New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-11-15
Bean Ball Serves as the
Introduction to Drama
on Screen.
GIANT STAR SHINES
IN MOTION PICTURES
Lovemaking of Pitcher Gives
Him 1000 Per Cent Average
with "the Umpire"
BY HEYwOoD BRoUN.

double strength spearmint that's mes
the best actor in baseball
He was not George Stallings, nor
Dick Rudolph. Hank Gowdy, or even
Rabbit Maranville. The praise was
bestowed on our own Matty, who is
appearing in motion pictures Of the
Universal Film company. Matty's first
venture on the screen il called The
Umpire" but IL Is not problem play
When the play begins Matty has
lust pitched the Giants TO victory
against the Athletics in the World
Series, and he and his chum, EDDIE
Shevlin, are discussing plans Tor
winter vacation. The pictures snow
that the PLAYERS are kidding back and
forth. and by and by Eddie says that
Matty hasn't got speed enough 70 break
a pane Of glass. Thereupon Matty
takes g baseball out of his back POCKET
and without troubling 10 wind up lets
drive at Eddie Shevlin.
AS usual, Christy's control was eN-
cellent, and If Eddie had not moved
his head no harm would have been
done. But when Snevlin ducked the
ball crashed into 8 window and vindl-
Gated Matty by going clean through.
Shifting TO the street, we see the ball
come out the window and bean Lillian
Farnum. Now, Lillian's head was none
too hard, and instead Of picking up the
ball she tainted. Intent upon the ar
rest of the miscreant who threw the
b.li noliceman rushes inside the
house. but the girl comes 10, and when
she learns that u was Christy Mathew
son who hurled the sphere, she refuses
to press the case.
We learn now that the girls name is
Lillian Faraum, and that her fatner
was Hank Farnum. q famous catcher
ba,k in the barehand days. Lillian and
her father Hank live in Hleksvllle' q
small hamlet in Southwestern fennsJl-
In reel . we find Matty and Eddie
!, Hicksvile, which they have plcheu
as winter vacation resort. II IS ia
This reel that Matty does his pest VOTE
in the love scene With Lillian. lie mas
not the fire quite OF Lou Iellegen' 'he
dash CT James K. Hackett, or me ease
of John Drew, but he LOOKS pretty gGou
"a Lillian. As a matter Of fact LliliAn
is supposed 10 be neutral up TO inns
nojnt. for Eddie Shevlin is also MAKING
love TO her. but the wise people IN the /
audience could tell just IRON me way
sbe drooped her eyes and fddled Win 4
her sunbonnet that It was cinch ior
S OF course. she vas kind and polite ,
r. Eddie. and jollied him along, put she 4
couldn't fool the audience.
Eddie was fooled. He proposes 70
her. and Matty asks her the same ques-
ton at the same time. having Two
men hooked, Lillian takes her tline
about answering. That was VS. !
enough, but she makes mistake T Mheil
sbe GOES and tells her father. HANK
FarnSro is a sport and nothing will suit
him hut that Matty shall play Win tIe
South Fnders and Eddie Shevln with
he North Enders in the town game
nevt Sunday, with the girl as sluc
bet (The mild climate OF southern
Pernsvlvania makes il possible 10 pay
baseball far into the middle OF 'he
LilyDby this time we feel that we
know her-agrees to the trial by pattIe'
like her father, she is q sport, AND
any way, she figures 1t as about ~ 10
for Matty. .. -oo1
II 49, audience learns that Eddie
cbevlin il second baseman. UP TO
+bis time most everybody had the ldea
tbat he was another of those lefthand
r;tcbera that Dick Kinsella dug up
down in the Texas League. scouts
would do we'll 70 pause IN hlcksVilIc
newt wear and look over that twlrler
ubo onnosed Matty. He held the south
EnSars 10 no runs and a few hits, ana
in the fourteenth inning Eddle SheVilh
knicks Matty for & home run to deep
centrefeld. A.. u,.4a
When Eddie comes across the piate
the first baseman rushes III ana tilahes
"a because
he cut first base. The umpire ~ no
RilI KLEIN and he does not know VIVA,
N do At las. he appeals to Matty ano
80 "You saw him. Did he cut first
DS That's uniting II up TO Matty pretty
A.rd Won see. because If he decides
.bat Eddie didn't cut first base nell
nose the game and the girl, too. AZ
least. il looks at the time as II ne q
lose the girl. But Matty never nesi-
tates. He gives his own ilrst pss {. pa II
hard look and says, NO ne oiun r. :
cut first base. but the plg' iuGSy 81.
couldn't get another mt OH lHo Inv ''''''
in a hundred years. ,,.++,,
:, and by this time Lily has no doubt
&c " the man who holds her heart' ohe
ynsets Mattv down in the apple orcharu
- ;rst like a woman, says, bet or no
bet she won't marry Eddie; $780,,
Matty refuses to go back Of the box OK
score, and tells her Eddie won fair Sl.d ana
square, barring few lueSy or O5vSH To-
have had that home run easy, but what
e CAM you you expect in Hicksyille? Any
. wav. the umpire missed one that Su'
- plate for third strike ed on IN tbinEs
80 ought 10 marry the fellow that
: won. even II he is a second baseman
who ought to be back in Class d.
All this time Eddie has been hiding
behind tree. and he comes out now
overwhelmed by Matty's unselhSh1,n,eess'
and saws for Matty to marry Lillian
Matty says he will, and he does. Eddie
is the best man.
The pictures only show Shevlin up at
bat once, but judging from, his form
he'd never have been second oasenan
for TIE Giants If Larry Doyle didn't
-. ..a4ar Nv, the arm.