Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-26

being applied almost exclusively to negro
walters.
Alcysius went to the game and sat in
the grand stand. He recalled that in the
days of his youth he had played center
| field for a hash-house team in st. Louis
and had been more than little intero 5ted
| in the national pastime. He wondered
what had become of Ward, Connor. Brou-
theirs, Anson, Clarkson and Kelly, the
National League stars of his recollection.
| He bought score card, but the players
| names were strange to him, and even the
game itself seemed changed in many par
ticulars.
Only one thing remained as II had been.
| The same old cries still resounded from
the bleachers, evidently handed down
| from father to son. Aloysius recalled that
when he was 20 and Singing hash" in
| st. Louis he had been a famous fan.
There was very little noise in the grand
stand that day, and. after the second
inning, a small, fattish. smooth-shaven
man who might easily have been mista-
ken for a priest, appeared in the midst
OF the white-shirted congregation on the
| bleachers.
AS he listened to the uproar around
| him, 1t came to Aloysius that there was
his chance to take his foot off the soft
| pedal, pull out all the stops and speak his
| mind. For years other people had been
| speaking to him, and he dared not an
| swer back. Why not criticise these ball
| players, who also dared not make reply?
As he thought of his silent years, rage
| took hold of Aloysius Reagan, resent
| ment burned within him. He was not
unlike those men of his race who fought
the English under the lilies OF France
| at Fontenoy.
How fierce look those exiles wear
Whose wont was TO be gay;
The treasured wrongs Of 30 years
Were in their hearts that day.
Aloysus had no quarrel with the ball
players; his quarrel was with the gen.
eral eating public. and 1t was to that
public he spoke when Andy Anderson
| lost the fly ball In the sun. The voice
so long attuned to whisperings and po-
lite murmurings rose in all it's power.
Aloysius noted with satisfaction that he
had aroused interest: the other bleacher-
ties watched him covertly and with a
certain amount of respectful admira-
ton.
Gee. boz said one youth enviously.
you cert'nly got a swell set o. pipesl
Hit 'em againl They're a lot o. lob
lollys, and they got no friends. Go to
emf
Aloysius hit them again, ans then
again, and between times he babbled.
Having been silent, he became discursive
His tongue, taking its first real holiday
| a
child's upon a picnic morning. When he
doomed at the unfortunate Bantams he
} experienced all the sensations and thrills
|, of great soloist; the laughter which
rlppled through the stands after one oi
, his vocal forays intoxicated him like
champagne.
! That night a fat man from Duluth de-
1 | stroyed A.65 worth of food, carefully
1 picking all the change of the tray before
he waddled forth into the night. Aloysiul
: scarcely noticed this crime. He had JUS
A thought of something TO say to Andl
Y Anderson about Copenhagen.
{ On the second day Aloyslus perceive,
l. that he was recognized as the leader o
: a turbulent faction; that his voice ha,
d all the potency of a signal, and for tn
: first time in years Reagan felt real hap
d piness.
o On the morning OF the third day
newspaper spoke OF "the Bull Moose
) idly speculating upon his Identity an
y calling him "the director of the anvi
chorus" Aloysius cut out the articl
with his penknife and put II away Il
a the top drawer OF his dresser, alon
q with his life Insurance policy and tn
menu card OF a banquet at which he ha
served a President OF the United States
- For many days Aioysius lived In IN
., clouds, touching earth only at rare in
tervals.
Is CONTINUED TOMORROW.