Evening star., 1923-02-12
! Amarican Nswzyspsr Ailiasos.)

to official papers as . sort of}routtne.
1t was fun, too.
One of the party OF New York
newspaper men accompanying us had
been q lawyer. He was promptly as
signed to write out the affidavits IN
regular legal form and then have the
players, manager, owner and other
newspaper men swear to them Oi
course, our evidence showed. the UNI
pires TO be entirely wrong.
|, Arriving at Chicago we got .. sps-
ciaI room and spent the whole morn :
ing rounding up our afidavits. Inc
newspaper r-man-lawyer WouId write
the paper something like this:
Being duly sworn, John Jones de-
posed as follows, to-wit;
Regular Legal Stnn.
"I am a resident of the City Of New
York and my occupation or profession
is the playing Of base ball for a team
known as the New York Giants. My
physical dexterity aud metal acumen.
said professionals the playing of 9
position Known as second base ana
one requiring "a certain amount of
physical dexerity and mental acumen,
"On the 7th day Of July. 1905,
while engaged with the said Giants In
a game of base ball with an opposing
team known aas; the Pittsburgh Pl-
rates. / was stationed at second base
and was In position to see clearly a
certain play made at third base by
one Richie. an opposing player. II
being part Of his professional skill to
slide into the said third base, sack or
cushion so as to avoid being touched
with base ball in the hands OF one
Arthur Devlin, known as third oase-
man. .. ' :.
Your deponent further saith. ETC. !,
!. gives ms me- aaaviss langn ssers without te
questioning the player at all the util-
ity lawyer would go into all that
rigamarole. The player would De
,, called in and sworn.
seldom Won q Protest.
Read that, carefully and tell me
IL that is correct?" the notary pubic,
who didn't know what it was all
You're right" the ball
| player would declare, and afix his
OF course. we didn't win the pro-
test. We never did. In making pro.
tests l am sure our cian naa ',,1 n1
any club in the world. But we kept
on making affidavits. on the slight
{, est provocation at any time or any
place Finally 1t got to where Harry
; Pulliam. the president OF the league.
| would open one OF these bulky pack
ages.
| ed Giant affidavfts" l have heard him
say. and would promptly toss the
whole bundle aside.
! "AlI right Mr.. Brush would say.
with a twinkle In his eye. Vow
| we've got that one over, we'd better
get ready Tor another one In the
| next town
sag" hs said to me one day
| to the chief Of police in Cincinnati
| and ask protection for our players%
| Serves to Draw the Fans.
| That was a good notion. I thought
| So we called in the newspaper men
! who were always eager for such fun
! They promptly sent stories about the
need OF police protection. The Gin
! cinnati officials wired back that a Wis.
| iting club would certainly be pro-
| tected.
The public couldn't understand
what 1t was all about. but for fear
| something might happen and they
/ would miss 1t they filled the park
(, humor and he used to chuckle over
starting things like that. You un'
derstand we had not really needed
| any protection.
did. On one trip ID Philadelphia VIZ
| really did have to call on the super
/ intendent of the department of cor.
rection - police commissioner - ans
| ask tnat the players be protected.
The first official we saw intimatet
! that we ought to stay or the mair
| streets and go up the back ways t.
avoid trouble. He was against us.
| Roger Ready. But Tardy.
| The start of that trouble was ar
attack on our carriages outside tn.
park, in which Roger Bresnahan
riding with the driver. was hit or
the head with brickbat and knock
| ed to the ground.
Roger. who was a sort of detectiv.
| in his home town. had piled up stone,
at his feet so as to be ready. but the
fellow with the brick beat him to it
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| by the Christy Walsh Sypdicatel