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New-York tribune., 1921-04-24

Of thing? Merry -go-round, games Of all
sorts, with shoddy little prizes, freak shows
The girls liked it, and Broome liked If too--
because of kiko
hlko was in one of the freak shows. and
1hey Kept him in cage. He was the ugliest
blped I'd ever seen, without exception Some
OF that was makeup of course, but we fipureJ
OUT that he was negro, painted up, and with
olts OF fur glued on, here and there. where
'heyd 40 the most good. He used to prow]
around his cage and eat raw meat and grow]
Broome insisted on going every dav. and he
usually dragged some one alone-me more
o1ten than not. Kiko simply fascinated him
none of us could imagine whv. And The wau
ne treated the poor freak was deylish
ne used to take him candy and peanuts
and throw them at him. And if he managea
10 MT him on the head he'd stand and rock
with laughter, while Kiko snarled and prow1ed
lhen he would stand in front of the bars and
aouse hlko and poke at him with cane Kiko
would howl and snap at the cane with his
,eeth; ne played the game. all right and
earned his salary
koA the last day we were there something
happened. Summer was pretty we'll over.
VII" e4i"t uay IL was raining and northeastern
was blowing. Broome got me to 90 over 70
the park with him; he said he wanted to sav
goodoy to kiko No one was around Of
course on such day, and most of the places
mad closed for the season. But Broome made
them open up Kikos place, and | suppose moo,
Old kiko had to get into his makeup lust for
Broome
1ou ugly old son of gum" said Broome.
LII hunt you up next summer, wherever Won
are. Heres some candy!"
tie threw q bag of hard candy through the
oars and it hit Kiko on the nose. He how]ed
and snarled and then he pretended to eat some
OF the candy and Broome chuckled like kid.
Ihen he went on abusing Kiko 1t was scan
dalous; was ashamed of him. And then. all
at once klko began talking back-and it was
negro voice, sure enough.
70 po white trash--yo' Murray Broomev
ne SAID Il gotta black hide-but yo' gotta
black heart. And I'm goin' to cut it outa yo'
/ sho' am--if / have to chase yo' 'roun' the
whole wox)dl"
laughed Broome turned and gave me /.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-24

highly intelligible, following the same general
formula as that in vogue to-day. Critics of
the COS spoke Of books being readable but
insignificant Dramatic critics used identical
phrases in favor with current writer's But a
baseball story Of the SOS reads as though it
were written in strange tongue.
On July 20 1866, The Tribune devoted an
entire paragraph on the back page to an ac-
count OF the exciting encounter between the
Empires and the Eurekas.
A very pleasant meeting was had yester
Day runs the report, "between the amateurs
OF the above clubs the result being the signal
success Of the Empires by the score of 70 to
35 in contest of six innings. Benson. Burns
and Howell led the score on the Empire side
and Ageus, Bolles and Utter on the part of the
Eurekas. After the game the Empires hos
pltably entertained their friends."
On August Of the same wear the F,mn;r.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-24

picked out place that could only be ap-
preached from direction, and planted N.Y.
SELF IN dark spot and began smoking too
many cigarettes. The boat wasn't very
crowded, but there were a good many neople
wandering about, at that, and never saw so
many shadows in my life They kept me on
the jump all the time.
was mighty glad when Broome and Carol
came back, along about midnight
could see they hadn't been getting along:
that was natural enough, though Carol
stopped when she saw me- You don't look
well, BILL she said. Don't come down with
anything. kiko behaves as if he ought to be
L. psyehopathic ward somewhere. | don't
want to have to nurse you.v
She isn't unsympathetic, really, but she's
my COUSIN, OF course. You know how it is.
trailed along behind them while Broome
look her to her door
we've Just passed Poughkeepse," said.
You think you'd better try that STUNT"
Unless you've thought of something bet
"eA' hadn't SO we went down to the
lowest deck We could reach. and he took off
an MS clothes except his underwear and we
made package of his things. We wrapped
them IN a slicker he'd brought out in case
oarol was damp, and tied the bundle around
iiis neck, SO 1T would have a chance to stay
OUT OF the water So, when he was ready he
dropped over, and | stayed by the rail and
watched him swimming toward the shore
wasn't worried about him: that swim was
10 stunt for him. And on my way back -
our room l ran into Kiko--the original Kko
he was hanging about near our door He
put out his hand to stop ME. and when he
spoke ms voice was as gentle as little childs.
out tnere was a quality in it that made my
nesh creep just the same. "Coud yo' tell me
whe' all could see Misto' Murray Br,ome fo'
minute, sah!" he asked me.
He's asleep-he's sick ] said "You
can't see him tonight | wondered if 1t
would occur to him to cut out some of me on
account. But he just shook his head, sorrow
fully.
Then | reckon I'll nave to wait till morn
IN, ne said, and took himself off.
was about all in when / finally crawei
into nay berth. | didn't sleep very well.
Things looked better in the morning, Of
Continued OF page nine
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club again broke into the headlines in the fol-
lowing terms
The Eckfords obtained quite victory yes
terday over the Empires, they scoring SO to
25 Some good play was shown on both sides
but the batting decided the contest. Fly
catches: Empire, II; Eckford, a."
Apparently in those days the sporting de-
par'ment was sideline of the society editor.
modern sporting writer sent out on the same
assignments might produce something on this
order
The Empire regulars got the jump on the
Eureka rockies by piling up big lead in the
opening stanza of yesterdays game and pulled
out an easy win, 79 to 35 Benson, Burns and
HOWELL the sluggng Empire trio, furnished
most OF the thrills Of the afternoon. thoupb
Ageus, Bolles and Utter did we'll for the
Eureka contingent. The game was called at
New-York tribune., 1921-04-24

