Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1914-06-11

men:
Nav! He never even come closet"
Warner slid under the BALL."
"This wop couldn't tag an elephant
in an alley"!
Sweeney faced about.
"Sa-a-ay," he remarked, what's eat
ing you guys? You looking fer some
thing?"
That was what %Sanguinetti had been
waiting TO. His leader had spoken.
1t was to be war. then. Oh, very
well.
You say l didn't tag this bird to-
day:" said Sanguinetti softly. We'll,
Ill tell you the truth now. | didn't,
but I'm going to tag-you."
Fist and word landed at the same
time, and down went the dish faced
person in a limp heap, wondering in a
dazed fashion what had happened to
him.
1t was a lively little party while it
lasted. Sweeney did the best that was
in him. landing his leathery fist with
tremendous execution. and Sanguinetti
began to pump rights and lefts into
every strange face in sight. Sangui-
netti did not last long. The dish faced
person or the floor, recovering con-
seriousness, identified Sanguinetti's legs
and attached himself to them with
such fervor that the second baseman
pitched head first to the sawdust.
That made it bad-very bad-and it
might have been worse but for the
fact that the attacking party was sud
denly split into two sections by a gil
eantic young man. who beloved like
a bull.
elf it to 'um, Sweeney he yelled.
KNOCK 'um owit!"
1t "a Schultz to the rescue, and
just in the nick of time. He planted
a terrific kick in the midsection of the
dish faced person, who was trying to
get his thumb into Sanguinetti's eve,
and as the second baseman jumped to
his feet Schultz knocked one of the
hoodlums head first across the free
lunch table and with another powerful
blow dropped a second one kicking
and clucking to the floor.
There wasn't very much to the bat
tie after that. Three Of the seven were
able to rum, and they ran, taking one
OF the swinging doors with them. The
others were on the floor. Two of them
could crawl, and they crawled for the
sidewalk.
The bulls" painted Sweeney. Let's
beat it!w
Hey" shouted the bartender. "Ain't
you going to pay for these drinks?"
Even as that question hung CULVER
ing in the air the ball players vanished
through a side door. When the bulls"
finally arrived on the scene of battle
they found nothing but one very sick
young man on the floor. He said he
did not know what had happened to
him, but inclined to the belief that
some n must have murdered him
when his head was turned. Later the
ambulance surgeon located three bro
ken ribs-one for Sweeney, one for
S~anguinetti and one for Schultz. OF
course the bartender didn't know a
thing about it-not a thing. Never saw
any OF 'em before-hoped he would
never see any Of EN- again.
That was the way Schultz fought
himself into the alliance. Is it any
wonder that Sweeney and Sanguinetti
received him with open arms?
Johnny Moore stood for a great many
queer things in the course of three sea-
sons, Tor there wasn't a better infeld
in the whole country, but at last his
few remaining grains of patience were
exhausted. The international triplets
were getting upon his nerves
"Now. listen here" he said. Pm
going to announce myself. It's all very
well for you to be three little pals to-
gether and take a drink once in awhile,
but this business Of raising b. from
April till October has got to stop! You
heal me? lt's-got-to-stop. That
last jam you got in down to Coney
Island was the extreme tip of the
limit. The e time l hear Of you
birds going on a bat-the very next
time. mind yorktown m the ak!
And it won't be a fine or a suspension
either. You a paste that in our lit
tie brown hats. I'll bust up this COM
bination, that's what I'll do. and I'll
bust it three ways from the liver!
You amt going to make me the goat
any more and have everybody saying
that | run a rowdy ball club. You
start anything now, and I'll set you
plumb outside"
1.-THE chief is peeved," said Sangui-
netti to Sweeney. 'Who do you sup
pose put him next to that little run
in down at Coney?"
saw, some trouble detective" said
Sweeney YEARLY. II thought we had
those fellows squared. Say, Nettie.
the old man means business this time.
Let's cut out the rough stuff for
awhile. Well be getting ourselves dis
liked if we don't. Me for the water
wagon"
''You said it for me. Larry" an
nounced Sanguinetti. Water wagon
she is"
Schultz would not climb on with his