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SHOWMAN
minors on his way to Pittsburgh and fame, as shortstop. We got a percentage, and a big one, of all we drew over the average take, and it was a swell speculation all round. When Jim Corbett was playing first, the park was jammed till the turnstiles got hot-boxes. And Jim gave them a fine show, holding down first with practically errorless ball. To make sure he got on all right at bat, we'd slip the pitcher a little something for himself to groove a couple at the right moment—there wasn't any Judge Landis then and that sort of thing was all in the cards and nobody thought twice about it.
It was front-page stuff, this sudden blossoming out of a popular champion fighter into a real baseball player, and the papers played it that way. Barrow was so tickled with the results that he booked us to tour the whole Atlantic circuit, and we turned 'em away everywhere. It was the sweetest graft Jim and I ever struck— anywhere from $500 to $1200 every afternoon we showed, and in the summertime too when our theatrical career was laid away in moth-balls. We became the chief attraction at the Iowa State Fair, playing to 15,000 people a day. But our greatest moment on the diamond was the way Jim came through in the pinch when he was playing first base for Milwaukee.
That was carrying out a contract entered into with the Milwaukee club a month in advance. By the time the date agreed on came round, Milwaukee, which had been putting on a Garrison's finish, was playing
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