The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-03-31
Disaster
Mournful Walls Follow Ia
boo on All Trunks.

Trunks are tabooed by baseball man.
ayers this season. Suitcascs. lugged
by perspiring bali players. will be a
familiar sight In certain spots. Views
Of melancholy ball players on plat
forms watching a train speed away In
the distance, filled with the full
knowledge that suttcases were left In
the middle seats, right hand side of the
third coach. fills one with subtle Joy
One can hear the tramp of heavy feet
toward the telegraph office to get the
telegraph operator to fash heading
on message up the line before some
body lifts the meandering satchels. The
operator will be In the midst OF trans
hitting government, railroad, personal
and business messages and will look
with glee upon this added work. par
ticularly II It is a sassy. baseball re-
cruit doing the wiring. Telegraph OPP
orators always accept work from sassy
people with glec.
What hardship that suitcase law
will be to Some ball players we could
Federal Lacquer. who came out OF his
hitting slump In the latest worlds Sc
ries, made two home runs and then re-
tired into his slump; imagine him look
ing nj his shirts of rainbow hue. hif
numerous spats and colorful suits and
turning hts delighted gaze from them
to the dinky suitcase. The suitcase
Is the best little cross creaaer ever in.
vented by man. and Rauff knows that
Picture Heinie Zimmerman. the hn.
/ man sprinter. with 100 ties, In addition
to some suits and his spiked shoes. con
templatins the dimensions Of n suit
case. II Heinie makes II hit the frs
time around the circuit the statue o
Liberty Will take II morning plnng
I'm the harbor and splash water on tn
Battery,
| Umpire Hank O'Dny. with three
changes Of suits IA day, IN addition I,
other parnphernnlia, including hi
chest protector and mask. will have
merry time wrestling with one dress
| suitcase. Clarence Rowland will b,
panied. He will pick these up on eacl
visit, drop them again and proceed /,
! the next town.
Take ~ ball players, the trainer. tn,
club secretary. the newspaper men, al
carrying yellow suitcases, Indian file
down a street. II will look like an In
vasion of ladybugs coming to towl
to bat hole or two In a potato vine
Storekeepers looking out the doori
will think II In mob Of chcaE.
clothing or shoe statesmen and Will
close their shops In dismay. Dogs vii
bark. Cats Will climb trees hurriedls
Arriving at the hotel, the tired bal
players. trainers, managers and scribe
Will deposit the suitchses in the lobb.
an hurdles for those who haven't an,
At every stop there will be at least on
suitcase hopelessly lost, which will adj
to the excitement
OF course, the loser will have To pax
over the 80 suiteases half dozen time
will add to his playing strength.
OF course. carrying weight will add I
the right arms strength, hence the hit
ting power Of the team will be Increase
unless the men ARE too tired to sc
anything that Ia perspiring twirier wi
heaye up to the pan In an cndeavor t
make the catcher cry ouch" TIL
pitcher will have "a strong arm as
result Of the training. which will ad
to the pleasure and happiness Of tn
batters out to make Ty C0bb's recor
look sick.