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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 8, 1912)
Nevi'i'tlielt'ss, t bore's not a Philadel phia fan, I venture, who wouldn't make an indignant retort if you pointed out to 1 1 ill. that it was not a Philadelphia team lie was supporting so fantastically, but a group 'of money machines. And these "fans," as they are known, are drawn from every walk of life. In Washington they say that the Taft Administration is a better "baseball administration" than was that of Koosevolt. Tliey say that while the Colonel would go to a ball game once in a while, he was not a "fan" like President Taft. In the Washington American League park there's a box re served for the Presidential Party. Other fans at the Capital are Vice-President .lames S. Sherman, Chief Justice "White, "Uncle Joe" Cannon, and a score of senators. Like the Playwright, the Ac tress, the Butcher, the Roy and the Priest, whom we saw at Shibe Park, they demand action the action of a star player and a long hit. Every year, the National and the Amer ican Leagues pay close to $175,000 to the minor leagues for young and promis ing players whom they draft. Xew blood is demanded by the box office. Last year Pittsburgh paid St. Paul $22,500 " for Martin J. O 'Toole, a phenomenal young pitcher. Three years ago Xew York paid Indianapolis $11,000 for Marquard; and Philadelphia paid Baltimore $12,500 for Hussel. Let me explain that these play ers are drafted and bought after repre sentatives of the major league clubs have seen them work on minor league dia monds. These representatives, known as "scouts," search the smaller league civ cuits for the new player, the new ntt mo tion that is constantly in demand. Let me illustrate: One summer a few years ago, two teams were playing in a small Eastern town. Perched high in the grand stand, far above the clamorous rooters, was a man. Beyond the fact that he was a stranger and kept very quiet, there was nothing to distinguish him from any of the other spectators at that game. Ho did not enthuse. Indeed, it was onU when the strong looking, dark-haired young man, who was at third Fiase for the homo team, featured the play that ho appeared interested. As the game noared its end, the stranger drew a little memo randum pad from his pocket and scribbled in it. The sturdy young man had made four hits, in addition to showing all-round skill. Then, the stranger went to a tele graph station and wired the Philadelphi i American League Baseball Club. The message suggested that an immediate op tion on the third baseman be obtained. Two years have passed. A world 's series game is being played in Shibe Park. Philadelphia is at bat,"fighting the New York Giants. A great volume of sound mounts roaring to the skies. A home run has been made; a ball is bounding down Twenty-first street; a thick-logged young man is crossing the plate. His name you 've guessed it is Baker. THE WIDOW WREN (Continued from Page 11) "I wouldn't think about it, if I was you," she soothed, nearly as agitated as he was. "It's all over and done with now. ' ' ' ' No it ain 't ; not by a damned sight ! ' ' he burst out shrilly. "It can't be over till 1 've made it up to her with every drop of blood and every bit of sense 1 've got left in my miserable old carcass. And to think that 1 was mad at her when I first found her note saying she was gone ; 1 even cussed some and slammed things around. Then, it got awful still. The sound or my boots tramping round on the bare floors of the big house scared me, and I got to going in my stocking feet and to shutting doors quiet as though there was some one dead in the house. And there was! Oh, my Cod, there was! If I had choked her to death with my big hands the little, shy, lovin' thing that I 'd sworn to take care of 1 could n 't 'a ' done any worse." lie buried his face in his hands, his body racked by terrible, dry sol s. Mrs. Wren was crying softly at his side. "Tn time, though, I got to thinking and seeing," he went on, at length, when he was calmer; "and, one day I saw her room our room for the first time. I'd slept in it for years, but I hadn't ever seen it) before. It was Oh Lord!" He came near breaking down again, but pulled himself together. "It was as bare as the attic. There was a picture from a paper pinned on the wall and some red berries in an ink bottle on the bureau. That was all, and I under stood; and when I stumbled down stairs and out into the yard, 'most crazy, I run across a place in a fence corner where she'd tried to have some flowers the sum mer before; but the hens had scratched 'em all up. 1 laid right down with mv face in the dried stalks and had it out, and and here 1 am," he concluded brokenly, his big hand stealing out tim idly in search of hers. The band farther down the lawn was playing softly, and a great, quiet peace had settled over the place with the com ing of twilight. "Do do you suppose she could ever forgive me?" he whispered, at length, brokenly. Por answer, Mrs. Wren took the big hand that she was holding tightly in both of hers, and kissed it; then, a joyful cry of "Esther! Oh, Esther!" broke the stillness, and little Mrs. Wren disnp peared within her husband 's arms. WOMEN WHO COUNT May Wilson Preston Mrs. May Wilson Preston is well known as a magazine illustrator, and her portrait of Ernest Lawson, the painter, attracted much favorable comment at the American Academy's exhibition in 1911. Mrs. Preston, who is prominent in the literary and artistic summer colony of Heliport, L. I., was born in New York, has a large circle of friends, and is a leader in the independent and advanced (lenient of American illustrators and nrtists. Beatrice Lang. Mrs. Maud Ballington Booth Mrs. Maud Ballington Booth is known as the "Angel of the Prisons." She is the founder of Hope Hall, an institution in the city of New York, to which the discharged convict may go and live amid homelike surroundings until his prison blinded eyes become aecustomed to the light of the busy world around him. He is given employment, and is "tried out" until the officials feel that he is worthy of trust. Then, the "Little Mother," as she is sometimes called, finds a place for him and stands responsible for him until he proves his worth, or goes back to his life of crime, which last occasion ally happens. But failures are rare, and in most cases the personality of this lit tle woman, the friend of the most friend loss class in all the world, holds the men in line. Lida D. Woods. Miss. Helen Clay Frick Miss Helen Clay Frick is already spend ing in charities a portion of her father's fortune. Mr. Frick is credited with do nating to Pittsburg a splendid park site, which it is said will rank among the greatest playgrounds of America. It was, however, really the gift of his daughter. Miss Frick is especially in terested in the work and life of shop girls. She has taken a splendid farm near the Frick summer home, and has turned it into a vacation place for women workers. For several summers now, she has opened its hospitable doors to scores of girls who come from the city. L. A. 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