The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-03-02
The Comeback

he should have been the crest of the of pop
uary he found himself in the breakers with the rocks
Before he , went he had long talk k, with 18th Billy
the brains Of the Corsair inGed and tie only real
friend Lee had on the team.
dirty lie, Billy. Don't you believe it, M as good
as ever was in my life, but things haven { been
Terril never had any use for me- and those stias
the blenchers have been after me all season m go
that. And m going to back stronger and bet;
ter than ever 1t would serve Terrl right if some of
es Sa S'aass5a 81 s 1H ss '
Pm pulling for you,' said Bigelow. Get in
booze booze this @ wptsr @ and show y hem 'h that you're s
there. Tcrr hasn't got it in for you ,solly., You
know you we been stepping some pretty fierce hcats
and that row you had in ST. Louis didn't help mat
ters s!%sy: aPy y said soomou To-. eiv. do. had =. ~.
and then everybody takes kick at him. I'm down
now but won Il stay down II make Terrill send for
''That's the stuff said Bigelow.
Solomon Lee really meant it at the time; but he
found the minor league little faster than he had
pected All leagues trihe fast for the ball play
eF Tno WI h0 does net not take s0 saTs a Of hmsef t A r
into good condition He had no money, he light
Mok IN bowling alley wheTe drinks G ha served ed His
particularly well oiled up he used to say that, in the
n @ s ey GG FOR his hese ho % a1s
never been in ''the big show
b hH DID ho %S by his fdm He @
outptched him and the opposing clubs fell the big
a his R ee M
from the home plate He did not even finish the sea.
with the Class club.
Next year there was Lee pitching in outlaw
league the Pacific coast; but not for long 1t is
many miles from the Serras the bright lights but
word drifted back-bad news will always find its own
messengersthat this Lee the celebrated Sol
ONION: all in down and out and drinking like q fish.
After the outlaws dismissed him he dropped out of
memory, which stirred slightly in the sprngtime when
the papers were full Of the dongs of the at
the tralnlng camps;
other Solomon Lee or THE pitcher reminds one
strongly of Solomon Lee. he has many of the manner
isms OF that unfortunate athlete
The last remark, of course. might have been taken
for a knock boost. Managers did not want any
more Solomon Lees; nor did they get them. Not one
OF the recruits carried the fancied resemblance be-
A new generation Of fans was growing up which
served to be- and by his conduct he had robbed him
self of everything-even decent eptaph
solomon Lee was gone; and he had left nothing but
a bad name behind him.
Years wheeled along, teams changed from bat boy
to manager stars of the diamond shone, and flick
rl said good bye public life and went out on the
western slope Of the Rockies there to apples and
mediate upon his glorious past
for man to fill Terril shoes went farther than
their own infeld, where they hit upon the aging Billy
first. his t'whip was dead and he was no Longer
shadow On the Bases but he still had his baseball
brain; and it would have been thousand ptes to
Billy Bgelow made good as a manager; and. out
IN timber league in the northwest, fat man with
stubby mustache read the Of Bigeow's promo.
thousand bitter memories into life He took pen and
paper Ian. and sat sat down to n; Mite Letter ter
got what coming TO -
Then he sat still for long time with the pen in his
o after it s Which he h% tore the sheet into bits and
The tat man g name was Smith. and he