Argosy All-Story Weekly, October 7, 1922 — page 173: what you’re looking at

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IZZY KAPLAN’S KOLUMN. o1l9 You could belief it or not, but Chon McGraw is always making signalings from the digout, and the players is always looking into the digout so they could see what it is they should do next. It was wery interesting to me, and IJ thought it was a fine ideer, and maybe the other teams might copy it unless maybe Chon McGraw went to a lawyer and got it patented on account people is always stealing good ideers. A lot of people who pay good money to go to the baseballing don’t know nothing about it. They think it is the players that do the business when all the time it is the feller with the brains which he is doing all of it. The next time I should go to a baseballing when Casey Stengel should hit it a run home, instead I would give three cheers for Casey Stengel I would give them for Chon McGraw, because Chon McGraw is the feller who gave it to him the ideer for the run homes. But Chon McGraw told me I shouldn’t done this on account the customers like to think that the players are making the run homes by themselufs. Chon is a good feller that way. He wouldn’t take no credit away from nobody, even it didn’t belong to them. It is the same way with the Yank- ish team of base- ballers. Baby Ruth- stein come to the G Xe bet and he gives a ABs smesh at the ball RAN: a D \ ay XY . ‘ier > . ANY: \ . \\ \ ~ Zi -\X\ NN a . \\ We JW WV —= Noo and it is a run MM ‘ , Ws 6. CR SED AT \W we 48 oat a \ 1 \ , i \ : \ ; ‘ THE BRAINS IS IN THE DIGOUT. ‘ home. Fellers throw their straw hets into the field and everybody says: NN __ ‘Hooray for the Babe.” But the Babe ain’t got nothing to do with it, excepting maybe to hit the ball over the fence, and the meneger tells him he should do it by the signaling. I had a long talk with Chon McGraw, and he is just the same like myseluf. He never does nothing for his brains. They chust like mine. They came netural to him, and he never took a lesson in thinking in his life, on account he is like me chust a netural-born thinker, always thinking even when he ain’t thinking about nothing at all. That’s how my brains got deweloped, by thinking, and it is the same way by Chon McGraw. You got to sit down to think good on account when you are running around on your feet it jiggles the brains, and when the brains is jiggled they won’t think right. The best thinkers is always sitting down, that is why you wouldn’t see me stending up a whole lot. I am sitting down to rest my brains and give them a good chence for thinking. Of course there is a few exceptions to the cheneral rule about brains. Pat Moran, which he is meneger from the Cincinnati team, he couldn’t think unless he is stooping over with his head between his knees. His brains is so different from my brains that he can’t think unless the brains is upside down. COMiCLOOOkKKS. CGO