my sewing across the room he'd look at n,o
as II were some wild animal that had straved
INTO the house by mistake You know how r
scream when l see mouse--I'm not really,
AFRAID, but | can't help screaming And vow
Know how he'd take that, He'd laugh at mo
ana | d want to kill him. can't marry = man
VINO doesn't know what nerves meanw
I 'AROL did try to break the thing I'm once
she started quite a heavy romance with
chap called Bartlett. But that blew over. anil
diplomatic relations had been resumed whom
we all started for a camp in the Adirondacks
IL was my Uncle Georges camp--he's Carols
1ather My aunt asked Kiko, I SUPPOSE he
cause she didn't know how to help herself.
Inc camp was on one of those lakes il
might be pleasant enough to go to in an air
pane Actually, though, you go by trains and
poats and bUckboards and plain WALKING Tet,s
call it Lake Moquette.
Naroi wanted to go as far as ALBANY on the
ooat; she said she wanted to see the river bv
moonlight. She had her way, of course: she
Always does. My aunt and uncle, Carol and
hlko and |, made up the party.
we had table to ourselves at dinner o
me boat, with two negro walters to look after
SAL next to kiko; Carol was on the o+be,
side of him; then came nv uncle an6
aunt I'd missed my lunch. for some reason
so was hungry, and 1 was too busy catch
ing up, at first, to notice that there was anv-
'hlhg out OF the way. Then I began to feel
something in the air, and | looked abont
ffetty soon saw that Kiko was upset about
something, and / began following his ewes
ana then saw that he was looking every
lew seconds at one of the walters and that
the chap never took his eyes off him
lhat waiter must have been we'll over six
feet tall, and III bet he didn't weigh Mound
less than 22o-and none of it fat His hands
were enormous-like gorilla's. They looked
as II they could tear bar of iron in two He
was as black COAL and he had thick rod
lips and shiny white teeth He'd evidently
Deen real scrapper; there was great. liyid
scar on one cheekn that only razor could
nave made, and he had lot of other scars
New-York tribune., 1921-04-24
BY WILLIAM ALMON WOLFF

nasty look. And then he spoke to Kiko. "Naugh
ty-naughty.' he said. "Arent YOU grateful
for the nice candy?"
But he didn't look happy, and he didn,t stav
much longer
Inc story got about at college, and he was
ragged good deal and every one called
him Kiko
HE next year, when we had our degrees
Broome's father sent him to the Pacific
coast on business and I stayed East at law
school, We kept in fairly close touch with
one another, and he seemed to be going alono.
much as usual. Then the war came along and
you'd have thought that would have made .
difference in Broome. But it didn't.
ne landed as a captain first and then as a
major IN negro regiment and came home
win wound stripe and decorations enouob
10 start ribbon counter. But the fellows
whod seen him in Franco never got across
told me he hadn't really changed Bit
he wasn't the sort of ass who stood up to he
shot at to show he wasn't afraid; he lust took
things as they came. His men worshinncd
hlm' every one said; he must have been
darned good officer out there where thew needed
ihem Yet, on the whole, he came out of the
war the same old Kiko
But 1t wasn't very long after that that he
met my young cousin, Carol
A LLOW1NG for the difference between
man and woman, Carol matched nm
pretty we'll with Kiko when it came to be;no
wild and disposed to jump fences She was
all right. She was. But there wasn't anv-
shlng she wouldn't say, and there was precious
little she wouldn't do.
she liked him we'll enough from the start:
there was that. But / don't think It was
oarols idea to marry any one for quite =
wh'e; she wasn't very old, and she was hav;n.,
tremendously good time But when Brooma
ieaily settled down to making love to her the
'h'ng was so intense that think it frightened
her a little.
BILL she said I'm crazy about him
But he scares me to death! How "a, vo,
marry man like that? He isn't human. Bill,
DC AFRAID to have headache or an attack
OF nerves II got hysterical and pitched
New-York tribune., 1921-04-24

