The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-02-15

fully. Then he went In, washed his
hands. and sat down at table with Ivy
and her mother.
Just q silver for me-" said Ivy, land
no onions"
Her father put down his knife and
fork. cleared his throat. and spake
thus:
you get on your hat and meet me
ut the 2:45 interurban. You're going
to the ball game with me-"
Ball camel" repeated Ivy. II? But
I'd"
Yes, you d." interrupted her IA,
Their. You've been moping around
here looking cross between Saint
Cecilia and Little Eva long enough.
I don't care II you don't know q spit.
ball from q fadeaway when you see it.
You'll be out in the air all afternoon,
and there'll be some excitement. All
the girls go. You'll like it. They're
playing Mashalltown."
Ivy went, looking the sacrificial lamb
Five minutes after the game was
called she pointed one tapering white
finger in the direction Of the pitchers
mound.
who's that?" she asked
Pitcher" explained Papa Keller
laconically. Then, patiently: "He
throws the ball"
"Oh." said Ivy. What did you say
his name WASP"
Il didn't say. But it's Rude
Schlachweiler The boys call him
Dutch. Kind OF a pet, Dutch is"
"Rudie Schlachweiler!" murmured
Ivy, dreamily. What strong name!
Want some peanuts?" inquired heI
father.
, Does one eat peanuts at a bal
gamer"
: 1T amt hardly legal If you don't
Pa Keller assured her.
Two Sacks" said Ivy. Papa, why
do they call it a diamond, and what
are those brown bags at the corners
and what does 1t count if you hit the
ball, and why do they rub their hands
in the dust and then-er-spit on them
and what salary does a pitcher get
and why does the red-haired man OF
the other side dance around like tina
between the second and third brown
bag, and doesn't pitcher do anything
but pitch, and VIII
you're on" said papa.
After that Ivy didn't miss, a gam
during all the time that the team
played in the home town. She wen
without q new hat, and didn't car
whether Jean Vatican got away wit
the goods or not and forgot whethe
you played third hand high or low 4
bridge. She even became chumm
with Undine Meyers. who wasn't he
kind Of a girl at all. Undine was thi
in voluptuous kind of way, II sue
a paradox can be, and she had re
lips, and rowing eye. and she ra
around downtown without hat NOR
than was strictly necessary. But Vi
dine and Ivy had two subjects in con
mon. They were baseball and Low,
It is queer how the limelight will MAX
> heroes Of us all.
Now "Pug" Coulan, who was re-
haired. and had shoulders like an o
and arms that hung down to his knee
like those Of an orang-outang. slaug
. tered beeves at the Chicago stoc
4 yards In winter. In the summer b
slaughtered hearts. He wore mustar
: colored shirts that matched his hal
: and his baseball stockings general
4 had rip in them somewhere, BIZ
I when he was on the diamond we wei
almost ashamed to look at Undine. q
> wholly did her heart shine in her eye
Now, we'll have just another das
= or two of local color. In q small tow
the chances for hero worship are fey
. II 1t weren't for the travelling men OF
!. girls wouldn't know whether stripes {
. checks were the thing in gents sui
ings. When the baseball season opene
the girls swarmed on 1t. Those tn,
didn't understand baseball pretendt
, they did. When the team was out
= town our form Of greeting W,
!. changed from, Good morning." ,
"Howdy-do!" to Whats the score
!. Every night the results of the gam,
|. throughout the league we're posted I
!. on the blackboard In front of Schla
er's hardware store. and to see Il
!. way in which the crowd stood arouI
= 1t, and streamed across the street I
- ward 1t, you'd have thought they we
= giving away gas stoves and hammot
!. couches.
n Going home in the street car aft
+ the game the girls used to gaze ado
- ingly at the dirty faces of their swes
!. begrimed heroes, and then they'd ru,
"a home. have supper, change the
!. dresses, do their hair. and rush dow
!, town past the Parker hotel to ms
their letters. The baseball DO,
boarded over at the Griggs hous
which Is third-class, but they us'
their tooth. picks and held the poi
= norton Of the days game out In fro
g Of the Parker hotel, which Is our lea
3 ing hostelry. The post office receip
3 record for our town was broken i.
Z Ing the months of June, July and A
: gust.
e Mrs. Freddy Van Dyne started I
3 trouble by having the team over
4 dinner, Pug" Coulan and all. Aft
Z all. why not? No foreign and inn
g cunious princes penetrate as far inlal
d as our town. They get only as far
4 New York, or Newport, where they a
: gobbled up by many-moneyed matror
4 If Mrs. Freddy Van Dyne found I
= supply Of available lions limited. vi
g should she not try to content hers,
o with a jackal or so?
III Ivy WAS asked Until thcu sha n