Evening star., 1923-02-06
Appears in Rubber Boots.

the clubhouse to see the grounds
keeper.
Appears in Rubber Boots.
During a very serious moment the
crowd was treated to the sight OF
Dummy Taylor starting for the
coaching lines wearing a huge pair OF
rubber boots. Those things are not
nearly so funny to tell as to see. The
ridiculous appearance of a ball player
in rubber boots threw the stands into
a roar of laughter. Umpire O'Day
started coaching, slapping his hands,
jumping up and down. and so on.
Get out of there" O'Day motioned
to the deaf-mute pitcher. Get off
there, I tell YOU"
] could see from his eye that Tay-
lor knew what was going on. but he
pretended not to have noticed. and
kept right on, the stands rocking in
laughter.
Finally O'Day walked toward Tay-
lor. Catching his eye. he indicated
by sign what he had said.
Taylor turned to me and began
telling me on his fingers what he
thought of O'Day. All of the Giants
language, and the players on the
bench laughed at the terrible things
he was saying about the umpire.
Suddenly O'Day few into q rage, ap-
parently.
Tmps New Sign Language.
"Thatn cost you s25." he yelled.
and then, to the astonishment of Tay-
Ior and all the rest of us, he started
using his fingers.
You are out OF the game-get off
the field" he said in the deaf-mute
language.
The umpire had understood every
thing that Taylor had said about
n TN, q
relative who was a deaf-mute and
he had learned the finger language
With head bowed. Taylor had to
his gum boots, his mind on that twen-
Some ways back 1 mentioned the
| benefits of having a good memory.
There was one incident. though,
where my memory worked with re-
Many of you will probably recall
Umpire Bausewein. He is now a po-
liceman in Philadelphia and I see him
often. When he came to the National
League for the first time we proceed
ed 10 ride him, of course.
After hearing his name | suddenly
remembered a game that he umpired
in a minor league some ten or twelve
years before. He had made a bad de-
| cision, SO bad. in fact, that the owner
! of the home club left the stand and
ran out on the field. hitting Bause-
vein over the head with an umbrella
Crack Cost McGraw $50.
| That incident stuck in my mind SC
] clearly that I wanted to make sure
| that Bausewein remembered ii. He
\ ms ade three or four bad decisions. In
! answer to our protests he waved us
! to the bench.
| say, Bausewein." I turned and
| yelled at him, you better keep your
! head up. There's an old guy with ar
/ umbrella up there in the stand"
Get ea cut off 9f the beneh To1 are
| Of the game! Get off the field!"
| Evidently I had set off q bomb. very
| we'll did he remember the old fellow
| with an umbrella. The laugh. though
| was on me. 1t cost me 500 fine.
| wilbert Robinson one day--a laugh
| that gave them a catch phrase fol
| several years.
| Robbie, II you will recall, came back
to Join the Giants as coach. In the
| meantime he had grown much stouter
| Robbie always was chubby. but few
| wears away from the diamond and ir
| business had added much to hi:
! weight Still, he got uniform an6
| showed up on the coaching lines the
| first day in Chicago.
| He stopped over to pull a sprig ot
grass. Just as he did so the fans got
| their first sight of him.
Robbie Tells 1t on Himself.
holy Mosesv yelled a fan in the
front row. his eyes glued on the TO
4 tund coach. Say, McGraw, what time
does the balloon go up?"
There was a roar Of laughter b!
spectators and players at this. Rob
bic burned up, despite his wonderful
| sense of humor.
He often tells that on himself ant
laughs much more than he did then
For months after that IL the player.
| wanted to get Robbies goat the!
would come to the bench, ask some
thing about the balloon ascension ant
| beat it as fast as they could.
Even to this day the players max
| that crack at any player who Is OBJ
viously overweight
Copyright. 1923. United States and Canada
| by the Christy Walsh Syndicate.)