the end of the sixth to permit the Empire team
to catch a tran
And of the Empire defeat the story might
run: "Eckford punched hits in the fourth and
seventh innings here to-day, winning from En-
pre-, So to %. Gibbons held the local bats
men helpless through most of the game, and
was relieved by johnson in the eighth
More difficult it might be to imagine the pro-
ductlon a writer Of the COS would turn out if
sent up to cover a Giant Cub double-header.
Still, it would certainly follow this general
line:
Players of the New York professional ball
club entertained members of the Chicago team,
yesterday afternoon at the Polo Grounds Two
games of ball were INDUCED in, the New Yorks
being victorious throughout the afternoon on
account OF some nice batting. Several thou
sand persons were ON hand for the fun"
ny 1884 baseball had taken such hold on
New-York tribune., 1921-04-24
Early Ball Games Were
Reported With Dignity
and Restraint, in Pure
English. Players Never
Tanned or .'Whiffed.
They Simply Struck Out

the public that the experts began 10 como r..
the field to write Of the games. IN The c.
of August 2, 1894, there is this artful.v ,annna
description:
An exciting game was playc6 at Wash;nr
ton Park, Brooklyn, yesterday afternoon h.
tween the Brooklyn and Baltimore clubs Fr,,..
$500 spectators were present and anns.ros
to take the keenest interest in the snort H..
Der pitched IN fine form and won the game fox
the home club Emse, the Baltimore ntc,.r
was batted for five earned runs, to the pre.t
delight of those present. The Baltimore nls,,
ers outielded the home club
Ten years later baseball language wax es.a,
hshed on firm foundation all its own. Thor
was no confusing it with the society colun,ns
Writers were speaking of mapping on frst
clean hits, throwing to first in time To nah
Wilson" But bunder was still blnnaor
and not "bone-" And wire dispatch fron
Cincinnati admitted that "Emsie's umniring
provoked much fault finding There was No
mention of pop bottles nor of "razzinc ii.
ump.'
The first picture writer on baseball to make
his appearance in metropolitan dailies was
y. T. Caylor. In The Sunday Herald of Ar.
gust II, 1894, Mr.. Caylor began column story
of Brooklyn-B Boston game in this manner.
There is balm in Gilead Also in BROOKLYN
Had not the eccentric Bridegrooms Checked
the rush Of the champions Yesterday manv
rooters would have kept to their beds all dav
to-day with ice applications at intervals for
the news which came over the wire in laroe
gobs end thickness from Baltimore 1.-THE Giants
had been beaten 20 to yesterday afternoon
was dlstresslve to the METROPOLITAN minds
which pulsate in the interest of championships
But, thanks awfully to the hired hands who
labor at Eastern Park, our Giants. disfgured
as they be, are no further from the van on
this beautiful Sabbath than they were when the
sun came up yesterday.''
In Caylor's wake there followed a rush If
inventive sporting writer's. New phrases tum-
bled over each other, jumping into tie baseball
lingo.
Wire reports demanded short descrptivc
phrases and verbs that would carry the fnll
story for an inning by inning report in the
evening editions. So there came into exist
ence the baseball sentence: Wingo popped to
Shaw. Brown tossed out Davis Kane walked.
Smith scratched. Kane scored on Adamss
Texas Lacquer. Blaine famed.
To the fan of twenty years ago this might
be just as ineligible as so much Greek but
to-day he knows the value of every comma
in the language and you couldn't convince hin,
that he hadn't always known it.
But he has to watch himself. The laneuaoe
Of baseball waits for no laggards.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-24

Running back through the newspaper files
of the last half century suggests some of the
eccentric quirks of the baseball language. But
when it comes to following up the derivations.
the trail is blind
common, ordinary base on balls suddenly
appears as pass A few seasons roll by and
1t becomes a walk. There are no marginal
notes IN the newspaper to explain the mystery.
A base on balls may have seemed undigniied,
or perhaps it didn't cover the case sufficiently.
Who can tell?
Then. there is the matter of spectators. the
long-suffering public. During siege of wears
they have passed through the various stages
OF being called audience, assemblage, cranks,
1ahatlcs' fans, populace, patrons and down to
the ultra modern cash customers.
1t isn't as though the whole language went
through physical metamorphosis everv now
and then A book review of fifty years ago is
New-York tribune., 1921-04-24

