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Show Crawford Had Marrow Escape YS7 R. HOGAN. author,of tho-append- cd story, played two seasons with Green's Nebraska Indians, a team that tours the country every summer, placing plac-ing games with the 3emlproa and minor league teams. Hogan Is now manager of a minor league team, hut spends his winters in Cleveland studying law: "During tne season ot iyua we, tne Indians, had our training camp at Wahoo, tho town made famous as the home of Sam Crawford, about thirty miles from LInc61n." said Hogan. "While there I visited tho- 6portlng goods store owned by onoof Craw-ford'o Craw-ford'o relatives and vas-shoivn a barrel, containing- snglnfyniScblsrc5fCnaTfa-evcry snglnfyniScblsrc5fCnaTfa-evcry one of them guaranteed to have been hit over an American league fence cither by Ty Cobb or Crawford himself It Is said that every resident of Wahoo Wa-hoo has coughed up an iron man and become the pos&essor of ono of these souvenirs. "But. speaking of Crawford. Sam himself was a member of tho 'Indians' several years ago, many years ago, in fact. In those days the team carried wigwams, the players occupying them daj and night for adcrtlslng purposes Sam, by tho way, did not get along very well with somo -of the red men and took occasion to knook one of them down one day. A few days later, when the team was stopping overnight at Nebraska City, a few of the braves, Including In-cluding the ono with whom Sam had had his fight, sneaked away from the camp and filled up on "firewater." They came back looking for trouble Every one else was asleep with tho exception ex-ception of Charley O'Day, who man aged the Springfield (Ohio State) team last season. Charlej'. occupying the noxt wigwam to that used by the trouble trou-ble makers, overheard them planning to get their revenge on Crawford. O'Day lost no time In awakening Crawford, and the pair, together with three other white men on the team, en- iurA tVio TnlnriQ' font and ni flrnnw- ered tho redskins, who already had their knives out." That was enough for Crawford. "I know when I am lucky," said Sam "The next tlmo they go to get mo O'Day might be asleep. I will take no chances." |