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Show Some men have a faculty of digging up trouble. Charley Schwab proposes to orgaiii2e a baseball league. Kentucky having gone wet. we fail to sce.3uy longer why the grass grows blue. IN WHICH MR. COMAE RAISES A HOLLER. The champions of the present day, Cast on the ring a gloomy ray Which dims th$ art of self-defense. Of which they're but slight pretense. Unlike the alicieut fighters hold. They romp around in se?.rch of gold. For ten rounds lumbering to begin They want a fortune, lose or win. We often see much better fights Among tho so-called lesser lights. Away from me, Ye Gods of Gold, Your deeds but smear the fistic fold. MACK C. COMAE. And yet. in spite of Mr. rouiar's philippic, it is rumored that Me.--r.-. willard and Moran will smear according accord-ing to schedule. It behooves .loc Tinker to pla.v Cv Williams in right field, where he can reach down and cati-h the drives beaded Hugh Jennings has become a golfer, but we fear that he will become unpopular un-popular with his fellow golf bugs. Whenever When-ever he makes a bum putt he will pull all the grass off the green. .Inst now the game is afflicted with Possibly nc hae a caveman's ens. chortling when a skatef implants the southern facade of his spine on the ice. CONTRARY CUSS. We gazed on a fat man who skated. He twisted and squirmed and gyrated. He tacked to and fro Like a ship in a blow. And we waited and waited and waited. He whirled In a mode to delight ns. Reminding us much of St. Vitus; He wabbled and wheeled And he wriggled and reeled. But ho stayed on his feet just to spite ns. VERSES. O. Tyrus Cobb, O. Tyrns Cobb. A million bushers get your job When robins sing And ball scribes (ling Carl Morris whipped Arthur Pelkey the other night, demons! rating that there still is somebodv ho can whip. "Skating," sav-- :t ''-.a:-i expert. " i one of the cheapest of sports. It re -i ;ires no outlav aside from the eoat of the -Vates.'' Vnd y-1 wo have known s.Btes to require Inrno outlav. Al Reich up and aays he wants to moot Frd Pulton. Some persons like to get by In the easiest way. Colonel Ruppert was abouf to retire for tho night. He was weary and yearned for a soft spot. In the ry. but there was something some-thing troubling nil mind. Aha!" be said at last. "Aha!" ha said once more. "I am growing forget fnl. I forgot to buy Joo Jackson today. I ll have to liny htm twice tomorrow. " Whereupon he vent to sleep with a elenr conaclcnce trni-ilies of war continue even ifttz peace ha hern declared It is rumored that Ueorgo Stnvnll "ill he anpointad mnnaffar ol the 1 leveland senders. l,oe Mai:''", we rend, will he T Cobb1! uienfe.t rival next year. Up to date fobb has had approximately I 1X'" gtt0Bl rival- Tho second C'nlib haa become wont down at the heel. Why doesn't some gntarprlllag scribe spring a third Cobb? side from the raet thai he ne er aid it. the itorv that John Rvan iranti in play .Mill the Cuba Is perfectly true. 'ot that pra rare in take sldifl h) tha introversv. bul it" EvPrs wine to reliirn i,, ihe Cubi II rrnttld b Ttnkar to I'ivers to mai Oivign Mullln, one ol the ruo.it fnlMl ! ful of pitchers, has been signed to manage man-age the Kokomo club, showing that virtue is its own reward. Ad Wolpast is an original cose. He always befieves in startling the public. This' time he is training. We feel sorrv for the Yanks. A lot of baseball experts- predict that they will win the pennant. We have authentic information that the Philadelphia club has been sold, that it has not been sold, that it Is for sale and that it Is not on the market. Consequently we know just what to believe. It is out of the ordinary to pav a baseball manager's salary, ''dead! or I alive. " lMit a lot of ball" players are paid that way. TRAINING. I The shades of night were failing fast 1 When toward a tango parlor passed A youth who glided, whirled and dipped And answered as he flopped and flipped: ' ' Preparedness; ' ' 1 The youth was not a gay young scamp He was a modern boxing champ. And while around the floor he sped He. mopped his leaking brow and said: "Preparedness! ' ' Bill Donovan would have the ideal combination if he could use Fritz Maa-sel Maa-sel on third base and Frank Baker at Boxing fans are unreasonable animals, ani-mals, tor iirstanee, they expect Lang ford and MeVev to fight. ' Hank 0 Day announces that he has lost his dog. He is now minus a dog and a goat. We are certain of a sound sleep to-right. to-right. We have learned that J. R. t 'apablauca won the chessmasters ' tournament tour-nament which came to a close last "It is almost spring." said the base ball fan as he read the sporting dope w herein the athletes were preparing to wend their various ways to the com- "You must be mistaken." replied the motor enthusiast as he scanned the automobile ads. "I have not seen anv 1917 models. |