Show OLD SPORT DEVISES A PLAN I TO SAVE illS fRIEND EZ IM M B a highball high-ball with lots of ei cracked ice in i I Johnny said the I ci Old Sport as he 1 7 scratched a match i and nervously attempted u at-tempted to light the 0 end of his half burned cigar TheN The-N Old Sports hand I shook as his fingers I I closed around the glass and he nearly spilled a part of his plsen before he kk lips could raise i to hiss his-s Whats the matter mat-ter Sport asked Johnny Ypu look like you got a mil full of troubles Troubles Is it was the reply Troubles Trou-bles The Old Sport sighed the sigh of a man who is carrying the sorrows of the universe on his shoulders Say Johnny he went on I got more troubles than a man in a table stake game with only a couple of bucks in front of him an a juicy ac full just dealt to him pat Aint that trouble enough Do I mako myself perfectly clear Johnny nodded sympathetically and the Old Sport was encouraged to continue You know I been settle in this game of politics a little bit I aint so much because I stands to win anything No Johnny its because I wants to help old EC My veins Is full of sportln blood an every drop of it just naturally warms up to Ez like a kid to its mammy aint goin back a minute on Ez at no stage of the game but Im some skeered Johnny John-ny Im some sheered Its this way I dont like the way the bets Is goin Here I been toutln I Ez to all my friends 4 as the shorest winner win-ner that ever looked 2j through a bridle JIm J-Im wlllln pusson I ally to bet this here it bald faced shirt I got on that Ez wins but Im soom skeer ed for my friends They takes me atm at-m word you see an bets all theyve got on Ez J I thought by the HPPy llo J FEw TO 13Tor4 time they flashes a Dr 115NE5 IRNeS hundred or two that these Barnes boys I would pass him up like a white chip They dont pass him worth a cent though I Over in Separation avenue which some Seprton I folks calls Commercial street we was talkin about this bettin proposition Happy you knows who he Is says tb I me Sport he says have you bet anything any-thing on Ez I dont know what hes drivin at for a minute but I says Why shore Happy An why does you desire I this information Oh says Happy I dunno I dont so be that you might want to bet a stack of blues with meT I shore was horrified I knowed Happy to be a dead game rooter for Ez I knowed he was a sport too an then all of a sudden it flashed over me that maybe I had been lettln sentiment get the best of me I was a awful thought because under ordinary circumstances all frIed ship cease with me when it comes to a I bettin proposition I studied a minute before I says to Happy that I didnt believe I wanted to bet none at the present writin My judgment judg-ment tells me that Ez is goin to win but I seen some mighty wise boys bottle the other vray Theyre boys thats for Ez too but like me they usually bets to win an not to make presents presentsI I hears that some of Ezs friends is askin for odds Now M odds dont win no bets an the very t fact that some of I our crowd is askin em is a indication of mental worry I 1 I r set down after I had I that talk with Happy Hap-py an I figured the 1 thing out I aint I been able to find anybody any-body but whats for Ez barrin a few r1L non sportin barrl gents n I I an t tnt kind of cattle t 4 cat-tle dont carry much weight Of course they got votes but what true gent wantsto be elected by votes of that character Its quality that ought to count an when it comes to quality Ez has got that duck Bare distanced Take the average run of Barnes men an they dont know the difference between a oddson favorite an a long shot But that dont ease my mind none on tills matter of bettin As I told you before be-fore I been toutin all my friends on to Ez an i he should happen to fall down In the stretch Ill have to do a lot of ex I plainin I dont like the ray Denny an the rest of the committee has been lettin Ez speak Its true they only let him make two talks an derned if he didnt get balled up both times although he didnt say over twenty words My idea Is that they ought to run Ezs speechmaldn on a different plan What I does the people Ezs people I mean care about honest administration an low taxes an all that kind of rot Thatll do for Barnes to talk about because he reaches the kind of ducks that actually wants to run this town on business lines The proper caper would be to have Ez give lectures on timely sportln topics top-ics Let him get up an tell his audiences that hell see that the sports gets a square deal Let him give em pinters Ion I-on the value of various vari-ous poker bans Let him tell when to bet tel lhcn on a hoss an when not to bet on him an why Thats the kind of talk wherein Ez will be thoroughly home Im goin right up to see Denny about it now an impress on his Pennsylvany mind the necessity for doin as I advises So full of his new idea and mightily heartened thereat the Old Sport hurried away toward the headquarters of the Republican 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