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"buffers" to keep the public frpm him that Maude Adams, who is never interviewed, and that's go ing some. Neither his telephone number nor his home address is obtain able, unless you reach one of his close friends, and at the Polo Grounds he is never on view until you have passed all the police force and plain-clothes men not at the graft inquiry or the Rosen thal trial. John M. Ward, who used to be captain of the New York club, but who is now a lawyer and devotee of golf, promised to introduce me to McGraw, and we went to the Polo Grounds to see the Giants play and to see the mighty Muggsy. It was after the game that I saw the Giants' manager, well groomed, well dressed, well man nered. McGraw was evidently at peace with himself and the world. I imagine that most people who only see him in uniform think John McGraw is a -happy-faced Irishman who smiles in the char acteristic Celtic manner. This is not so. He is the most serious ball player I ever talked to. He seldom smiles, and told me that he put one on to order when he had his picture taken with me. He doesn't look as large in mufti as on the diamond; in fact, he has. the ap pearance of the average habitue of the Great White Way. His hair is growing white at the tem ples and he is developing an al dermanic stomach. I think that the shrewd mana ger of the Giants is hedginga lit tie in his own mind, for when I asked him if he thought he was going to win the world's series he said: "Of course, we are going into the game to win, not because of any glory attached to it, but be-v cause it is our business. How ever. I feel that I shall be able to - live through the winter if we lose the world s championship. I am not able to get up that high-water mark enthusiasm which exhilar ates the fans to whom the game is a pleasure and not a business." "Is it true that you objected to . the marriage of Marquard ti) Shirley Kellogg?" I asked. "Indeed, I don't know whether he is married or not," he an swered suavely, but his brown eyes narrowed and his lips came together firmly. "You know I have nothing to do with the pri vate lives of my men." Marquard's name and love af fairs, however, did not bring a rosy glow to the manager's face, and I imagine McGraw has helped make the course of true love run a little crooked, as "the Rube" has lost the jump to his fast ball since his reported mar riage. McGraw thinks well of Tes reau, the boy who is touted as a second Joe Wood. -He jumped in to the breach this fall after Mar quard's slump and played rattling good ball when it was needed t most. He has another' young "" pitcher from the Southern League, Demaree, whom he is go- Jing to try, out Jthis fall and of