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Show BASEBALL OH MOVIE. is awrars puzzle Former Union Associationer Has Glowing Prospects in Both Vocations. There is no joy in the heart of "Huck" Sawyer, the Los Angeles boy who shares with Xick Altrock the distinction dis-tinction of being the funniest man on the baseball diamond. On one side of Huck at the breakfast table is a contract with the Washington Washing-ton Americans, on which team he played last year. Propped up against the coffee pot is a contract with the Keystone Key-stone Film companv. Neither is signed. Huck can't decide 'whether he would rather be a movie or a baseball player. Siuce the close of the big league season sea-son in the east Huck has been working in the Keystone comedies at the studio in Los Angeles. "1 have had to dodge pies; they have run automobiles over me and made me fall down from roofs ajid put mo through many and various stunts; but somehow I Uko it. I love baseball, but, oh, you movios!" Huck says in the first comedy in which he worked, they ran a Foril car through a department store and then over Huck. He nearly sacrificed hn fair young life. Then they decided the play was too long and cut his part entirely. en-tirely. Quite Different. "It's altogether different from base, ball comedy," says Huck. "In a way it's easier; then again it isn't. Out there on the coaching line, you haven 't anything to be funny with 'except your cap. But you do havo room enough to move around. That was what made tho movies seem queer to me at first. You are confined to a place about, as big as a 10-cent piece right there in front of the camera. That darned camera never lets up on you. In baseball you can stand around "and wait for a fuiinv hunch; but that picture camera is on your trail every second. She keeps right on clicking and she don't give you any chance to think." Huck says he hasn't made up his mind yet which career he wants In stick to. "The big advantage of pictures," pic-tures," he said, "is that it. lasts so much longer. You are through in ten or 4ewlve vears in baseball and von have to be lucky to last that long; but you can keep on with the pictures indefinitely. in-definitely. You get more niouev, too "Of course, there are a few fellow like Walter Johnson who last a long time and make a lot of money in base ball. Walter saves himself." He will be there as long as a movie star. Most of the time he is tossing tho ball around like playing catch. Then he look:! around and finds three men on base?. He spits on his hands and rubs it ott1 on the knees of his pants. Then you can look out for yourself. You see him start to wind up. Then you hcsir tho ball swat the catcher's hands. Y"u never find out what has happened in betweon. Walter Seeks Spitler: "Walter is practicing this winter with a snitter. If he don't kill somebody some-body witn it, it ought to be the sensation sensa-tion of the big leagues next season. None of the catchers can learn to hold it bo far. Walter's regular catcher i Ainsmith, who is the most powerful man in baseball. Last, season n pluyer slid in home and Ainsniith blocked him off. It made the player so mad that he .iuniped up and wanted to fight. Ainsmitn just picked him up by tlie loose part of the pants and hold him up kicking like a spanked bnliy. It-takes It-takes a big guy like that to hold Walter Johnson. ' 1 If Huck decides to quit baseball, the game will lose one of its most picturesque pictur-esque characters, lie and Altrock work together on the coaching lines, one at first and the other at third. Thick's great stunt is to balance himself on tho coacher's chalk line as though il were a tight rope whilo the batter swats the ball. One dav last year he and Nick pullcl some stuff so funny that Venn firegg. who was pitching a winning gaino, stopped working to watch them. When he started working again, Venn hn lost the combination. They begun t" hammer him all over the lot and ho lost the game. In Chicago one day the umpire ordered or-dered Nick and Huck off tho lot. "Tlieso people came out hern to see a baseball game; not to see you guys get funny," growled the ump. Altrock held up his hands for sHenri and advanced to the grand stand. "Did you come nut here to see the ball game or to see Huck and me!" he asked. Of course the crowd yelled " To see you." Whereupon Nick made a deep tow to the umpire, and lie and Huck proceeded to pull off their mork priz.e fight in celebration of the ump s defeat. de-feat. . , . Sawyer, in addition to his moving picture work, has a winter baseball team at a suburban town near Los Angeles. |