Evening star., 1914-07-26
WATCHING THE GAME
FROM PLAYERS BENCH
Hidden Motives and Stratagems Ex-
posed and Temperaments Thrown
Into Relief.

Watching the game from the bench is
like lamping' Il show from behind the
scenes. You see inside base ball from
the inside out and vice versa. The ground
work of the fray is laid open, hidden
motives and stratagems are exposed, tenn
peraments and dispositions thrown into re-
lief. So. ]. P McEvoy of the Chicago
Herald sporting staff concluded to get a
few impressions for his readers. Here are
some of the incidents he thought worth
recording:
Umpire Silk O'Loughlin came over to the
bench for a pencil.
Gleason met him the proverbial halfway
and then a few.
"Whaddye WANT" from Gleason.
"I want to borrow pencil
"Al! right, let him have one. but tie
string to it. You're takin' an awful chance
when you lend an umpire anything
How they love each other.
When Bodie grounded out in the sixth
he came back to the bench squawking.
Sure orter have made that
GIeason-"You run like fiat wheel
'Why, it bounced high as the stand
I'll leave it to youse if it didn't bounce
high as the stand. How was 1 goin' to
make it if it bounced that high. 1 wanta
know
Gleason-"1f it bounced that high you
ought to have got around the field. Take
the lead out of your legs"
If Silk O'Loughlin was running for a
popularity prize he had almost one vote
from the Sox.
Hes mistin' 'em back there today
"Oh, wot an eye! You must have had
a bad night. Silk
'Mistin' EN- He amt called a decent
one today"
He amt mistin' 'em on the other fel-
lows. though
well. we can beat ten men just as easy
as nine
From the bench they Were watching
Bedient's delivery-.that was before they
knocked him out of the box.
when he throws a fast one said Reb
Russell, .'he always opens up his fingers
Watch him now.
Bodie-"Watch me get 'im They's no
pitcher what can outguess me today"
So Bodie went up and clouted one right
on the dial. Two bases! When he came
back: Wot did l tell YOU? He amt got
nothing. I'll kill him today"
About time you're killing something
besides tall ones" said Gleason.
Cut out the Kidding" retorted Ping:
Tets win the game and kid afteru ard.
Which is the keenest thing Bodie ever
said
The crowd came in for a review. Four
nier. Bodie and Weaver gave it the rund-
about before the game started.
..E"ooey." said Fournier.
"Punk-' said Weaver.
Rotten chimed in Ping.
Ensemble-"Orter have twice as big a
crowd as that Looks like st, Louis in
fly time
-Gleason-"Wotel do you care? You're
getting your envelope just the same even
bali we'd get the crowds" (silence)
Ed Walsh sat around all afternooi |
quiet, but evidently thinking deeply. He |
didn't seem worried and to questioners /
replied his arm vas all rikht. and he |
expected to work Soon- He doesn't like /
to be interviewed about his arm. probably |
because he: isn't asked more than Jco |
questions about it every day.
Some player got hurt and lilnped of |
the field, whereupon Kid Gleason looked |
at him scornfully and said: Nowadays |
when these pin-headed athletes strain a |
leg you can hear 'em squawk across the |
Atlantic They want trained nurse and |
an operation three weeks off. double |
paw. flowers and sympathy. In the old |
DAYS YOU played nfne innings with a |
broken back, a busted leg, i've Or six fin !
gers out of joint and an eye out. and if 1
you didn't bat 100. steal couple of
bases and MAIN at least three umpires |
they ,ed you thre.- months pay and !!
worked you double time for the rest of /
the season. Mollyccddles:
But the Kid is for the fellow who tries
They can try to stretch singles to dou-
bles and get caught a mile. and Gleason
will sympathize with them: but if they
loaf going down to first-good night and
good luck!
way Cal called the fellows in when the |
last man was out and victory assured.
Good boys" he cried. cheerily. across
the field. Come on home now and bring
In the bacon. It's all yours.
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