New Britain herald., 1915-06-04
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All are listening except one;
All the others hang on spellbound,
Trailing the warn to it's final run;
But one is nervous and that's no !
He can hardly wait for your closing
word; /
And listen to one that he breaks III
with
SAY, that reminds me of one
heard
GU may be spelling yarn on soap.
Or one that drifts to, inonoplane;
While the center of interest in his
dope
Involves a lady in Portland, Maine;
The gap is as wide as the rar abyss
That crowns each pole-or from first
to third
But it's ten to nothing ne slips you
say that reminds me of one I
heard
1t makes me sore. as a parboiled
Why only the other day some guy
Was spelling yarn that was mostly
drab
While was waiting with mine right
/ had q peach that was full Of pith.
could hardly wait for mis- final word,
When some big mutt beat me to it
8.say, that reminds me Of one I
heard'-
with. the average weather we have
NE
1t is no wonder that interest i'm base
ball is a trifle trapped. 1t is hard
enough to get up much interest even
in living.
Is History Repeating?
On at least four occasions in the
last five years we have watched the
estimable Phillies rise up IN April and
May and display all the so-calIed ear
marks of a champion. Just what par
ticular earmarks adorn d champion
we have never known, but you get the
idea.
Then each year, as June arrived. the
still estimable Phillies proceeded to
settle after the manner OF steel
girder pushed gently but firmly off
the top of a skyscraper. This spring
| with Alexander in such condition we
had a bunch that perhaps the Phils
! would hang around most of the way.
| We never figured them for pennant
| winners, but, they looked good enough
/ for place in the first three But
| o. late they have been drifting fast,
| and lisa question now as to whether
or not they will even be able to re-
main long in the upper set--some-
times referred to as the First Division.
/ They are quick starters, bur they can't
A on he n irf, fcs 1
/ manner OF entering sprinter, ten
second man, at the hundred, in two
mile run. He can make the field look
foolish for 200 or 800 yards, and then
it's the old pulmotor-anu good night.
Two days ago we missed an easy 81
foot putt Henry Ford is right. A
cigarette is no good for a steady
nerve.
If the Dodgers continue their win
ming streak, Mr.. Ebbets will be glad
to withdraw his charge that baseball
is still in its infancy" The Colonel
will then be willing to admit that ii
has at last arrived as worthy game
| In the First Division?
Even when travelling at an alb
normal clip. it was hardly possible to
figure the Tanks up with the White
Sox, Red Sox or Tigers The stuff
wasn't quite there, barring super
| natural break of fortune
But outside of this trio they pre-
| sented first division possibilities, as
| compared to Washington, st. Louis
Cleveland or Philadelphia, So in
| tie of their late slump, which has
| driven them down hill at dizzy clip
there is still chance that Smiling Oh
Wild Bill, as the case may be, Dono-
van, will be able to defend forth place
For they have a number of first-class
Lall players-and several who by mex,
year should be stars. But for the time
being the Yanks must forget that they
are the Yanks, put tradition we'll be.
hind their innermost thoughts-ane
then the first division is not out OF
reach.
Tho Case of Judge I,andis.
II r. f. desires to know what has be
come of the o. B.-Federal scrambl,
. that was to have been decided las
January"
!, From an inside source, whatevel
!. that Isl, we have been tipped to tn,
following status of affairs, viz:
Judge lands is a fan and lover o
baseball; he has gone into the matte
| carefully and has decided that the oil
D method of running base ball--that is
: the ten day notice and the reserv
4 cIause-was not legal, but was tn
! only way baseball could be run. If h
!, ruled upon strict legality he mus
\ rule against the best interests Of tn
| sport. And the only way he coul,
+ rule was over the strictly legal route
: So in place of rendering decision