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Show THE WASHINGTON STAR gale and ho luped la your winand an oblique upward view dow. And I wish yoa could au if the sky. your quHtl Next to thla bedroom was the Bruce amatl, gray, bathroom, dark and dank. Then la her mackintosh and tied came Auat Meg's room; tha beet hat, stood rooted with hor-- r bedroom la tha house, small hut to the spot, bright for It looked out across the "He didn't I I left alackadayl 1 southern city and Twin Peaks, and left that window open at the hot-Ishared with the sitting room next always forgetting that!" It the only exposed side of the lamented the older woman. "Yes, apartmeat On tha left aide of rub yourself against my legs now," the hall, waa a small black' hole he Cliffy reproached the originally Intended for an occasion-servan- t home tonight darling?" and now occupied conGods to Sacramento." "Nope tentedly enough by seven teen-yeIf Barney Kerr "That looks old Bruce, who had a very treas- waa half Cliff I" Important ure house of broken cameraa, nails, Miss Bruce aald triumphantly, tools; radio equipment guna and scornfully. cartridges on table, window ledge, "Maybe they need Barney here" bureau, mingling In casually with hla ahlrta and collars. The other Antoinette who for reasons of her a tolralsed kitchen with a own did not quite like to have BarW.N.U. SERVICE COPYRIGHT, KATHLEEN NORRIS even for the agskylight upon whose dusty face the ney depredated, grandisement ef Cliff, offered mildly. was rain and hammering dancing "Boo-hoCHAPTER I the editor laid. He proceeded to home?" again, as Antoinette eame la. 1 "Ha went to the water pole" explain It, Illustrating figures with clock sail Tha kitchen a pencil. Antoinette listened re- minutes "1 don't think, after hla pneuWHILE Ibi waited, ; Antoinette past two. Antoinette made spectfully, because she h itindlng sIm brown monia, that he ought to play water-polea luxurious of herself meal Mrvout and tad ted, and It Maacd choice. cdcr ts stand. Except tor bar "Now, ni tel yon what TO do, toast and tea. Thera was a Ice-r "I dont believe hek playing, but of stewed tomatoes la the nett, than was nobody in tha plan, Ulaa Taft," Lawrence Bellamy aald course he had to go yell tor hla box; one sardine. She grilled tha ef Tban bad ben an Inky, shabby, Anally. Tve put a new a turn." an scrambled the in sardine, egg boy la a salt too small hero to rustle me up ads only had Brenda at the kitchen table sance; and presently carried tor him Idling at tba battered and a two weeks, and I dont know tomato THE STORY OF HATTIE an epicurean tray la to the sitting-roo- In a contented drum ef pu shelllaky desk, spearing vainly at fltoa how he's going to turn out. I'll Antoinette finished np the othbook. her found The ing; window; with an old pea. Bnt ba had dis- give him another week, nnd then I Hattie eame iff a long Una of rain, toe discouraging editors, the er odds and ends of work with tho appeared through tbs why don't you get In on this? IH condition of the family budget were familiarity of long practice. Hiss traveling folks. splintered door marked "Editor. let him keep whatever ha's got, all S Many of her aneaaton were Brace returning in a practical altorgot: Antoinette was la and m tell him that you're going Private," ts toll Ur. Lawrence streets, in London dubs and paca gown of auiny seasons wur globe trotters. editor of tbs Baa Francisco after the department stores and and a large cheeked apron, inspect5 They liked to think there wu Journal of Commerce and Buslneaa, the milliners and the tea rooms, studloa, following a shabby cassock gypsy Mood la their veins, strange and dramatic ad- ed the kitchen alertly. Presentthat Ulaa Antoinette Taft was wait- how's that? You get forty per cent through 4 Hattle'a had ventures. ly Antoinette spoke musingly: of what you bring In. ing to aea him. After a while the food was goM; "I wonder If queens or left say hem with Stanley In Africa and Bala was tolling in gray sheets. "And meanwhile" they ahe had two grandfathers who perand the rain had disappeared, tea