Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-07-27
standing OF Clubs.

81 les got back from Pittsburg on dc
limited freight. Yes l saw de PirotS
plav. but 1 went up TO see me frlend
charley Powers. Charley gives me de
glad hand. an I unbosoms meseH 10
i'm bout some things what I fought ne
wasn't mex to. see? Say you want [
ring off ON dat Knot Hole key bus ness
7 don't like de term I tell you, don't
IKE tt Me right names Algernon-
aa-,s what I was chris'end, but 1 don't
mind if yo' calls me Peggy till gits me
fortune what's comm to me when de
lawyers settles de state.
How did l come by de name o Knot
Hole key. Well, I'll put you on, II you
don't sling il at me no more, see! twas
before / got me job O. rOOtin' at de games.
II was like dis. Dere amt 9'body more
willin' TO part w.d de price 10 see a good
hall game. but l was troubled wild what
I hears Capn Dow ner call de fnanSnuI
sfringencv. an l bOres q hole in de fence,
and sees De gam fur muffin ill me eX-
checker was replenished. Say, what 40
YOU link OF dat one? I'm dere, amt l:
D.d l ever tell YOU how l got me rooJln
lob? No2 Wen. in one CT dem games
i'm de spring Jack Darrah ketcneS me
lokin trough q hole. an he tries TO 81
me de run. an l dila.es on de Nashunal
game. an puts Jack mex 10 de fac dat
/ knows a ting or two. Den tells him
bout de vacuum in me jeans, an he
fixes it up fer me TO git in to all de games
fer muffin. pervided Ia rattle &c ooo.r
club. Ii l DO say it meseif, l earns de
price every time l goes.
"But dat amt got nUtJin' TO do wild me
consultation wd Charley. After he in
uu.res about me healt an l offers i'm
a Wheeling Kentuck. jes fer sociabillty
sake. and he declines wild tanks, an
hans me one O. De Havanas what he al
ways carries wild him. l unhitches me-
self. an lets loose on i'm bout de UNI
pires. les fer a starJer-S.artin' mild Ike,
and work,n up TO me main point jeS like
lt come natural 20 spring it on i'm.
yer havin' hard luck wild de UNI
pires. l SAYS. an he kind O. gifts huffy at
DE first pop Of de gun. He thinks l was
str.ng.n' i'm. but / works in de law o
arbitration an g.Js' i'm me friend. 1
gifts me own Irish up when he talks bout
givin' Freckles de job agin' but cools
OH sudden. t'inkin' de interview might
end. an we gifts talkin' bout de troubles
wid de umpres in de dif'rent cities.
when we gifts down de list as fer as
Toledo. l says. like it jes come on me
Ike. an Of a sudden. I says Look here
Pres yer amt a gOin' 10 let dem Mud
Hens count all dem Sunday games dis
t.me an cheat Wheelin' cut O de rag?,
den / looks az i'm GU. de corner o. me
blinkers. Kind O. edgin away from i'm
Ike. feariu dat he might trow a paper
weight ar me. but he holds his lamps on
me fer a mimic den he gifts q dead wise
look in en-. an knows De stuffs oil.
" Me boy ne says, jeS like dat, pat
tin me on de coco. and never gittin' on
10 de fac dat l was a tryin' TO pump
i'm. me boy. base bail is a business,
and nCle of 'em ain't n it fer glory,
cepdn' p'raps McKaOwn, an he's git
tin dead tired himself Toledo plays
extra Sunday games he says-and l
props me trumps;s open fer knows de
inflammation what | was hankerin' after
was comm dad easy. widout me hcvin'
10 work de Odder schemes ] had to make
i'm t'aw out Toledo plays Sunday
games fer de stuff dere is in It,.
amy ole jay would be mex TO dat
fsct'. but 1 l.s7=ns, fearin he woulGn' {
gi me de direct answer. If dey was adj
vcrused as exhibition games. he says. de
people wouldn't go to see EN-. It's a
gold brick game dat T0ledO's a wOrkin'
on de fans. but it wouldn't 90 to let cat
sit out. er ii might bus de league. I'll
takecare O. Wheelin' when d. time comes
me boy. he says. den a fly kid hans i'm
two kilograms bout ump;res uOw.n' up
dsra jobs.
"S5e.r' ne was kind O. easy worked. I
thinks I'M try i'm on anudder interrog
tory. So I SAYS. On de dead now. Chaw-
ley. didn't Wheelin' beat Toledo out in
Sc first season. On dis one he gives me
se stony stare. an seem dat de kilograms
was a bolderin' i'm. I fought I'd tell i'm
somJhiu fer de .nfermashun h let loose,
SO ] puts i'm mex 10 de fac dat de Dem
1crats is gOin' 70 carry dis State. sayin'
which 7 asked i'm De tima. feelin' fer
my watch like I had a ticker. an asked
i'm ii dere was par.or ears on dere mex
train fer Wheeln'. Den I says good bye
TO i'm and keJches de freight"
mr. NV.