Evening star., 1953-05-22

teams usually in delicate state, but
invariably high His penchant for vocal Franc" stan"
Vitrio cutting the bench aggres-
sve challenge all sight sound including upires
club owners may have frightened team morale but
weakened team spirit"
And then Mrs. McGraw tells of the time McGraw fined
his best frend-ndeed the Chsy athewsons John
McGraws lived together in a seven-room $5Oa-
month apartmenthe staggering of $500 for playing
poker with his teammates for high Anybody
would be fined $25 $5o John said the he
and called the greatest of all pitchers you better
Christy, and the fine is $780,"
THE FINE STUCK, TOO McGraw didn't give back fines
like many managers But" the lady adds knew of
the $40 bills the 2Os and that slipped into
players lockers at home and mail boxes the road
usually out of his pocket Each silent expression
thanks for occasional extra effort for unusual pitching
hitting performance"
How many remember ballplayer named James Henry
(Orator) ORourke? In her story does chiefly
to point up her contention that John McGraw sent
mental person In 1904 oRourke 52yearod catcher
The Giants making runaway National League
with the Chicago Cubs but STILL on the morning Of
September %, they hadn't clinched the pennant.
The Giants playing doube-header. Cubs were
In Philadelphia If New York the first game the
Cubs lost the pennant mathemacaly cnched John
had four versatile cachers, Bowerman Bresnahan Jack
warner and the pnch-hlttlng rookie Bill Marshall Mrs
McGraw writes But the catcher in the first the
old Giant hero ORourke who had received rousng recep
tion and floral horseshoe from old fans
Despite his So years. he (ORourke) caught the entire
nine innings and made base hit in four times at bat
the absence of radio and leaedwe telegraph
knew that the Cubs had lost in Philadelphia John suspected
1t might happen and was douby glad for the popular
Jim ORourke had caught the pennantcnching game his
last In a big league uniform"
ONE OF THE BETTER ANECDOTES concerns the popular
Will Rogers AS aspiring vaudeville monologuist the rope
twrler Rogers avid Giant fan and his particular
favore the efthanded pitcher ooks) wltse
Rogers to New York to appear at Hammersein's
and naturally, sought Giants apprase
his act Unable to find any except Wltse contacted
the pitcher in his hotel Wltse had bad cold
throat.
skipping few Mrs McGraw writes Rogers pleaded
until finally Wiltse agreed to attend Wills premier
for Just few minutes though I shouldn't
George sat through Rogers act repressng his cough
and aching to get back home forgot that
always kept track of acts until they
in the lobby
"'Good evening George, John greeted see you
well again. We lost double-header to Philadelphia today
Be out early tomorrow You're pitching against Brooklyn
WILL ROGERS 1NTERcEDED . . . but it fell on deaf
ears Wse pitched and suffered and wheezed and coughed
through nine innings. Thanks to good Giants hitting
he the ball game and went back home bed
For many Will Rogers tried to prove John wrong
in making Wltse PITCH but John would srug say: Any
body who sit through your acting healthy enough to
play baseball"
patron the late Dnty Moore, famed for
corned beef and cabbage but Rogers
He had man, Edward James, who make the
stuff better than anybody in the world according Rogers
The recipe. dice salt pork in large iron skillet add
chopped onions until they're golden, etc. Anon Carter
professional Texan used to join the chile parties
other Texans. They loved the stuff.
"You either liked chile hated it" Mrs McCraw writes
The despsed chehaterS herded into the breakfast
meager fare of broed chops or steaks
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