movie qnuna, there are few of Traffle crashed and bonked standing now "meanwhile I'll ask Antoinette put her hud down on tho other sort left I wonder If ished on Arctic expeditious. Montgomery Street Mrs. Bellamy what she thinks of her arms and 6 Her father, Phineaa, had flown motionless for movie queens ever do anything as The boy returned; Ur. Bellamy any womans stuff In tha Journal,1 over the South Pole In a blimp and fifteen minutes. Then sud- pleasant at tbs end of s bleak wet aqme would be ton in a mlnutSL An- tha editor aald, guiding her toward denly aha sprang up; her book afternoon to coma ant to a nice attempted a voyage to the North toinette aat down, her bnrt bn ting the door. "She gives me pretty coasting to the floo., and snatch- warm kltchu and have the sort of Pole by, submarine. tout and perforce looked about the good steers sometimes I 6 Ms wu quite a tourist, too. ing up the tray fled rather than dinner they like to eookl" waiting room of the Journal. Antoinette bowed a smiling fare- walked with it to the kitchen. Cup, She always uld alia wu much Thle affected Mlu Brace emoAntoinette was seeking tor a Job. well, went out Into the dark, wood-enat homo in Paris, Omsk, Vienna or spoony plate Into the dlshpan, hot tionally. back Her to wu "You kin go la now," the boy tha and walked down water, tray tipped up on the di Inky hall, oho wu la Wapplnger aha filled tha kettle at Peiping o flights to the street The er again, teapot rinsed and turned kitchen, Falla. voles her tha bnt thick wu sink, There was a tot young whole morning had been an utter T Naturally they raised their upside down with sodden tun. lt la a raincoat In the re- waate of time. Antoinette worked as If whips girl to be a (lobe trotter. They BE CONTINUED) (TO chair volving opposite that of Ur. Bain waa at!U tolling heavily; were driving her. She went Into wanted her to cany on tba family Lawrence Bellamy. there was no use going homo; tradition. tha bedroom and cams out with wish youd let me send you was there. Annt Meggy would two waists and several palra of Royal Whitehall Palace 5 Hattlo wu raised on a Baedeour figures?" said this Individual ker and a little child aha knew took a basin from the Where Henry VIII Married stockings; engagingly, rising as Antoinette vegetable-scente- d all the Cook tours by hurt back porch, damp; Until the the Eighteenth century cams In. 9 "Mother wants you to grow rinsed and soaped busily. royal palace of Whitehall occu"I wont I" said Ur. Bellamy. with characteristic pied most of tha land between up and ba a cosmopolite," Hattle'a Meanwhile, May I leave yon my card?" asked aw need to say. "Yon muit see fatal determination to ba thor- Charing Crou and Westminster, the visitor. ough, Antoinette wu starting sev- London. Whitehall wu known ss tho world, penetrating tho tor "Sure!" the editor agreed. The eral ether things and planning In York plica when Cardinal Wolaey places and exploring the young man took out his fountain her busy brain to do more. She possessed it, and not until It pasted apota. Anon wrote and the and card, pen 10 Bnt one day whu Hattie wu hung tha walats dalntly on hang-l- Into the hands of Henry VIII waa It the She vacated chair. toinette took bout seventeen aha ran away and the sitting room, put the known as Whitehall It waa when In older aaw the man, lolling his toller. dish towels on to boll, took out the Wolaey toll from hla greatneu In married a homo-towaeat glance at her card. "Ulaa stove tray and Mid It Into the sink 1529 that Henry vm seized hla II It broke her parents' hurts. asked. Taft?" he "Funny thing 13 IIa wu one of thou men to give It a thorough cleaning, property and converted It Into my mothers brother was Taft Baldwho own a motor cycle with sideher sewing materials Into palace. For more than 150 years brought , win," he said. the kitchen to catch np a ran In Whitehall waa the ehlef residence car attached I "They're both good New Eng MORAL It all depends oa whal one stocking and the split heel of of the conrt In j1aBfi- names," Antoinette said, with PmA ibe Hrtiry