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Show 00 HOW JIM GARTLAND HIRED DAN MURPHY j There are some pretty good stories oxtant on this fellow Jlmmle Gart-land, Gart-land, who has slipped Into Benedlct-dom, Benedlct-dom, leaving his many friends and acquaintances ac-quaintances gasping at the unexpectedness unexpect-edness of It Here Is a characteristic one told by a Brown classmate- Jlmmle got the athletic, managerial and publicity bug early in high school, managed all tho school teams and figured as the fellow bohind tho pen cil In the many heated controversies concerning sport supremacy between tho neighboring towns of Warren and Bristol in Rhode Island. Entering the university as a freshman, fresh-man, he still found tlmo enough to handle the Warren ball team, which had a series for blood arranged with Its natural rivals. Games wore arranged ar-ranged ono In each town for Memorial Memor-ial day and the glorious Fourth. The third date was left open, but the place selected was a driving park on tho border lino botween the two towns. In the first game with resldenta of each town only playing Warren made Decoration day on the Bristol common indeed a sad event Bristol then suggested sug-gested that to mako tho series Interesting Inter-esting each town bo permitted to use not more than four outsiders. It was so agreed and the glorious Fourth frizzled out In Warren before the imported im-ported Bristol battery. It was up to the deciding game; Interest In-terest was truly at fever heat; baseball base-ball and the championship were the sole topic of conversation In tho little lit-tle burgs; ancients and honorable of 80 were as enthusiastic as the grammar gram-mar 6chool kids. Conferences wero held between the rival managements. The Saturday after Labor day was toe date chosen. Each side backed to tho limit by business men. cchool teachers, teach-ers, preachers, doctors and lawyers, to say nothing of tho mill hands, agreed to raise the bars and to placo In tho field the very bet teams tbnt could be selected regardless of residence resi-dence or salary limit. When the tennis trotted on tho field in tho well known uniforms Spalding's Spald-ing's official guldo was tho only means of securing identification of who was who. It looked good for Bristol with Jake Boyd of Washington pitching and Tommy Leahy, the veteran leaguer catching. Silver Braun, later ..with Denver, but then an Eastern leaguer, was hit hard and the score stood C to 3, when Warren came to. bat In the last of tho ninth. By bunting unexpectedly. unex-pectedly. Warren filled the bases. A well set up chap, the Warren first sacker. stepped into the batter's box. "Lefty" Jake drow back his arm, took a little hitching motion that a wise head on tho Warron bench diagnosed as always preceding a Blow, straight ball. There was u sharp cry from the bench: the free swinging hitter stepped step-ped Into tho ball and drove It out of reach and sight. In a few seconds the pnnifl n'nc nvar nnrl If ofiirl Uormn 7, BrlEtol C. The hitter? Oh. that was Harry Davis, later captain of the Athletics, now manager of Cleveland. The wlec head on the bench? Well, that was Danny Murphy, at present captalu of the world's champions. cham-pions. Murphy had been In such demand de-mand by both clubs that both had offered over S100 apiece for his services serv-ices In tho game. Both asserted that he had agreed to play with tholr side. Neither would agree to start with Murphy In the opposing Iinoly. So Danny graced the bench. Figuring that learn work would boat any gathered bunch of stars Jlmmlo Gartland had undor tho agreement secured se-cured tho entire Provldenco Eastern league championship team, their season sea-son having closed Labor day Murphy, Mur-phy, out of the gamo. naturally sat with his oronlos. His Interest deepened deep-ened each Inning until putting his head together with Harry Davis tho pair glimpsed tho flaw In tho Bristol defense and snatched -victory from defeat de-feat Some managerial Blunt for a colloge freshman? But then baseball Is a required re-quired study at Blown, judging from tho scores every season - |