~ not regular rabid one No man
who really takes his baseball serious
ly would consider going to sleep for twenty
years. He could hardly expect to get any
enjoyment out of the game when he came
back. Baseball moves too fast
1t isn't the game that changes Baseball
has followed along in the same old rut ex-
cept for few minor alterations. such as the
out on fouls passing into history and the
moist ball falling into the discard But for
the language of the sport, the strict terminol.
ogy, the baseballese of the stands and the
sporting coumns--no man can lift his ewes
for more than passing moment and hope
10 keep up with the times.
Take the of the poor individual who
goes to bed some summer evening firmly con-
vinced that packing the corners is the alb
solute, scientifically pure term used by the
best people to denote filling the bases He
tells his wife about it and discourses at
length on the subject to his youngsters. He
is great man in the bosom of his family for
the moment
Imagine his horror, his chagrin his unmiti-
gated shame waking in the morning to
discover that packing the corners has faded
from the baseball horizon. The cry of the
new day is "stuffng the cushions
But that's baseball You can't reach out
and put your finger any one term and
say: This is great The perfect phrase
This will survive" To-morrow it NAV he
gone.
Aided and abetted by the sport writers and
the gifted patrons of the stands. baseball
lingo is banded about to conform to lhe
spirit of the hour. Nobody attempts to ap
ply the brakes. Precedent has no divine
privilege. Home plate may have been home
plate for forty years. but if some one takes
a notion to call it soup dish and the OK
preston takes with the fans, home plate is
doomed to be nothing more nor less thar a
soup dish.
There are no arbitrary rules about coming
new phrases and nicknames In the long run
the sporting writer's do most of it, but often
thelr products mere reflections of grand
stand sentiment
big fat man, who hasn't missed game
III decade may stand up some hot after
noon and bawl out the umpire for a raw de-
clsion at third He may get so excited about
It that he forgets himself and busters some
'hlng about the umpire being near relative
OF hunk of bologna The crowd ocks Il
up and howls: ooh, you hunk of bolopna,o
from that moment any official who fails
10 please the crowd is Immediately dubbed q
hunk OF bologna; It's the way of the game
New-York tribune., 1921-04-24

While the Trousers Have
Grown Shorter, the
Vocabulary Has Grown
Longer. Modern Diamond
Chatter Would Mystify
Those Boys of the Sixties

Up VAN WINKLE could never have
- been baseball fan: at least
~ not a regular, rabid one. No man
49, - who raallv faEas his ha snho1l cor;o,,S
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-19
LEGAL NOTICE.

SNSN%NNSe~NrSN$FNrsrNSNS~r
NOTICE OF BIDS FOR BRIDGES.
Notice is hereby given. that the under
signed, the Board Of Commissioners Of Ma
rion County, Indiana. viii. up to 10 o'clock
a. m, Nov. 3, 1891, receive sealed bids for;
Repairing and underpinning bridge and
wall, bridge located on Sherman drive
north of Thirty Eighth street, estimated
cost being $3.50.
For new wood block floor and painting
street over Indiana Creek. known Law
renee Township Bridge No. 69e, estimated
cost being 1913.
New wood block floor on one span steel
truss bridge Millersville road over Fall
Creek, known Washington Township
Bridge No. 69s, estimated cost being
$35s5.
New wood block floor on two-span steel
truss bridge located on the Andy Smith
road over White River, known as Wash
ington Township Bridge No. 69S. estimated
cost being $1,000.
For strengthening and painting and new
wood floor on two-span wooden truss
bridge on Keystone avenue over Fall
Creek, known as Washington Township
$7165.
All according TO plans and Specifications
on file in the Office of the auditor of Ma
rion County.
Each bid must be accompanied by a
bond and an afidavft as required by law.
The board reserves the right to reject
any or all bids.
Witness our hands this 18th day of Oc-
tober, 1921.
CARLIN H. SHANK,
LEWIS w. GEORGE,
HARRY D. TUTEWILER,
Commissioners of Marion County.
Attest: LEO K. FESLER, Auditor.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-19
YOUTH AWARDED HoNoRs.