rtififlnarrWjtymw--' augher,-- awS peaqpe by travel. log mf a alight effort to' asem friendly and Into a pan. Boleyn In 1583; at ease. WHATS WRONG WITH really ought to find an Old In later Queen Elisabeth "Xour people from Boston?" sheet and that Ironing maintained jura THESE SENTENCES? the grandenr eetab-I- I But his "My fathers family was. board well only burn the blan' shed by her father. .In front of father came round the limn ket right through at this rate I this 1 "It la Impossible to get a Charles I was executed In Forty-nineAntoinette went wonder If thens an old sheet In In palace Charles H on the brat," uld booking 1049; made a It smilthe usual little story, through Annt Meggy's room?" me of revelry and Intrigue. steamship agent. "We ingly. She went Into her aunt's room James n fled from Whitehall la are all filled up for tho rut of the The editor was dark, hla brown and gave a dramatic shriek. nmmer." 1088. The only part uved from face thin; hla aquiline large nose The window had been left open, tho lira of 1008 2 When company came tha famwas tha banquetfaof a sort autocratic had his and signifiJingle performed gna ily with the smart bulldog nude ing hall which la now the mnaenm cance to hla face. Ilia hands were vorite trick of eomlng along the of no attempt to get It to do any tha United Servlqp Institution. back porch and over the roof and After the destruction big and lean, hla mouth large, his tricks of Whitehall In was hair makthick an down Are the dark escape, and so untidy 8 I think hla speeches were tha conrt moved to St Jamu palwore and he tumble, glasses. ing a leap into hla favorite spot, In ace; The British court la still fine," uld A1 Smith, referring to the center of Annt Meggy's bed. known ss tho Conrt of "Job, eh?" he began. Antoinette St James." Pruldent Roosevelt before the conHla pawa had, of course, been thick only smiled dcprecatlngly. "What vention. "He's a great statesman 1" "And You Think You'd Lika a Job .with aoot and mud. experience bava you had?" 4 The United States senate and Not much on newspapers. I did on a Newspaper?" "Yea, and you know you're house lost no time In balancing the the social column for the Bulletin bad catl" Antoinette uld grimly, budget. ha leaped gnyly past her to the (or two weeks. Then Margaret Bug ba at the sewing society meeting, 5 I never could go to the bathCliff at the kitchen. She repaired the damnail my friend, who bad got me Bruce was In school. ing beach like this uld the glri. swell a own reporter, were Into It came back from her va- office, Brenda at tha atom. hands her age gingerly: "Let me borrow a tor coat or someAntoinette wandered past the far from dun. Presently she went cation. thing." gathering expert "That was the only work you Hall of Justice and the little park Into the bathroom to wash them whoso green leaves were tossing In and waa In there whu Brenda ever did?" a What la this? "Oh, no." Antoinette smiled rug tha warm sticky rain, and went Idly came home a moment later. la a Thla narrow Chinastreets "Tlell-o-o the of dona lota of other along fully. "Tve ladle1 bathing Somehow aha was still waa la town. things," aha confessed. "Brenda, my darling, youre suit newspaper, the Mercantile library tor a year, smarting over the recent Interview urlyl Antoinette kissed her sisIs It for a and then In Youngers bookstore, with the handsome, aristocratic ed- ter affectionately. "Darling, what manage midget? itor of the Journal. While they time la It?" ahe asked, going on helping my older sister." No, It la for a love . . "1 know Paul Younger well," Ur. had been talking, ba had told her with the wiping of her haffila, full grown norown history. He his of live so was But It tent something "It with what yet appeared Bellamy said, mal adult . had graduated very young from dark, and going to rain again, to be characteristic musing Will a lady some and after accountants or thereby Harvard, were and experi"Nice feller dreamer, but appraisers It? wur ence on behad or college periodicals something. Anyway, Paul, then; thats all right Your sister work come