Show FAT SCHULER AS A MASCOT Brought All Kinds of Hard Luck to the Team and Suffered Some Himself d r Fat Schuler has been appointed official t ficial roojer for the Salt Lake Baseball I Base-ball team and was taken on the trip to Ogclen yesterday for his first tryout 1 which did not prove much of a success I i He must have forgotten his rabbits foot and horseshoe for It was nothing but bad luck from the start The nIne dressed at the hotel and Jumped Into I one of those automobile barges they have In Ogden and started for the I grounds After riding a block or two I the driver switched the team across the car tracks and one of the wheels went to the bad Tho bunch was then loaded Into an electric car and rode a space I i further when the power gave out and the rest of the distance was done by the hotfoot During the game a number of the rising generation who assembled around the Salt Lake bench took exception to some of the remarks emanating from the Hon Mr Schulers capacious throat and sneaked away ton to-n cantaloupe patch that was conveniently conveni-ently near the ball park Coming back with their arms full of the overripe and Juicy fruit they lined up behind Ills Lardghlp One would give him a kick in tho back through the openings In the low fence and when Fat would turn to look for the offender one two or three of the others would belt him over the head with portions of the dripping melons He was not the only I t dose all the members I one to get the dose as of the White Wings came In for their share of the festivities The fruit came so t1 lat times that the bench had to J be scraped off before the players could find a place to rest themselves At the I close of the game the Wings caught a i I car for the hotel and again the power 1 I gave out This was too much for the I lo the i boys and Schuler was relegated I street The finale came at the dinner m table In the hotel A pretty young 1 I waitress came along to wait on the loathng island as his friends call I him and the exSaltalr magnate proceeded pro-ceeded to Inform her In his suavest I manner that she was about the best I that ever happened If he had let It I go at that he would have been liked but as she came along with the glass of water knife etc he was deeply engaged en-gaged In conversation with his side partner HIckey and the girl had no place to set down the water Fat only taking up about one table After waiting wait-Ing patiently for some time she Informed I In-formed his Fatlets that he was In the way That will be all right he answered I an-swered and refused tomove But ths I i girl came from Missouri and In a seconds sec-onds time had emptied the contents of I the glass over Fats head and down his neck He came home to his own stampingground a much meeker and wiser man and says he never did like i i that Ogden town anyhow It may also bo noted that Fats first appearance as official rooter marked a defeat for I i his team j |