The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-02-27

Q NELL today. ] and he talked baseball
out in front of winnie s store, where
they sell the refOrmer, two cents for
one copy, and we talked so long we
both got sOlled. | and he both had UNI
brellas but we was so dam sure Bel
lows Falls is goin to have a baseball
club i'll this here bush leeg this we're
that we did not no enuf to use it, he
his nor mine. Then along came this
here fred perry. Fred has got some of
this here stuff that's good to spend and
he is used some of it for the great
game. says fred, is we still in the
Eleeg, wont tell you what fred sed be-
cause he is almost as good at it as
o NELL or Billy Sunday, but honest, ed
guess we are from what he said. only
/ guess Billy sunday don't use some of
them words fred does
This here Bement down in Northamp-
ton has always tickled me, ed. maybe
YOU fall for him, but i never have.
Here he is with the punkest teme in the
leeg last yere (loOk at the standing
when the season closed) and here he
Is tryin to put this here Holvoke deal
acrOst. if it was anybody else but be-
ment and the other fans up here mite
sons ago when he was using so much
ink, very black, in this here Spring
field Republican. That there newspa-
per serious give us his number and we
amt had not much use for what ever
I he says up here at the Falls. This
here pres. of the vigilance committee
or borde of traid in Holyoke OF suthin
says, We don't want to get tied UP with
n Inns ~ a II
his sentiments are ours with reverse
english on them. we here in the Falls
don't want to get tied up with no more
cities.
now talking about cities ed. we up
here says, why not cut out this here
Bement and this here NORTHAMPTON
and this here Newport? That what
we says. Now YOU take a leeg like this
one keene, Bellows Falls, Brattleboro
and Greenfield and there Won have
sOmethin. l don't have nothin to do up
here ed, so been askin the fans what
do they think about il and they says
yes its Just the thing. fans mean are
the men who spend the cash. now ed. on
the level don't care whether north
amptOn never comes to Vermont again.
neither does no other fan here. but do
want to see them lucky stifs from
keene next summer. the lucky stiffs,
nobody ever knew they was in the leeg
for four seasons and then each seeson
they finished second. don't tell me il
aint luck. if they was no Huck in the
game we should have won that pennan Mt
four times already. only we did not
have no luck. nor no bali players either
land don't care if Newport aint in this
here Twin State. Neither does lots of
others Of MS. Newport won the pennant
tand let them keep it. Frank Murphy
and q few of them other shoemakers
spent some money and they is going to
have Il fare and mintrel show to
raise some more money. Let them raise
lit and keep it to 20 with the pennant
That's what we up here say.
Money, ed, is a serius topic | seen
in the paper the other day that money
is the reeson for many crimes. know
lots reporters ed. and that is one guy
that says the truth. Not only crime,
but troubles. Last winter ed. was
=. boiling all winter because could not
see no money for the baseball club
In Jan. they walnut any. in feb. they
wasn't any. and in march they wasn't
any. then in april the brides began Il
sing and the street railway began t
run nearly on skedulc time. thenA from
diffruut places they was some none,
come. and then some more cum from
, some place else. and the first thing.
, knew it was june the q or % and W,
had a club and we started off slick
, only they was lucky stiffs and the 9th