The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-26
"spoRTING LIFE"
His Views on the MeiOdrama Elk
pressed by Can't GIenaIyin

pressed ny Oapt.
Say. cap, how's 'Sportin Llfe?" in
CURED Charley Swartz as he began to
peel his togs'' in the Lexington park
dressing room
sporting life? lou ought to be getting
into it,, replied the captain, who had not
forgotten defeat as well as victory
You'll find it has ups and downs, like
everything else"
Il mean the play. This piece down at
the theater"
"Oh, yes. 1 forgot that / dropped in
to take a rubber at it last night
Worth the two piunks, is ito"
Two .plunks in yer eye. L just worked
me cheek at the main gate. It's not in
the code, young Teller, for professional
people to whack up their hard iron stuff
at rival show. When you've been In
the business little while you won't be
making no breaks like that"
But hows the show, anyway"
"Pennant winner. De real ting. Talk
about Easy street. You ought to see the
way that bunch travels. 1 don't count
myself more than 81 when it comes to
judgin' crowd like that on team work
They know their game, and I play NINE
but there amt no gettin around the
TACT that this troupe has got the special
train travelling beat to a finish. The
main pipes a duke, or an earl Lord
Woodstock. they call him, and when they
pinch the paints and toss you into the
first act they amt dom a thing but
cCmin' his way in hacks. and coupes and
buses. [ guess. Why, he has tank of
Gold nsh In his Darn just to waste the
city water, his moneys comm in so fast
His horses can't lose, even in their sleep,
and all the nobility and a lot of plain
clothes touts was locking to grab his mftt
There was one Of the finest turnouts in
the en- traine bunch L ever see came
swfshlng her hot toys around the barn
just like it was q dancing academy OF
course they had the stage Clean like but
| 1t looked little risky flashing all them
Paris suits around with kicking horses
and feed buckets with oats fringin' EN-
| she Kind took on as thou III she was
! leanln toward his dookship, but hubby
was playin' her pretty close and she
| didn't get much show to tip off her signs
In that act. Besides, his lordly nobs was
shinin' up to pretty little colleen whose
father taught the horses their spring
canters, and this girl was the real kind,
al wool and a yard wide She might
not bat as high on beauty as the one
with the Wall street dreSsrnakers but
| any old umpire could see she beat her
in at the plate on all the rest 1t turns
out that the clothes the warm ones wear
IN come out of a piece of paper the other
| girls kid brother forged while the
!
DIDN'T love Carly any more. Carly was
| the hub. He turned up either on
deck or missing, whichever seemed to be
| hand1eSt for turning Short card trick
| on somebody with a real bill or hopes.
| Carly had a dyed mustache and white
| hair. and he thought he was a lady kill
| er, but the earfs intended she handed
him up into the high sky like a wood
| pigeon after noon handcut Carly
puts up lot Of jobs to block off the Der
by winner, wants 20 get his dukelets to
| run her shady and give his friends de
diEky-dink, but Woodstock says he's not
that kind of a sport and he promises the
Carty a sparrin game If he don't cross
the street when he sees a chance Of meet
in a-gentleman. The kid brother is in
$50. OOO~on the forged check and Woodstock
has to blow the family homestead to keep
1t quiet, and then a kid sister, she gets
mixed with a prize fighter that Wood
Stocks bringing out, and the. girl runs
away from home. That makes more
trouble for the girls old man finds out
about the affair and he drugs Mr. Pug
Just as he is in to win all kinds of green
bills for the gearl and save the family liv-
| cry rigs and such. Lucky play though.
Woodstock has his man entered 4as
'urnSneWn, an when he clear up ygainst
ut. hea peels4 down to his shirt: and pants
and biffs the professional bruiser. under
his ear in the third round They have to
/ put new glasses in the footlights after
that dead one falls onto 'em. Then the
KID brother Woodstock goes. to give the
dressHaakers' model a game Of talk about
| letting upon stringing the kid brother.
and 1t happens the kids Just had a tilt
4, with her, and he's rubbering back of
the curtains in oay window. She truns
MN down awful cold when he amt sup
posed to be on hand, and after his lud-
| 1n ~
Qon run more'n about 2:26. he gives her
l&dyship a long roast and t'rottles the
tallor-made on a sofa. She rolls of where
the lights brighter, probably because she
| had used up all the costumes the man
! agement could afford to star her In. The
KID has to blow on account of the muir
der, but Carly, instead Of dyin of grief
at his sparrin' partners graveside, puts
up a job to burn down the Derby win
ner's barn and kill her owner. so that
! shed be disqualified anyway. He gets
some tough skates to go in on the lob.
Tut one of EN- happens to be the pug
who's been soft On the gal, and he won +
stand for sticking the steel into his old
hacker, and they cut it down to kjdnapin'
his 'ighness till after the race
THE other Job falls through. too. and
Lady Love wins the Derby and mob
that gets after :ak1n' booky tears down
the gypsy van where they hid the earl.
/ and 1t all comes out fine when Lady Love
WINS the Derby and Woodstock and his
colleen checks in at the church, and the
pug is forgiven and the sister is haDnv
but the boys all out They kind of hand
1t to you that he's dropped himself in the
drink, but they don't offer no morgue
scene. but then he got kind of tiresome
anyway, he behaved as though he hadn't
| been around much nights