Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-05-27 | Page 41 | Breakfast Food

vMssmmm AMERICAN COS3ACKS. Why take the baseball player from his - Pla.v . And send him "off to battle far away, ? When there are others in the base- ? hall park f Far better qualified to maim and slay The gents who peddle peanuts, crack- a eijack, ? And tread on you until your bunions crack ' If they were only hastened to the front i The enemy would soon be hiking back. 5 The recent ruling of the nah com-mish com-mish in the Heme im-case reveals the tad that it is possible to pry Pete Knisely loose from 75 bones without the aid 'of a jimmy. Joe Stecher, we are told by mat experts, ex-perts, has a weak neck. But nobody ' can deny that he is a great wrestler from the neck down. i Frank Got eh hooked his championship champion-ship title the other night. Once upon a time .hm Jeffries did that same little lit-tle thing, but lost the pawn ticket. Hugh Jennings, we read, is suffering with a eold. bur he hasn't anything ou the baseball fan. The Dodgers are ready to serve in any branch of warfare. They are drilled in military and naval t actios and are able to go up in the air on the slightest provocation. Let us not be hasty in sending our ball players to the front. They would eat JA.tope out of house and heme in a week. ENTHUSIASM. 1 In May, behold the patriot: He buys a bunch of seed And plants it in a vacant lot His family to feed. In .Tune, behold the patriot: q tills the soil no more. His vegetables- are boaot In yonder grocery store. PS EP ABED. The baseball fan, a hardy man is he. Well trained to man the trenches at the front. To splash about a leakv trench would be A wimple stunt. He. never has a bitter word to say Vhi!e holding down his dripping bleacher seat: He bravclv sits and shivers half the day,' While tempests beat.