The Ocala evening star., 1915-06-09

ateur sport in its place." was the an
swer. about sixteen years ago pro-
fessional baseball had become so COM
mercialized that winning a series was
simply a matter of which club had /
the most money. People had quit GO
ing to see the games, and all the 1
sport connected with them was bet
ting in poolrooms, which had become
as bad as the betting on horseracing
some ten years before. Hunter led
the amateur movement here in Flor
ida with the Ocala team, which was !
the strongest in the state. People |
began going to amateur games in (
crowds, and let the professional ex-
hibits strictly alone, so professional
baseball, which had become a great |
evil, died, but amateur games are
more in favor than ever"
'I suppose Hunter is dead?"
olive as a cricket, and will be out
here to see the game with Citra this
afternoon"
| OF course, we went by the hospital,
and 1 was rejoiced to see the edifice
| | knew as one of wood had evoluted
| into one of marble. At the main en-
trance stood another monument to one
of the surgeons who had done the
most good work up to 1925. You all
know him, but it would be violation
of professional ethics to give his
name. Beside, my not doing so will
allow every member of the Marion
County Medical Association the right
to believe it was him. It's all right
to say, however, that there was
lovely portrait of Miss Marshall in
the main hall She was Miss Mar
shall no longer-she went to Europe
and nursed to health from the effects
of a fearful wound a great French
general, who fell in love with her, as
any sensible man would. She told
him she was welded to her profession,
whereupon he carried her off in an
aeroplane to his chateau by the
Rhone, and told her she would have
to STAY there till she consented. To
this whirlwind courtship she surren-
dered; and now they lived happily
two-thirds of the year in Paris, but
came to Ocala every winter, and she
invariably helped the doctors in at
least one operation, to keep her in
mind of old times.
At every few blocks we came to
roomy brick building with plenty Of
halls thru and galleries around it,
each building the center of turfed
and shaded playground. Thru the
wide and numerous windows could be
seen young folks at their studies, so
needed not the signs, eth Precinct
Schoolhouse" to tell me what they
were.
Business had driven the churches
; from near the square, but they were
in full force in other parts. Grace
church had grown into a stately pile
y of stone on its old site on Watula,
, and the great Catholic cathedral had
arisen on Oklawaha, but all the other
churches had removed to other sites.
There were plenty of them, and all
had abolished their archaic bells.
All the streets were paved; all the
unsightly poles were gone-the wires
were underground. l soon noticed that
missed two familiar things, but
couldn't think what they were. At last
> 1 realized that they were bicycles and
baldheaded men.
About the time when the 1915 citi.
zen would be coming to his store ol
office-to-wit, $3.50 a. m.-after hav.
ing been over most of the town, tolC
the chauffeur to return to the hotel
{ Reaching the square, / had him let
: me out at the corner of Broadway anC
Main, and seeing the Court Pharmac!
! in its usual place-although it wa:
: bigger and finer and the mountain o.
{ the Holder block lowered hundreds o-
), feet above it stepped in and ap
l preached the counter. An old mar
whose skindeep expression of sol
y emnity yelled a skinfull of humor
Il came to meet me. 1t was, yes, it wa
0 Sonny Geise, who / thought wa
i president of Chiliconcarne or som
{ other South American republic by thi
Il time-he and J. d. Mcdonald wer
Z going to South America as soon a
i they could charter the City of Ocala
"What can do for you, sir?" he said
1t was tired and dropped heavil,
e into a chair. "Dope," 1 said.
, Sonny stared at me. ats many
{ long year since had that order,"" h
= said. 'Do you mean coca-cola?" ?"
d "The same"
,, "Alas, my dear sir, it is no longe
Al made The w. C. T. U. found it wa
. sapping the vitality of the nation, an
the government prohibited its manu-
u facture over a dozen years ago. Yo
: must be from Georgia. 1 understan
I they moonshine considerable coca-col
q up that way"
Ito be continued in our next)