The Washington times., 1921-03-21
THE OTHER
ANGLE
Season Opens Today.
By KIRK MILLER.

CIAL FOR SITKA, ALASKA, March
2l-(via motorcycle to The Wash
ington Times).-Eager, to get away
to a good start in the Aurora Bore
alis League as a canopener at a tin
Of sardines, Skillet Finn and the in
ebriated Igloo baseball nine shook
the snow of Booze Factory from its
heels yesterday and today are aim
ing their maroon-tinted noses for
Sitka, Alaska
Speeding across the snow veneered
desert of the trapped north, every
man on the club is recovering from
hangover which requires only
/ sudden stop by these here Eskimo
dnwEs to revive into tho original
viEor of a full grown jag.
Heart rending scenes were witness
cd at the railroad depot before the
dog sledges departed from Booze
Factory, alias Moose Factory. with a
load OF humau corpses bound for
Sitka. Toasts were proposed. accept
cd and drunk with single movement
OF the buying arm.
All OF Booze Factory was at the
terminal of the sicdge route the
NewfcuBdIands mushed away with the
only baseball team which has ever
detrained north OF 5s,4O or Scrap.
The hotel proprietor was there:
trying in vain to collect the rent
from Skillet Finn. As also was the
police department and sheriff. both
OF whom had liens on the Igloo bat
bag for nonpayment OF a huge bar
bill at the Young Wolf Buffet
As the dawR train pulled out. you
couldn't tell whether the citizens
were waving their hands or shaking
their lists. Anyway Skillet shook his
In return and swore never to go
back to Booze Factory dead or alive.
The cIanorinG citizenry OF that hos
pitable corner of Labrador were
laughing and crying at the saRe time.
The parting was terrific.
But the victories OF yesterday make
the histories of today, as Skillet
moaned when he was at last outside
the corporation limits and able to
again look over his shoulder without
staring at a warrant. Let us forget
our glorious past and look to our in
glorious future, he added.
None of the team arose from their
berths this morning when the SinEa-
lese janitor Of the dining car an
hounced that breakfast was ready to
be served in the scefnng sIedGe q In
cart.
As the said gen'man OF color es-
capped from the Pullman. he carried
deeply inlaid in his ebony surface a
complete set of cleated shoes. The
train conductor dropped him Off at
Herring Straits, where lives the only
dentist this side OF Duluth.
Wbep ne has had all the cobbie
wenr extracted from his person, he
viii overtake the train on snowshoeS.
After this his Instructions are to
never awnkes q member of the IsIoo
ssogcrbund Society before 3 o'clock
In the afternoon.
In anticipation OF a heavy attend
ance at Sitka's opening game tomor-
row. Skillet has foghorned ahead
to ascertain the condition OF the
weather. He has just received a re-
ply from the mayor of Stka saying
business is good and that there is a
heavy run OF shad in the Yokum
river.
That wasn't exRctly the informa-
tion Finn desired, hat IL served as an
excuse for him ia fare into q rage
and drink up six more bottles Of Mike
Martins puree of Hnimcnt. As he
swallowed the lost ounce, skillet
murmurcd-''Hot stun.,
Batteries for tomorrow will be Ed.
Libbey and Cap. Headley. II the rest
OF the team is sobered up, II will be
out on the Held also, otherwise. Head
ley and Libbcy will play the Sitkas
single handed. That is: with one
hand tied behind their cars and the
other picking their teeth.
Mother and child doing well.
Respiration, IS; temperature, 9s1s.