Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-08-08
PART /.

In this country, where everything
from the tallest skyscra2er to the
most octopodian corporation. is com.
paratiyely youthful. every man can be
his own historian. Practically every
human being over Is can remember
the early days OF something or other.
forward sooner or later to tell about
It. As for the older fellows. their au-
dience grows every year, and some Of
them have slipt so into the habit Of
constant "reminiscences that they have
lost the faculty of remembering any
thing that has happened in the last
quarter-century As Juice" Latham
says, They all do it," And he ought
to know. Hasn't he sat back with
his so years Of baseball experience
and listened to those countless ones
who know what baseball used to be?'
For in the line OF baseball these vol
untary historians are perhaps more
incorrigibly reminiscent than in any
other. There are hundreds OF yarns
about the old days, and one hears
them and their variations everywhere
And that is why Juice" Latham hung
back when representative of the Al.
bany Knickerbocker Press tried to get
few hints on antedeluvian ballistics
out of him. But Juice" was one of
the great ones In his day and an in.
terview was worth the price of a lit
tie coaxing The writer describes Mr..
Latham briefly: . "
AT present he Is not much to look
ADJUST an old man with rusty old
black suit, one eye useless and
bleary EXPRESSION around the other
eye, which gives him a peculiarly
wistful look Turn now to another pic.
ture-the Latham who played with
AL Spalding In the Boston nine OF
1875. who captured the Philadelphia
Athletics In Sand you see a diff.
ferent person Well set up. his broad
shoulders and fleshy face limiting at
the corpulency of these days, the
George Latham who spiked them at
tween the years 1858 and 1888 was a.
king in his chosen sport
AS has hitherto been intimated.
Juice was not very anxious to loos.
en- up. H..
They. all do It," he complained as
he Rugged his light coat around his
shoulders to ward of the chill spring
air that nips to the bones of any old
man-even an old-time ball-player. IL
seen more bunk from kids that think
they know something about the old
days than you could shake a stick at.
Then horn In and say few kind
words, and everybody says here comes
another old fool. Huh?
There's more four-Hushin' than
there used to be in. the old days. Then
fellows didn't get soft-headed from
wearing masks and lily-handed from
using gloves the way they do now.
misremember what 1t was we used to
call the guys with press-agents. but I
guess that's Just as well cause Il
wasn't fit 10 print
Baseball? Ne? Say. I've been
playing baseball ever since | can re.
member. when was a Kid 7 used 10
play in the commons Then played
professional In the leagues. and now.
that I've got to be a 'has-heen' play
It In the newspapers and go down tn
the games The baseball We played
when l was in the leagues was hard
work. and hard work. too, with no big
salaries
Il don't just remember how I got
started in professional ball We used
to have team up in Utica's seventh
ward that we called the Lightfoots. J..
Fred Maynard and II. Gilbert Hart
was in it-they're pretty rich folks