The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-09
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ORLANDO. Ils,;s March < s.-Pst ,Mofan Is on hfs Way to join ltis. father, a humble. but not necessariiy meek, night watchman of. Ftchbnrg. Mass, who died within ths9 last year and was buried by Pat in their family lot back home. 4e' n.
 If old Man Moran had dined with thes> presidents and ridden with, the bishops ,.sPat couldn't. have shown him any more respect, and to the old man, while he lived .thefe was no honor greater than being pointed out on the streets of F'itchburg as sthe "pappy" Of Pat Moran of Sthe. oldA Cubs, who won two pennants and awotld series File By Pats Collin
 A ready made ball club, which was
 more. than half expected to beat the years pennant in the ,National league will now be handed oyersto some one perhaps Jack Hendricks; the o1d-timer
 or, perhaps to, one or the cider states mem of, the team. About 20 members of that ball club filed bygfat's coffin this afternoon with their caps in their hands'and looked for the last time on
 prince, of his kind who died Friday evening. *tg&s -f!.4.
 AfteTward the ball, players marched
 solemnly through the streets Of Or. l lando, where even the excited and ut | terIy Irresponsible flivvers managed
 some semblance, of mannerly com. posture for few minutes and waited I for the, processions to pass. Orlando
 is big. enough town to take the ar rival and departure of tfains as a mat l ter of course and not as grand oc-
 casion. But this time, when Pat Moran was being sent home never to come | back and slap another fungo, Orlando
 went down to meet the 3:15. and hats came off as the ball players fell into sincere but awkward formation on the l platform, bare-headed in the summery | warmth of the sun, to see the boss put
 aboard the baggage car. 1. One of the players there was Gene Staley of Seattle, an intelligent-look- ing boy, who came all the way from
 his home out west to be fired by Pat,
 but arrived late enough to save Moran to fire men, but the board of directors of the Reds, who think second base
 Is fiddle, have strong opinions re- garding the availability of some play
 CTS, and they decided that young staley
 was not available. Through some care- | lessness they forgot to forestall him
 and he landed in the hotel as Pat was
 dying. z...s e -,s ~, But His Hat Comes off
 So 1t was up to Jack Hendricks, Pats old friend, who inherits the job tenn porarily at least, to tell the hoy that
 he had been sold to the Wiston-Salem
 club for another year of tempering. Naturally young Staley wasn't pleased.
 but he considered himself Red and
 friend of Pat, who had treated him
 kindly on last years training trip, and his cap came off, too. as he hippety-
 hopped into step and joined the march
 to the station.
 Mrs. Moran went into the chapel after the players had left and went
 down on her knees for a minute, with her two little sons beside her at the
 coffin. She was considerably younger than Pat. ..'-.u Johnny Evers introduced them about 16 years ago, in Chicago. It was John
 who met her and helped her out of the
 cab at the hospital Friday evening,
 when she came to take Pat in her arms
 as be died and reproach him sorrow
 fully for ignoring her pleadings three
 months ago that he consult a doctor. AS Johnny is in command of the White | Sox at Winter. Haven, some distance away, Hnd as the ;Sox need practice 1 he could not come over for the funeral We'll, Johnny had done all he could | for Pat, at. that. He had back stopped many a play for him when. they were Cubs. He had found him a girl tc
 marry. He had held Pats hand as he lay dying and had told his beads
 kneeling at the bedside as the end came
 nigh.
 The funeral party. including Ivy