Show CASEY AT THE BAT OF THE POEM ns Ie long as 08 De Do Wolf Wol Hop Hoppers Hoppers Hopr r pers name Is before the public It will 11 be connected with that familiar f epic epic Casey Case nt at the nat Hat No o runt mat matter ten tel what rolo role Hopper U Is playing or In what part of ot the country he Is his hili audi audiences cacao nC always Insist upon Casey Mr Hopper flopper was VaS asked how he lie secured tho the poem Now thereby hangs hang n a story he an nn It was WI long before Wong Vang ever over saw tIme the light lUht It was In 1857 1817 that Archibald Quitter sent ent Casey to me mite He lie never neer said sahl where he got ROt It but hut merely requested that I should rind read it i over oer and recite It the tho next day when the Chicago and New York base baseball bull ball nil club ellb would b be In ill the tho house I look hook looked looked hooked ed at It and I nearly fainted We Wo were Viere playing at ks then and I 1 was WM In him no mood to get anything new lIew in shape My son wan Willi ill 11 with sore timeout throat and I J believed he was wan going to dlo die I told McCall I do it and that was all nil there was to It II The lite Ih next day at 1 I got a B wire that thai tho the hay hoy would pull through all allright I allright II right and I sat down with wilh Casey CasC at 3 In the afternoon If Jt Casey Is anything It Is a B mile lens I had It however within nn nit 11 hour and kept It going In my mind fund We Wo wore were playing In the tho AIr then Well the night performance CIUllO caine around and nut III In the tho boxes sat stu nt the two b l team There was old Ancon Anson Ew EwIng Ing and amid other othor fatuous famous ball players To ro minko IMko a ti Ion long story short hort I pulled Casey on them and It U mantle made nn an enormous hit After the he show hunted up Quitter end and asked him the name hOme of the man who trite roto Casey He lie soul said he ho know and told laId lOA inn ho he had hail cut It out of or n a Sun Han Him paper some time before be ore because been use It had made nn an lIon muon on him hint Will you OU believe me time I tiled tried for tour four sears rears to find the tho man mun who wrote that thing I 1 asked n oven every everyone one erie I J madu the lIfo life of ot every overy ovel tuna man I know a Q howling wilderness A but I J never got ot It II t There wore vore Initials signed to tho the gem gain but lint was RS nil all B E o L I T Tand I and that was ovary every blessed thing I I could discover coer I IOno Ono One night I non playing Wang In Worcester nearly earl Pta years afterward i and I got a n note not nole at nt the th Ih it r li h asked me Inc It If I t woul l toni com n na i ia a club I t knew kiter otter after the show nj Od n Iii t i the ito nuttier author of Casey II P I 1 u it i id lid Introduced to 1 1 T Thy Th nn 1111 of Worcester 1 h im t fellow tollow cory eory one ons Oil kne lttie knew li it 1111 M it mi i II 1 him There you ou mo Ite W V n it t u m UI ii i but Jilt over ocr tho the other deti d U II r f IM Ih liS sail Mil that followed I wilt will tic III li i v ti Ih It v t i of charity u |