The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-08-22
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THE PLAYERS LOVE SONNET

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THE PLAYERS LOVE SONNET
seen her. Sitting In a field.box.
and
She smiled at me. and waved her
little hand
And-say-thcre come right then
and there blff
Among my heart, that felt exact
as II
Big johnson. throwing everything,
his best.
Had glommed me good and plenty
on the chest,
And the whole makeup threw me
in n doze--
That smile. them cherry lips.
those nose,
I amt no busher nor no boob. You
I hain't no Yannigan-I am n Vet
OF six years service. would like
10 see
That guy that's 1T TO grab my
goat off me-
But I seen Her. and, sure as you are
born.
She got my goat and broke off
every horn,
Ny heart Just fluttered-then !
looked her way.
Fumbled one ball and booted two
away,
struck on, twice. and yet wasn't
mad.
For | could see her sweet face
looking sad
Yep. she was sorry for me--and,
you know.
PHYS next thing to love-now.
amt IL sog
got 81 fixed I'm going TO meet
hor-well.
Amt plumb headed for no padded
cell,
But. say. I'm nervous-say. II
seems TO me
That In her league I bat one
thlrty-ihree,
w. A. PHELoN.
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A BIT OF BUNGLiNG
The Army and Navy football
game will be played on the New
York Polo Grounds on November
Is this year. This IL the date OF
the annual Ysle-Harvard clash at
New Haven.
There Ia no doubt but that both
games viii draw mammoth crowds,
but II seems very poor judgment
to stage them both on the same
day. This Is not only true. because
OF the fact that many people are
anxious TO witness both contests.
but because II handicaps the news
papers In handling the games.
Both these gridiron battles are
fraught with so much Elamor and
tradition that they require excep-
tional handling from a journalistic
standpoint. The newspapers have
neither the space nor men to play
up two such contests on the same
day.
II looks like extremely bad judy
ment to schedule them both for
November 90. The Army-Navy
game could very easily have been
set for q later date.
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WHAT OF FRANK MORAN?
II reports from Oklahoma are
true. Frank Moran has failed to
profit by his experience with little
Jack Dillon. News drifts up here
that he is not taking his bout with
Carl Morris at Tulsa. Okla, on La
Dor day seriously. He Is said to
have his automobile down there ana
TO be spending most OF his time In
the car.
Moran's many friends In the
East will be sorry to hear this.
Carl Morris is far from great
fighter. But he has been boxing
often OF late. is big and powerful,
and will surely beat Moran IL the
Pittsburger enters the ring out OF
condition, as he did against Dillon
The very fact that Carl Morris is
not great fighter will make It
worse for Moran II he loses to the
Oklahoma giant Frank has lot
TO gain by beating Morris. 1t will
restore at least some OF his pres.
tige. and he can demand a return
bout with Dillon. If he loses he is
through as a drawing card.
Moran Is such likable and sens
ible fellow, that II Is hard to un.
derstand why he doesn't realize
that his only assets in boxing are
his endurance and punch. To re-
tain these he must be In condition.
He wasn't In shape for Dillon, took
terrible beating and was jeered
numerically.
Frank Moran's rise to pugilistic
prominence was metcoric. His
decline gives promise OF being even
more sudden. II Is too bad.
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Baseball Writer John Joseph Me.
craw says that the Giants still
have a show. They say the same
thing about Rinallns.