Show I Houston Team of Texas I I League Adopts a Baby The adoption of a nineteen old months bab baby b by the Houston professional professional I baseball club is tho latest freak in in baseball On a Ii train traia On which were riding tho members of tho the Houston team tam of the Texas len league e tho players noticed a woman and a n curly haired child Chill The Tho woman requested W W. E. E Hester a pitcher to hold held the child a n. few minutes thc then stepped into another coach and left loft tho the train at tho the De next t station A note not found on the tho child gave ave its name as Edmund Winters and l the he ball player decided d to adopt the tho bab baby Before the en end of the journey journe ever every member of tho the club entered into a c compact to care for tho the little HUo one elect it tho the mascot of the club and provide a n good home At tho the games in Dallas and Fort Worth tho the masc mascot t was wa exhibited in inthe tho the grounds during luring tho the game and was showered with mone money from tho the audience audience audi audi- ence enec and at nt lIou Houston ton collections were taken up an and tho the baby bab- no h has bas a fund fund of more moro than 2000 to its cr credit lit and still growing oving Offers from some Iome of the wealthiest families in in the state to adopt the tho child have havo been re refused rOe ro- fused and the baby mascot will no not be bo parCell with b by the club i The he mother who is i's less than IS 18 years ears of age afe was found in Hillsboro and her tra tragic ic story atory unfolded She had lived hived with a u drunken father until 12 years of ot age when she ran away away from front him hint Before she was 16 years of ot ota a ago age o she was married and after the birth of her child her husband deserted them and disappeared The child mother found employment in iu a packing house at Fort V orth earning 6 6 a week Recently thin tho packing house hous cut down tho the n number of its employees and the tho determined that the baby should not starve gave o it to the ball player x |