The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-09
CAPTAIN ADRIAN C. c.POPo ANSON
 MAKES A HIT" WITH DOLLY
By DOLLY DALRYMPLn

By DOLLY DALRYMPLE
 Listen, "fansl'
 Prick up your ears if you want to catch few hot ones off Pop Anson's bat 1 What?
 Didn't know he was still "hitting?"
 We'll It may not appear in the baseball scores, but he is "all the same-ee." l And I He's still batting over $50. too. just as he did in the good old days when that was his average for over 20 years. 1 But
 or course,
 That was before he was "voodville" artist
 The gallant captain made hit with me yesterday all right, all right For
 While 1t took a lot of running 10 catch the big baseball man he was finally run down between his hotel and the Lyric, where he is the bright, particular star this week
 Asked to answer few verses about himself, he threw open that fascinating smile of his and tried to hide behind the
 
 while that he'd never played in the lan- guage game. But , That's where he was wrong
 For the big baseball man can talk as Interestingly about the tariff. President Wilson, the tango, the suffrage question and anything else as he can about base call Believe me
 He's some |nterview-ee," He accepted IS out of ID difficult chances, his one huff being the Mexican situation. l secretly believe that the big base- ball man thinks the whole bunch of them out there are set of inheders, although he didn't say so.
 He did say lot of things, though.
 But there's no use sticking around cen ter field for this Anson gentleman. That's only a bunt to him. Sit on tho fence and try to nab them as they go over or better yet take a position outside the fence, As probably you older baseball fans recall, for Il long time Pop" Anson spent his summers increasing the fly" mortal- | ity on the right side of a certain Chicago garden, 1ourneying to the plate every now and then to appease his batting hun ger. It may be remarked In passing that when I saw the captain and his wife yesterday (oh, yes he's been married 3S years), we've been taught to believe that the baseball player who doesn't take chances is no good and if matrimony isn't the longest chance of them all, then r m a Dutchman. But you wouldn't wonder at the captain taking the chance after you've seen his handsome. attractive wife. He hadn't had bite of .breakfast--lt was i 10:30-and he frankly told me that he had swatting appetite that enjoys every thing, from a tender broiler to a juicy double of pancakes. You'd pick out Captain Anson for ball player if you met him in a church choir of q Sunday morning-I don't think.
 That's just how much he looks like one.
 I And yet a steady look at his steady, honest eyes, and the easy swing of his broad, splendid shoulders, and his superb athletic build would convince you that he'd never contracted the habit of being called out on strikes.
 As 2 matter of fact, Captain Anson looks more like banker, financier or a retired army officer than a ball player any day in the year. Running north and south, Captain An son takes up feet 3 inches of space and his 25o pounds are scattered over his fine physique in such an even manner that there is not a pound of superfiuous l flesh visible, but a stalwart, magnificent 1 speciman of physical manhood he pre- sents, which the passing throng along the street would turn a second time to ob- l serve.
 To say that Captain Anson smiled broadly as he lowered above me in his splendid height and looked down at lit tie mite of a me, asking shyly for 8 few well chosen words about himself would be but telling half the truth.
 Smiling broadly is his regular business these days. +
 He even smiles broadly when a narrow one would do just as we'll However
 On this historic occasion Captain An son was more than smiling, in spite of the fact that a mere woman had been sent to get his views on baseball.
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