The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-05-09
The Ofhcc Kid Writes.

Ladies and Gents and Other Readers OF de
Post:
/ suppose as dis is my first appearance In
a newspaper dat / mus lntrcdooso myseI
10 yer / is the offs kid, and acting sekur-
terry to de sportin' editur. helps the edi-
tur rite his stuff about de game NJ base
ball. pixies out de good plays fur him and
furts wild the gurls at de gran stan gate.
De edltur he helps me furt, but most time
we watch the gurls hirt wild the pan
players.
Me and de edlur went out to de Fort
Wort game ON de 9Th Of de mont, de same
bcin the fourt day of last week on say
but dat game wus outer site. ilere was
tree OF us IN de party, me, de editur ana
de artist. dat Teller May what draws Pc
lures for our paper. De artist sed he wood
draw de piotdre ot de game, plc"cd our
de good PLAYS and de oditur he wrote de
game. We had a lot NV fun. We lef de
onis cause we Good not take 1t Wild us'
and got on one o. dem kars wot runs up
10 de Capitol hotel and stops TIL every
body gets tired watin' and den starts out
TO de game. We paid de conductor tree
fares cause he sed wus over age don t
kno wot over age means. but anyhow we
paid all around and settled down to smoke
a sigaroot and wonder who wud win de
contes. Everybody in the car WIS thinking
bout de same ting. MIR. Rufus Cage wus
on de car wild his two little boys Rnie
spends mos all day tending to fire in
soorence, but in de afternoon he goes out
| TO de bali game wild his little boys, Xix de
preacher wot onct gime dime TO go wild
| him to de circus and paid for mi ticket.
Mr. Cage and his boys had er nrgumint
! bout payin' carfarc but he paid for de
| boys. aud herd one OF dem say he wood
by some sody water. / wsht had a paw to
ma mi AZ .. IN Sc / g,t1I hi gpty
4. waddy tate wus on de kar lie had
| done all the ralo rods bi2ness he Good dat
| day and he wanted to see de bail game
| He don't 40 often to do ball game but
| when he docs 80 he hollcrs every time dc
! home team makes a gud pla. ]. Wsdy was
| trcn to tell george hunter OF de indeptnd'
| out a. gotnothing rallrode dat fort wort had
| better temc dan Galveston. and de kon-
| versaton wu5 warm
| BIN Okoltrec WIS on dc kar BIZ, sun
folks calls him kurnel. is Il ruter 1 alwa'
thot rutcr WIS pig, but foun oul "a
Teller wot gosc to dc ball game and mol
lers is . rutcr Eli WINS smokin pipe wlI
| 4 long stem and tali,in to John trenton
| bout pcyinuey. dat funny lukin' Teller wo
pias at de corner on de dimon,' Jon
! trenton knos all bout de Gamo aud he an'
| Bin WIS bout to nie about de teller, hu
dc sportln editur told dem dev didn't kn'
nuthin an dov shut M. all time dis WI
eoin on de artist WIS maxim pictures Of
de fellers on dc kar.
| Luc GorinGer WIS on de kar, luie like
n baseball game and he bad on his spec
and WIS lookin at de joks Jim nolan rite
IN dat weekly pamphlet which he prints II
Santono.
Dero WINS tree oddcr fellers In de graz
stan wen We got derc. We stopt at dc gat
an harry Warner Civ MS a skore card, an
We went into de gran stan ! OF de Eel
lcrs wus de boss OF de paper. anOdder
wus de editorial ritter, bobby tule, and d
oder wis judge hill, Dey wus ialkin to eaci
oder bout de game. Wen we walked bi dem
de hos he looked at ma arful hard as h
told me TO du some wurk an not go to d
game and thort / wood lusc my Job. bu
Do sportln editur he squared IL wild tn
hes. He sed dc hos woodnt Xix II 1 WOO
rite up de game fur de Sunday paper an
go I went UP starcs In Dc gran stan whar
Good see de game and not be hodcre,
by de gurls who always want to kuo bou
what n nj hit is. and IL man kan ru
an inficl hit. and den lot
nv de gurls want a Teller to 20 on
an lik de umpire. Dore is one CURL wa
knos all bout dc game She never due as
kwestioDs as a little feller who is a fire
| OF hers. a fcllcr Wild red hare told her al
I about IT and give her buk of rules. Sh
gose TO ,ll de games,
Well dere Feeders yu kno how de gam
turned out De spotin oditur rote II up Il
, De paper de next Ia, and ov couarse v
red all about it, / want TO "a thing. an
dat Is dat i tink iis bokay hIness Is ru
In de groun II giys de plaers de swell he
and dey tink cvry gurl in de gran sta
l. stuck on EN-. wot do ball plaers want wi
bokays. dey can't ste EN-. wot ball plae