Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-03-21
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BY PERCY GREENE


was setting under the front gal
lery eavesdropping conversation
going on between Grandma and
my Mama on the general carerack-
terr of the latest neighborhood
suspect whose name had thus be-
come the subject of current gossip
The other day young Marshal
Bridges, who started off playing
baseball on the local sandlots, and
later with Henderson's Jackson
Cubs, left town for the New York
Giants training camp down in
Florida where he's getting ready
to start the year with one of the
top Giant farm teams before prob
ably being called up before the end
of the season. | heard on good
authority that his starting salary
was more than $500 per month /.
| wasn't surprised then when while
| was over my fish and beer with
the baseball fever increasing with
every spring day, all | heard was
talk about baseball and Marshall
Bridges, 10 year old kid from Jack
son, the first, going up to the New
York Giants in them Big Leagues
:. What struck me though was
when somebody ups and says, Man,
wonder how-come they amt play
ing. no baseball out at Jackson
College | sees in the paper
from everywhere else but "us"
schools in Miss-sippy that they's
playing baseball, and hears from
down yonder in Louisiana them
"Grambhngs" just struts when
they brags about them boys that
they's sending up to them big
league baseball teams then
one fellow says, well, Man, you
knows Fesser Rcddix he runs Jack
son College, and he says so they
tell me that they amt got enough
room out there to play no baseball
. Yea, Man, the answer was,
but they got a baseball team up
yonder at Ole Miss and Miss Sippy
State . =. and if they amt got "a
huff room out there at Jackson
College right now to play baseball,
they show is got huff money in
the Mississippi state treasure to
buy some where for them to play,
and if | was Fessor Reddix, I'd |
show axe for some money to git
that wild as a number-one "now"
project After | heard all that
l got to thinking myself, and the
way | figured it out, if they can't
do no better they would be doing
better with making a baseball dia-
mond down on that football field, |
cause one baseball player making
half as much money as Jackie Rob-
inson, Roy Campanella, Larry |
Dolby, Monte Irwin, and now our
own Marshall Bridges is worth
more to the race than all the foot
ball teams Jackson College done
had, and will have, in the next Is |
years. Yes, Sir folks is looking
at chew what you thinks Amt. :.
CUPID ALONG THE OLE AVE
NUE.: The latest to succumb to
that gallant little old soldier of |
chance is young Attorney Sidney |
r. Tharp, and Miss Moncure of |
jackson College They took it |
to the judge and tied it up the
other day Here's for you and
me wishing them many happy
years -. and round after round |
of visits from that little old bird
that carries his package in his
bill.
ABOUT PEOPLE YOU KNOW |
From Phil Smith, one time |
Prince" of the Ole Avenue, now
out in California writing a letter
to me complaining that all his ole
friends never answering the letters
he writes and bud" Pagan,
the local retired railroad fireman
setting on the steps of a house
along side the railroad 'wistfully" |
the trains passing by
and from Nal "Zeke" Mickens, |
one time "everybody's man along
the Ole Avenue, who recently left
the Big Windy for L. a. comes the
word that his health is in bad |
shape, and he's telling folks that /
he wish that he could get back
down on the Ole Avenue just one
more time before he throws in his |
GOSSIP ALONG THE OLE
AVE: The hep kats are saying
that certain barber friend
himself the other night
until his rope broke trying to catch
some horses" and he was out at
The race track, nor was he trying
20 rope horse to hitch-up to the
blow. II you know what | mean,
Brother.
WEEKLY QUOTATION: "Be- /
1old. spring sweeps over the world
AGAIN, shedding soft dews from her
wings. eflowarc =, +Lo
mountain, fruits over the plain and
music on the waves and woods. she
things, and love of all that lives.
md calm on lifeless things