Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-03


ont eating if they'd had to. The point
was 10 get away from New Orleans. and
INTO the game up here where 1t was,
and SO they Just bunked in with the old
black spr.HteT and took the game as II
came.
Scheme of Foxy Regular.
/ Occasionally there are foxy ones among
/ those who swarm to the winter tracks;
/ fellows who've been keeI-hauIed once and
/ WHO don't a,e any real good reason why
hey should hand themselves another wal
/ l9p Of the me kind.
/ Cun If this KIND got away with a mighty
/ profound play II san Francisco a couple
/ IF seasons ago. The year before he'd
been obliged t. heat his way back east
from san Francisco, being dtched al
sLcI uutoHaTd dumps as Mojaye. Bar
stow. la JuHLar Kansas City and such
ike, and It ranked within him to re-
member how many times the beIl-cord
had hren Ja-ked on him that trip.
Nuta he raacEaG San Francisco for the
W.rts. meeting the following December
he Lad the gaags on after a prosperous
season around the New York tracks. But
lie wasn't licking the paint off any rain
bows. He k.lW ihat what had happened
lu bin IL San Francisco before was just
as likely as no. to happen to him again.
So as soon as lie reached his hotel IN san
Francisco he dug up Fred Ulrich, the
5ooknaker. who vas staying at the same
/ hotel and he handed Fred large sealed
envelope containing things.
FRED he said, to the chalker, Gust
take R little peek into that package, VIII
Eu.,''
UT.nh dumped the contents from the
envelope and spread the stuff out on the
table The envelope contained n first
class unlimited ticket from San Frames
.r New York, god on the Overland nm
ted or any other Old trains. ! hen there
was a pullman tcEet showing ma Id. "
p- .Gtf a
Pullman three months in advance, en-
-t.t-E the holder Thereon 10 rae on II a..
laH way from the acme 20 tHe y -a. ,-.e
ocean And, iu addition, there were Two
Hi'N it'a-~- -, -, 1,oo,-
~ me- Salo ia 1l.l@'i' ..I 81 pIIt
.JaI,, Ask me to hold this stuff for you, old
g.,. [ know You mean II as compliment EN-
' m .-'t.-.',l a-', t1s t7a,.'1 o,,t Of me
~ Kid rf... INK BACK to you just as soon
as zua ct trimmed here and you Il De
trailing ~" around IKE Il .,,o+ .,,-,, II
Ing ..-- $50. - M In The CRAFTY
,. ..-r.. .-,y w they'll ditch me on
ms ride aasH so Nv York th.s year WI
b" for tF''o e" run lht u a+'' on ask Won
SUPP ~ .l-a none Won give it to
. -..t.z .,lr u.tu tMe day that Pull
man ticket is dated. no matter II | come
Lat You Wta t"o ~ Ut , ''.T - not asit
81 RED peH|",' i''0 81
f-l-..5 ,,,ft the envelope away with his
own stuff. ard long before that san ran
cisco winter meeting was ol.I INC dt4nt+
tons one was al 'ftaT st,7ff even
fTSttT 49, +f,osa s;y-ceut table
when ne was E.-., " ~ 80. ,.,.ast aro,lrd
h"t' mems ~ 80 e. lIar,-.s alley. He
pUhuhl sur. ~, 49,. |.,y he'd set aside
- ., ,,,-,.s,,y af his tourney back
FOR the - Ei,,.' is, far, the Lackage and
east he turned up l"I , ,,tt4,I ~. CT1hais
he foiIed pax ,''sS ar5 -La sleeps. and ev-
Son23ns' NE 81 -,, cow sor Not many
eEI LL'Iis 80 ca no ol5 game, however.
u the fou'Ll-z. at ~ 10 fling like that
are Wis .,l.t
anu St's "'''-
A Story of Fob McKeeVer.
:. lee ,.,.,,,aos tr,at on the very last
II Always Aa-' .,,. 4,,a,, o-a some
day OF winter ee'ii's t''e''
frame Of mind when they see all o. the
,,l, !,;l..-,e, for the trains with their
-, .to+ +}a,y,I1 mt over
bags in their h"ho' '.'aI ', n - a, -. Con
schemes of the kind that One-eyed Con
noIlv was famous for.
1as- srrinor Rob McKeever, a horseman
- w. irotonians
We'll KNOWN 20 iC', ~ " go 49,
was leaving New orleans on me !i'itA- q@'
Of the meeting, bound for BeUning. lie
had reached the gate leading to his train,
at,i tad d~onrad his counIe of bags to
ana lldu u 'ri7N no 80.
look through his pockets 1or MS ticheI 10
show the gateman when he was tackled
from behind Somebody threw both Of
-. - a,.,,,,,,4 ,TcLae1,ar,s shouldersi
MS a lil2 atp ~. - ANN WcKaevarj