The Washington times., 1923-05-12

Those players who were living IN
hotels learned, much to their sur
prise, that their rooms were re-
served by the Shriners and there
would be no room for them on their
return from their present jaunt.
There has been more or less aglta-
ton regarding this matter. Now
Mike Martin rises to form the Mike
Martin Slumber Club, probably the
only one of its kind in the history
of the major league baseball.
"WeII sleep i'm the ball park"
explains Mike, with a grinning
gang Of athletes all about him.
81 did IL a while last summer and
found it good. No, / didn't sleep
IN the club house, but right up
Ill the back of the grandStand.
I cooked my breakfast ON an oil
stove, the milk man left me
cream ut the gate each morning
and i lived like king"
Got room enough for another
king?" asked Red Hargrave, one OF
the lads who won't have any home
wnen he gets back to Washington.
Sure answered the fertile
minded Mike. Well get some
arrny cots and army blankets and
sleep right out in the open air.
i've got some friends over at Fort
Myer and we won't have any trou-
BILE getting the cots and the blan-
kets. All Wen have to do is to re-
tdrn them in good condition when
tie Shriners leave town"
Suppose it rains" interjected
Jehosepha: Besselievre Brillheart.
Rain won't hurt u.s. came back
Mike. Wen be up in back of the
grandstand, with a roof over. us,
but no walls. 1t win have. to be a
terrible storm to reach us. There,
out in 6he open air. we can sleep
soundly every night. 1t will be
better than sleeping in a .stuffy
room downtown somewhere.
Then in the morning, we can.
hop down to the clubhouse and take
our shower and be all ready for
breakfast. I've got al stove, in the
clubhouse We can go out and get
our bread and eggs and bacon and
have breakfast like a king. Leave
It to me. The Shriners won't
bother us at all, not while we have
the ball park, Wen have our own
hotel, that's what it'll. be.
Whefnef or not MIKE pan Is
feasible, the younger players are
raIlying to it in great style. They
know that when they arrive in
Washington from Boston on Sun
day morning, May "a, there will
be no place waiting for them ex-
cent the ball park. They know,
too, that II they want to sleep,
they will have their troubles find
trn~ fri
trouble than they now realize.
However, Mike Martin may find
It difficult to obtain enough cots
for that first nights rest. He won't
arrive in Washington until Sunday
morning and will have only that
morning in which to make his ar
rangements Sunday is Sunday, he
must remember.
Here and there players are bank
ing on friends who will see them
through the crowded Shriners'
week. The veterans can do this,
but the new players such as Hol-
lingsworth. Warmoth, Hargrave
Zahniser. Fisher and Wade are
practically helpless. Some of them
hazarded guess that they might
go to Baltimore, but Rubber Arm
Russel killed that hope when he
said that PaItimore's hotels were
also reserved for Shriners.
A couple of weeks must go by
before this puzzle is answered. but
every day brings the crisis so much
nearer. Meanwhile Mike Martin
enlarges on ,Ihe delights of living
at the bah park all summer, and
If you lister to him. you might
think him one of Zane Grey's
heroes. abhorring life within doors
end eagerly looking forward to
sIumbcr beneath the stars of a sum
nier night, with bacon and eggs and
coffee hasitaly prepared over an
oil stove in the club house each
morning. Nevertheless. 1t is 10 joke
TO the Griffmen. who have as yet
made no friends in the capital and
nave been. refused accommodations
on their return from this trip.
Come to think of it,, too, the
Gr'ffs are not making many
friends for themselves since com
Ing out here. Weak teams are
always welcomed with open arms.
strong teams are offered no quar-
ter and blOkes are always ready
10 put arsenic i'm their SCUM or
stab them in the back as they
pass dark alleys.
Those two victories in Detroit
while delighting DOME Bush's per.
Sonal friends, certainly did not sit
wei on the stomachs of most De
trOit fans.
The Griffs open a four-game
series here today and it Is telling
no tales out Of school to say that
they are going out to get all four.
Yes, they are that confident. though