Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-23


Dodger who with Joe Oeschger
Of the Boston Braves pitched
the longest game in major
league history. got blood
TRANSMISSION this week and
said the nurses needing re-
minded him Of John McGraw
He said they both got under
his skin so often he almost lost
control.
Take it easy" DR.. Charles
Modica ordered. They can't
locate a vein. A man your age
should have veins sticking right
out. especially in right arm
that pitched those 26 innings
Doc" Leon said. Il pitched
that game with my head"
Galore. Sc. convalescing after
Q cancer operation. had only
modest baseball ability and al
ways used his head, particularly
when the peerless McGraw
would needle away in the same
old vein inning after inning.
.t Needed by Master
To the Brooklyn pitcher it
seemed the manager Of the
Giants always plotted q perfect
course just for him, crossing his
path within sniping range en-
route to the coach's box at
third base.
Never saw anybody break
ing in who had so little" Nc
Graw needed at first. Then
later. Cant understand.
Busher, how you made it." And
finally. How do you keep your
job? You got somethin' on old
man Ebbetts?"
With difhculty. Galore kept
his head. He had nothing on
Charles Ebbetts, principal own
er of the Brooklyn Club, except
his signature on a contract.
And after that historic Is.
inning, III game with Boston,
Galore didn't have too much
on the ball either. But he
eventually blunted the McGraw
needle in a most heady way:
He married Ebbetts' daughter
and wound up his career as a
sore-arm pitcher on McGraw's
staff.
4 Keeps Sharp Wit
Galore, his arm sore again
from half a dozen needle labs,
knows the seriousness Of his
condition but isn't worried
about it. Young nurses who
never heard Of him as a Dodser
will long remember him as a
wit.
so you're the famous pitch
err" one soothed before surgery.
"You know. ] never cared much
for baseball" To which Leon
replied. That's your preroga-
tive, nurse. ] never cared much
for hospitals. either"
Older staffers at Veterans
Administration Hospital have
asked him 10 tell it again, and
Leon is ever willing. It was
y May /, 1920, at Boston. Ca
dore, 28-year-old curve baller,
was pitching for Brooklyn;
I Oeschger for Boston. The
Dodgers scored in the NTH,
Boston in the sixth. Then on
went Galore and Oeschger, rs
innings in all. without further
scoring-or relief.
Galore. who got IS assists
In the game, gave UP Is hits.
including three to Rabbit Mar.
! awhile and a double TO Oesch.
ger himself. The game was
4 called because Of darkness after
. hours 30 minutes.
- Galore needed q rundown af-
ter that. the first he ever had
IN a career launched five years
before.
Leon learned the game out
West where he moved from New
York as an orphan Of 10 to
live with an uncle. Joe Jeanot.
at Hope, Ida. Jeanot wanted to
make him q miner but Cadore
had major league plans.
He attended Gonzaea Uni.
4versity here. developed his arm
as a third baseman. then hiked
back to Jersey City and sold
\ himself as a pitcher to the
Eastern League. Brooklyn
bought him from Wilkes Barre
for $500.
e Famous Raspberry
Galore was steady II not
spectacular performer. Most OF
the color on the Dodger club
belonged to his roommate, a
righttielder who was traded Ia
Pittsbursh in 1917 but remained
D close friend.
Brooklyn fans. were riding