The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-01-24
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Dixie Baseball Squad Would
Have Many Of the Great
est Stars in its Ranks.

I'oeesI6 !!tso the SOou FSSOllttcS tRdt
have been made to kick into the dis
}card in u few days. we take great
pleasure at this time in doing a little
Of that all" work ourselves.
We nave been Swimming our glims
,rer the moguls Of our great national
;ambol. We have come to the earn
cat conclusion that when 1t zones to
that ALL stuff We want to WELD our
>tetsos upward to the gents that the
sunny South have bundled into our
aa.or league rosters.
Did you' G stop to let the
.aought Jimmy its way into your
,rainery that the lads from the land
ST "yo-al' and jedge furnish a. neat
:itile quota of the lads who separate
&c plutocrats of the pastime from
.mi-monthly bank rolls during the
at six months of the year?
We'll. YOU better allow one of the
corning scrfbes to help YOU along to
-. a squist at the real class which
- arrived in lankeeland from be-
] ~ath that line established some years
..U by the Mcssrs. Mason and Dixon.
Would Name Ty Cobb First.
II YOU were in "a guessing contest.
where the prize was an able bodied
hofbfau. and the contest was to de-
eide tho. best outticld In either league,
you would prulahl IL lose "a. leg in the
rush to get in tho first asswer.., :,
J our answer: Stop spoofing. Kid.
That spoofng thing was invented by
al E%nglishnlan. We say oyer here. in
;his land Of trusts. tariffs. and touch
CO. kidding. kiddo.:" -.
Why. you would brace our way to
tho mahogany. with the names Of
cobb, Speaker and Jackson written, OF
q nice. little slab Ut paper. Do you
know q trio Of outtielders that have
the slightest bulge on .Tyrus. 1'ristram
and Joseph: Sure. you don't. or you
have the Baron Munchauscn and Ann
Nan Mas beaten off the highway.
Imagine Il manager rollisg over on
his couch dreaming he had those
three in custody. and then wake up
to find that instead he had. George
Van Haltren. John Titus and. Harry
Lumley. Would you blame that
manager IL he dropped "a quarter i'm the
meter and sucked the whole business
Certainly not. -.
And iris Speaker. Too. !.
Cobb was born iii the South. play
before he was finally brought to De-
troit and glory via Billy. Armour.
Speaker was born in Hubbard City.
Tex. and got his start toward Boston,
exporting ON the world series. and
reaching out his hook for q slice Of
the w. S. melon In Hot springs.
jackson. too. was born In Green
vile. $. T.. played with the team Of
that city. and came into Yankee ken
by tho way OF Connie Mack and the
Macknlen. Joe didn't last long here.
He has Observation-Disclosures in
the big stuff-as- we'll as w%asdeflust.
He used to run away from Connie Of
tener than Anna Held slips away from
Ziegfeld.
There YOU go. Finest outheld in
the country. All born. all bred. all
basehallcd down in the land Of co'hn
pones. moonshine booze. and a lneluva-
heat. That's a real Southern, dyed
in-the-wool-the band : played : Dixie
outficld, and Il r%ipsnorter and jim
corker combined.
g.. Some Twirlers Oh List.
So much for the gents in the sub
urbs. Now get busy with a twirling
corps. Some class to the .slabsters.
too. who have toiled and sworn and
toiled and. sweltcrcd away: dows in the
Fucker. Rrooklyn: Benton and
suggs. C%incinnati: Ford. New York
Americans: Tesrcau and Dernaree.
New York Nationals. Looks pretty
bad. eh:: Just as "rottwone"' as four
aces in a no.linit ga me. huh?
Rucker is a product Of the soil: he's
a native ROT Of Georgia: Born down
in Alpharetta: worked as. a printer:
played with the town boys. While
reading one day about the Wonderful
career Of a certain pitcher. he hung
his stick up on his rack. took down
his old gray bonnet with plenty of old
holes on It. and hitched his trousers
to fare forth into the wide. wide.
George NapoIeon-Rucker's COM
plete handle-rnade good. He is one
Of the two things that keeps starva.
ton away from Brooklyn and Ebbetts.
The other Is tho copyright on that not
ed song entitled Baseball Is in Its
Infancy: Words and Music by Charles
II. Ebbetts."
Giants Can Count Tesrcau.
Benton is another Of the boys from
the land Of cotton and. hatred Of Gen.
Sherman. Born and raised right
ycre" In Macon. as We would say.
surrounding our statements with. local
color-froIn Macon. Splendid SOUTH
paw. Ought to he IL wizard the COM
ing season. :.
Demaree. too. halls from Chatta-
against The Giants. as those nabobs
at Marlin Springs. McGra~ cast his
eagle orbs on al and hooked him for
II delivery r.. O. b.. in September
quicker than you could calculate Jack
Robinson.
him. of course, a. McC;raw wouldn't
permit 1t. Rut look that hehen1oth
lOf the Oznrks over. Isn't he a CON-