Show I Roosevelt Attends Game Succeeds Line of Fans From White House Coolidge Scores on Stick By BILL CORUM International News Sports Writer NEW YORK YORE Oct 2 With 2 With President Roosevelt the spectators the worlds world's series serie w will be resumed today under among weather conditions more suitable for baseball than duck duck- shooting So at le least the e fair fairand and w tv warmer man has han promised AU U our modern presidents have nave been fans of ot greater or less Jess degree degree de de- de- de det and Mr lr gree Roosevelt is no ex ex- ex- ex For or 20 years our presidents presidents dents rooted for W Walter lter Johnson since from 1907 until a few years ago Johnsons Johnson's name and baseball practically were svere synonymous in the capital In addition to admiring his re remarkable re- re ability and character the chief executives probably respected respect respect- ed ad Johnson because he had a stead stead- ier job in Washington than they Old Barney must have seen four tour or five presidents presidents come and go during dur dur- duri ing log the th-e ye years rs he he hew w was s the first pitcher of the Potomac Indeed Johnson shook hands with so many presidents and autographed so many baseballs for tor them that according to tradition the Washington Wash Wash- ington mascot used to come into the clubhouse a. a and say That man is here again Walter So far tar as we know the theo ypres Ident ever to recommend a player to the major leagues was Warren G. G Harding Mr Harding s sent up a pitcher named Wilbur Cooper one of ot the most graceful if not one of the best ever to toe the rubber Cooper was a fair Cair pitcher and would have been a great one if It the stands hadn't been built too close to home plate in the major league parks He also needed fast tast outfielders and tireless ones because it w was s easy to hit tall tall flies flics off oft his der de- de r livery There are pitchers like that I although nobody seems to know why The veteran Jess Haines of the Cardinals is an example Wilbur Coopers Cooper's career wasn't Hardings Harding's only baseball interest He was also a red-hot red Cincinnati Red fan tan The Reds were In the midst of ot a winning streak at the t time ime of ot his his' death in California andone and andone andone one of ot the presidents president's last coherent remarks was the query How di did the Reds make out today Mr Coolidge liked baseball and understood it even though he did attempt to score a worlds world's series game me with a stick and a pocket knife on one occasion One side alde of ot the stick was for tor one team and one side for tor the theother other Mr C. C would cut a little notch for each run scored That part was as simple as s notchIng notch notch- i ing ng a a. gun It was not so easy to keep track of ot the hits errors and chances accepted The president told baseball writers however that he had kept score that way in the Maple Sugar league in Vermont Both Mr and Mrs Coolidge were great admirers of Stanley Bucky Harris the mine boy who worked i his way up to the management of ot the worlds world's champion Washington Senators the Senators the capitals capital's first and only aly worlds world's championship club That was during the Coolidge ad ad- ministration and 1924 1924 and during that that- worlds world's series the president seemed as enthusiastic and excited ted as it was possible for tor him to be He didn't exactly stand up and throw his hat in the air of course But there wasn't any escaping the fact that he was rooting for tor Harris and his team Taft TaCt liked baseball and the Taft family was for years financially in interested in- in interested in the Cincinnati club |