Arizona republican., 1912-04-14
LOVE LETTERS
 IF | POOLE
Handsome Irishman Gets Billet -Doux by Bushel; But "Nix, Also No, Not for Me-" Says He; One a Blue-Eyed Widow

 Marty O'Toole let it be known the
 other day through the medium of a Pittsburg paper that he was un- married. a lot of impulsive members of the fair sex construed his words as a hint that to him the joys of
 bachelordom were beginning to pail. | About thirty of the dear things have taken advantage of the leap year , privilege and sent in their various 1 proposals in the form of dainty bill i let-douX.
 On condition that the names of
 the writers should not be disclosed.
 the somewhat embarrassed recipient allowed the war correspondents to read the letters from the smitten
 ones. One of the letters is from
 d Wellsburg girl and reads:
 Dear Friend-As I have seen in the Pittsburg ulpers that you are wanting a wife I take the liberty of writing you. I am a girl of r years , feet $ inches in height. and weigh 115 pounds. I have dark hair and eyes. have no photo just at pre- sent. but will send one later. Please
 answer promptly, and I am sure we will become better acquainted. as
 am near enough to Pittsburk for you
 to run down to see me some day when you are not pitching
 Another young woman, living in
 Pittsburg. is much more impulsive than the Wellsburg girl. She writes:
 'I am head over heels in love with
 you. Mir O'ToOle, and all I want and
 all I ask for is to he given a chance
 to make you love me. I am IS years old, feet l inch tall. weighing 150 pounds. and I have a good education.
 I am a greater lover of baseball and particularly of pitching. I do not know how good a batsman, you are but you have made a hit with me. And ] would like to make a home run with you. Address me general delivery. as mama and papa would scold if they knew I did the bold thing of writing to you, and they are anxious for me to complete my term at school
 If the Buccaneer finger ever meets that girl he will give an exhibition of side stepping that would do ere dit to the greatest ring genenll
 Nobody is going to rush Marty into matrimony He is too level-headed to fall for that game. There is an Ohio girl. who writes from a town so small that to name it might dis close her identity to her neighbors. but her letter is ingeniously con-
 structed. She writes:
 "A friend of mine called my att @s.lr which you indicate that you are sim gle and would be willing to marry the right kind of a girl. I don't want you to think that I am too bold. and yet we do not get any thing in this world if we keep on waiting for things to turn mp. do we? am well up on baseball. and I know that you are the greatest pit cher in the world. and that you draw salary of $22,5 300 a year II must congratulate you on searching provided she is the right sort--to look after you when you are i'll or low spirited. I think I would be that person if could succeed in inter- esting you. I am the widow of a baseball player whom you probably heard of. and for all I know may have met He died two years ago. I am 26 years of age, feet : inches tall, a decided blonde, with light hair and blue eyes, and my mirror tells me I am not plain. I have generally been taken for a girl of twenty My husband used to say that he owed all his success to me. We saved a little money. too, and I am sure that if our acquaintance should ripen into matrimony I could help you to manage so that we could save s20.000 year out of your salary"
 Marty thinks this widow is a for tune hunter. and h9 regrets that she got the dope" mixed on the price 1 paid for his release by St. Paul and the figures in his contract with the 1 club.
 A girl writing from Wheeling, W. | Va, gives her version of minor and major league baseball. and promises | a cabinet photograph if Marty will l favor her with a reply. Another l girl in Susquehanna, Pa. admits to | 30 summers but says nobody thinks i Siit iS biielli sii't say IL always been her ambition to be the | wife of a baseball player. One young | woman in Missouri says she has in | herited farm, and is worth $13,0 900 | in her own right, but all the young men she knows are all "so insipid." She wants a husband who amounts | to something in the world. and while she is not certain MT. O'Toole will suit her. she says she intends to go to St. Louis for the opening game, and will arrange to meet him in the parlor of the hotel at which the Pi- rates put up, if that arrangement will suit.
 Marty characterizes all these letters as "rubbish,'' and he expresses amaz- ment that young women believe ev- erything they read in the papers, and that so many of them are silly enough to propose marriage to a man they have never seen.