Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-08-19

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stop to get something for supper. BY
the time she has decided we are a
| block away and have to turn around
and come back. Women may have an
| intuitive mind. but her intuitions don't
carry when she goes driving Evil
IDENTIFY the man of wisdom who uttered
| the deliverance was married.
Frank McGee Says.
The Greeks are ready for Thanks
giving: they have just about cooked
Turkey.
! One-half of tariff is "iff'' and we
don't want to get stuck on the other
half.
This world grows more beautiful
every day. Dresses are going TO be
two inches shorter next season.
A New York lady and Chicago
man were married the other day by
wireless. How shocking! But was
a current event)
They put n Texas man in the pen
the other day for stealing a hundred
thousand dollars. Looks like it's be-
coming risky business TO steal less
than a million.
The money that you have saved for
n rainy day should not all be invested
in an umbrella.
Some girls have two good reasons
for wearing short dresses, and they
have a perfect right to stand pat on
them.
If Eve borrowed Adams knife TO
peel that apple with, we bet two TO
one she didn't give it back to him.
Wives always lose knives.
The young men say that hair nets
are a great blessing. They can now
kiss a girl without getting their
mouths full of hair.
He was a Great Pitcher.
When Rev. r. d. Byrd, pastor of
Tirzah A. r. p church decided to quit
playing baseball for living and enter
the ministry the great National game
and the st. Louis, Mo, National
League baseball team especially lost q
great pitcher although the chur9h
gained a strong preacher and mighty
valuable man. Although he no longer
plays to amount to anything, Rev. Mr..
Byrd has not lost his interest in base
ball and these days he is devoting a
good part of his spare time to coaching
the baseball team of the East View
community near Tirzah. The fact that
Rev. Byrd still Is the property of the
ST. Louis Nationals was called TO the
attention of the reporter other
afternoon and Rev. Byrd when asked
about the matter related some of his
baseball history. II started playing
baseball after | entered college at Due
West" ne said. 81 was pitcher ana
| pitched for Erskine College from 1907
until 1910. Then | joined the Ander-
son, S. c., team in the Old Carolina
League which team was then under
the management OF Big Jim Kelly who
has evidently dropped out of baseball
since | haven't heard anything of him
in a number of years. | was pitching
for Anderson against Charlotte one
day in Charlotte. A representative or
scout of the st. Louis Nationals was
in the grandstand that afternoon
watching the game and after seeing
me perform he asked my manager
what he would take for me. The reply
was '$2,70O.' The St. Louis scout sald
sod and handed over a check for the
amount while | was ordered To pack
my dudS and go 10 81. LOUIS. Ne'I'
went and remained with the ST. Louis
team which was then under the
management of Roger Bresnahan the
balance Of the year. Toward the END
| Splaincd the ligaments in my arm
and WAS unable to pitch. | asked for
my release which the st. Louis crowd
refused to give me. So | jumped the
city, soon after quit baseball and then
decided To enter the ministry. Ana
here | am. ! still get Il contract from
the St. Louis management each year
and they still lay calm to me. don't
suppose | could pitch a full game OF
baseball now and | wouldn't under
take it. My interest in the game is
still as great as it ever was, but don't
suppose | will ever do much pitching
again"