Connecticut western news., 1908-03-19
"BALDY BEMIS" SEES
 THE MAN EMPIRE"
WHO WORE A YELL Y" SWEATER
And Nearly Blew a Cylinder Head out
 of a Tin WhistIe-And the Crowd
 Yelled.

D6IulS duu 1lS 1SCo yC the baaket ball fever. They went to see the Canaan-Millerton game and Baldy writes his chum, Bill, all about it. Here is his letter:
 Say, Bill, after I'd seen the wimmen chasin' the pigskin at that basket ball game, it sort O whetted my appetite for seein' game played by couple O teams O lads so men Red let the ticket seller set us back two shillin piece to see the Canaan boys and the Millerton fellers scrap it out in the Canaan town hall Friday night. And, say, don't glt d clutch on the idee that 1t wasn't worth the coin.
 ''Is this to be Quaker meetin'?" says Red,
 "I pass" says I, because hadn't had no telegrams or postal cards tellin' me what the empire was goin' to look like.
 "Well." says Red, "This is positively my last appearance if we can't chuck a little language while the scramble is a goin' on."
 Then he caught sight of the suits the fellers was wearin'. Bought lem by the yard and the money run short, didn't thsy?" says Red.
 G'wan," says I. "what did you ex-' poet to see 'em wearin', felt boots, over alls, plug hats and ulsters2''
 Then we went to watchin' the boys from over the line as they begun timber in up. A good, husky bunch O lads they was, too and the way they handled the pigskin made 'em look dangerous to me and Red. They had Canaan beat a block on the practice and Red allowed he was glad he hadn't laid no ducats on the boys from the happy land.
 Hold yer whist" sez I, "Many's the time I've seen Patsy McCabe when it seemed as if he couldn't t hit bale O hay with bed slat when they was practicn' before base ball game but after the game started he'd lam out one for two pairs of cushions the first crack out of the box. Mebbe it's so with the Canaan lads.
 Then short, slender little feller with big "Y" painted on his back and tin whistle between his teeth waltzed out onto the floor and feller settin' next told me he was the "empire'' I passed this on to Red who wanted to know what they" stood for. "Yale," sez I. Red had his langwidge receivers half shut and thought I said Yell" and he was that tickled that he hove a sigh of relief that nearly ripped out coat sleeve "This is goin' to be worth while," says he.
 I didn't have the heart to tell him his receivin' station wasn't workin' straight when told him what the "" stood fer
 Then the man empire went over by the stove and slid out of the s'Y" sweater and Reds chin dropped way onto hls chest but he revived again when the empire turned around and there on the front of sweater he had on under the first one was another "Y."
 Whats he wearin' the pair of jackets for?" says Red, ''Is his knowledge box holdin' the idea that he's related to John. ny O the Woods"
 "No, says I, "shem "Y's'' on both sides is to hand 1t to the crowd that he's Yale all the way through.
 He drove a gust of wind into the tin whistle, got his wings on the pigskin and the lads got into gear. He give the ball 8 heave toward the, roof and then there was somethin' doin' with instant anous immediateness (How's them words hut you? Heard a school teacher set lem at liberty while was settln' there and wrote lem down.)
 Say. talk about kids scrabblin' fer pen nies. They ain't i'll 1t fer a minute along side U the rush the lads made fer the pigskin; me and Red was settin' on the side bleachers and the first thing we knowed the ball had sailed in between us and before it had 5ime to bound back, two of the lads was after it and in scrap pin fer it they both hit me and Red clout on the noddle. As soon's they got away, Red jumped up and says to me, Pull yer freight. This hain't goin' to be no game O ping pong or pink tea"
 And he was right.
 We hiked fer the stage. with the hull bleacher gang after US, like their life in- surance policies had just run out.
 Things happened afterward so fast that I can't remember 'em.
 That "" meant "yell'' all right and they wasn't minute when the excite ment wasn't the same as it is at the end of the ninth inning with the score one and one, two out, a man on third and two strikes on the batter Twas pret-