Evening star., 1914-08-16


.ASSS friend says, II wish l had your snap
GY" QG Nothing to do but travel around on the
best trains, live at the best hotels, with
all expenses paid and watch the baseball games we
poor boobs have pay to get in to-! have observed
however that ninety nine of every hundred fellows
who are tried out the job howl to be relieved be-
fore the first is half over If they last two years.
they ncurable, and from that until their fourne
obt. appears they baseball reporters.
Editorial writer's who corrugate their brows and write
scathng seldom known by the men they
attack Theatrical critics sit aar off from their targets
and any actor desiring to obtain vengeance must visit
them in their sanctums The baseball reporter lives
eats sleeps and travels with the fellows he crtczes
and not infrequently the player he attacks most
agely is his best chum. 1t trie embarrassing some
times to write of ones best FRIEND APoor old Jones is
about ready to go to the glucose works. His salary
whip ossied until it resembles his head, in pass
ing Judgment upon six-foot, acknowledgement
athlete to say "The scout that found him must have
hunted in Herkmer County, where the biggest cheeses
from. Judging from his work yesterday, he has
two hands full of thumbs He made enough errors to
supply national administration, and 1t IS evident that
he shutters mentally"
1t requires some nonchalance to write that sort of
thing about and then room with him. The vet
players do not mind It, Most of them have been
criticized long that the only way their feelings can
be hurt is to say they cannot hit.
Our Old team bunch of the best fellows that
stuck together and off, and the reporters who
admitted to full fellowship in the cate
CORY The other kind did not last long, either player
as reporter. 1t the only team | ever saw in
which the reporters 4belonged," and felt just
much interest if we had chance at the worlds
series money. There tact understanding among
Whatever player did none of our business
unless he got into jail the effects of what he did
showed in his work the field If fellow went out
for night, and thought it affected his work. we
tore the English language to pieces to get enough adec
tvcs and expetives to fit the They seldom made
any objection. The only one l ever recall was Big
H. Mo5Ia sc &1a Mall o~aI
said:
@Bill, got pencil?'
3Yep," said Bill offering one.
ooh, don't wan. one" said Smathers easily. @I
just afraid you wore all yours out writing about
We got along beautifully that basis Anything
they tried to conceal from were at liberty to
print if found it out and anything they told in
confidence sacred we knew all about the team
and learned more baseball from the inside than re-
porters are usually permitted to know. The team
winning anyhow and it hard to hurt the feelings of
winning player; besides, when any athlete knew he
in for @panning he simply refused to look at the
papers-which proves they were wise ball players.
THEN came Catterson Fitzpatrick had been writ
ing baseball for the Journal, and the way old
Xii could mangle the English language was fearful
and wonderful 1 think he used to take the diction-
ary sort out all the adjectives and expletves, and
mix them up without regard to any rule. His ac-
count of ball game read like stutterer recitng from
Science and Health One day he wrote column
and half and forgot to put verb in it. and they fired
him. or made him Sunday editor, and sent CATER
son.
The editor decided upon Catterson baseball writer
because he could write English. The fact that Cater
son did not know whether Whitley Alperman or Ty
Cobb was the better base runner did count. Cat
terson was little fellow, with trustfu, innocent,
confiding, and interesting attitude toward all, and
command of English that made the athletes suspect he
slipping something across on them because they
could not quite get him. He had written editorials and