ALEXANDRIA, Ind, Oct. 19.-George
E. Payson, local musician and teacher,
has received word from his son, Edward
T., who Is a cadet at Culver Military
Academy, that the boy has been awarded
special honors for excellence in scholar
ship. He has been granted the Culver
silver "a" awarded cadets whose grades
average eighty-five or better during the
semester. Payson is a member Of the
academy band and was the cadet in
charge of the band during the Culver
summer school. He is a first classman
and will be graduated next June.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-19
wooD.fEN HOLD CELEBRATION

Maple Camp No. 5563 of the Modern
Woodmen of America will celebrate its
second anniversary at the hall, 1415 West
Ohio street tomorrow night. Music will
be furnished by twenty-five piece or
chestra and Neighbor Hendricks will de-
liver an address on ''Woodcraft" The
program also will include special must
cal numbers by Neighbor Price snd the
Brown brothers comedy act This is an
open meeting and all Neighbors of the
order and their families are invited.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-19
Poland Approves
Silesian Split-up

LONDON, Oct. 19.-Poland has ap-
proved formally the League Of Nations
decision partitioring Upper Silesia, said
dispatch from Prague today. The Pc
lish minister notified the British minister
at Prague that Poland Will cooperate in
the Silesian settlement on the lines laid
down by the league.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-19
LEGAL NOTICES.
NOTICE TO THE TAXPAYERS OF THE
PARK DISTRICT OF THE CITY
Copyright, 1921, by
New Era Features)

NOTICE TO THE TAXPAYERS OF THE
PARK DISTRICT OF THE CITY
OF INDIANAPOLIs. INDIANA
The taxpayers Of the Park District OF
the city OF Indiana polls Indiana, are
hereby notified that the Board Of Park
Commissioners Of the city OF Indianapolis
has by resolution determined that it is
necessary to issue and sell bonds OF said
Park District Of the city Of Indianapolis
in the sum of one hundred twenty five
thousand (s125. 100000 dollars for the
purpose of procuring funds to pay for
the acquisition OF real estate to be used
for park purposes of the city of Indian
apolis which said real estate is fully de-
scrtOed In its acquisition resolution No
"a, 1921, and for the construction OF road
ways, tennis courts and a golf course
thereon. provided by said resolution.
Unless objection is made by the tax
payers OF said Bark District in the man
ner prescribed by law the said Board Of
Park Commissioners will, pursuant to
said determination and order. proceed to
cause said bonds IN said amount TO be
issued and sold for the purpose herein
set out.
SAMUEL T. RAUH.
FRED q. GARDNER
EDWARD A STUCKMEYER,
CHARLES E. COFFIN,
Board OF Park Commissioners Of the
city OF Indianapolis. Ind.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-19
DISCUSSES PLAN
OF PAYMENTS.

How can a mayor help you? By help
ing YOU to help yourself where you are
helpless. l have already seen trust
company in regard to this matter in an
effort to have the money advanced to the
home owners affected at n low rate OF In
terest as in the case Of the Barrett law.
But I was told that the law does not per-
NIT the trust companies to do this. Then
I proposed organizing q funding COM
pany to do this work. Mr.. Shank says
that If he is elected mayor he will have
the Legislature enact law putting these
payments under the Barrett law. Un-
fortunately the Legislature does not meet
until 1923 and these septic tanks must be
| installed within eleven months. Even II
the Legislature were to meet It might
not pass the law.
81 am in favor of such a law at some
future time, but in the meantime the
city has the credit and I would let the
CITY borrow sufficient money for the pup
pose and then work out the payments
somehow"
E. j. Sexton, ward committeeman OF
the Tenth ward, presided at the meet
Ing. Frank 7. Hawley, spoke before Mr.
Ralston arrived and brought a big laugh
from the crowd when he said, SHANK
has been everything, a Republican. a
Democrat, Home Ruler, a Holy Roller
and God Knows what else"
Thomas c. Garvin, candidate for city
Judge, followed Mr.. Ralston on the plat
form.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-19
DEATH AND FUNERAL NOTICES.

ZIMMERMAN. MINNIE-Beloved wife Of
Isaac \. and mother of Harry D. and
Gilbert H zimmerman, departed this life
Tuesday, Oct Is at p. N at the resi-
dence, 224S Columbia avenue, age 81
years. Funeral Thursday, Oct. 20 at In
ternational Holiness Church. Twenty
Third and Aartindale avenue at 2:30 p.
m. Burial Crown Hill. Friends invited.
FINNEY, FRED E.-Age 40 years, passed
away last night at his home 251S North
Delaware. Was member of Typographical
Union No. l and Center Lodge No. 21s,
X. of P. The funeral services Will be held
at the home 2:3O o'clock Thursday after
noon. Burial Crown Hin. Friends may
view the body at the home Wednesday
afternoon and evening.