The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-22
Best pinch Hitter in the
Country Talks About the
National Game
LIMELIGHT OF STAGE,
SUNLIGHT OF DIAMOND
Crucial Play In His Baseball Career.
What He Thinks About Ty Cobb.
Women and Baseball-Some
Other Things
BY DOLLY DALRyMpLE

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and the bats are all put aside
When the oldest catcher is toothless,
and the youngest pitcher has died,
We shall rest and faith we shall need
it--yes-need it every inch
For we'll always remember when 1t
was up to him-Mike Donlin hit in a
pinch"
Being a man, ] know that.
Baseball is a game played by Is men,
because they receive $500 to $4,000 a
year for the performance.
Being "a woman, know that.
There is a martyr called the His
Umps" who wears a mask both to
protect himself from hurting beer bot
ties and rapid-fire profanity, and be-
cause like justice, he is fictitionally-
blind.
Being a woman, l know that
The individual in the center of the
diamond, twir1ing his arms like a delft
windmill is-the pitcher" who is en-
deayoring to hypnotize the batter
into believing the ball is where it
isn't, otherwise he must go back TO
the Painted Ridge bushes
Being n woman, ! know that
The batter is the gentleman at
the plate, with the wagon tongue ex-
tended, and he's working like an au-
tomobile and no doubt shifts gasoline.
Being a woman, l know that
Behind the batter" crouches the
catcher," who is a peculiarly foolish
individual, gotten up like a mummy,
and who contents to squat and peep
on each side of the bat for two hours
per day and allow himself to be shot
at by the pitcher with large roper
toire of three-lnch projectiles.
Being a woman, 1 know that
The "rooters" are a sort of human
cataclysm who supply the calliope ef-
fects at the games and they are COM
posed of a large howl Enclosed in a
thin rim of face and decorated with
a fringe of wildly moving arms and
legs.
Being a woman--these are some of
the ideas that l have concerning the
national game and I've always been
rather satisfied with my knowledge un-
til l was called upon to interview" Mr..
Mike Donlin yesterday, one of the big
gest and most successful and most
famous baseballs players in the coun-
try.
Then, believe me. / wished l knew
"a little bit more than I did.
Mr. Donlin is a star" looker-real
Irish type--big gray eyes, long lashes,
and as courtly as a prince, and he's
1t, L.
about baseball he didn't let worry him
at all, but went serenely on his way
just as if did.
You'd pick Mr. Donlin out for bail
player if you met him in a church
choir on a Sunday morning.
That's just how much he looks the
part, which isn't at all
A second look at his steady gray
eyes and the easy swing of his broad
affirmative shoulders and his honest,
fine face would convince you mighty
quick though that If he were, he is not
in the habit of getting called out on
strikes"
Running north and south he takes
up about five feet two inches of space
and his one hundred and eighty pounds
scattered over his splendid physique
in such an even manner that he looks
like the superb athlete that he is
slender graceful, agile, alert.
He has a set af legs attached to him
that have enabled him always to get
around the bases without the assistance
of a relief expedition, and he makes
no secret of the fact that while he en-
joys the lime-light over at the Bijou
he thinks it's nice to be in the sun
light of the big league diamond, which
always makes him sorry for people who
have to go to heaven, cause they are
mighty near it--there.
1t wasn't easy to pitch the first BALL
l knew / had a few good points, as
an interviewer some speed but
erratic delivery, and that if I wasn't
on the job all the way Mr.. Donlin would
score" by quick fielding.
But I had hunch in spite of all this
that I could pickle one and put the
game on ice. SO l said:
How about a little dope for my
story?"
Help yourself" came the quick re-
turn, but / warn you that I'm pretty
punk hitter, when ii comes to an in
terview"N
wait until you get one where you
want it and then wallop it, 1 bingled.
put 'em over" said Clean Up Mike,
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Of Miss Carrie Boardman, formerly Of this
city, in Jacksonville, during their stay
there.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Jemison plan 70
leave today for New York to stay two
weeks.
Mrs w. w. French and children are
spending the week at Blount Springs.
Mrs. Charles II. Motion has gone to At
lanta to attend the opera. She will visit
her son in Taladega before returning
home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Schuyler Floyd and Mrs.
w. II. Gillespy have gone to Atlanta 10
spend the week of opera, and later will
go to French Lick Springs.
| Mr.. and Mrs. w. b. Taylor of Bowling
Green, KY, are guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
A.-Leslie F'ulenwider at Roebuck Springs
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