular game here the following day tnan
to try an exhibition contest or rest
entirely.
A link must be following the Griff-
mer this spring. First of the pat
comes bunch OF rain: necesslatins
postponed games, five of them coming
in Washington already. On this trip
Hughes loses tough game by one
run, the rain pours down Tor three
days in a row, Eddie Foster is hnaily
supposed to have typhoid FEVER ana
home, in the Capital. to care Tor MS
little een-month-old son, who Was
hurt i'm an accident yesterday.
A straw hat. worn by one OF tne
scribes. is blamed for much OF TINS
and this hay dip may disappear sud
denly before the Climbers reach Bos-
ton. tomorrow morning. If the threats
of the players count for anything.
Until this spring ''Zeb' Milan has al
ways been considered the champion
story teller in the club. but Frank La
porte has robbed him of the title.
Milan's famous stories OF dear old Lam
den, down in sunny Tennessee, had
everybody stopped till now. NO one
else could think of men hunting ran
bits and squirrels with nothing but wal
nuts for ammunition or OF catcning .h.ee
fish on a single hook or of catching n
catfish down in the Tennessee river
which contained nine puppies drowned
only the night before. ''Zeb' wore his
honors modestly Withal. too, but now he
has relinquished them to NJ. Francois
Laporte, mightiest hunter Of them all.
Ever hear of water turkey? qu"r-
led Francois. sitting quietly back In his
chair and inhalinS the smoke from
Hank Shanks' cigar. We'll. water
turkey is a bird that lives on the water
down at ReelfOot lake. It's something
like a buZZard. but IL has WeDped feet'
like a duck.
Ever hear how the water turkey
catches its prey? Well. about two hun
dred of them will entirely surround a
piece of water in a circle. Then. beat
ing their wings on the surface of the
water to frighten the fish. they will all
converge toward a point In the center.
The fish are all scared by the shrill cries
of the water turkeys and the noise of
their wings on the water and all SWIM
toward the center. The result is that
the fish are all jammed in a heap in the
middle and the water turkeys sit there
on the water and eat their fill.
Then Griff butted in with, But why
! don't the fish swim down? What dc
they. stay on top of the water for?'
| well. / don't know why they don't