The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-10

1 cloak and suit trade. We used to think
 that these smoked people didn't belong. l If party had complexion that shaded | off anywhere from golden oak to black | walnut, we gave him the boots and let | it go at that. We had an idea that a | brown hide went with a liver that was | the color of the driven snow. We're l being cured
 Now there was that baseball team | from the University of Wisconsin that | started on a triumphant tour around the world to expound the national game. A l fine lot of up-standing young timber growers they were, too, with lichens on their chests and sunny, red necks. And almost the first stop they made was Tokio, where there's a college with the barbarous name of Keio, the being silent, as in Moe | evy. So they took on the Keoters for 6 match This is going to be just like getting soft pine lumber from hoine,' said the Wisconsin boys. Why, these heathens don't even know tho right name to call an umpire, and when they try to coach it'll sound like person
 with a cleft palate singing "Eeny, meeny, f miny mo- Their eyes are set right for foul tips, maybe, but where'll they be when we begin to knock all the icing off of old Fiji-Yama with our long flies? The score ought to be forty-love in our favor But would you believe 1t, Larry, and 1 know you won't, when the ninth inning was over, those vanished little Japs, that didn't have enough face to cover their front teeth. and wore their eyes on 20 per cent grade, actually had that game all tucked away in their respective lximonos and the American visitors were on their way back to the steamer in a brown study, wondering to themselves whether the quaint native operation
 known as Harry Carey was preferable to coming back to Madison Wis. and
 facing the folks. Twas almost enough to start another race war in California.
 And to come nearer home; take our
 own Indians. Forty years ago the noble
 Red Man was chiefly used by us to fur nish our young West Point graduates with suitable target practice. The only time he ever got as good as an even break was when some inspired artist painted a picture of Clusters Last Rally for harvester company. But I'd just
 like to call your attention to the present
 state of baseball in this country in its intimate relation to Mister Injun.
 At this very moment, Larry, the sa- cred shoes of the sainted Buck Ewing are being competently filled by light roam colored refugee from California reser- vation, who has a higher average in bat ting than his grandfather ever had at scalping Out in Cleveland here's an-
 
 King Mike Kelly once performed, the
 main difference being that he's red all the time while Kelly had comparatively
 arid intervals when he was faded out to nice bright magenta. Big Chief
 named Bender pitches curves for Phil
 adelphia that cause many hated pale
 face to turn still paler, and here only the other day the Giants gobbled up a spry fielder who's playing hockey from
 the Oneida Tribe and belongs to the Wel-known Bull family, of which other noted members have been, Ole, Durham,
 John and the late Sitting. When young
 buck out in the Rosebud agency begins
 to feel an inherited longing for the white
 mans blood these times, he doesn't put on feather bristle and coat of hearth paint and take the warpath. Mo- sir; he comes to Carlisle and joins the football team and gets enough white blood to sat
 isfy all the cravings of his savage na- ture in the very first game with Prince ton. He gets a bucket of it, fresh and warm and if he has any kind of luck, a few teeth and ears and one thing and another to go along with it. You can go out any fall almost and see bright bay youth, 16 hands high, with black mane and white stockings. and brisk, high school gait, snatching up a brawny scion of the first family of Virginia and slam ming him down so hard on what would he his crupper if he was horse, that 1t bounces his hair out by the roots.
 And the Indian is breaking into Con-
 gress. too, and demanding his little per centage out of the tariff. just the same as if he'd been born and raised in the
 Nelson A. Aldrich household. What do