The Washington times., 1913-04-29
Drenching Arrives in 0pportune
Time for ouakers After Sat-
urday Sports Are Over.
Bv SENATOR"

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, April cs.-The
second clash between the Mack
men and the Griffmen failed to be staged
on scheduled time, owing to the cele-
bration of "Clean Up Week" in the
Land of Nod. You see. over here IN
chilly the good burgners believe In
doing everything thoroughly. They
have hsen reading about the campaigns
for Cleanliness In Boston. ChicaSo'
Washington, mad other regular cues'
and 40, after much heavy dehnerauon'
washed down by many .,6nd 6r,mm,nS In eIesn e up
Let us clean UP our city, too" said
they to each other. ordering up ahotnsr
round. Let it not be published br9aa,
% saint on on earth. William Penn: cannot
join the ranks of the cities which are
clean. i vote that we clean UP Pnna-
delphia" And they are nov doing II.
The first thing to do when you ", van ~
rain. Have 1t wait till your Saturday
baseball game and relay races are sats-
ly out Of the way and then have II de-
livered. That's what Philadeiphia mas
done. The thousands Of white front
steps in this city Of alleys and smoke
and linn McNichol need cleaning all the
time, anyway. Many good, but humble
folk live by cleaning up these white
steps. They'll starve now for lew
DAYS for the rain that descended upon
the City of william Penn has done its
work well. The streets are clean as
any bannuet table after the last man
has been laid under the covers, while
the ground at Shibe Park Is a morass.
The ginks who ordered all this rain
made Just one mistake. They forsot
to have shut off Sunday night. Ana SO
IL rained Sunday and continued in IN.
f9h a
was so large that the last OF 1t was
not used up when daybreak appeared
yesterday. Indeed. the gink in charge
Of the dispensation. ordered II on al
full force around breakfast time In Or
der to get away from his Work and 20
home to see his family.
Thus IL came to pass that when the
Climbers climbed out of bed and down
to their breakfast of ham and eggs and
bacon and grapefruit and prunes and
steak and ice cream for Joe Boehnng
gee, wasn't II raining. Manager Grif-
nth blew himself to another green cigar
one to match that hat. and sat In the
lobby of the Majestic and grumoltd
He has already spent a whole week u,
the Land Of Nod on Sunday and ne had
no mans relish for another week on
Monday.
Every three minutes and thirteen
seconds he'd race to the street to See
II there were nay signs or let-up
Then he'd ~ace 10 The telephone Slrl
give her the number of Shibe Park anc
disappear into n booth, always coming
| out with a long face.
But then he sur appeared. pale
wan sun, sickled Ger with the cas- o.
| thought, whatever this may mean. ant
the "OId Fox threw away the but
| and bought himself another cigar
| That made the second In one ddy. MY
such extravaganza.
When he emerged from the telephone
| booth that last time he announced glee
| fully, Boys. we'll play. Connie says
| IL the sun stays out. Then he wen
| out to the street to coax the sun Il
stay out.
| But what's the use of bucking u
| against these Dutch burghers OF Phil
! adelphia? They have started in thi
| week to clean up the town and they'r
going through with their se!:-irnpose'
| lob. They needed a lot of rain to max
a good start, and II any more Is need
! ed they'll Just turn 1t on. that's all.
Connie must have been kidding III
| old Fox" though, tor when the en-
| tire bunch, except Dutch SchaefeI
| who had to stay behind at tn ehotel I
| have a man open his trunk for him wit
! one Of a million keys and then to sc
| him one to At the lock for himself, why
| what do you 'spose? Gosh darn 1t,
| that whole field at Shibe Park WASH
| floating.
| "You fellows who don't play batter
| positions may 60 back to the hotel an
finish that pool game. but I'll have tn