Arizona republican., 1920-03-28
M2ke Donl5n Lakes I'hls Prohibition Announces St0aad During I1ateruaew He Also Loses he F7omaly BamkrolI
Noted Baseball Player and Stage Star Might Become Second Billy Sunday if He Wasn't So Successful on Stage. Has One Game of Ball Left Which Will Be Produced Today

beiore this story goes any farther, ana It will be easy for the average fedder to perceive that it has just started, 1t is necessary to emphat tically state that it-is not press agent yarn. The story is about Mike Donlin alright and as Donlin is winding up an engage ment at the Eiks tonight it might nat ufaily be the opinion of most any one mat It was written by Mikes own pri- Vate press nuisance.
 Mike Donlin is worth a story any old day. Of course thousands of stor les have been written about him and it IS impossible to think up much that Is new, but in the course of half hours interview with him yesterday noon it was discovered-now get this because it is important-that Mike, It years a big league ball player, six years an actor and all his life more or less m the public eye, believes in prohi bi- tlon. Absolutely the erstwhile star out fielder of the N. Y. Giants hasn't talk en a. drink in 13 years. He always has been in favor of throwing out the standing bar. But-and here's another important item-he believes that light wine and beer are not so bad, and that IT people want them they should not be deprived of their personal liberty And what's more he thinks New York, New Jersey and several of the other eastern states will eventually line up m the semi-wet or damp column
 Lots of people who have seen Donlin play ball, or who have seen him on the stage wonder what sort of a chap he is without his outfielder's glove or his sock and buckskin. An actor minus his makeup oftimeS is a fitting com parison with a 49-year- social climber the next morning after hec- tic night. But not so with Mike.
 WSIl let you in on a little secret Never having seen Mike except from across the footlights there was con- siderable worry buzZing around in the reportorial bean as to how it would be possible to locate him. The engage ment for the interview was specified rather hazily as the Adams lobby.
 At eleven o'clock, the time appoint ed, the Adams lobby presented at least a dozen tall, thin, dark complexioned men who might have been Mike Donlin- They were all sitting down, reading, talking or just chatting. It is rather blunder and admission on the part of a reporter that he is human and like other people if he tackles the wrong man even though he has never seen him before.
 A process of elimination was started Let's see that bird over there couldn't be Mike, he is wearing spats- No real actor would do that. There's another one leaning up against the desk, but he looks bored and a man who has travelled as much as Donlin, never gets bored, especially in Arizona. And so on down the line the scent was fol- lowed, each and every prospect being worked out until by some hook or crook 1t was finally decided that he was not in the lobby.
 And then-in through the door swung B tall thin dark complexioned person. He carried himself with the easy swing of the trained athlete. He covered a lot of distance with each stride and there was little fort. His hair was slightly tingd with grey, and he had smile as wide as they make them and several times as natural. Mike it was, there could be no mistaking that face, 1 all the difficulties appertaining to the interviewing of the right person were solved cause Mike solved them himself.
 He proved himself twice as good a reporter as anyone present, for with out particle of hesitation he threw up his hand in wave of greeting and stuck out his badly battered fingers to be shaken by the awed representative of the Third Estate.
 How did he do it? Very simple. Mike knew he had to be interviewed, his manager had told him that and when he walked into the lobby he picked out the first person who looked worried and decided that there was the scribe who was worrying over how he was going to pick an actor out of crowd.
 Mlke IS d very nuHidI Soit UT d pSi son. It is very easy to know the req son after one gets to talking to him. For Mikes education has been obtained through studying the human element. Three months saw every day of Mikes schooling. Ninety days and it was all over for the Giants star, and he was thrown out on an unsuspecting world to be Q call boy, messenger scamp and finally an amateur ball player. From there the way was easy for him. He went up and up and finally landed