associated with a tale is Yes strange financial who of uld Brenda, usually spoke there?" as It may aum, New York, had married her employer thua familiarly, "told You'd Identify her because shes Journal la a lady will wear It almost Immediately, had continued us we all could go home!" tall and dark, and she wears her In Bight out la pnblle where ahe work ever lines. The famous'of as tall as Antoinette, newspaper wu She a made Antoinette gesture. hair" be eeen? an venture In Ban Francisco bnt more slender, with a certain present In made this gesture One alwaya Absolutely. was new but already was marked fastidious delicacy of build and excrown Brenda's of Will the lady wear It to settle describing with success. He was only thirty-on- e pression. braids. an election bet? or two, Antoinette Judged, to It's home!" she "Oh, good get 1 know: young girl, rather pretNs Blie will not wur It to setleas than ten years older exclaimed. Presently she followed collara; probably ty, wears turned-dow- n tle an election bet was ha tban with to find herself, pleased to Antoinette the kitchen, or flee?" bout twenty-tou-r Thu what will be her creme? life, sure of himself and his Job I her In a whirl of activities. She will have no exerns She will "That's Brenda. Shes really a It was "his Idea to do this, and What on earth are you np to?" It 'because It la the styls wur little older than that "hla Innovation to do that; he did tha and "I oh, stockings When the lady appear on the "Just the two of you?" could smile down, he coaid too and then I got both waists, bench in the suit what will the po"Two brothers, Cliff and Brace." shake away her poor .lit- Into the vegetable box." I nce do? "Mother and father?" tle suggestions ; he was full of sug"And you're cleaning the stove Nothing except lose their eye"No, we lost them years ago. But gestions and Ideas himself. too." sight my aunt Ulss Bruce, Urea with After all ahe would go home to and "Sit rest down, Bendy, mm Can a lady appur In a salt like lunch. She climbed Into a ear on Here, do the peas, ni get out of that and escape arrest? "And you think you'd like a Job Market street Presently she en- aU this I" Antoinette brought Tes 00 a newspaper? No social stuff tered the doorway of a dilapidated the confusion her own swift enIf tha gala are wurlng suits Ilka on this paper, you know. and wu and building that contained eight concentration, ergy that this rammer, what will they know. I know It's a commerflats on tour floor levels. wringing out the hot dun dish wur a yur from now? cial paper. This Is what 1 was Steep wooden atepa, peeling and towels whu her aunt urns la. flhuaht The children might hur thinking, Ur. Bellamy, why paintless, led up from the street Little Miss Brace waa cramped H shouldn't the Journal have one that ran tor blocks between the with the uld; her gloves a&d boots .page of society news and of things shabbiest and least Interesting of and shoulders were damp; she fairof CURIOUS FACTS FOR .interesting to women, recipes and the city's dwellings. Almost all the ly shuddered with pleuura ahe CURIOUS PEOPLE and a puisto or two?" windows bad little Ugns on them, came into the comfortable warm Bar voles was dying Into a suffg little eontoaslona of poverty and kitchen. Tha American Indiana did not "You got uught la It, Aunt Meggated alienee under tha effect of his failure. Modes," "Violin Studio," we bath mats narrowed smiling look and slowly "Booms," "Home Board," said the gy 1" Mira are afraid of ban drams inhaklng head. She struggled on: si ana, patient and "CSught In It, I should say I year I Srecnekera and nun wl(h pink "It might mean that men would after year. did I scolded UUs Bruce, with a beards Thera were no algns on the Taft pretty little petulant manner that take It home to their wives' A rowing machine an bo made "1 dont think wo want to go windows; they were winhad remained with her since long-agmuch more comfortably If equipped y dows, anyway, .above tbs eyes of into that 11 he," Lawrence days of popularity and youth miss a single with an outboard motor. the crowd. On the right of the and prettlneu "1 do believe we told her. abFourth of July tolls thla yur on "You dont?" Life was bitter In narrow antrance hajl there was the could have a lire In the sitting j sentence of July 4. her mouth, hot she could seem ln-- doorway iff a dark bedroom, An- room tonight. Oh, later, later. A raspberry etain win remain toinette's and Brenda's room, where Theres Jingle story of forested, could manage to smile. Jingle you bad i longer on a shirt bourn than plain No I But were got to put on one must alwaya snap on a light ut, where were you all morning?" news. vanilla. 