Show USED HOME MADE RAIN How Two Foxy Native Sons Tried to Comiskey Out of Guarantee Comiskey ran against a wet grounds postponement at San Francisco once where two grasping Native Sons seeking to beat easterners were hoist by bp their own pe petard petard tard They had guaranteed team 1000 for the afternoon game and had bad put up certified checks to bind their agreement Rain fell Intermittently all morning but not enough to stop pla play yet et the Native Sons would not give up The Ide idea of a small crowd and the payment of 1400 after taking in perhaps O jarred them Comiskey happened to stray into the park about noon and found the Native Sons busily working wit fire hose flood floodIng Ing in the grounds and making them too wet for pla play He called witnesses watched the entire performance and waited That afternoon the sun shone brightly thou thousands thousands sands flocked to the park to see the cham champions champions but the game was called on account of wet grounds One of time the men who attempted to turn the trick and beat the easterners out of 01 their money later became a great prize prizefight prizefight fight manager and later broke into the theatrical business busine JS He has prospered and grown rich but It is not recorded that he ever has turned the hose on to an any grounds to save a guarantee since that time |