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Show working overtime on a job like Barney's. The game ends in the ninth which is respectable account most games end then. The final count is 17 for, the Clerks and one short of a dozen for the Engineers which means the Engineers are stuck $3.50 for the same steak at Melody Lane as the Clerks will get for one-fifty. I leave right after the ninth. Choir practice at Moonlight Gardens begins at sundown, with George Dahlstrom conducting. The time it ends will have to be announced in the next issue. ball is natural for Frank account it is so much like the cantalopes he played with in Uinty. Mr. Buchman asks why he is out there and Frank says he ought to guess why if he will only look at the glove he is wearing. But the boss is not yet convinced, so a little later Frank crawls back to the bleachers and gets a can which is being filled regular by Reva Bolton. Reva is keeping the crows on the south rail moist with beer from the tank which he brings in a 3-lb. 3-lb. coffee can to save trips. He has a movie camera and 50 feet of borrowed film which he shoot3 only he gets off center because when they are developed he has 30 feet of sunlight and 19 feet of dust squalls where the Clerks tried to slide and one still picture pic-ture which shows the end of a milk can on the other end of which is Colyar but can't be seen CLERKS REVERSE 1940 LOSS, TAKE ENGINEERS 17-11 By Gets Hoo I am standing at the curb waiting wait-ing for a car that I know ain't coming because no car tracks is laid, when along comes George Knudsen in his new Nash. George Geo-rge is dressed fancy like he was looking for a sugar wafer but he ain't, account George already has obligations in this respect. lie is only going to cash his check as it is pay day. He asks me will I ride down to Firemen's park to see another Clerks - Engineers game and I am tickled to take the ride, especially to this ball game because that is what I am trying to tell you about. We turn right at Lead Mine on the road that used to go to Lark but doesn't now account it goes around the other way. The sky is clear and the sun is warm, which is jake with me and George as we ain't either one much for cold. Already we can see a crowd in the bleachers and wonder if our seats we had last year are still there and they are. I take my seat on the south rail about five ties down from milepost 8 and the ties turn out to be dipped in oil, which is bad for my pencil stripe suit, but I am careful and no damage is done. The boys are out on the field sweating out a little lard and getting get-ting ready. The kids snap into action but there are a few out there with small gimp in one leg. The game is held up account of horseplay and strategy on the part of the two outfits trying to map a program to crush each other. Finally they get an umpire from the Firemen by the name of Stillman who is my brother-in-law account he married my wife's account Reva was out of focus but he is there just the same. Colyar's uncle sends him a present pres-ent at the game account he forgot for-got him on Mother's Day and which we open. It is a metal affair af-fair in a pastel pink with a flat bottom and handle on one side and might be used in a bathroom, only it is too small and belongs in a nursery under the crib but Robert has no other can so Reva fills the present and when the foam goes down we see through the beer and there is a black spot on the bottom which is 35 cents written in black crayon but looks like something else. Peewee Willis is hugging the rail and when Beck gets chummy chum-my he shows him how he put them away in the navy only Beck gets too close and Peewee forgets for-gets until it is too late account he sees Beck sprawled in the dust. The tank back of first base is very popular account that is where the refill is made. I see a head shining in the afternoon sun and coming toward the bleachers, which is Barney Jones. Next I see Barney he is lying on the right of way with his face in the ashes like he was making a print in the sands of time, or his parachute failed to open. He aint hurts but grabs his mouth to see if his lower plate is broken because be-cause Nell would not believe you could get a broken lower plate 1 sisier. The Clerks take the field first and the Engineers go to bat. They are yelling what is going to happen hap-pen to the Engineers account of Preece being the new pitcher, which does not bother me ana George as we are signed with the Clerks. Papworth is behind the plate and thinks it is 1924 but after two innings he knows it aint. Preece slides a couple over which the Engineers think is a light beam and Preece is nervous as a widow on a dead end street and hangs on to the ball like he hated to let them swing it. On the first two balls Preece is telling himself that he is right when the third one is floated over ov-er the . tracks for two bases account ac-count the rule being no home runs in that direction. The fifth ball pitched buckles Papworth's index in-dex finger like it was not meant to be buckled and the next time I see Pap he has lost a wheel and is put in the stable. The Clerks have enough men on the field for three teams so it is no trouble to get another catcher catch-er named Schofield who is three pounds too light to be classed as a small tank but not too big to catch for the Clerks. After three innings he quits account his mask carves a half moon on the bridge of his nose and the red spot makes the ball look like a whirling whirl-ing four leaf clover. Another Stillman, called Tuf, but who is named Lawrence, finishes the game without no trouble except he gets in dutch at home account he comes in at midnight and his wife doubts that ball games last that long. Mickey Buchman hit an air pocket in the fifth account of using too heavy oil for this hot weather. Cab Buckle is the topic of much discussion between Beck and Southwell account Beck can't find Cab's name on the signed list and Cab is making suckers out of the Engineers in the game. Jesse claims Cab has signed only he just put down $1.50 account he says the Clerks can't lose so Jesse does a Patrick Henry and makes confetti out of Becks list. Beck draws his electric razor but Jesse gives him the villians laugh account he is insulated with 4 roses and aint scared of no 110 volt circuit. Duke Gran-quist Gran-quist is at the game but he stays in his Studebaker account it is upholstered better than the bleachers. Duke has something in the car which I and George can guess what it is but can't see. The outfielders make many trips over there between innings, especially es-pecially Frank Swain. Frank is signed with the Engineers En-gineers which is a mystery. He is playing in the field and looks good out there only he is a little lonesome account there aint no horses out there with him. Soft- |