Show V 1 1 BUT HELD HlO UP AT GATi GATE CHARLES iCHARLES w SOMERS OWNED CLUB FRANCHISE AND THE TIt GROUNDS BUT COULD NOT GET BY OFFICIOUS YOUTH I r AT TURNSTILE PULLIAM PAID ADMISSION I Club owners men way WY y lup lur In tho affairs of ot the big leagues ofton havo have peculiar r experiences experience In their trip around the circuit In Boston one day do Just after CharlesW Charles V Somers Somersby by an investment jn of oC nearly had made an nfl American league team In the Hub possible the Uie Cleveland capitalist was vas stopped slopped at tt the turnstile by a very officious young roan man And HAnd by br what right do you ou ask Mk for admission Inquired d the youth ln In charge of or the pass pasa gate atc Oh no right at nil all replied Mr Ir Somers Comers 1 I Just happen to on the thc grounds the franchise and the club that is all Excuse mo me and Ill see seo the theman theman theman man at It tho the front window i But Dut by this time lime there was con In tho th camp earn and at ot least leasta a n dozen sates gates atea were flung wide open to the man who had put nearly a mil million million lion dollars into the young league BanOut Ban Out In n the Cold Ban Johnson tells with groat great glee his hil experience on u it trip to New Now York The man on the Yankees turnstile know Mr Ir About all ho did know or remember r on this oc occasion o 0 casion caslon was the warning sounded in ill hIs Ills cars by 1 his boss boBs Beware of who try to get into the gamo for nothing Dig DUll Bun stood outside the Ute gates gatos for fora forn a n quarter of an nn hour Then Prank Frank Farrell the Yankees ees owner came along and conducted Mr 1 r Johnson down to the Hie presidents private box bux Too Many Whiskers Stanley Robison one ouner lof of the St StLouis StLouis Louis Cardinals loomed up at the Brooklyn National league grounds in Brooklyn one ant lay day but hit was stopped I with a dull thud at the pass gate gale Im Mr Ir RobIson the owner of the I II I St Louis Lotus team he hp said sAld to the man manIn manIn i In uniform at al the turnstile Get a shave shuc and Ill talk to you ou laId caid the man at tho the gate Stanley Ho hunted up President Ebbetts and was soon es escorted escorted escorted with great pomp lomp to a box in the most favored position In all nIl the t e park and his beard is Js still Intact Tho late lato Harry Harr Pulliam used to lo love to toll tell one of his experiences at I tho National league grounds rounds In Bos Boa Boston Boston ton The game ganie was played on Satur Saturday day dav and the regular office and aud turn stilo stihi forces were enjo enjoying a holiday Im Mr Ir PullIam I saId sald to tho the thoman thoI theman I man at tho pass gate cate i And Mr Pullman may I beg I I to Inquire he replied with a sweep I lag Ing In courtesy Oh Ob nobody in particular just the president pre of ot the league all 11 I Isaid Isaid Isaid said Toll To that to i not to me inc I he said Id What That high school arc you Pulliam Hd Had to Pay J And It Is a bit of or baseball history that on this occasion Pulliam paid to see a game In a league of or which he be was president I I In contradistinction to these theRe stories i imay I may mo be he set down one ono told by b Oliver I II One HOne night at the old Broadway I I Central says sa s Tebe u tho talk ran to the men In base baseball ball bail Of course this Included Andrew Friedman then the owner of at the New York Giants The TIle day before Friedman had said Bald to me Any time Mr you oU have any friends In town bring them out The uTile of my m life was at al hand Ill 11 bet het you ou I J said to my m friends at atthe atthe atthe the hotel that I J can take thirty peo people pie pIc through t rough the free gate sate without la m word of protest At that time Friedman was known as a magnate who stood at the ithe big gate gato till nil the afternoon telling off orr all application cation for free admission mIssion ad I E got gol thirty waiters wallers on tho the string and i took them out to the Polo grounds The bet as a I 1 remember It was 50 to 10 that I 1 would lose loseA A fow few of my m Cleveland friends Mr lr Friedman I said as asi I approached the gate Take Tal e them right in Mr said Put em cm In the front row of boxes Ill send them up UI the coupons later lator laterI 4 I 1 want vant my mr patrons to see lee c a real baseball team I r never had hail more moro fun than I did lid with the 50 I r won that day i |