The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-02-11
MakesInterestingC Comments
to RefOrmer Man at
Auditorium
ONCE CANDIDATE FOR
BRATTLEBORO TEAM
But Tom Dowd Came Along With More
Dough-Fornerly Tended Bats for
Gene Tansey, Now of Brattleboro--
Often Mistaken. for Mascot.

Between times while rabbit" Maran-
vile, the Boston Braves shortstop, was
running over with the accompanist III the
Auditorium yesterday afternoon the songs
be sang last evening, lac commented TO a
Reforner representative on his first at
tempt to break into Vermont.
1T was back in 1911" he said when
| first tried to get into this state. | want
ed to play baseball in Brattleboro, or any
where else for that matter, SO | wrote to
probably a half dozen managers OF indie
pendent teams. Big BIZ Luby, / re-
member, suggested that | write to Man
ager Breckenridge here and | did 50.
II was about ready to close with him at
the figures he offered when along came
Tom Dowd He told me all about the sea-
shore resorts. and the side trips that
would come my way II / signed with New
| Bedford. the team he was managing. On
| top of that he offered me $50 more Il
month than ] was offered here in this
town | don't know what influenced me
| the most, the $50 per or the beaches, but
anyway | went to New Bedford
It's funny but until this afternoon
| had never set foot in Vermont ] tried to
come To this town to play ball four years
| ago, and now when do get here it is to
| take part in a minstrel shOw | have been
working in vaudeville from Nov. 3 to q
week ago last Saturday night and have
played every state in New England eX-
| cept Vermont. also in New York city and
Philadelphia. They want me back in Phil
adelphia next week, but | plan for a
months layotf before the training season
opens. We start south the 9th and
there will be month of work there
L have taken a few shots at the basket
in basketball the last week and my wind
IS us good as ever. Three days of work in
the South will put me i'll shape to 90 any
pace they want to set from then until the
last bell rings next fall.
I've got to go down and see Gene Tan
sey. ] used to tend bats for hun IL
| Springfield when he was a member of thai
aeam back in 1895. / haven't seen mucl
of him lately, but I've got a message t.
deliver to him and when | get that off lny
mind / want to fan with him a little abou
he days when he was pulling off circu
catches i'll eenterfeld and [ was kccpin;
ais bats in order for him to unload hi
IN his next trip to the plate.
Gene is no giant, but when | brok
nto the game the crowd never would be
ieve l was anything but the mascot or tn
Dat boy until / got out ON the field to pla
the game. At first when | worked on
n practice they used to think was dom
1t just for minute or two and the regula
man for the position would kick me on
7f the way. But | stuck to it and som
people have begun to believe | have got b
The bat-boy age. | don't. know whether
can put it over on Gene, but | am goin
to try to-
J Being told that the house had been sol
out practically for both nights, Maral
l willie remarked that he was not DO
ng as q wonder on the stage but he woul
t try and put something across tha
e would please some of them He said h
Il never used makeup on his face, that the
4 lad to take his looks as they grew ma
4 arally At Keith's theater in Boston /
/ vas informed that he would be obliged
put on makeup if he was to appear an
7 MS reply was cancel the contract then
o. He appeared and made big hit with h
r. natter and the topical verses to his song
y which pertain to baseball and which |
u gave here last night Just as ne has bee
doing for months on the big vaudeville ci
- cults.