'more advertising before wo "Bad la right I" uld AntoLet Lighted, however, it was a pleasant tee explain the whole thing to you," room anough, with a gnat window inette "He wu ont on the not that aiden waa alwaya open, on an There air-shaf-t, fmay-hude- uniform that woarar to stand out amid who tall to toa favored cities. Perhaps the playor apenda only a tow days hi Flothuoh and Im provan that scant tlmo fey catching an top of hie hod, .hut ao matter. From' tha on, wherever be fora, hlo feulta ora regarded with tolerant eye. Tho axiom Once Dodger, always q Dodger" to Mo protection and hla alibi Perhaps also it to hla shirt of hair, bnt tot ua forget that For oomo boon I havo baa filled with vague nnraat and now the of It becomes clear. The stamp to upon me. Once o baseball writer, always a baseball writer. I am pining to be off Ao Florida where 28 cluha soon will bo training and where eo many thlngn happen that ora not usually printed In tho Ms McGoofeys First Reader and Eclectic Primer ss. d otjaqe u u KATHLEEN WJtO ezrvlas Ths PmL New NORRIS. glass-toppe- d Low-do- u u u eafe-an-la- y 1 u far-aw- n Iimdnn.Jyu' rNMi - 1 ." TONY TAFT was an u at social news for big San Francisco but she couldn't her . r 1 . And Irrele-vance- hangs the that told so delightfully by the most American women authors -- -- ! dopre-catlngly ! live-roo- 1 Read this opening installment . - u Maiden Voyage o top-flo- and you will not want to Bel-iam- ut sorbing behind the this love . see . jto tageul to tab ? fcifhar n- - hod daridad ua opener wu Invented by man named Charlis Tho New Haven railroad allows paaaongeia to taka off their shou and go to sleep la day eoachu with Tha a white their feet oa the aut ahead. Tha lining of tho human stomach win hut a lifetime If synthetic gin haO obligation!. Hugh BrmdUy km mkod o Ssrifcwa caach to dfaoisi tho osom from rapi and hroahi that hue web as eaRghluod daaL For rommu Am, m laaff, odU ho appamu iho mom BMW cottage yru'dml mo4 hare w a phoney. By H. E. McCOY tho Southoaatom took Its stand concernI naturally wu ing "paid athlete delighted. I still feel that way about It, and ao you have two very good reason! why I agreed to take over thla space. On ofthesa reason! la that It provides tho chance to got In tho first blow before reformers commence classifying all "below tho M Dixon lino" clevene profeeei The ether reason to that I may thua be able to offer some light and encouragement to thou who see this aaw dal ef US a truly forward atop In Intercollegiate athletics. First It moat bo admitted that coleven tba moat lege In tha country to not tooling anybody taking a aland against the Southeatern Conference regulation that prohibits the baying of football teams on tho hoof. There are objections, certainly. We of aoulh-er- n football hard plenty In New York. But those are taken with WHEN LETTERS CONTEST SCRAMBLED thene letters Rurrange word will spell American city: Phlldellaplba Nwe Ykor. ObsaoL OCgobls each Albnay. Chllllcocth. Loa Auglsee. u Palm hcaeb. I malm. Orinus New u the name at an Run. Nas Oofrancls Jacksonllelv. Hartdorf. I Ed. Nots Thla an he dona by an alert mind in leu than II hours daylight saving, on a clear day.) . . Each little boy, each little girl A gardener should be. For vegetable raised at home Should aid economy. spads a little land, a boo Tbeu an the things you'll need au what miracles are worked By planting of a seed. To mile. In the South wo fool that the man In charge ef our Institutions