Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1922-05-12


ments OF government. President Hard
ing tfKes game. re attended the
opening league game here. and II I'd
said that he. yelled on, certain occa-
sions like, a blesfcberite \
The greatesr~ fun which Washington
ever knew In public life was the late
Vice President James S. Sherman. He
attended virtually every American
league game that was played In this
city until one session when he was
compelled TO stay In the senate be-
cause at that time there happened TO
be no president pro TEN OF the senate
to take his seat in the presiding off,
GERS chair.
Senator Charles A. Culberson OF
Texas always. has been fan of high
degree, and he has had a close runner
up for degree honors In Senator
Charles e. Townsend of Michigan.
There is In baseball hit known as
the Texas Lacquer" which is base
hit rather of the pop fly order which
lands just back of one or the basemen
too far for him to get 1t and too near
to the base line for an outfielder to
get 1t. This is not much of hit for
length or strength, but 1t is a safe hit,
nevertheless. .. l..o,j .,
Senator Culberson, 1t is said, does
not like the name of Texas Lacquer"
as applied to this hit. He has de-
clared on occasion that the state Of
Texas is 60 big. that home runs can
be made there without danger that the
ball will fall outside the state boun-
diaries. and that moreover Texans be-
lieve In long hard drives.
Longworth Their Alarm Clock.
Representative Nicholas Longworth
of Ohio IS one Of the house baseball
fans. When there are no pressing leg
islative duties Mr.. Longworth leaves
his seat In the house In a sort Of q
nonchalant way about 3 o'clock In the
afternoon and. saunters out INTO the
corridor.
: When Mr. Longworth gets mp 1t Is
noticed that a good many fellow men,
down the aisles in equally nonchalant
manner. 1t might be supposed that
this goodly company simply is goins
out into the corridor to get drink Of
water The Illusion. however, is lost,
for when the corridor is reached Dem
ocrats and Republicans streak it for
cars bound for the corner of Florida
avenue and Seventh street where they
watch the greatest game the sun ever
looked on.
In the days that are past congress
men have found trouble by going to
baseball games. Nothing has hap
pened this year so far, but 1t is likely
to happen at any moment Some years
ago when they were trying to put some
railroad legislation through and every
vote was needed, one way or the other
as the parties viewed 1t, it was found
that members whose votes were In de-
mand were absent. One day the speak
err called the sergeantsat-arms and told
him to take FIVE assistants and go to
the baseball grounds and there arrest
and bring before the bar of the house
every member who preferred the. ma
tional pastime to national legislation.
Members Sometimes Arrested.
The. sergeant-at-arms obeyed the or
der and the result was that about
twenty members of the house of repre-
sentatiyes of the American congress
we're led back to the capitol under ar
rest before they had been given an
opportunity to cheer the home team
to victory.
The Aarresting of members has not
been confined to days when there werd
baseball games. Once when President
and Mrs Taft gave a lawn party on
beautiful May day in the White
House grounds the invited ones. Of
course, included members of congress.
Now. it happened that on this partic-
ular day the~house was In for long
session and the attendance-of~ all the
members was needed because a vote
was to be taken which promised to
be close. The speaker called the ser
geant farms and told him to go out
and bring, in the absentee members, no
matter where they were. sf
An orders from congress is an order
and the sergeantat-arms and his as
sistants made NQps their Dhnds to obey
it. They knew where most Of the
runaways were, and so they stationed
themselves near the White House
GROUNDS and inside Of half hour they
had atrested~a numser of congressman
who were accompanying their wives,
their danghters or fheir sweethearts
Ito the White House party. Possibly
this would have raised street row
had 1t not been for the fact that most
of the attending representatives knew
that their duty lay elsewhere and SO
they did not care to protest too loudly
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