Show I LIVE BASEBALL YARNS 1 It Was Sadie Houck Sadia Houck one once one of the greatest J pr dIamond stars is 1 working in Chicago and h feels just as young as he did hen he starred at t Washington A few da days s ago figo Sadie with Frank dropped in at the theatre and andon andon on the stage the they saw John D GrIffin the veteran actor Wen Well if it Joltn Joka Griffin said j I Mo What whispered Sadie excitedly Not John Grif Griffin fin of Providence I dont know whether MS hes from Provi ince nce or r not said He has haste te t in the business so 50 long he probably has forgotten where he came from j 1 thInk I used to know him said S Sadie die Ct After the play Sadie remained waiting to see GriffIn and when the actor came out o of the theatre Sadie rushed up to kim hIm Shook hands hande and said Why hello John Im glad to see you You YoO have haye the better of me said Grit Grif Griffin fin lJ him over What t JU u remember rue me de S Cant say that I do saId the actor Watch s ald I l Sadie adie Then he stooped scooped cooped a hot bounder made a quick throw to ran to the edge of the w lk Jt to cover second leaped into the ago a the ball bail with two lIngers fingers ii and touched the run runner runner ner as he came down then shot the im imaginary ball to an imaginary third base The crowd thought SadIe had bad gone gon craz raZ and nd for a minute Griffin stood as asif asif if he shared the Idea Then sudden suddenly some som motion revived his memory and running g to the veteran pla player er he grabbed him In his annS and nd said Well WelI darn my my eyes if is Sadie Houck S layers Known by Actions on Field That That goes to prove that ban ball players are aref f Identified by their by their appearance Not one ball player In a will m on the street Jet et avery one the grand stand every player Identifying them by theIr movements ent f at attItudes and characteristic poses pOSe r At to field ld wa t ca lit t once In which I was a A man who 3 4 claimed d to be a ball pla player was arrested on suspicion of a grave crime of which he claimed to be innocent t When asked 1 bY y the poU police o who uld Identify him he said that I could and they requested rue me to step over oer to the central station and see him The alibI he offered w was that hEr he had he had been playing with a semI semiprofessional professional team tt t New Vienna 0 on the day the crIme i was committed at He k knew cw no one in New lew I Vienna having been hired to play with the tam that da day and the only person In Cincinnati he said who could idea Iden him wa was myself I 1 had been In the town an seen a game gamen I n fl lh day dat he m mentioned going there ther to toI I 1 ee a cat catcher ber anted StAn Arthur per I form and I had met several other play players j ers but bu t of course had seen them only I for s a jew minutes and when I came to identitY identifY thE man I was and he dumfounded because I could not Identify ll him n I told the pOnce police that his story hung ng together well but t that at I had no nor r f ever having seen him be tare fare 1 might know him in uniform I 1 sug Sf g ted 1 The police sent to Gerdes hotel bor borrowed bort t rowed an old uniform from Hick Carpen Carpenter ter and the prIsoner put it on The mo lao I prent ment he moved In uniform as a If to scoop UP a ball bail T made the identification positive pOsitive tive He was th man Who ho had played third ba base e In the country town i Way of Selling 1 Seats The Chicago ball baJI club ran Into a man manger ler ger that wac a manager out at Greeley C Cob loa one fall faU on Its way to the c coast ast The team dropped off between cities to top toI I p play y the gamE against Lou Louisville e which was making the trip with them The prices were 25 cents 50 cents and 1 jj Hart art was on the sate gate selling tickets and as the crowd began to stream in he heI I wa kept bus busy by ores of people comIng back to kick on their seats seat kicks came SO 50 hard and sn M often that he rushed UP up to The Joc local l manager had arranged things beautifully For n 1 th thA the A got a seat in the grand stand for EO 50 CentS they had SPlits seats on the ground I nd the 25 rents cents was for standing room roomI I The main niala trouble was that the scats were I dIrectly i behind the stand and the I A standing room them themI I c I S Became canie of Tom Loftus Share In the good old days dars before Comiskey and Johnson quarreled there was an or organization organization of the best fellows on earth that was called the Western league Not one except Commy is left for one after another they have fallen before Johnson Loftus MannIng Killilea and the others are ott But the they were Tere grand days And In those da days s there thee was a Western league meeting at Milwaukee that should go godown godown down in history The meeting was a solemn and stately one which lasted about min minutes mm utes after a quorum could be dragged into a room other than the bar room Business was conducted with great seri serl and matters disposed of too fast for the secretary to rec record rd Finally J Johnson said There Is 2172 in the treasury collected in fines and penalties during the season 11 t shall we do with it Move Iove we it between the eight clubs said Manning Second said someone The vote was taken and then Comiskey Comiske arose Mr Chairman he be saId Loftus is not here I move that we take his share and buy wine with it Second saId Killilea It is moved and seconded d said John Johnson Johnson son that we take the Columbus clubs share of the 2172 buy wine with it itAn An All in favor sa say aye ae I And the vote was vas unanImous |