The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-05-05
SPORT.O-GRAMS
Squa sh Vile, Va.
MAY z. 1919.
nv "TONINfIE"

4HdS III =
Deer Motto, Having nothing else
to do, and plenty of time to do II in
am taken this chanct to write you
few lines and let you know all the
sporting neWsies from the little old
berg. There is a lot OF excitement
in thc oh town lately since the open
ing Of the baseball season and We
scribe hasent had much time to do
ANYTHING else but answer phone calls
about tho games. They had an ex-
citing contest here the other day be-
tween the SquaShvilie Giants and the
Petersburg Pirates and the locals
were defeated by the close score Of
- Ia -, Talk about pirates, that
petersburg bunch is the wirse that
ever saw and Motto, what would you
think, they brought their own UNI
pire with them. This was the fust
time that a game has been played in
SouashVilie that our own umpire
didn't call the game. An alligator"
from the circus bit old man Spruder's
wooden leg off the other dav and he
could not get out to umpire the game.
Baseball is not the only thing that
IS keeping tho Sauashvile folks in
terested these days however. We had
an exciting horse shoe pitching match
in front of Dutch Leamon's place yes
rtiddy. between old man Lipp Small.
md Aubrey Timherlake. the two viii
'ace men of leisure Old man Timber
lake, who IS also the proud possessor
~ wooden leg, won tho contest,
and celebrated the occasion by cut
/ tinc another notch In it: everytme he
"'ns contest he cuts notch in his
'"g. and he has now 81 notches to
he good Bob Harper. the village
"umorist and sports scribe of the
n < h. l. pafa
test. but had to he carried off the field
after Small had hit him on his pet
corn by a four pound horse shoe
'Zeke" Smith. the local strong-arm
lad and pool shark, is going around
town showing everybody a clipping
about him from the "Perlice Cabot"
and one of the most beautiful black
eyes. that one ever saw. "Zeke" saws
that he was kicked in the face by his
mule, but as the Mrs. is supporting "A
bum pair of Snuckles his story doesn't
carry very far
Motto, We wrote pome the other
day, and sent it to Life, who stated
that II was the best thing that they
had seen for Long time. but because
OF the fact that they didn't have. space
IN their magazine to print II. they
would have to return It. Just to show
you that our heart Is on the right
side. we are going to let you print It,
every two or three days IL you want
to.
Hora'io stood on the burning deck
and waved flag OF red,
He didn't think Of the dangers that
hung around his head
he waved his flag. and sang a song in
voice a'little weekly.
But just then a cop arrested him for
being a Foisheviki
How do you like that huh mebbe
we are not some class. ell. when YOU
print this on your page the other
scribes are going to be raving mad
with jealousy.
One thing this publicity is that YOU
get to be famous, why the other day.
after wrote the pome. the chief OF
police Of Squashville sent NV photo
graph to all the big cities in the coun-
try. hut they sent them all back. saw
ing that they already had my picture
in their art galleries
Well Motto its getting pretty late.
and the wife is calling us dash blame
these women anyhow. they can't APP
preciate genius, and besides we are
feeling pretty bum today. we guess
we'll have to close for this session.
Hoping This will find yon the same.
W. II. T.