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Show wmiM PISH BEVERLY HILLS. Well sir I got back home about a week or tea days ago, after prowling high and low. It lust looked like I I was Jumping from one banquet to another like a goat from rock to rock. Jesse Jones, my good friend, head of the R.F.C. was in New York and he phoned me to come over that he was there to speak at the N. V Ronltv Rnnrd. Well I dident get oyer there for the dinner, but you can never be too late for the speaking. I got there and told em I come to cry with em, and that I was there as a property owner, that all they had to do was to try to sell it, but that I had to own it so 1 would be able to cry louder than any of em. Thoy were a fine bunch. We had lots of fun. Well then on the night before 1 left the Baseball Writers were having hav-ing their big annual sports writers dinner. Thats a sreat bunch of folks. While I dont get to so very many sporting events on account of having to stay home and play myself, I do read every thing I can lay my hands on. There are some great writers among the sporting writers, real humorous hu-morous writers and real heart interest inter-est writers. Then too baseball is really my onion, I used to go to an awful lot of the games In the old vaudeville and Follies days. 1 knew almost every old time ball player, and lots of em are my best friends today. They are a mighty clean liv- ing type of men, and have raised some fine families. Well at the Dinner, they put on some awfully clever sketches, its sorter like the great Gridiron Dinner at Washington where the President comes, and they take a hair of everybody. every-body. This was like that along the sporting line. They had some good talent among the writers and they must have worked hard on a lot of the well played sketches. I sat by old Dizzy up at the speakers table, and say that old boy looks as good at a speakers table as he does out there when he has got that batter in the hole. He had on a real tuxedo (boughten one) and it fit, and he wasent pulling and hauling at bis cuffs and collars. I had to leave right after I finished but I know he made a good speech. Hejwood Broun the famous writer on any and all subjects, made a good speech and he sure tried to get the players nlentvnf mnno,, u - - iic oaiu ma fans went to the parks to see the Ruths and Deans, and Maranvllles and all the famous stars and that nobody went to see the managers. Well I sorter hung along onto Brouns coattail in my little gab and tried to say the same thing only not as good. But I did think Dizz ought to have more money. I predicted at the last Worlds Series (and that was early in the Series, not after he had carried car-ried it away In his pocket) 1 said he would replace the Babe. He Is sho chuck full of personality and he is boastful, but its not in a fresh way Its in a kidding way, and he is always al-ways laughing, and he is what they call a natural ball player. He can do anything. Frankie Frisch put him in there to run bases because he can run bases, and he will get a hit off anybodys pitching, and he loves to Play ball. Will pitch every day if they let him. Course on the other hand lots of managers havent made money and they Just are not able to pay all that some players are worth, but there is not too much that Dean should have. And his brother Paul i3 the quietest fellow you ever saw, but they sho do pull togeather. Piease dont call him Daffy. I ara asking you writers you baseball writers who are friends of mine. e and I like you and I was goinj to ask you tha' night, but 1 for got It, its all right to call Dizz, Diz zy, but such an uncalled f oi name as Daffy for that nice quiet one is not quite cricket. Its Dizz and Paul. Well right' "c J there by us sat Rabbitt Maranville the gamest and most skilled little ballplayer that ever pulled on a spiked shoe. I hope and pray he will be in there catching those infield flies off his (what is it). Frankie Frisch was there, as flash and heady a player as ever there wavs Bill Terry, who I had Just left a day or so before down at Huey Long's Baton Rouge. And dear old Connie Mack, young and keen as ever just returned from his trip to Japan with a team. When you dont play to s v enty or eighty thousand in Japan at one game. Its an off day. Grea fleId ers, great runners, but they cant hit our fast pitchers. U |
