Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-17

I'm only tryin' to do you favor. In
= coupla weeks they will be more holes
n your arm than they 10 in <your de-
hVsyyuend Weli |" that's sayin n a lotr'
get no dope into me! I don't need to
II them guys will only give imitation
a OF baseball team in back Of me, the
.,,F0r For the White Sox 70 says Benton.
We'll m be out there the day you
Wave and holler to me, Rube,"
ssays SOS III Know where's to look
TN be away up in the grandstand," !"
you'll notice me without no trouble, as
ducItin, TiI no no. dSpot ni, be the guy which is
Joe, can you imagine the petty jeal-
ousy OF them guys? l have made less
wild pitches to the game than any guy
which makes wild pitches every game
Well, Joe, went over to tire hotel,
and there is n cable for me from Moran,
to report at once in st. Looey, which is
a terrible jump from Pittsburgh and
sleepin' cars is poison ivy TO me and
I'll take the short end of a bet that not
even Rip Vans Rinkle could pound his
ear in the upper birth of no train.
told you In my last, Joe. that Jeanne
had come up with me for the Pittsburgh
series and seen me inshoot them babies
to death, winnin' my first start by the
remarkably score of 8 to the thing they
build the ring around in a doughnut
G,Ssk Fye out that was s IN
in to break the news to her that / was
off TO the haunts Of the Cincinnati Reds.
I didn't get no Immediately chance to
SPIN my stsrtlin' Information. because
me to the showers She Ia all dolled up
like the queen of the New Orleans Marty
Grass with evenin's dress and the like.
and IL she didn't look like a million dol
Joe, II Jeanne continues to get prettier
every day. like she has made II a rule to
do since we Left France, II ant gonna
be long before ] won't be able TO stand
would never of been heard tell OF. What
I wanted to do after one look was to
plant a chastely salute on them lips of
hers, which is as red as a thousand
dollars, worth the catsup but, Joe, !
done that once at the ball park, and
Jeanne won't speak to me for forty-eight
hours on the grounds that a gentlemen
don't kiss his wife whilst the public
looks on. Well, draw the conclusions
some other gentlemens wife, and that :
a thing | never felt called upon to du
since I been wed II you had cake
would you crave bread? No And there's
well. what I got chas sed this time for
was because Jeanne says how many
times has she tcld me I gotta dress for
dinner when I am at chow with her
and nobody but a laber wouldst wall,
right into his dinner without groomin
himself up. whatever that is. out | think
it's got somethin' to do with a horse
Joe, as ] know a groom in New York
his groomin' in a livery stable. Wen
to make paragraph outa n novel.
went upstairs and climbed into my ban,
quet overalls and etc, and come dowi
again. and this time Jeanne Is all smiles
When Jeanne Is all smiles, Joe, she coulo
tell Rockefeller they was no more mar
ket for oil. and he'd remark: II should
worry. and mean II! ] seen peopi,
lookin' over at our table in openly ad-
mlration, because ] am q knockout In
evenin's dress, Joe. and Jeanne woulo
make Venus take carbolic, and ! guess
they was all sayin': There's the
worlds famous Ed Harmon. the ball
player, and his wife, the notoriously
movie starr The head waiter takes my