Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-25 | Page 21 | Break Fast Food

THERE ARE EXCEPTION'S. The experts raved about the kid in spring. His playing made their hardened bosoms throb. He was a lad could run and slide and swing Ldke Cobo. "Lay off!" the weary baseball public cried ; "The kids in spring are always on the job, And all of them can hit and ran and slide Ldke Cobb." But when the burning snn of August shone Upon the eager, wild and pop-eved mob It found the bush league kid still there upon The job. Possibly military training will be a good thing for the White Sox, but they didn 't need any when Kid Gleason was with them. "Harry Coveleskie has accepted an increase of $1000 over his last year's salary." Whaddayamean accepted? Gregory Gat, the gallant gunman, held his rod under the victim's nose. "I accept ac-cept your bank roll," he said. Jimmy Wilde may be the acknowledged acknowl-edged flyweight champion, but the boxing box-ing public can't see him, owing, perchance, per-chance, to the fact that the said public is not equipped with miseroseopes. THE ELIXIR, OF LIFE. The athlete's limbs aro weak and lame, A thousand pains invade his frame, And yet he seems alive and well When someone rings the dinner bell. ' The price of ivory has gone up. Charley White has "to advertise for a sparring partner. UNWEPT, UNHONORED AND UNPAID. A sparring partner's job is one Ihat olicrs no temptation To anyone endowed with sense Or good imagination. The fighting champs collect the coin That falls like April showers; The partner gets a pair of ears That look like cauliflowers. Larney Lichtenstein comes to the front wiih a middleweight known as the "Mysterious Cowbov." Larnev 1 himself is a mysterious sort of person, j It is hard to tell at times whether he is a rapid-fire phonograph or a boiler shop on a busy dny. ; j Any old cowboy these davs is mv?. terious. It is a mi sterv that he isn't working in the movies. ' SPEAKING OF COWBOYS. It is a modern cowboy, ' He races o'er the plain. But in the race his mobile face ! Ts registering pain. : Tis not a redskin hullet That makes him grunt am! roar. It is the bumps and jumps and thumps Thnt make him saddle-sore. And when the tilm is ended He calls his limousine, Likewise a nurse, a doc, a hearse And tons of vaseline.