The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-02-16

is sort Of farewell dinner with (oh, you II
be back in the spriRgD want to set myself right
] asked you here tonight to tell you the reason
saven been as popular as / wanted to he-(ss-s-sh
61 II was put up to me to 90 out and show that
could earn living by hard work. had to Ger;
saved it. and that was why-(Never mind that old
began to speak again the sentences tumbled out
after the other, and there were 10 Interruptions.
had to 60 to work for the first time IN ny life.
going into an Office or digging ditc6es. So I asked
Monk Mon here for job, and made him business prOpO
Monk nodded his head gravely as Judge
''Per 'ay true he said
of WAYS this has been the best year of my fe-earned
to save mouey-and that was the toughest lesson
I'm glad bad d's chance pts to get R Eh such Sisa good
bunch: even if got in bad and m going to ask each
n fS Om the es S ep Toe ever O@ and re-
member once in a while that. no matter how things
could give if he would IL guess that's all. Thank
you; boys be concluded amely as, he took his seat
feeling that he had made fool of himself bv talking
too much 1t is common sensation with afterdinner
and the team Joined meodiously, after which Bush
Hawley inquired in loud staecato accents who all
rightly And every seemed to know the
answer.
During this pleasant ceremony half dozen walters
entered the room and placed in front of each
little green leather box bearing his in gilt letters
.''Do We look at these things now7'' asked Dutch
orendorF.
think you ID better look at them now -
deep grun5 Of astonishment ran around the table
gold watch % G in Rn the form Of In he ec
ter Of the medal pony stood out in bold relief.
ana real emSer Se ho team
never received more handsome keepsake, aud the
fonles gpeo as tney stared at ther sltt On inc re-
W rnprD Dvqd 'prpf fNtr
The players looked from the boxes in thor hand. to
their host who sat grinnng at the head Of the table.
IT, during months past these men had made Hogan IN
o b @ ws in hs s5 & that po5
mered and bushed, one or two muttered, "Aw. YOU
Soe to % haxe done ndd @ M and nd PncG 9Fo
fob between his fingers.
Harry Mccarter spicd card in his box fshed it out.
whats thison he cried. Z. Compliments Of
Lafayette @ Durand chatteTton' chstterton! WHY.
dope about in the t0 paper That Tie ya% panea
staring hard at Hogan, the question in his. eyes.
and if you remember what that article said you
know that wasn't always cheap skate. l got in
lam at home-speuding too much money and raising
Cain around San Francisco-and went to work. Ask
Monk here and he II tell you that signed contract
TO WIN two-thirds OF my games or work for my cz'
onee more Monk Lawson nodded his head.
''Gamest guy IN the world ~ he said He Just tbo
sames bet me three thousand dollars he d win twenty
games out of thirty
cd hate to work them terms he said, half TO
himself.
$50 said Hogan, ''I ddn t draw any money from
the club. and had to last the season out OF what
I could be good fellow
This remark naturally reminded Harry McCarter OF
a song and nobody could think of ANYTHING to
and nobody could have said it properlv if he had the
Dayton Adonis sang the song, aided by the full!
strength Of the Pony pay roll
''For he's jolly good fellow,
He's jolly good fellow,
He g ioly good fellow.
Which-nobody deny
The Ponies maintain to this day that millionaire
can be jolly good fellow; and, what is more they
claim to know who is all of that and Monk
Lawson thinks however, that there is such thing
spelling rafting good pitcher to make millionaire
Millionaires common, and rafting good pitchers
are not.
Harry McCarter sometimes goes to California in the
winter to shoot ducks the Suisuu marshes with
Californian whom he calls Hogan. McCarter reports
that Hogan plays very stiff, well as very scien
tfc game of poker.