New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-13
Weather Chilly
AndLoophounds
Feet Are Cold
Snow in Windy City Pro-
claims Events in New
York a Frost
By Louis Lee Arms

ly agitatcd and the loophounds, so to
speak, are mentally looping the loop.
A loophound, you understand, is an
inmate Of the downtown section Of Chi
cago. where traffic officers blow funny
sounding whistles while streetcars,
brewery trucks and pleasure autos try
10 run over the pedestrians. The OBJ
ject of the policemen's whistles Is to
warn the drivers that pedestrian is
trying TO cross the street so they can
get II fair shot at him.
If driver only runs over pedes-
TRANS foot he is penalized ten years
and loses the ball, but il he can knock
him fat behind his own lines he is
credited with an official touchdown.
After FIVE of these lie is provided with
a faster and lighter machine which can
chase a pedestrian upon the sidewalk
and through the doors of a corner cigar
store.
Loophounds Are Agitatcd
A loophound is a gentleman who has
successfully lodged this traffic over
period of six months. II at the end
of that time he has lost no more than
an arm or leg and has learned to
sneak across the street before the po-
liceman can warn the enemy he is for
mally knighted a loophound. and after
that in oil strata OF society he passes
as a wise fish. He is somewhat Ike the
wise fish at Forty-second street ana
Broadway, only he doesn't wear ms SIS
ter'S corsets.
Anyhow. the society of loophounds
is deeply agitated. When the White
Sox left for New York last sunday
night they were going TO show fatner
Knickerbocker how to play ball. me
old man. they figured, wac all right
in his day, but he had put IN TOO many
nights. He had q sloppy waistline ane
had lost his batting eye trying TO PICK
out his girl at the stage door OF
musical comedy. The White Sox were
real sorry for Father Knick.
But, strange to say, the old gentle-
man hoped UP out Of his SICK ped
govt and everything, MISUNDERSTANDING
and bounced two off the visitors Jaw
Father knick's Punch
The second blow knocked the SoX
from the Grand Central Terminal TO
Pittsburgh. and they travelled the re-
mainder Of the trip on their own mo-
mentum. Now they are back IN chi
capo trying to explain how 1t hap
pened. According 10 their story, II was
a nice dav. with no hint OF trouble,
when all of sudden the grandstand
at the Polo Grounds collapsed and Tell
over on their bench. They can't re-
member what happened after that be.
yond the fact that a large NUMBER OF
Giants seemed 20 be running in the ul-
rection of the home plate.
As they recall il. one Of the steer
cirders that fell landed squareiy on
Red Faber and knocked him through
the front door OF the clubhouse. hsV
was in the eighth inning. Daniorth
has not been heard from at all. ana II
is feared ne is lost. The last seen OF
him he was running through the roo
Grounds gate mumbling strangely. ne
soe,nod 10 labor under the delusion
that Bonnie Kauff and Heinie Almmer-
man were chasing him with home runs
cd trin1es Poor fellowl No wonder
the bloodhound is looping the loop;
Hero their confident Sox have returned
home without even their health. It's a
nretty kettle Of fish, and the trouble Is
that the fish have every appearance OF
being suckers.
Glooms Greet White Sox
Contrast the arrival Of the Sox with
that Of our gentlemanly Giants. Pct
ure in YOUR mind a large warehouse
hacked with nuts and you will have
some idea of the way Lasalle Street
station looked 70 the Giants: mere
parading ahead. was the Little Ma
poleon. and he walked with Paruoh-
able strut. To one slde OF MN wd'
Trdoe NcOuade. with his smiling IurA-
;sb conntenence. and TO the other was
William Farnum. the actor. VINO owns
tbe Yellow leather coat. The coat is
no color Of the yolk Of an eSg' pu'
then Farnum is an actor.
II showed to-day, the weather man
aeamine 10 agree that, 80 far as Chi-
go was concerned. the events OF the
last two days were frost. ~,
Tbe snow rather alarmed Mr.. NC
cra,v II is well and VIGOROUSLY
Ln"u,n fact that old Sheriff Sallee ia a
~, weather pitcher he IS so lean
tbat chill blast blows right through
ono ,ec and comes ont the other ana
o,reatlv annoys the venerable SheriN III
e.rans;t II is a cinch that McGraw hg'
rred on the Higgnsport HueHlepeiI :
70 do his Hinging o-morrow, lnasnuc,,
az Sal swung the ball with great eeia'
on his last start here.
Sheriff on the Weather
"cberiF" we said, Twill the colo
weather render you hors dc comoat
~ would much rather take a chance
on ,be weather than that quartet on
tba train" said the Sheriff quIckly'
,hou,in0 ST once the wit OF Sheridan
and the directness Of BurFc'
"But no Kidding, SAL" :eturned
"vdv tno,y a NAV --'r lyed in 81
) Tonjs as lorr o.. .- I'D thinks all the
ia w. i, .~ Sweden and that
thew only ha,. LOW in way down
East" c,,u .uu.
III it is cold" said the Sheriff; strik,
ing a pose. Il will grease my BODY wen
with vaseline. procure box OF cough
drops and trust 10 Providence
We might have told Sal that Prov
6erce i, in the international League
and has nothing 20 do with 1t, but some
fresh guy would say we were trying u
cop Ring LarGner's stuff.
p Coming in on the train to-day Mr.
McGraw called his gentlemanly Giants
about him and told them that he
| thought the White Sox were bust. In
this he was stating what rs in all the
Giants minds. They are the most cor
/ fident ball club ever seen IN world
E series. Some of the aged baseball
writer's who have followed the Giants
ltor wears and won hundreds OF thou