Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-24

50 interested in the young woman
who rushed on the field when he lay
| unconscious at the home plate that
ne had lost interest in baseball.
That kid was a high-class guy and
he don't have to play ball. declared
Long Tom, in proof of his assertion.
when the $4,000 player came up for
| the daily club house debate one after
noon before the game. why. he
/ made the rest of US look like bush
leaguers with his silk underwear and
his silk stockings and his ten-dolIar
/ shirts. ! know what they cost. be-
/ cause / priced some of them in
swell shop downtown the other day.
| And one day he told me, just casual
| like, that he owned six automobiles.
ana he offered to give me one Of EN-
! II / would learn to run it, but l told
| nm no. as / was too old to risk
| breaking my neck. And the kid can
! talk French. too"
{ This last statement clinched the
/ argument and had the effect Of plac-
/ ing Gordon among the "highbrows"
/ IN Ine minds Of his former eliminates.
/ They continued TO talk of Gordon
/ Kelly when they went out on the field
/ lot preliminary practice and they
/ were still talking about the mystery
/ Of his disappearance when the play
! ers OF the visiting team appeared.
/ Among them was Hamil. the tall. raw
! honed, discOnsolate-l looking pitcher
| BY means Of curve ball as crooked
as Pearl Street, New York which he
/ mad recently developed, HamH had
neen having great success in the box
lately, but this did not serve to
brighten his COuntenance and ne still
went about looking as though he had
received the usual ten days notice
from MS manager that his pitching
repertoire was not puZzling enough
10 warrant his continuance with the
club.
Hamil sauntered up to Long Tom
| Morrlssey. bent on making some
gloomy remark that passed with him
as humor, and heard Ions Tom argu-
lns with his side partner over the
disappearance Of Gordon Kelly.
And ! say the kids quit baseball
for good declared the veteran back
stop, emphatically. What do YOU
think about it, Groucho?" he added.
/ turning to Hamil.
The Number of the Auto.
That puts me in mind of some
thing that happened on the first trim
here replied the gloomy pitcher. A
guy comes around to the hotel one
night and gets himself introduced to
me and then asks me to go for a ride
with him in his speed wagon. lie
takes me out a ways and all of a
sudden he starts to knock Gordon
helly, and winds up by Offering me a
thousand bone" If / would beat uD the.
KID. What do you know about that p"
What was the guys name?" de-
manded Long Tom
i never did catch the guys name.
but he was one of them rich young
Fellows 70 Judge by his looks; either
inat or tor-tlusher-vou can't tell
EN- apart sometimes. But I do re-
member the number on his automo-
bile"
fercely. JIM
1T was 10000 Ga. '" replied Haml.
What YOU getting so excited abouto"
Inc tale created a profound impress
sion on the mind of Long Tom. He
was great judge of human nature
ana ne Immediately began to connect
the owner of Car No 10000 Ga with
the disappearance Of Gordon Kelly.
lie applied some of the uncannv
knowledge that told him unerringiy
as catcher when a base runner
would try to steal second base. TO
the case Of the automobiles AMI
Gordon Kelly. He rea soned that 2.
man who would stoop to hire an
other man to do his dirty work would
stoop to do almost anything He be-
came so absorbed in the problem that
Wnen he went out on the third base
coaching lines he forgot all about
the game and waved a runner home
on three base drive when he hadn't
a chance in a hundred Of scoring. For
this piece Of stupidity he was bawled
out by Bill Smith and sent in disgrace
to the bench, where for the remainder
of the game he bTOOded over the story
told him by Hami
Long Tom Gets Busy.
After the game, Long Tom changed
his uniform for street clothes and
started downtown on a street car. On
the car he met Whiting, The Geor-
gian's baseball writer
Hello, Percy" he said. hailing the
newspaper man. Say, you know
something about automobiles, don't
you?"
That's my middle name Tom" re-
piled Whiting. What do you want
to do, buy one?"
Not on your life. l want to know
if there's any way of finding out the
owner Of a car by the number on the