remember, this rule was not adopted by athletic directors er football coaches wrote InteeMio books of and abbagu, and spinach,, too, mPfinnr wkoa yoa realize That 'twai tor yon they grew. Potatoes peu Stringbuns Tls pleasant, yes to plant a the Southeastern Conference measure with vision when they galized athletic scholarships. seed And know that rain and boat Will uma day turn It Into Tomato or a beet All Over, Though Denied a DEFINITION TEST Make sense out of the following statements: klnJ I A pedlgrae Is a small home of reptile .a genealogical record.... ....an conveyance a drawp by two horses scholarly mas S To bo bombastic la to throw bomba but your partalk noisily ents live on fresh fruits 8 To defalcate In to.' embezzle study architecture abroad .........preu at golf...... cut a hole In a door. 4 Pedagognea are found In Instiunder wet board In the tution of learning . .on country jof the Aitece. . ' . bicycles a man 5 A libertine to a place whan who gamblu criminals are aerated In Paris a person of loose habit a bird of tha crau aperies the name 8 Marmalade to a of a Roman emperor a kind palace la Athena a famous ung of Jam ...the name of the French national anthem. an 7 A aymposlum to historically famous part iff tho a collection of Roman forum a man who plana an InIdea strument by that ume an Institution for almple peopto. CEOGRAPHY Check the following statements to mako sews: 1 Tba capital of Connecticut Providence These scholarship are In existence In all parts of the country. Even though there will be denials, I say thla. What to tha result? Nothing more than a football coach, backed by business men with money, and alumni, going Into the field and literally buying a football team. Parhapi we of tho South arc more frank ud honest In admitting the existence of this evil And R to an evil, have no doubt of that It prohibits tho college which to not backed by alumni" from fair competition. It engenders and encoyrageo tha paid athlete. Now Just what wlU ba accomplished by this mw regulation which the Southeatern Conference adopted last month that famished board, room and tuition tor deserving boys even If they are athletes? (First) It will completely eliminate the paid athlata. a (Second) It will bring aid to under tho supervision of tho Institution, thus Improving tho administration. (Third) It will virtually and the com petition for boys, turning one from a college ho desires to attend to one In which ho has no Interest, because tho latters offer to better than the former's. Tho first step will be accomplished by the simple process of ending all athletic scholarships through a faculty board that rales on all scholarships, regardless of tho qualifications. In the past, It to common knowledge, athletes have gotten Into nil manner of schools by the moat devious route because they were flraneed and sponsored by school rapport era of groat standing; g ... , - ativ-Iot- - Academic Ability First, Then Athletic Prowess Worn-- " socket ., . . . . .Kansas City...... Hartford Philadelphia. 3 The Hudson river separata the atata of New York from tha PennFlorida state of Rhode Island.... sylvania 1111- New Jersey 8 Cairo to a dty in Chiu France Algiers Louisians Egypt a river 4 Penobscot to a mounIn New Hampshire a city la tain In Vermont a forest In Kansas, Mains B a borThe Bronx to a lake ough In New York In California a anal In a mountain ranga Delaware..! In Nevada. le- Says Scholarships Exist So raise a garden, boy and girls' Upon ume little plot; . It MAY come up and give yon food And alu It may NOT I . on-al- e. a ON HOME GARDENS A odara-laalk- pmfy awe uttitud. toward its la avoided. ut u lAe lawpfai -- a If there otlll are pitcher ouch who trained with the O ritho al ct years ago. A laaky youngster from tho Hookworm belt,, this pitcher hod shown gnat promise at tha atari of training. Ho had a fast one that made even Lefty Grove a trifle eavloua and wha ha bent a hook serosa the as si a laria to u n I want to Ibid out, for Instance, " Ben-am- ' pa-pe- Scholarship View aau-ea- In tha Southeastern Conference thla will not