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Show WOOD'S HAND IS IN WEAKENED CONDITION FORT JERVTS, N. y., Jluv is. Dr. F t. Gessner, who is "Smoky Joe" Wood's physician and responsibly for the removal re-moval of Joe's appendix, baa just returned re-turned from a visit to Woof), which also included an invitation to be the guest of President Lannin of the Red Sox. Dr. Gessner was accompanied by his wife with whom Mr3. Joe Wood makes her summer home while Joe Is on the road with the team. The doctor said that he found Wood In tine physical condition, but that he said lie was not feeling strong enough to pitch every day, as the pitching baud which war, injured last July sometimes goes back on him. However, ha feels that he Is getting along first rata and will do bis share In putting the Red Sox In a commanding position In the American league race. "No wonder that the'Boston team Is a congenial aggregation," said Dr. Gese-ner. Gese-ner. "Why, they have about the hnest owner that I have ever met. Mr. Lannin is just 'one o( the boys' himself and nothing Is too good for the plavcra "As soon as be found out I had something some-thing to do with Axing Joe up, nothing was too good for my partv. We certainly cer-tainly enjoyed hie hospitality and 1 am a firmer rooter for the Red Hoi now than I was before,-, if such a tiling is possible, "I told President Lannin how tbe nova at Port. Jervls felt toward Joe and how the fans watch every time be goes iiitq the box. He Is a great citizen in our section, but r found that he ks fairly idolized around New York and Phlla-delphla. Phlla-delphla. where we went, with the team." |