The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-14
Master Mind Is Off On Tour To
 Inspect Germany

NEW YORK, Nov. 1s.-With the Master Mind still clanking noisily from several bearings and gears which were damaged by reckless thinking in the recent world series John Joseph McGraw, manager of the New York Giants, was piped up the side of the United States liner George Washington, bound for Germany, Tuesday afternoon. The Master Mind is going abroad for recreation and business.
 In the sylvan calm of the daily revolution in Germany MT. McGraw believes his thinking equipment, the turnultuous world series, will be restored to it's old precision. And while he is prowling about the coun- try he will make his way to the lit- tie village of Lower Schmalzgezicht, in the heart of the Westphalian Kartufel- Salad, an impoverished ba- ron of the old regime, who is said to have invented a new curve.
 Applied to baseball" MT. McGraw was quoted as saying just before the vessel sailed, T believe this curve would be sure to win us another pen- nant next year Clanki Clank!" The rasping of the damaged gears in tlie Master Mind drowned out his words at this point and further conversa- tion was carried on with difficulty It was gathered, however, that Baron Kartufel-S Salad will receive an offer to visit the United States and tutor the Giants pitchers in the training camp next spring.
 To Take Inspection Tour.
 As a further occasion of sordid business, the Master Mind will in spect the Krupp weinerwurst fabric at Essen, where one Of the sstaff scientists Is reported to have devised a new and more durable breed of, hot dogs. Thousands of hot dogs are sold at the Giants plant every day in summertime and it was noticed last year that the customers ate mosteof them, in violation of one of the old- est traditions. Fhis ran into money in the course of the year.
 The Krupp weinies are said to be coated with the same tough fabric that forms the skin of the Zeppelin airships and filled with a mixture of iron filings and sawdust If the se- cret formula can be obtained for the United States, it obviously will be worth many thousands of dollars to the purveyors of hot dogs at the ball yards and .Coney Island all of whom were hard hit by the new fad of eating the hot dogs this summer. A royalty of one-half cent on every hot dog whelped from the New York laboratories would make McGraw a rich man in one season.
 Hugh Jennings, assistant manager of the Giants. who is also a leading member of the bar of Scranton, Pa, in the off season, accompanied Mo Graw, and the two boys were closely chaperoned by their respective wives. They had made modest reservations on the George Washington, but the management of the line insisted that they should have the great and beau tiful suite which Woodrow Wilson occupied for his voyages to Europe It is also the late travelling quarters of the ex-Kaiser, but McGraw said he did not mind that as he would only be on board little more than a week, anyway.
 Won't Sell Giants.
 The Master Mind said he was not planning to sell the Giants as a club. but referred ominously to his recent statement that all hands with two exceptions would be sold if necessary to strengthen the team for next sum mer. Christy. Mathewson, titular owner of the Boston Braves, who re- eeived Beauty Bancroft, Casey Stem gel and Bill Cunningham Monday as sort of gift from McGraw, was at the pier to wave farewell The Mas ter Mind said he might look up this fellow Ludendorff and buy him d seidel of Prisoner, as he has fellow feeling for him as a man who got a most awful smashing when he finally did get his.
 At last the final farewells were halloed from pier to rail and from rail to pier.
 ''Bloop! Bl-oo-oopl" exclaimed the whistle which had taken no previous part in the conversation.
 "Clank! Clank" replied the Master Mind.