Show BILL AND josl H any person with a fair average ot of could have told from tho the start what would happen to josiah speech it was adless cless to send a palo pale faced highbrow highbrown high brow like that to college ile ho do anything but study now dill wing was differ ent bill would do anything but study Thunder atlon sirl angrily ox oi claimed bill when a professor once re preached 0 lied him tor for lack 0 of familiarity p iribe with 1 tl the textbook text book Thunder atlon and blazes gilr a fellow cant know everything besides sir breech josy comes from my town and ho he does my studying for met mel bill glared I 1 indignantly 11 dIgn antly at the professor pro fo with averted eyes the professor profess orre ro marked sagely Soe ech ch 0 j will never amount to anything well said bill wing 1 I cant help it why ho he get wise and play ba ball 11 precisely but josiah stood no more chance of playing baseball than chedid he did of f being a success in tho the game of life ile ho had a glass arm from birth he could not have hit a balloon it if it etwas was fastened in of him wing was the ada it takes a sure enough collego college athlete lete to make a success att 1 life was the greatest pitcher the iho old university had ever turned out courteous affable distinguished in bis hl obear bearing possessed of muscles like iron and generalship such as napoleon and a handful of officers in the tha worlds history have acquired through son sea bons of stress bill wing developed into the headrest headiest hea head diest lest pitcher that ever made a batsman wildly smash the air and bite his lips in sorrow was dill wing the goods certainly josiah traveled for a hardware firm in a halfhearted half hearted attempt lo 10 0 sell patent egg beaters to houa alves who shooed him off theorem ses the summer vacation before be vent back to college tor for his senior year chismas this was really the nearest approach D to anything useful that poor beech accomplished in hla his college career the fellow was perfectly foolish abo about ut books he wed used to study till tho the midnight All refused to burn took abood with him to the only ball game Xam ehe be witnessed during the brilliant season prior to graduation A foul tip ripped into the bleachers ble echers made straight for broke his inger finger and dashed jevons logic to earth oh anybody could sae see the finish of hoodooed Hoodoo ed from the jho start and a man marked for the cold unconcern of a world that was eagerly waiting for a stalwart popular wideawake wide awake follow fellow like billowing Wing bill was graduated some of the more conservative professors did not fully understand how the athletic coin committee fixed it also poor josiah joseah was graduated poor what it ft struggle with ari an unappreciative world wils was to come to himl him already he was catalogued cataloguer catalo gued as a failure by such persons as ever let their eyes rest upon his pallid mourn ful ul features his painfully stooping shoulders and his forlorn ho aspect he looked like a ruin the post college career of bill wing began right away it differed no whit in brilliance from his efful gent college existence bill pitched winning ball for the giants all sum mer his salary was sald said to be tb the highest ever paid to a young ster by some unexpected vagary to josiah landed a job shortly after graduation lie ho read law and worked as office boy at three dollar per week in a dingy office where day light was a rn myth th and got in only by accident and did nothing but got get dis liked by the junior clerks on account of his bis disgusting habit of studious ness on the diamond bill wing war wa winning the plaudits pl audits of the mul eleven years fled eleven years on a diamond and in dingy office in a sumptuous library a keen eyed man was turning the pages of hie big newspaper carelessly ile ho brushed back the hair from his brow tbt diamond on his finger caught a ra of light from the mirror aarm the room and flashed gorgeously the gent lemans eye fell upon glaring headlines as follows wins in brilliant battle eminent young corporation counsel couns puts legal talent to rout aim mm M m said the gentleman IM mal nit ile he appeared aphea red in no wise displeased rising be threw out his chest and pared paced back and forth upon the thick velvet carpet presently he touched a silver bell an obsequious salving sal ving nian man appeared appealed james said the gentleman 1 I wish you yon would order the tha barouche tell sir abna janios james sinking into ills his easy chair tbt gentleman n gain perused hla his newspaper ills eye caught tho the itom billy wing tho old star twirler of the giants Is IB in a bad way hot springs touched his rheumatism and his arm has gone dope maguire had an oye eye on wing for the central now york league this season but as dope puts it the only thing in tho the gamo game that ought to ho be glass glase la Is tho homo home unil umpires dres eye poor pool said josiah cli as he be laid down the paper |