The Washington herald., 1914-03-01

''On this club in addition to Pop Anson, was
Bill Lange, Bill Dahlen kittridge, and others, boys
who liked bottle of beer with their meals, and who
would tackle drop or two of whisky II the oppor-
tunity presented itself
First of all Waycross was dry town-drier
than Washington as present on Sunday. This fact
caused lot of grumbing among the players, who
lost no opportunity to tell the townspeople what they
thought of the place.
Instead of going 10 church the Sabbath, Our
gang hired couple of rigs and went fishing on the
banks of the old Sewanee River much to the horror
of the clergy and others. The people thought we
were a bunch OF fresh guys from the North, and
the longer we stayed the more they looked upon us
with suspicion.
I'VE finally decided to move TO Savannah, and
when Manager Tom Burns rendered a check to the
proprietor of the hotel in payment of the bill, the
boniface said to him: L don't believe this check is
any good / refuse to accept it. My terms~are cash.
Give me real money or / will call in the sheriff.
''Of course Burns did not have any cash in his
pocket. and in due time the sheriff arrived. He
ready and willing right then to put the whole bunch
in Jail.
Burns began to get scared and asked the boys
if they had any-ready cash. AS luck would have it,
my bank roll was fairly bulky, and, together with
diamond stick pin and ring, reposed in the hotel
safe. | agreed to turn the money to Burns,
and when asked the proprietor for it he refused to
give it to until the club settled. Then it was my
turn to appeal to the sheriff. and after lot of
arguing, | finally able to get what belonged to
me, and also help Burns pay his bill
"WaycrosS, Ware County Ga, still fingers i'll my
mind as the only spot in the world where ball play
ers were not wanted.
Dahlen Has His Joke.
1T was in this same town that Bill Dahlen who
was always up to some trick or other, put in bad
with many of the leading citizens.
"A carnival or something on this order was in
progress one night and one of the feature acts on
the bill was tight-rope walking stunt, by an
teur, who, with big packing box on his head was
advertised to trip slack wire suspended twen-
ty feet from the ground, stretching across the nam
thoroughfare.
.When the tieht-rope walker was half way across
Dahlen decided that it was about time to pull the
string He did, and down tumbled the athlete, box
and all.
"A riot followed
."Friends of the tght-roper, with blood in their
eyes, wanted to clean up entire crowd, and only
for the fact that during the hubbub Dahlen sneaked
away the affair might have ended seriously
= Il will never forget spring the Chicago club
trained. in Texas. The food they gave was some
thing fierce Texas beef, tougher than sole leather,
was served twice day.
Several of US decided that change in the bill
of fare was absolutely necessary, we dug up the
chef, big, happy -go-lucky colored man, and told
him our troubles.
ssFhe cook thought he could supply chicken for
us, if the price made right and this little mat
ter was quickly settled
"The next day he introduced us to a young col
ored boy, informing us that the boy would supply
the chickens.
"For two weeks we ate chicken at our table.
"Rube WaddeI, His Eccentrieities Why He Wa. , {
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