happen, A mans athletic qualifications will bo Judged y only after ho has proved to the that ha to a worthwhile proa-poas a student. Finally, there will bo ratabltohed through these athletic scholarships a mans iff admitting a boy who hasnt tha mans at hla own com maml to attend the college he rally went to attend. All of In our live bava known boyo who went to one school when they really wanted to go to another. They went only because the undesirable college offered better opportunity for aid to athletics than the om which they to attend. fao-ult- n ' - Let Dixie Mentor Tell About Sane e ut la ana u tu atii-let- as baoo-bal- ut ar la corner such celebrated bitten as Sherry Mage and Tilly Walker merely stood besida tha plats and wondered what had happened. lomesick Rookie Lost Control; Got No Help : Then, little by little, he tori hie control. Jack Dunn, tha manager, fretted about thle change In form but could not discover tho reason Nolthor could tho root that tho pitcher "loner," one of thou lads who keep strictly tq themselves, but l types are not ran In tha for it. ua' wu a of Wo know minora. Bo, when night after night wa would see Mm pick np a magazine u almost and head for oon a dinner wu over, wo derided that ha wu probably only n country kid who wu homesick. Thu we would atari op our own card games, or other nocturnal business, end forget about him. Dunnlo; though, couldn't forgot about him. Thla wu a challenge to the mu who wu winning more pennants ud developing mors Mg- - . time stars than uy other minor league contemporary. H, talked and talked to tho pltchor. i Each time tho pttchtr Itotontd Intently, promised ts do bettor. bad Next day be would look over, but when wa watched him wat we all felt sorry for him. Wo Ml know this lonaaome.ypna tor wu not kidding wben ha told how hard ho was trying to regain Mi control and make good. One night, whu tho training tlmo wu almori 'ended, I drove with, Dunnla out part tho ball park. Tho sent vagua shadows moonlight g boughs ef tho through the trees which surrounded tho one- -' room county jail a hundred yards from tha park. It wu a dismal scene. Fifty lata It became even more dismal we started ducking ballets. I dont Ilka bnlleta bnt Dunnlo wu Irritated. Tha Orioles were to play an ah!bl(Jon game the cat day and he didnt want anybody meaning np bla ball park. Wa Investigated. Thera on second base ut the county Jailer, what waa left of a gallon of corn whisky, and the ailing pitcher. The par homaiick boy had told ua tho truth. Ho had been trying herd. Each night, after ha had taken hla magazine and wandared upetalra, ha had anukad out the back door. Then, for hours after that ha would alt out thoro on second bau with ths Jailer and tho gua and tha corn, and practice control by shooting at tha homo plate. hla-roo- u u low-hun- sec--en- lone-ome- ly McQuillans Alligator Got in Wrong Berth Also I would like to know if tn rides era tl exciting now were years ago wha tho Gtoi left their St Augustine amp w Zeke Barnes and bis alligator. Zeka took a let of pride In t pot even though It measured oi seven inches long and wu not mi for looks even for an alligator! planned to give It a nice home In Kansu after the season over, and ho probably would hi done li too. That to ha would hi If Hughia McQuillan had not a boa a Giant. Hughto had lnvated In tho FI Ida staple, too, and alligator p prtators era Just Ilka hone owm Whenever two of them get togetl then must be competition. So, sii beauty conteata and ms rati dance were of the "quest! they derided upon a race. Beta wars drawn and a pul strumming contest wu In si whan the younger Barnu baca worried. To convince himself t everything wee all right ha dull upon an workout tha alalo of tho Pullman. Thru minutes later the air agitated by om of. tho moat m nlflcent rendition of free and fa comment that It has over been good fortune iff any ball player bar. The alligator had broken lc and had not ahown much sense e tor an alligator. With 84 bertha fo pick from had crawled Into tho ao oceu; by John J. McGraW. u u - at urly-mornln- g |