Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-08-18 | Page 42 | Unwritten Letters

4 I Unwritten Letters I I By E. W. HOEFEE. Manager of Any Ball Club, Anywhere. Dear Boss: Kindly accept mr resignation; resigna-tion; lliis will come as a shock to yon. I know, but 1 fsel that T cannot draw baseball salary under false pretense3 any longer. As you know. I have lost mv last sis grimes through wretched pitching, and al-though al-though I have a two years' contract whicU fll protects me at a big salary, I wish to re-JT lease the club' from it. f As a matter of fact I have decidfd to go to work.i I have always had a desire to experten work and believe this Is a sooii time to discover what a job is like. If you know of any real hard position that I could secure with your influence, such as pitching bay instead of baseballs, or driving a truck instead of trving to drv out a hit. I wish you would let me know Yours truly, A. LOSI.VG PITCHER. Any Plaver, H P!h-i!le. Dear Mr. Player: Tour record this season sea-son hi-.s been so far in excess of vour remuneration that T am voluntarily raising rais-ing our salary, without waiting for voa to specie to me of it or dplavinj It until the end of the season. Of course your present small salon- has still another voar to run. but I could not think of ta'kin advantage of that fact. Sincerely. A. N OWNER. "Ml 'Kdwai-d Collins, Ohicarrn. t.:ai- Kdll:-1 want to express mv appreciation ap-preciation for the splendid race vou ran Mi our world s s.'rir:-.. last fai, wf,en vou beat nie from third base to the plate : incidentally just about deciding the series se-ries aeaiust us. It Is just such friendly little contests as this which are responsible for the rood feelms of the. C ants, even ;,ftcr !oW the series. In faet l couldn't keep from lauchlnsr uproarnus'y at ths incident ttf ' evenlnz and Mao and all the OianrS. cburklcrt and olKiUe.1 over It until lata V lhat cveninc, saving the- would rather h.Le you win l ho r ice than win any number of world's scries themselves. M'ilh best repard.i from the Olnms. and all say they hope you oho I mv;Ui pioa-1-Jxqeh.itciv viiiivs. HE.VRV aiMMERALOt.