The Washington times., 1936-04-14

the following winter.
BASERALL AND CHAIN -
I remember playing . baseball
game at Sing Sing Prison with
the NVA baseball team. Gus
Van, of Van and Schenek, hit
q long h0ne run and as the
ball sailed ever the fence . little
cOlOred prisoner mwmured, loud
enough to be heard by all, II
sure would Ike to be sitting on
that baIl!"
One Of my great thrills was
pinch hitting fer Harry Hooper
in an exhibition game with the
B0ston Red SOx at Providence
this was I'm 1870. OF course, I
wouldn't have brought It up ex-
cepk that / DID get . hit
AMBITION Once, during 1918.
/ roomed with Charley Hurley,
now State treasurer Of Massachu
sets and q candidate for governor
there. I remember waking up at
q O'Clock one morning to see
Charley hop out Of bed, get Q law
book, read ii intently for IS min
utes and then get back into bed.
He said later ne wanted to be sure
about q certain decision some
judge had made IS years before,
That's ambition.
WITT viii never forget De
Wolf Hopper's remark at q Lambs
Club banquet after an admiral
and general had each talked for
hours saying, practically nothing.
''Wolfy," as toaStmaster, arose and
said: "Now know why they say:
The Army and Navy forever
That's wit.
HUMOR-A memory that VIII
always remain with me and a per
sonality that will always influence
my Iife-Wil Rogers, the greatest
humorist Of our time and the fin
est character I have ever met. Sit
ting with him in the Lambs Club
he read Of the Prince Of Wales,
now King Of England, having
breakfast with President Coolidge
at the White House. His comment
was "Wlnat can those two have to
talk about?"
SURPRISE-Was I surprised in
Detroit on the night Of the sixth
game Of the world series, in 1894,
to read In the papers that I had
broken school Boy" Rowe's har
when shook hands with him be.
fore the game and that I was total
" responsible for the st. Louis
victory. (And it wasn't . gagJ
THRILL-A great thrill. Listen
ing, by telephone, to the race in
which my horse, Captain Argo, ran
neck and neck with SatiOn, who
was the champion sprinter, for six
furlongs and then hearing the an
nouncement Captain Argo wins
by q nose" Six weeks later Cap.
tain Argo died at NarraganSett
Park.
FLASHES - Memories. old
and new. Meeting Governor
LandOn Of Kansas at Wichita
last July at. the dinner which
launched his campaign fer the
presidency-Opening the base
bal1 season Of 1894 in Pekfng,
China, by pitching the first
ball.-And pitching the first
ball for the opening Of the
Far-EaStern Olympics at Manila
the same summeF.-En Peking 1
bet S. on . horse running
in a race with "a other horses.
The horse 1 had picked won
and paid me $4.So. Q net loss Of
20 cents ON the whole tFanSac-
ton. =.
Meeting and being entertained
by Henry Ford whom I consider
a really great American. The sur
prise party Frank Hawks staged
for me on board the s. s.. Presi
dent Coolidge. between Hawaii
and the United States. He had
managed to get an advance print
of the picture Circus Clown" and
he staged a world Premier
aboard ship, with lights, micro
phones, speeches and all the trim
mings.
TOUGH JOB - The tOughesi
job I've ever attempted was the
opening night of Twinkle
Twinkle" when 7 tried to dance
on a leg that had been broker
just 10 days before. I danceC
for that one performance e-bui
not for q good many perform
Rnces after that.