Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-07

be a dude. but | like to- be dressed
so you can see me when I'm around.
! Gee. what a fresh guy they got on
! that gate! / had an awful time get
! ting in, even after / told him who
! was. The players of both teams were
/ at practice when / arrived, and | did
an entrance a la Matty and walked
across the field all by meself They
must of known me right away, Joe,
j because every man on the field
stopped to look at me. Stallings and
Evers were talking together and l
walked UP behind Stallings and hit
him on the back, saying:
well. George, here | am.
He turned around and rubbed his
eyes and said.
We'll, my little rainbow, who are
you?"
Then ! told him who / was Gee,
Joe, you ought to see him look. Evers
started to say something. but Stall
/ lngs said:
wait. | got a haunch this is going
to be good" and he grabbed me by
the arm, as if he was afraid | was
going to run away. | told him then
Il | went with him ! must have the
honor of picking the first game. He
called McGraw and Matty over. Nc
Graw looked awful sore, Joe, and
heard him tell Stalings | was the
ereatest find since Charley Faust.
| ain't got no dope on this Faust
guy, Joe but I think he meant Amos
Faust. or whatever that other great
pitchers name was. Matty tried to
tell me what kind of ball Home Hun
Baker can't hit. What do you THINK
Of the nerve of that guy, Joe? lie
told Rube Marquard what kind to
Do of
day he tried it himself and they don't
know where the pill went to. Now
he amt i'm the series at all and he
wants another guess. Well, in three
gifesses think ! can do pretty good
meself. Well, Joe | am awful sorry
we amt gone to play game IN New
ark. but I guess it would only mean
a lot more trouble for me II we dld,
for / suppose me friends would want
TO have Q "Smoke Miller Day ana
have the mayor there and present me
with a diamond ring and watch or
an automobile or something, anu 1
don't want to be bothered with any
thing like that. Joe. However, | ex-
pect to play an exhibition game in
Newark after we win the champion
ship. and if me friends insist on Civ
ing me an auto or something | cant
HELM 1t can j? Some automobiles IS
cheap. amt they. Joe?
Well anyhow, I know me friends
are proud of me, Joe, and they ought
TO be for when me and me pals get
i'm our uniforms next Friday We're
going to crowd the war news off the
front page, and in these days OF
peace on earth and goodwill that's
going some.
say. Joe what do you think of the
around these parts? Did you notice
that not one Of them came out nat
footed with prediction as to who
would win the big series. Everyone
of them will tell you that the Phillies
have 1t all over Boston. but they're
afraid. on account of the wonderful
climb of the Braves, to say the Atm
letics will win. even them that don
know I'm with Stallings. Well Joe,
know you'll admit that | kept you
wised up on all the best baseball dope
all summer, and now you can say
that your sheet had guy that WASH t
afraid to make predictions; but
Stallings is a lucky guy to grab me,
joe for | watched Tyler. Rudolph
and James work last week., and hon
est, Joe. | don't see how they get
by. and il ANYTHING happens to me it
will be good-by Boston. for the Ath-
letics cannot only walk away from
BOSTON without me, but they can
beat any all-National League team
YOU can pick. SMOKE MILLER.
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A complaint from Tottenville:
j. P. n.
| would like TO enter protest
against an article that appeared IN
your column in regard to ball game
played between the Tottenvilles and
the Speedways on Speedway oval,
Sunday. The contest lasted until ten
minutes of six, at which time, in my
opiniou. ii was too dark for base
ball. The Speedways claimed. how
ever. it was light enough for the game
and they continued. The score at the
end of the seventh inning was to l,
in favor of the Tottenvilles. The Tot
tenville nine scored a run in the
eighth inning, but as Umpire Murphy
called the game in the last half of the
eighth the Speedway management re-
fused to pay the side wager as well as
the sixty per cent of the collection
he had agreed to pay us. If the Speed
ways are such poor sports, we would
advise them to turn the money COM
ing to us over to some charitable
institution. Nj. LAW.
Secretary Tottenville f. C.
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If we could remember all we had
learned, a correspondent writes, we
would be wise owls, we would. But
let the correspondent explain himself:
Yonkers. Oct. 2, 1914
J. P. N;
Did it ever occur to you that this
would be a wiser world if we eould
remember all we learned from that
common school arithmetic" which
we studied in the "deestrict" school
in the back woods? / haven't seen
one for nigh onto" forty years, and
probably General MacFarland of the
Velodrome, has a similar alibi. for you
said he and his staff had had some
trouble in arranging nine heats of
three men each picked from nine
mem SO that no contestant would
meet another one twice. There should
be twelve such heats.
One way of selecting the contest
ants is to set down their names or
numbers in three horizontal rows of
three EACH so as to form a square.
Then couple each corner number with
the two numbers adjacent to the
diagonally opposite corner number.
This gives four heats, and the other
eight heats are given by the two
diagonals, the three horizontal rows
and the three vertical rows Each
man rides four times. If four men
ride in each heat. there would be six
heats; If two men in a heat, thirty
six heats.
If it is not too late in the season, I
would suggest a repetition of the
nine-man tournament, making it a
complete tournament. as the outcome
of the last one was so unsatisfactory.
Some thought Moretti the fastest man
and some thought Spears the best
man to pit against Kramer
YONKERS VETERAN
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