The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-24

matter up and boost for the Tigers.
Hurry now, let us hear from you.
Handbook Men Idle.
The other day l undertook to say
something nice about the best city in
Essex County, and for that matter the
/ best in the State, and l was turned up
very quickly by a gentleman who diff
fered with me in my opinion. That
opinion and the one of the gentleman
h differed have already appeared
here. J decided to go along and do a
little investigation on my own account
to see how far wrong I might be, and
now I am able to say that all 1 said in
defense of the city q few days ago I
am ready to back up with proof. There
nay be handbook men in this city. I
do not doubt that there are many of
them in heaven, but like the contingent
there the men who are still with us in
the flesh here are not handing out any
odds. There is nothing like being right,
and Their when o are that way to go
ahead, Yesterday and the day before
1 called upon every handbook man
whose name is known as being one of
that fry, and / made this discovery.
If the G is any handbook making going
on here it must be between the hand
book men and the members of their
own families.
what Are They Doing.
What they are doing now besides
making wagers on the races / can't say,
but | am positive hat they are not
handing out any odds. Phil Stone is
over at the race track. Jack McLaren
is at 103 Plane street, but you can't lay
anything with him. Gus Reinhardt has
moved away from the city and is over
in Harrison, and it is nobody's business
in this city or county what he is doing
over there. You can see Bill Gavigan
around the Annheuser-Buscb place
every day, and he doesn't know they
are running, If you can Judge by his
n~onchalent ann Let n one try
and place a bet with any of these men
and see how far you can go, and 1 know
some fellows with a $50 bill in their
jeans that ooks like court house money
who are going around just dying to
make a bet. They are trying hard to
Jimmy their way into trouble, and I
heard n fellow say yesterday down
at the ball game that il a certain fell
low persisted in annoying him by trying
to lay a wager with him, that the next
grand jury, if not the present one,
would have something to consider after
he got through with the $40 man. No.
we can all say now to the other cities
In the State, there is no betting, GAM
bling on horses in Newark" So let US
keep up our boosting doctrines.
1t is funny how a crowd of yelling
baseball fans will quickly appreciate a
good act of a baseball player, no mat
ter TO what team he belongs. This in
cident was brought out yesterday, and
1t stamps the local fans as being a
bunch of good fellows. Billy Keister
was running after a foul fly near the
third base bleachers. An over-enthusi-
astic fan threw his hat over the wire
netting, intending that the hat should
stop Keister in his ace for the catch.
The hat didn't stop Billy and he got the
ball. Then like a little gentleman he
picked up the hat and with a Chester
feldian bow handed it back to its
owner 1t was only a little gracious
action on Billy's part, but the fans saw
through 1t and Keister made himself
the most popular player on the Buffalo
team. 1t was a lesson in p~oliteness. too
to the man who threw that chapeau.