The Washington herald., 1921-08-21
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Virtue Il It's Own Reward.

Virtue L. Its Own Reward.
Bigg Boogle was the kind Of DO!
that everybody hates.
He used to kick the little kids ant
cum their tender pates.
He used to swipe their jacknive,
and their marbles and their top
And their hooples and their whistle!
and their gum and lemon drops
In short. in William Boogle all tn,
vicious traits combined
OF a mean and sordid bully of thu
most repulsive kind.
Now the character and manners o.
Theophilus MCGEE
Were as much unlike Bill Boogle'
as they possibly could be;
Far from cutting hitler fellows, h
would pat them on the head:
Far from swiping their possessions
he would give them his instead
youthful dissident
Would leave it to Theophilus to de
eide the argument.
But possession of a character that!
underhand and sly
Doesn't argue that one hasn't a AZ
batting eye,
And by dint of his ability to deal ,
ball hard knocks.
Bill Boogle got a shortstop's jol
with the VermflHon Sox.
UhyIo rha~.kkr,,. 1-.zGu-.
nay. famous for his bump
II justice. soon attained to the po
sition of an Jump.
The child is father to the man, a.
you have learned in school.
And William Boogle's case was n,
exception to the rule.
So when some crooked gamblers Of
fered him a bride to throw
The series with the; Puppies, what h,
answered wasn't No.
He took the gamblers money an,
he put 1t in the bank
And waited for the proper chance t
pull his hanky -pank.
Mark, reader. how insensate Fat.
can deal a lethal blow.
For Theophilus was an Umpire II
the games Bill meant to throw,
And when that worthy pounded on
a legal thrce-bsse clout
He cut first base on purpose. an
Theophilus said, ''Out!"
And with the word pop bottles fiev
at his devoted head.
Eight of them landed. For a whil'
they figured he was dead.
Well, afterward they found out wha
that Boogle crook had done,
And right away indicted him-th
trial was, oh! such fun 80
And when the farce was over the.
set Bill Boogle free,
And the jurors and defendant wen
upon a jamboree;
While as for poor Theophilus.; he
in a Catch bed yet. L
MORAL: 1t isn't what you are. Blu
how much you can get. -
.... BARON IRELAND.
yindicatins the Oops. - :.
It is one of the quaint customs o
the bystander to indulge in consid
cradle merriment at the expense y
the dope.
Yet, we call. again attention to tn,
fact that the early April dope indi
Gated in full that only five ball club
should. be considered in the tw'
races-Cleveland and New York II
the American-New York, Pitts
burgh and Brooklyn in the National
Brooklyn alone skidded-s The othe
four have moved along rationa
lines, and. two of them will make vi
fho oh 70 M, a In
For hard. drive: through the
stretch the last. stages Of the dop'
favor Pittsburgh, but the margii
between Cleveland and New Yori
isn't much thicker than the segmen
Of a toy balloon.
The mig Gate.
A football fan takes exception Z,
our statement that no other singl,
contest could draw 10000 person.
and s1,soo.0oo, through the gate. a
the Dempsey-Carpentier melee did.
That was q championship affair.
he writes. SUPPOSE Yale and Har
ward had the two greatest football
machines in the country. and Al
such were Exploited far and wide
Suppose, when they met. in tn,
championship test. they were al
lowed to charge from IS to $50 fof /
seat, with the Yale Bowl enlarges
to seating capacity OF se.ooo. ~.
With this granted that gam.
would easily equal the receipts q
Jersey City. for on an oecaston--e
that sort s5e would stop few sHar'
ward or Yale men wrought up tost
championship thrill