Show INDIAN IS JOKE PROOf Former Carlisle Football Player Proves Puzzle in Na National National League When the Carlisle Indians played the University of Utah in this city there was vas on the lineup a tall Indian youth tamed ruined Jude Perhaps those who saw I this game will remember lim as an n un suming whose whole atten attention attention attention tion was always on the game he lie was vas aying r Jude is now playing great I baseball in the National League and has got the funny men stepping side sideways sideways i ways trying to draw a smile on his i classic lassie face Here is what one eastern sporting writer has to say sa about Jude Tude Make this thia Indian laugh and win w n the everlasting gratitude of the Cincinnati Baseball club Jude the right fielder is a full blooded Ojibway went through Car Carlisle Carlisle lisle played on the football squad helped shoot out the street lights after breaking training and still he has not laughed When this lineal descendant of Hia ha Hiawatha Hiawatha hawatha watha joined the Reds players got i ready for some fun and the baseball scribes es sharpened their pencils and pre prepared prepared prepared pared for interviews galore But as yet there Is nothing doing Vocabulary Two Grunts Judes entire vocabulary consists of two grunts three distinct movements of his head and one cuss word To Tomake Tomake Tomake make his life of seclusion even more pronounced he does not chew tobacco Every yarn spinner on the club from Tommy Corcoran to Miller Huggins has tried to draw him out but when the story reaches its climax Jude simply emits a grunt his head and draws back into his shell sheH He has never been known to speak except when he lie is asked a question and then he comes out in English without the use of an adjective Joe Kelley is keeping tab on the number of words used by the Ojibway during the season and wants the tile publishers of the baseball guide to use It as a footnote after his batting average next fall Everybody thought Umpire John Johnstone Johnstone stone atone had broken the charm Saturday when he called the Indian out at first but when Jude refused to open his mouth except to loosen up the dust Johnstone was sorely disappointed A Afew Afew Afew few more Jud Judes s and the umpires would pine pi e away for lack of excitement He e tick kick as much as Dummy Tay Taylor Taylor lor br Hanlon Did Not Him HimAs HimAs HimAs As a rule ball players consider it a apart apart apart part of their duty to laugh at jokes sprung s rung by their managers but Jude smashed this precedent the first day out when Ned Hanlon hung up the old one about when a door is not a door The Ojibway Quietly went to the littletO little tool tO bag took out pencil and paper and rote Get the spring almanac and look on page 23 for your answer Hanlon was dumbfounded at the audacity The Theother Theother Theother other players snickered It was then Judes time at bat and after atter he had lined out a single scoring two runs the incident was forgotten Tommy Corcoran who besides being a veteran shortstop is famed as a breeder of hound dogs thought he had the Indian Saturday night and primed and cocked went at him thus Jude why is a tin can tied to a dogs tail like death Jude grunted his inquiring grunt Well WeH said Tommy as he winked at Jim Delehanty because its bound to a cur occur Gets Back at Corcoran The players laughed uproariously and Tommy turned to the Ojibway to observe his certain success In iii making the Indian laugh Jude was studiously drawing the picture of a dog in the sand with his bat When he looked up to meet gaze his face looked like a funeral Reaching in his pocket he quietly handed Tommy a clipping showing where Corcoran had not made madea a hit in three days Whether he meant that Tommy was not a a good batter or ora ora ora a good Joker the players have not as ascertained Hanlon and all the players like Jude despite his stolid manners He Is obliging at all times and incidentally is a cracking good ball player He fields well and Is one of the best hit hitters hitters hitters on the club His training as a sprinter on the football team at Car Carlisle Carlisle Carlisle lisle makes him a valuable man on the hoses bases Now If any of our professional and story tellers think they can land a good one the Reds stand ready to produce Jude as an audience Make him laugh and get a souvenir well worth keeping |