Show QUEE QUE F BALL PLA PLAYERS BY HUGH G S FULLERTON I 1 Pro ba baseball ers develoP eccentricities morn mort r ud and more vIolent than an any ot othni ar olese of leo leopIe plo pIe In the world t y e school Mostly tho they run to the game the they play pla and their peculiarities center around that Amid almost an all of f their are about b betting Old mold Pierre th tb had m more lO of those ideas than aimy on one He used systems to keep 11 his as he called his e eyes es elea auch as smoking cigarettes washing thom them out with ruin water vater that was falling Every time It rained In I Louisville In iii those days the Old Glad later ii stood with upturned tue see anti let th tIme rain wash Ida eyes o elit t und and U the dO he be got ot And could lilt lie He made his own on bAts and used different Olles against Hut But one of tho th Od Oli t fancies he ever ver had wu wa shown In Louisville one day Pete was playing right field u ax usual l and ho hG vas TIUS Intensely el jealous ot Sam Thompson hompson who wa left for tor Pete bed 1 seen Hen Thomp Thompson son lilt hit in a series sarlo a few da days I earlier and lam ha saw his peer u as a sigger im tel lie be began to study Thomp Thompsons sons methods One On afternoon at Louisville who was umpiring noticed that ever every Browning came in roam the ho crossw clear from right to left lett then paraded In towards time thc plate and ped d on third bUHas he ha came Gaff l was nR annoyed buse Browning was delaying time the game ame and remarked Pete Pate what are aro you wasting time that way for Cor Why don dont t you vou come I straight right I wanted to touch third base corn corning ing In replied Pete Pott What for asked th the surprised urn um umpire pire r I dont know said pete But I IThompson Thompson always does doos It I II 55 I Little Roy Thomas Thoms of Philadelphia I Is Isas as quiet and sensible a little fellow as I there is In baseball hut but he be too lifts an oddity He refuses utterly to go o to the plate pate without walking back of time the urn um umpire pire Ho He bats left hand handed and back ot of the umpire and the u to the Plate One day II at t Philadelphia Tim Hurst backed UP against the grand grandstand grandstand stand and stood thorn thore as a joke on Thomas The little fellow fello said ing but gave up his Ilis superstition n for tor once went to bat and struck out 5 fi 55 Dig Big Roger Connor Conner who helped In invent vent Int time the game ame and Is tut hitting bitting them high up anti far awa away down in some little eastern league with u a couple ot of othis his grandchildren playing on the teams had a superstition about hIs bats He cared for thorn them as I If t they were his bil dron and kept a piece ot of glass glassand and some sandpaper and a little bottle of oil in one of his bat bags so 50 that lie he could scrape crape and polish and oil hi his war Clubs at night One night in Boston I slipped up to flogs room to have a chat with him and found him In bed hod There was wasI something t I wanted to find out omit so I I went In an and sat down on the edge dg of till the h bed d to talk it over I threw my myself self down hard and came near break in jug m my bael Pow Holt was sleeping wIth half A dozen ot of his favorite war Aar club planning to drive some poor pitcher to the woods the da lay S Sven hen ven Anion had bl his peculiarities One Oneda dM da In hi mm a bantering match on the l accused Cap of being up r and the Old fan denied It You h know w you dream about things and think the dreams macan something said YoU Anion Anson Jm Im not su mm but you bet your ute life It if t r dreamed d Friend WAS getting hit hII hard bard I let him pitch the next dB day 5 Hardly any one would think that Jim Jimmy Jimmy my Ryan this the old National star atar now managing the team In the Central League was but about his bats lie he Is II never nevor would use Any bat that did not hava a band of r red around it and a 01 worm hole in it I r remember member one daY in Boston Ryan was is ia the dumps bE because cause some young youn pitcher had his favorite bat He and I went for forwalk walk and In some iOme little news stanl stani up Wul Washington street he ha spied R a bunt l lor or of old shop dried bats We Ve went selected red ba 1 and Ryan a banded II seasoned perfectly On the way back to the hotel Rya Ry t discovered l three worm holes hole In Ute the bat bar Therell be some great hitting li ft liday da day he remarked Ill get three gol at the bali S SHow How do you ft ure that Three worm get gel one for I each he replied seriously I laughed Jd ot of course but ht after ater afternoon noon lie be smashed two across the left leftfield field fence ionee and stung a single to ecu I tot ter Apropos of nothing at all as the l hater bater remarked when he pt got up to CJ r I his opponent I want to tell teU th t I stor story ot of a decision that ass U 1 down b by an aim umpire out nut in Creton L J I He was as a home umpire Cle Creeton i i pla playing Corning and aDd time the rivalry II m tween thu teams team was Intense was leading G C to 5 io in the ninth hUlI but the home pit pitcher her was Aas whiter t li ita I i I Ia a 11 hawk wr The bases were ere filled in i m minute and another batt batter r was ii Ono One ball bali two balls three balls tou fou 1 out said the umpire the matter with you d 1 mantled mandod the batter I 1 get my ba dont J I Under clr m 1 would said the umpire but you a l see for yourself the bases are filL where In am oJ l going to put you ou |