Show Sport Snap Shots By Jack Keeno r. r 0 Many goo good stories stoics were swapped at tho annual meeting of or the tho National league The Tho bringing together r of ot seven u former managers of or the tho Phillies especially was pro o of or some somo fine fino yarns yarDS Tho The talk switched around to tho the time throe that Horace I Fogel selected Charley Charley Charley Char Char- his club dub after atter he ley to manage I procured control of ot the majority interest inter inter- I est eat in 1909 Fogel however was not always s 's an admirer of or Doom and when whon the little topped brick-topped catcher camato came cama cameto to the Phillies In 1901 Fogel then a Quaker City scribe ma made o life lite miserable ble for Cor him halm This mite wont won't do hos ho's too light Horace would h have e in his paper pa paper pa- pa la- la per day dar after aCter In day Ils Its an outrage o to th the fans of or Philadelphia to put In the gamo game and keep a catcher like Ilk Hoth on the bench But Horace's Horaces pet obsession was tho size sl of or Charley Charlo Dooms Doom's bat II lie He carries carries carries car car- ries a bat bl bigger ger than himself how can ho he over expect tto to o hit with that tele telegraph raph pole Horace would woul wall wall walK I Or In narrating of or a rally which foil fell fellI I short ho he would woul l close and then up upI I carne came that boy with that tele- tele which he hc could I graph pole poll scarcely lift off ocr the gronn ground and of or course the then n rally lIy was over o I l Just Want allt to sa say I didn't lu lug that bl big hat bat around because Localise I life It It Charley Chancy explained I did It to save 0 my jaw Kid Gleason would Insist 1 bat with it and that th he hc would bust mo me In the Jaw If Ir I took another Eer Every Evory Ev- Ev I er ory ery time Limo I went to bat thu Kid Kill would h be he watching me from the tho r orner of his eye eyo an and if I 1 didn't take the bl blone big hi one olle ho lie would intro have lit on me mo sure He lie said laid h. h hiM hed d mal make e mo hit with It or die dlo in ill inthe inthe the attempt lie JIo used to Loss boss us around like liko a father and ul anybody that talked back ack to him hail nad a n. mess 1 of trouble on his hands 1 remember ono one time timo while we Po wore training down In I when he lie gave ave Fiddler our 1 pitcher an un awful whaling The Tho Phi Ild j Iller v. v was as rooming with a reporter an and I thought nobody was noticing when h he lie came came In III at nt nights Gleason son canto came Into the reporters reporter's room about 11 o'clock one nl night hl and asked for fOl the Fiddler l l The reporter said Oh hes he's around tin the hotel somewhere Is he loo said the I Kid Id I guess uess Ill I'll sit up and wait walt for him hint He lIe took look a chair chall and lal laid a n big shaving ln strop over his knees By B r and by the Fiddle breezed d in III The kid Kid grabbed him like lIko a father Cather might take hold of a year fi-year- 1 old and he hc whaled Corridon with that strop until tho the Fiddler begged for foi mercy Hunting out scattered groups of Heinie in n No 0 Mans Man's Land furnished real entertainment to lo true truo American sportsmen ei before the armistice ended the fun tun Tho The following tale talc of a York sportsman Is ty typical Capt Joe Jor- Brooks fisherman and star I of the tho gridiron and ring was in No Nu NuMan's NoMan's NoMans Mans Man's Land Lu In char charge e of or a u raiding pu pai- pai al'- al' t ty Iy Ho lie found a 1 group of or Germans huddled in a shell hell crater halt half out filled n with water He fished thorn thum t out as aR though thc they had boon been trout When hon the tho purl punt reached headquarters and exhibited their Cart C l Brooks a giant In size anti and strength was carrying CHI Tying i a 1 mall small German under r his arm lie set the tho fellow fellow- down and anal Then Ihen turning turn turn- turning surveyed ed him hint critically II ing to the colonel he said dryly dryl Colonel In America wo we u usually ua h los los- loss back hack in ill stream these SO little fellow feUn tho the Captain Brooks Drooks Is 14 known leno In the tJ east e t for fOI hla his worl on In the football teams of Williams and Col Colgate ato eight years ago A At t St. St Nicholas rink he was recognized a Iii as a hockey star He fie weighs 40 HI pounds and is II a a. machine gunner Howard Caton the Pittsburgh Pirates Pirates' Pi rates fates shortstop has boon been gl given 11 his hilS discharge from Camp Sherman gradis grad and andIs Is II back homo among the folk folk- where ho will spend the winter I Ho Ito nas notified no no- titled titled Manager Hugo lingo of or f the tho Pirates of oC his discharge which is I taken tale na as a fI hint that ho he wants that thaI shortstop Job next season I |