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Show ! KEEPING TIME WITH HIS JAWS. How Nick Altrock Developed Into Champion Gum Chewer. 1 When Nick Altrock. the White Sox pltchPr, Is. on the ball field he always has a big wad of gum in his mouth. His jaws work so rapidly that one would think that they might, become dislocated. This has been the cause : of much comment among American i league ball players, so when tho St. i Louis pluh wpnr tn PhlrnVn Pmmpt. i Heidrick, who had been out of the I game for several years, and who did I not know Altrock. stood regarding , Nick with wonder as his jaws opened I and closed in so rapid a manner, j Finally Emmet turned to Harry White I and said: ' l j "Say, Doe, what makes that fellow go after that gum in that hurried fashion?" "Walt until I ask him," replied Harry; and then raising his voice the clever pitcher cried out: "Nick, how did you come to develop that swift jaw manipulation?" "When I was in Toronto." merrily cried .Nick, "1 used to eat my meals at a joint where theyhad a bang-up orchestra or-chestra that didn't play anything but quick two-step music, and the first thing 1 knew I was keeping time to it while I was eating, and I ain't been able to break myself of the habit yet." |