The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-26
TALKING
IT OVER
by JOE WILLIAMS

NEW YORK. Feb. 26.-Dovn at
In 81. Augustine. Fla, there is a
little pool which local historians
insist is Ponce De Icons original
fountain OF youth. Ore drink Is
supposed TO make your hair grow.
Three shots are guaranteed TO give
you an entirely new outlook on life
If mixed with Scotch.
However. be that IS It may. steve Nc
keever. treasurer Of the BrookIys Robins.
charges that the drinking trough down at
-. Augustine is spurious. THE real thing
IS right over 10 F1atb1sh. in the clubhouse
a. Ebbets field" Sieve insisted today.
Why. we bring oh. WORKOUT pitchers in
there, and prontol After a few drinks
Of water. mean-they're Young sauirt5
again. Why. look at NE! hit that foun..
tain myself"
Come to think Of It. there must be some
tsw clubs have trained at st. Augustine.
and al nave auaasd Of Ponce de Icons
has Won penneut. AS for the Robins
sney 9flng n 2 Luaue. who is ga Lu-
baseball zone yard. and ~Rat hap ~ Sis
ie huris those Robins right into the race
n
THEY say that Dazzy Vance
a keeps young by guzziing that
Ebbets field water. And gaze upon
Hollis Thurston, whom the Brook
iyns called in from San Francisco
last seasonI Out on the coast Hol-
lis was about to give up pitching
for fly chasing. But three shots of
that Flatbush special and he began
70 stand the old league on its an
tlque noodle.
n n r.
Steve must be correct and this
Investigator is going over to Flat
bush soon to take a few beakers OF
hat stuff himself.
McKeever's F1atbush fountain Of youth
giu get its most severest test this coming
ssasou. Among the customers will be Jack
Quinn. the antique Of antiaues-the oldest
PLAYER In the majors. Jack SAYS he is ~.
but folk down in the Pennsylvania coal
belt insist he is at least so.
n Quinn comes through. McKseyer yin
oeneht U two ways First the stanoing
high as irst place. And then there will
be the matter Of commercialislng the
want that water from the FIatbush foun-
Quinn is the most secretive per-
~ son in organized baseball. Why,
when he came here from Richmond
in 1909 to join the Yankees the fans
asked, who is the gray-headed old
bird?" Jack was close to 80 at the
time, and in 1909 a ball player who
was 80 had about as much chance
as a bow-legged girl in her home
town. Thirty-year-old rockies are
all the fashion now, but twenty
two years ago a player was supposed
TO retire at that age.
Quinn Is supposed to be part Welsh, and
part Polish. or all Polish. But old timers
around Hazeltop say he is Russian. How
ever. that doesn't matter to the fans of
FIatbush. Welsh. Polish or Russian. they
think Jack will quar- few shots at the
Ebbets field fountain and then 20 out and
throw those Giants for a row of last sea
sons frankfurters.
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That Ebbets field fountain of youth is
not as has been reported by Jealous
Giants. attached to reservoir of bath tub
gin. It's pure water from an artesian
well which was dug at the full moon by
seventh son with rabbits foot in his left
hind pocket. Recently. over in Paterson,
N. j.. where Honus Wagner hrst, got some
the greatest Of all iufielders. Wagner con-
fessed to being So. Now. as baseball ages
how about trying q few shots OF Ebbets
1isld AQUA pura on Wagner?