The Washington times., 1922-10-06

utility outfielder for the AtheniLn
Red Sox centuries ago. How he
could associate love with umpires
is mystifying. but Socrates WAS not
present yesterday when even an
jumps father hated his son.
When Umps HiIdebrand called the
game on account of darkness such
a wall was slappcd against the At
lantlC seabOard as would make the
lancntation OF >Icrcmiah seem like
a pacn of JOY in comparison.
IIiIdebrand is modern Diogenes,
who needs lamp in daylight. so
the fans quOth right Justify Did
they cry? Coyotes in Death Valley:
the Bronx zoos nifty-nosed eleDhan ,
"khartoun:" lions in the Congo
warhling to their mates: the United
States Marine Band playing out of
tune; Volleys at Valley Forge; the
siege OF Moscow; the snorcs of Rip
Van Wrinkle i'm his first year OF
slumbcr; the cry of lost child in
Gimbel's corset department; the
banging of electric light globes in
court yards of New York apart.
ments; the delicate hum of voices
from Bellevue's PsyCopathiC ward:
bedlam on Saturday night: Babel
and it's tower the day the briCklay.
ers declared a strike; a parade Of
the flat-wheelcd street cars on Am.
st"rdam avenue; four alarm fire in
Wall street: the Titanic kissing the
icoberg-all these and more.
AhnNn
sOnOrOus, all but unanimous. thun-
d"rinG. revrrbcrating. Cataclysmic
boo" regardless of prohibition. tn"
boys were chuck fun of "boos." All
the boOs that had been laid by in
summertime to be expended on the
coal man in winter were unloosed.
All the boOs that ever were were
disinterred. There had been boos
for Barnes when he walked the big
Babe There had been a drum fire
of sporadic bOos for various and sun.
dry baseball offenses. But the
worlds brown derby winner in the
boo circuit was introduced when
Umpire Hildebrand, with one fell
gesture of his knife hand, said that
twilight shadows were too deep.
II was right then that w. Shakes
pearc. reporting the game for the
Terre Haute Blizzard. flashed the re.
port to his paper that Macbeth had
murdered sleep.
Known to the modern fancy as the
rOlliCking raspberry. that fruit was
called by the Latins the "Rubus
idaCous." At the breakfast table,
the Rubus idaeous is luscious offer.
ing, not without a subtle. PLEASING z
flavor and not without medicinal vir.
tues. Elsewhere it is as gall and
wormwood, bitter. barbarous, bum.
Welcomed as he entered the park
with cheers and fanfare of acclaim
kenesaw Mountain Lands was
hoOted after the game He had
nothing to do with calling it. why
pick on the gray.haired fiEurehead
of baseball? Simply because thu
boys needed a victim, an object for
their rinkaboo. If Griffith's cam,
eras had been clicking off their
many furlongs of Celluloid gossip in
the vicinity of the box in which thl
slender. undaunted judge was stand
ing, he could have saved the price
of a mob scene. Never before. per.
haps, did the judge feel the fun force
Of the phrase "Circumstantial evi
denCC.'
Contempt of court" was mental
impression that flashed across the
mind. II was sort of an attack Of
baseball dyspepsia. The ban1Icters
had eaten heartily and happily. The
'ast course. possibly raspberry pie,
had been too much. Mushrooms were
found to be toadstools.
Those who knew the venerable
Judge tried to explain that he could
not have possibly been in anv wise
responsible for the cessation Of dia.
mond play. In vain. boo" said an
inflamed populace. As he passed
under the bleaChers on his way to
the Giant dressing igloo, again lie
received the taken.for. granted hoo
deep throated. menaCinR.
Later came the announcement that
the entire proceeds Of the game had
been offered to charity. "DolNrs
they want dollars" the crowd had
yelled. The cry was taken up with
an electrical frenzy that In desCrib
ed in Jack Dempsey's History
OF the French REVOLUTION" and again