Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-06-26
FROM PEGGY TO POLLY.

Dearest Polly:
The Matsonia brought whole raft
oil fhe young felix's and some excite:
ntcnt with IT, There Is, in other words,
% be an announcement before the
September boat carries them off
again. Just which is the engaged girl
Is being kept very close secret but 1
that there is one Is fact Maybe you
think everyone isn't racking her brains
for some little inkling Of who II Is
and who the lucky man may be. Here's /
hoping Ii will be told soon.
Before forget, | want to tell you |
Of joke the Stanford boys have play
ca on enc OF their teammates. When |
Manager Wilcox announced his inten- /
fion OF leaving sunny Hawaii on the
Siberia last Tuesday and return ng to
hts studies in Palo Alto, Gus Hoover,
star pitcher on the team, got the
blues and decided that II "Coxy" could I
go he could. too. There are plentt |
OF pitchers. Besides, there was to be
a house party somewhere in the noun
fains which was to last from July to
the 10th, and playing baseball way
of en- an island isn't near as much 1
fun. He told the boys SO and they
al agreed that IL Gus wanted to &C
here he might, but.
That evening the boys called on A.
Il. Castle and told him that when Gus
teIenhcned about his reservation, to
say that IL was o. X. Then they sent !
Ter his SUIT and saw that his trunk
was packed and prepared farewell.
dinner The transfer man was given
q downtown address to deliver the
trunk TO and return 1t to the Villa on
Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock 1.-THE
boat was to leave at 81. Friend Gus
called tie girls up and babe them a
fcnd farewell and promised faithfully
to write and never to forget them.
About three minutes before the beat
sailed the pitcher was shaking hands
with the last of the nine when some
cne cane up and said: Say. Gus, do
you know that You haven't any reserr-
ration on the beat and your trunk is
al the houses"
Gus caved.
Someone had sent him some ripe
rangoes and he commenced to throw
them at the manager and some of the
boys. Being fairly good pitcher, he |
could throw 1t happened that In a |
Wild throw at the manager he hit the |
rretty little Miss Delaney on the
Shoulder, and from the mirthful team.
mates on the dock came the chorus.
fB-a-l-l!p
Just what happened after they got
home no outsider exactly knows. ex-
copfing that Mr. Hoover is a large
man and the rest OF the boys didn't
seem overly enthusiastic. The pitcher
has left word not to be called on the
teIephcne.
On Monday night alter the com
rhencement ball, which. by the way,
Was great success. two or three boys
decided to take moonlight swim,
Jack Mcdonald and DR.. Jack Peden.
among them. The outrigger Club is
supposed to be closed at such a late
hour and the boys climbed the lattice
work to don their bathing suits. After
the swim was over, which was about
3 b. the electric clock, cold and shiy.
1r|ng. they returned to reclimb the
HIt.ce enclosure for their clothes. At
the fop--and almost over, when two
shots, clear and distinct, rang out
from tho janitor's home, and Who's
ibemg I stop!"
1--WE stop. too. yelled the southern
loctor. who, I'm afraid at that particu-
Lar moment did not appreciate the sit
0alicn. Finally they quieted the man
bf giving their names and member
ship cards. The confess that the swim
ship cards. They confess that the swim
was great--but, no one likes being
D Polly, one more engagement brok-
en-. That makes five. Oh, well,
though 1t is too bad, 1t is more mex,
Dcnsiye to break them before than
after. The last one heard of was an.
ncunced some four months ago-a Ho-
nolnlu boy to California girl The
boy broke It and the girl will neither
tell OF its breaking nor return the
ring. He says he doesn't care a bit
about the ring-it was imitation, any
way; but for the sake Of another girl
a. whom he intends to announce an
management shortly he would like her
70 do something about it. Funny
world, isn't 1t?
sraIl matter of bathing suits is
causing Just little commotion on the