El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-03-13
HIGGINS FINDS GIANT CAMP COLD;
ST. LOUIS MANAGER IS FROZEN
After Blood Chilling Visit He Leaves Without Securing
Player in Exchange For "POll" Perritt; the Ball
Players Ducked and Ra When Apparently in
Danger; 1EcGraW An xious to Settle Affair.
BY DAMON RUNYON.

, sins. Failing to get Bescher, Mr. Hug
! gins viii probably be back aEain before
( long with a fur coat and foot warmer,
! seeking someone else
/ IT seems incredible that so small a
I man as Mr.. higgins could create any
great stir, however. he might slOSh
around on the surface Of events and
yet his arrival in the camp Of the
Giants was like the appearance of an
eagle in a dOvecOte- On second thought.
IL was not like that either YOU could
hardly Iken Mr.. Higgins TO an eagle.
Let US say. then. IL was more like the
visitation Of a famine stricken sparrow
to the home address Of a family Of
June bugs
Some of the boys went around and
mournfully shook hands with "Rube"
Schauer and babe him a fearful good
by, whereupOn "Rube' hid out until Mr..
Higgins had departed. Charles MunrOe
TeSreau was also fareweLed. but an at
tempt TO say a few last words to John
Zimmerman Mclean failed signally.
Not me- said the Harlem grand
marcher. Twice is all that town could
stand Of me, and this would be my third
trip
I'D like to get the thing definitely
settled as soon as possible" said Nc
Graw. When a matter like this is up
in the air IL gets the ball players rest
less, but il does not look as If 1 can
hurry il to any extent
Piez After SnOdErass's Job.
A long line of the boys visited Fred
SnOdgrass one at a time and solicitous-
" inquired as TO whether Sandy PieZ
got any hits over at Dallas. Sandy is
supposed to be hot after Fred's job as
Giant regular, and the papers had
carried the news that he got three
blows and practically won the game
against the Texas leaguers-
A new expression has come TO the
camp Of the Big City boys No longer
IS there reference to throwing the bul'
when speaking OF airy persiflaEe They
. ha nd Ia cry
Lower that bag" is heard whenever a
noble athlete begins to converse largely
The most surprised man in the Giant
camp these DAYS is John Honus LOberr,
the former Phil John Houus cannot re-
cover from a severe case Of astonish-
ment over the training methods pur-
sued by j Ohm j. MclTraW. II seems that
they do that training according TO Mar
lin on the Philadelphia club. The mem
bers OF the Phrayed Pills get into con-
ditiOn each according to his own lights.
I W0uldl believe that any ball club
had such a system of training as is
in vogue down here" said Lobert and
I've served with both Cincinnati and
a man has 10 get into
condition here whether he wants TO or
not
Cubs First to Train ut Marlin.
The Reds once trained at Marlin. but
that was before LOberts time. Miller
Higgins was a member Of the club
then. however. and worked out here in
1904 and 1905. There has been a big
on as TO the exact time the
Giants came to Marlin. but IL has been
definitely fixed at 1908. and it has also
been settled that the Cubs were the
first team 10 train here
They were not the Cubs then. and
the oldest inhabitant sets the year OF
their Marlin visitation as about 1855
After them came the Chicago White
SOx. and the Cincinnati club. and then
the Giants. who have now occupied the
camp for eight years. and who viii
probably continue TO occupy 1t for some
years TO come