The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-16
LARRY LAJOIE RECALLS GREAT
 DIAMOND DAYS
Addie Joss Game Him Great ThrilI--Eight Hits
 for Him "Framed"
BY RICHARD MCCAIN NEA Service Sports Writer

There is no comparison between Napoleon at St. Helena and Na- poleon at Lake Worth.
 Napoleon Garry) Lajoie isn't breeding away down here, mourning the good old days. He's most happy with life, as 1t has been and as 1t is.
 Larry, you know, was one of the greatest batters and most graceful fielders in all the history of base ball. He's 6l now, and it's been 2l years since his eyes glinted down the barre of a bat at trem- bling American league pitchers.
 But those eyes are still keen and clear. And the legs that car- ried him so effortlessly and grace fully are still spry. And he stil swings a pick in his title garden, or a golf stick on the nearby country club, with all the mighty force of old.
 That's all Mons. Lajoie it's pronounced Lazhoway--does now plays golf and putters around in his garden. Several years ago he gave up his tire business in Cleve- land and decided to take life easy. So he spends his late springs, summers and early falls at his lakeside home at Mentor -on the Lake, just outside of Cleveland, and the rest of the time down here Stlll Trim
 But he's not a loafer. You can tell that from lokoing at him. He weighs only about 10 pounds more than when he was the trim, young second baseman of the Indians or Maps. as they were then known. He has no paunch.
 This is because he plays golf every day. He's gotten almost as good Ut the game as he was al baseball. Napoleon won't say much about 1t, but his cronies say that he frequently whittles his score down to around 78 and 7s, and not with the aid of a pencil- mashie, either.
 He doesn't have much interest in baseball now. He didn't see a game all last year and saw only one the year before. He doesn't even like to sit down and gab about the past. But, of course, Napoleon was ever thus. He was not much of talker, or mixer.
 With a little urging he will tell you that of the PATS games he played in the major leagues, the one that stands out most wildly in his memory is the no-hit game poor Addie Joss pitched for his Indians on October 2, 1908.
 T got my biggest thrill that day." says Napoleon, passing over the many great featS he himself performed in his 21 years in base- ball.
 It must have been thrilling. It was one of the greatest pitching dues of all time. Big Ed Walsh, the truckhorse of the Chicago White Sox, was a mighty man that day. He gave up only one run, mere four hits, and struck out 15 of the Maps.
 But Joss was better. Twenty seven White Sox came up to bat, and 27 White Sox went back to the bench, talking ir their boards.
 "Addie was the greatest pitcher that ever lived that day" says Ma poleon. Nobody could've hit him. We didn't have tough fielding chance all day"
 Larry Was the Tops
 Meaning no reflection on Joss work that day, you can't take Napoleons' word in this matter. Nothing, you know, was ever tough for him. No matter where the ball was hit, or how 1t was hit he made the chance look easy.
 And, yet, strangely, although he was the smoothest, Surest fielding second baseman of lal time, Mons. Lajoie holds the worlds record for the most errors in a single game. He committed five pebbles once for the Philadelphia Ath- letics on April 22. 1915. the year before he quit the major leagues to manage Toronto.
 The lanky Frenchman won the American league batting cham pionship three times - in 1901, 1903 and 1904. And almost won 1t again in 1910 when he made eight hits in eight times at bat against the St. Louis Browns on the last day Of the campaign.
 Mons. Lajoie. however. is not proud of this feat. You see, ono hit was q misiudged fly, another was roller bobbled by the short stop and the other six were bunts down the third base line.
 It seems that the St. Louis Browns hoped that Mons. Lajoie would overtake Ty Cobb, whom they detested, and they gave him those six safe bunts by ordering freshman third baseman, Red Cor riden to play deep on the grass behind the bag while Lajoie laid down bunt after bunt.
 Manager Jack O'Conner and Coach Harry Howell of the Browns were barred from baseball because of the plot.
 So Larry isn't very proud of those eight hits.
 But, of course, he has more than his share of bright litle feats ot the past to sit and think about now. Napoleon at Lake Worth