Argosy All-Story Weekly, October 7, 1922 — page 172: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

IZZY KAPLAN’S KOLUMN Received via W. O. McGEEHAN BRAINS IN SPORT ZZY had vanished utterly from sight for several days. If a subpoena server had been chasing kim to compel him to reveal in open court all his inside stuff on sport the photographer could not have been more invisible. | It was an off-day in the sports world when his professtonal listener, W. O. McGeehan, missed him. No bats were cracking at the Polo Grounds ; the football teams were engaged only in rubbing unfortunate scrubs in the mud; the managers of the boxing stars were doing all the fighting in the fight world; and not even a chess team nor a cue expert was tuning up for action. Consequently when Izzy entered the office from nowhere, with his derby hat low on his head to hold in some newly acquired secret, his partner was glad to see him. Being a diplomat, however, McGeehan merely glanced at Izzy indifferently and reached for a piece of copy paper. Izzy came right over and sat on a pile. In a hoarse voice he revealed that his days of absence and meditation had borne fruit—that he had discovered that'there was such a thing as Brains in Sport. T’S a funny thing about brains. You could use them in nearly | everything. I chust found out that they are using them even in the baseballing business, and if brains is used in baseball it is a sign that they are getting almost common. That is beginning to worry me a whole lot on account if everybody has got brains and is using them maybe I would have to go to work. The way I found out about brains being used in baseballing | was when I was sitting in the digout with Chon McGraw, which he is meneger from the New York Giants. When the players is at bat Chon starts to give them the wag-wigging signals like we gave them INN oft when I was in the signaling corpse in the army. ‘What is all this business?” I esked him on account me and Chon is chust like that and when he has got anything he wants to tell the woild he tells it to me first confidential. “T am giving that bonehead the signalings for a hit and run play,” said Chon. “ You didn’t suppose that those guys are being paid big money for thinking, did you?”’ Then I see how it was. The brains from the Giants is in the digout and not in their feet like some feller which he is writing baseballing for the newspapers said they was. If I should seen this feller I would told him about his mistake, because I am on the inside of everything looking out, and when people is wrong I think it is only polite to correction them in a nice way. 318 COMiCLOOOkKKS. CGO