Omaha daily bee., 1914-08-23

uninitiated Mrs. Rourke is PA"
Rourkes wife, PA" being the pres-
EMNMlNNH dent of the Omaha base ball club.
kl&N Mrs. RouTke used to be Mamie"
Kelly of Nebraska Telephone
pany fame. Everyone who has had anything
to do with the telephone company knows Mamie.
She made hundreds of friends during the many
years of her service at the company and the tribute
paid her by the highest officials in the company is
enough to make even Abe Lincoln Jealous
The Mamie that so thoroughly informed on
office matters is going at base ball with the same
degree of efficiency and desire to know all about
it, to the business end You can't 'feaze"
Mamie by asking her pointbank what a "fielders
choice" or squeeze play" is. She right
back at you if these are terms that many an
ardent base ball fan couldn't define. And she can
tell you what triple play is right off the bat,
even though she admits that she has never it.
Mamie appreciates clever playing. Isn't Krug
the 'heady player!" she exclaimed. And she will
tell you in minute which member of team is
solid ivory" When Mamie isn't pleased with the
umpires decision, she vents her dspleasure by tell
ing him to wipe the sand out of his eyes"
PA" Rourkes wife has the genuine Irish blair
ney down pat. She knows the base ball fans by
name and greets each and every one with a smile
and CHEEKY word in her own naive manner
Boosters day. when the game wasn't called
until o'clock. the temperature had been flirting
Friday and double header had been advertised for
Sunday Just before the game called the tele-
phone rang sharply out at the park. Mrs Rourke
excused herself and fastened to answer.
What is the score for the first game?" came
in a woman's voice.
The first game has been postponed on account
of the RAIN" replied Mamie 1.-The second won't be
called until o'clock"
Mrs. Rourbe travels right along with Mr..
Rourke and the team and hasn't missed one game
this year, with the exception of the last few played
in Topeka, which she did not attend because they
received wire to come home
why, just naturally look forward to g.
o'clock for the ball game to start" she said "ItA
fun to watch the people who come to the gamel
The most inveterate base ball fans are professional
men and women, doctors, lawyers and nurses whc5
tell me that they come here to relax from their
brain-fagging work They say that they 90 back
to the city very much refreshed and many of them
tell ME that the base ball park is perhaps the cool
est spot in town"
Mrs. Rourke likes to travel along with the team
and enjoys the entertainment that is accorded hem
as well as the funny experiences with which she
meets When they were in Denver in June Mr.
and Mrs. Rourke and the ball club we're dnter-
tanned at box party at the Broadway theaHer bv
Nat Goodwin, when Nat interpreted gref AZ deal
about the Omaha team between the lines of the
play. He is old friend of PA" Rountke and
never misses game when he can get AWAY from
the theater.
At the game in Sioux City she sat next "a typical
farmer, who confided to her that "Omah IA had a
rotten team, gosh durn it," It so happe med that
the break in luck was with Omaha that daay which
dldnt teaze' the country gentleman iro the least
Coll ding it, that Sioux City team tain't got
thing on Omaha he yelled, stamping lo,is feet all
the while Showing that the fans get so excited
over good play that they apt to be las change
able as the wind weather.
Il was always interested in base ba.hI. ever since
was little girl, because my brot hers ALWAYS
talked SO much about it," said Mrs Rorerke Every
saturday afternoon Sunday that III couId slim
away to the game always did So" Butt she stoutIv
denies that base ball had anything TOT do with h.
meeting PA" Rourke. She says thatI her mother
and PA" Rourke's mother we're friends for great
many years and the friendship betwee, them greu,
up in that manner
Mrs. Rourke laughs as she tells tbe foIlou,irs
incident to her betrothal days Some zone who had
heard Mr.. Rourke Familiarity spoken o. as bod
conceived the idea that he was a, n excaedingI,,
elderly, bewhiskered gentleman
Why, Mamie" she exclaimed. "ydSu,re NOT ,oiro
to marry such an old man. arr vouq WIZ
he's pa" ID "H'
Neither Mr. or Mrs. Rourke hayAe gotten ove,
their honeymoon yet and are constaS ntIv recaIIn
incidents of that trip. Mr.. Rourke tells an amns,
ing Joke on his wife, much to her diyscomfituro
When We arrived in New York Cgitv II ,,as inc,
at dusk and hadn't gotten my beatoinps corroctI,
50 that we got lost somewhere OILY For,,,-sooons
H. no. -s,o.t,- I' up 70 Dig 1.rish policeman
directed to certain address Well n I,oroio - -,
,bo,aLt r. ~. eo"h and tina Ut Irish boob
stead of answering her question he ipl l., 60 -.
,,n 80 al - w., Gu not word He thought
z,.-, = ' 'ausnt the situation i'm
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he grinned at her without answering sbo g.,
think very much Of New York policem on .,
Mr.. RourKe tells another one abe out his wife
On their recent trip TO Denver they met his old
ffriend Jim Flynn. the prize fighter.
We'll, sir Mrs. Rourke refused to believe that