Yet that brain was good for nothing else. Chase was completely and congenitally amoral. The man was born without any sense of right and wrong. Many years ago a doctor should have taken him in hand or he should have been committed to some kind of institution. There was that difference between Chase and most of baseball's other black sheep. Most of them were either racket men, like Chick Gandil ... Chase was a mental case. I remember him coming to my office one day sobbing like a baby. His son in San Francisco had given a statement to the newspapers saying: "I want to forget that I am the son of Hal Chase." Hal hadn't lifted a finger for the boy in years, but he couldn't stand the indictment. "You don't believe any boy would say that about his father do you?" he blubbered. I assured him that no boy would, that the story was a newspaper trick. Within two minutes he had forgotten the whole affair. That incident was quite typical of him. There was no question (that) his mind was greatly disordered. You will recall that he was shunted out of the big leagues by Christy Mathewson. He had been losing ball games for Cincinnati on plays where the pitcher covered first base. Chase would time the throw in such a way that the play would always miss in such a manner that the pitcher looked bad. The fans blamed the pitchers, but Mathewson knew too much of his own art to be deceived. Without having ever pinned the fault on Chase, and on the strength of his personal conviction about what was going on, he cast Chase adrift. Subsequently, he drifted to the Southwest, and I gave him his chance to return to baseball. We poverty stricken sage brushers then had an outlaw league which covered West Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, and I was the president of it. The Douglas (Ariz.) club wanted to sign Chase as manager and I sanctioned it. Buck Weaver, Chick Gandil and Lefty Williams signed with the same club. Of Buck and Lefty I can speak only in the highest terms. Both appreciated the fact that they had been given a break, and their conduct was always exemplary. If I were ever in a bad spot I would gladly rely on such men.