New-York tribune., 1918-03-23
Camel Loses
Chicago Dinner
On Giant Game
Bets McGraw He Can Name
a Better Team in
Marlin
By Louis Lee Arms

MARLIN, Tex, March Thanks
TO Steamer Al Demaree, the great Zim
and sundry others, Manager McGraw,
the Giants and the accompanying news
paper men will enjoy at some time in
the nebulous future a dinner in one
of those wild Chicago lobster palaces.
When the waiter finally comes around
with the bad news he will hand it to
Monsieur jacques Camel. of Kansas
City. Monsieur jacques will then pay
the check and to-day's baseball game
at Emerson Field will forever be q
closed chapter
AS Thomas Aloysius says there is
one born every minute and two to take
him. Only this time there were nine.
Strolling in from Emerson Field this
morning Monsieur jacques offered to
wager the mooted dinner that he could
select ball team which would defeat,
runover and otherwise humiliate a
club chosen by John Joseph McGraw.
Mister McGraw accepted the challenge
with alacrity, and since Prince Henry
Schaefer was confined to his bed both
managers breathed easier in the mat
ter of umpiring.
In fact, they settled the umpiring
difficulties that have existed recently
in these parts by doing their own of
ficiatng. In view of the stakes being
played for, this seemed the safest way.
John Joseph umpired for five innings,
giving great satisfaction to the bali
players and no little to himself. This
was hardly strange. Mister McGraw
has been criticising umpires for such a
great number Of years that he knows
precisely how the job should be
handled.
In action he reminds one somewhat
of combination of Bill KLEIN and Lord
Byron. He has the firm tonal qualities
that are -klem's, and he jerks his thumb
toward the clouds like Byron. He does
not, however, sing, so the resemblance
to Byron ceases with the thumb.
Mr.. McGraw was aware that the en-
tire assemblage was watching for the
slightest sign of favoritism to his own
club, and he may be said to have stood
At the end of five innings he retired
and let Camel finish the job.
Monsieur Jacques halls from the
minor leagues. where the only differ
ence between the work of an umpire
and a burglar is the hours. In such
sordid environment it is only natural
that Monsieur Jacques has absorbed
some of the baser standards of morality
that exist in such centres as Kansas
City.
When he attempted to call Fletcher
out for interference and to designate
ball hit over third base by one of
his men as fair. when it indubitablv
was foul, Mister McGraw's team gently
reminded him that he must have bet
en- the game.
Call for Mr.. Sweeney
Monsieur Jacques loudly protested
he was only trying to do the fair thing,
and the Giants. or those of them who
were representing Mister McGraw. i'm
mediately began paging Mr.. Sweeney
However. no umpire's blood had been
shed when the game ended in the ninth
inning. as Traffic Manager Eddie Bran
nick. who works on the bases, has
way of disappearing Immediately after
the last man is out, and no one can
find him.
The score was 6 to /, though it
should have been closer. With Gan
zefs team IN the rear, / to 8, "Pep"
Young dropped fly ball in right field
and then threw over the wire batting
cage for a reverse English home run
for the McGraws. That throw scored
three runs and knocked blue leaf out
of Monsieur Cancels check book.
Even so, Al Demaree was really at
fault. Steamer Al still pitches with the
that he doesn't put any stuff on the old
apple. as we say down in the club
house.
Anyhow, Ginger" O'Neill was first
up in the eighth inning. with the score
all tied at IL. "Ginger' had blown
out two or three lungs during the after
noon yelling in the cause of McGraw.
but up to the eighth inning it was al
ways suspected that he could yell much
louder than he could hit.
But he snapped out line single to
left field. Swigler sacrificed and Pitt
famed, which placed Ginger" on sec
ond with two down. Monsieur Cancels
hackers were hardly prepared for the
scenes that followed.
Demaree Passes Two
In trying to make Doyle hit at bad
ball Demaree passed Laughing Larry
and duplicated on Wilhot. thereby fill
ing the bases. Fletcher then had an
inspiration.
Zimmerman was the next man up.
and as he walked toward the plate
Captain Arthur yelled: "Hc passed
two men TO get at you, Hfnic" I'm
Tediately the great Yin became
choleric. "He did, did he ?" he
screamed. "He did" reneatcd
Fletcher.
SO the great Zim hit the first ball
pitched for a screaming single TO left.
which stood two runs and won the
game right there.