Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-18
BY JOHN ]. McGRAw.
Manager Of the New York Giarts.'
(Conyr,Rflt)

BY JOHN ]. McGRAw.
Mazeger Of the New York Giants'
tcopyrght)
special Correspondence Of The Star.
SHANGHAI. China. December II, 1917"
This letter is written as the Empress OF
gapan nears Shanghai. where we are due to
s-rrive early tomorrow morning AS the
.teamer is still behind Its schedule. not
-aying yet made up the time lost In the
raugh passage across the Pacific. our
stay In Shanghai will be cut short, and
re will leave that port Immediately after
lie game tomorrow Therefore ! VII
send along an account OF our experiences
n Shanghai from fIongEong. our next
topping place after leaving here.
IN exciting Incident which nearly
roobed the American League OF one Of Its
---eatest con- ed'ans. occurred Just before
20 left Narasaki y WIS rot any t,ntlaU
.sague Of Japan that was trying TO sct
Zig man. hit lie La and Germany
5c.aefer was the threatened victim
Germany" Has an Adventure.
While the steamer was coalng prepara-
,ory 10 its departure Fred Merkle. Jack
'sl,ss and Schaefer went ashore TO COM
5!ete their shopping. although thew all
.ad enough Junk by that time to I'll /"
1srdrobe trunk an6 equip the narlors Of
all their relatives WITH knichknacks After
she three had purchas ed nearly every
th'nx in steht they decided TO 90 into
osii!ard hall and hava whiri at Billiards.
'-tsy figured on hal ar hour TO KIN be-
.o-e returning for the sailing Of the
cleaner After PLAYING for tire Bis
5oAed q: his watch lust Ne"k'F wa
5ose5 for difficult shot. He discovered
his Sisr>nv .-at they had been p'av'ng
he game for three-orarte~s of an hour.
and fearing they might miss the steamer
-.ne he left In IaF.an, he exclaimed:
Come on. Fred or We'll miss the
Joat"
Merkie. who is not of ternperarnent
-nar Is fustered easily took his shot
making II hard drive and one Of the
rails junped of the table and rolled IN
re end Of the hall ana under another
.ah'e. None of the bows maid any atten-
ron to It. but paid thei' check and hea'
= Cor the ship, AS is generally the case
he coa1ine took much longer than had
Ger a1nounced and Nerk'e and the rest
H. crowd had time to eat their tiinHers
nd pass some time IN the smoking room
18th the steamer still at anchor
'.-'I think TIL turn In IS announced Fed.
,laally. Tn tired TONIGHT and don't
snr~ boz this shin Is going to act when
she cree gets un6er way
Japanese Board the Ship.
sc.laefsr was iounsine over the rail-
Itching the small Japanese men and
vcrnen put the last Of the coal into the
hankers Of the Empress of Japan about
III hour later when an official looking
:a,.nch came putting IN to the side Of the
- ner md three or four japanese police
officers. followed bv very indignant an
bearing native. hurried IN the ladder
Tearing wild iabherinz In Jaranese 7
EFT The s--oIr're -on,o whore several of
vg were sitting and hustled out to dis
cover what the trouble might be
"The- saw" explained a passenger who
.iss passad most Of his life IN the far Pa
c:ac and understands the japanese Ian
rguaRe that one Of votIr PLAYERS took
billiard hail TO-DAY worth 20 yen. and thar
20 must be arrested -
One of the small Iananese officers had
Germany by the arm. and you woul1
lerer have recocn'zed the comedian No
one had taken the trorbIe to explain to
5chaeser what the trouble was and he did
not aven know WIN he was heine arrest
ed. But he could see himself being.
dragged away to a Japanese cell while the
-sst of US steamed along 70 China
The say YOU stole billiard ball"
told him. do you know anything about
..?'
Schaefer Indignant at Charge.
No answered Schaefer "I didn't take
ny billiard ball There is ivory enough
n this party without me picking up sny
more. And I don't see why this guy here
f-eferring to the leading police officer
should be sore because billiard ball Is
Missing. All his bunch have heads like
hem. and I should not think they would
Miss little ivory from this country"
OF course the officers could not under
stand this conversation. or It might have
gone hard with Schaefer. AS matter Of
act. as he has told ne since. he id not
-ecail Merkle's final shot when he was ac-
cused by the police. because he was on
Ills way out Of the place when Merkle
made 1t.
rel them TIL buv them another b.
lard ball and send 1t back to them from
China Tell them that I'll buy them a
Shoie set of them. Tell them that I'll
ouy them a billiard parIor In Washington
ard set them up in bus ness If theyr
give me a half interest" declared
Schaefer. "but tell them to get of this
shsp and quit talking about arresting me-
: makes me nervous"
l.