Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-14
CHAPTER II
Cecond Inning (continued)

FH Riverside Drive, N. u
Dear Joe-well. Joe. guess you're
wonderin' what's wrong with my mil
lion Z arm and the like. hey?
or course, joe realize fu<y well
that II would Of looked just as good In
the box scores II would OF win some OF
them games instead Of simply cuttin' the
finishes fne. but you or nobody else
amt got no idea of the terribly mental
strains I was underneath all the time
whilst we was on the road. Here I am
away from home almost three weeks
and In all that time the only word l
Get from Jeanne is eleven letters. seven
tciegrams and q bare dozen souvenir
postcards. How do know what she Is
doin' from that? How do l know what
has become of my baby, II anything? I'm
thinkin' night and day that she must be
terrible busy " she ain't got time 70
keep UP a regular correspondence win
me and II she's busy, why. what Is she
busy at. hey, Joe?
We'll, Joe, that was when asked Mac
for the vacation. havin' stood about al
the worry and etc. a humans bein could
without turnin' into ravtns maniac
Joe, am In no less than Boston at the
time and after have peaceifed Mac, l
grab hold OF the first train for New YORK
and IN the hurry and excitement what
do I do but forget to rent hammock
In the sleepin's car, with the sensational
result that ! gotta sit UP an night IN
shades of night porters. Wen: aions
around 3 in the a. m. one of them
etheyopiums shows some indications oi
brains and says let's shoot a triae craps
and ] could scarcely keep from, gettln
the hystericals outa pure Joy. because
don't have to tell you, Joe, what q
wolf I am with the bones. hey?
A. porter which is as big as Pixies
Peak and as black, as s4s worth the
where's and the entertainment begins
Joe, / made about as many passes in
the first hour as this here fast and
deluxe express train was maxim miles
the whites Of their eyes, / took EN-
down the line toot sweet one after the
other and Sweet Cookie-how them
babies did squeal BY the time we was
roarin' through Mt. Vernon l was over
. hundred fish to the good and then
lost the bones to this big human ink
hard; ,..,, ,,.,,
bones and, Joe, I'll say they did
That bird simply sevened and elevenet
like that's all the numbers they was OF
the dice and at Grand Central he ha'
took me for everything but my watCn
% l quit cold when | lose the chain
/thsn Russell Sage ever done with 5.
and when / bellered that they must ~
crooked he tucks my pack in his pocke
and let's forth a grin.
Mos doubtless. boss" he says. Mos
doubtless they is. But then again, them''
the Same evidentical bones which yol
run US ragged, with, so it's ever
Stephen
I hadda borreh a nickel from the Pull
mans conductor to go up home in tn
subway. which was tough, Joe, becaus,
you know what a hound l am for taXis
Well, Joe, naturally enough / was II
. terrible humor when / got up to N!
nat after all these here things havin
befell unto me, but / thought that tn,
minute ! seen Jeanne and my baby am
had hearts to hearts talk with 'en
ABOUT this and that, everything woulds
be peaches again. Coin up in the ele
vator, realized how lonesome II mus
be for my little wife with me away hal
the time and etc. and that maybe /
wouldst be a good thing after all II
would quit baseball and grab off a jol
where i could stay in one place all tn
-4irne. like traffic cop or somethin'
Joe, when l get outside the door o
my nat my ears Is astonshed with IN
sounds of musically instruments at play
They Is a piano and a coupla fiddles goir
Mt the very least and other noises comm
forth which guy don't have to be
palms reader to figure that dancin' an,
etc. is bein' Rad. Well. l think mayb
Jeanne has asked the dame from mex
door to come in and Keep her compan