Show REAL AUTHOR OF CASEY AT THE BAT BATA A San Francisco ne newspaper man now no In Inthe tho the et city read the paragraph printed yesterday yes yes- c tem day wherein a magazine attributed to toone ono one of ot Its Is writers George DV authorship of or the Immortal poem Casey CaRey at the Bat Bat Then pahe the San Francisco newspaper man thus tints I l have ha c not the plea pleasure ure of knowing Mr Ir s D' lie lie- le may He-may mn may be bo one of or your our most fa famous famous fa- fa amous a- a poets but his name faded out before be- be fore faTe It Il ever crossed ed the great divide and amid Hounded sounded clear and sweet through the fogs Cogs of or San Francisco co But I welcome elcome He Burel surely Is the tho last of ot the poets great or small mal ln J living or dead dead from rom Homer to Lampton to whom Casey C C has not been attributed Since th the world was thrilled with wih that epic the morning moring of ot its Is appearance In the time columns of the tho San Francisco Examiner twenty ears years n ago o. o signed E L L. T. T the Initials of ot Ernest Lawrence Thayer who wrote It I. I not a day da has passed that thal some soma new poet has not claimed or had claimed for him that work wore of ot genius Some days day there must have been several ealma claims for foras foras foras as Ive I've O figured It out In that statement the total would be only wh whereas reas the tho number no now must mut be not far short of ot counting Mr fr It I was as In IS 1557 or thereabout that young young then then then young young young-Mr Mr Ir Hearst returned to San Francisco from Harvard laT ard to show us u how a newspaper ne should be run rn To help him make the tha show he hc brou brought ht along alonga along a troupe of ot stars of ot the Lampoon Tho They were a Joyous lot There vas was Casey Case Noble No Xo bl ble Genie L Lent nt Fal Fatty a chap named Barnes Bame whose title tite to fame at Harvard wa was not earned on the Lampoon but as a club cub s swinger and there was Phinnie E. E I. I L. L Lent and Thayer were cre sons son of rich men inca but the others had to earn ear their living Genie Lents Lent's father wanted him to be beR bea a R lawyer and amid he Is a lawyer now and Thayer's father wanted him to go 10 Into the wool business at Worcester there no now But Bul both rich papas could b bo 10 made to yield to a touch now anti and then an and at al such tm times s Journalism dl did not greatly concern that bunch of ot Harvard Har ard sIn stars raThen ra Then there were n times time wh whon n papas were obdurate ato and would draw some pictures to illustrate r pIctures a 8 verses verse Thayer could write rhymes while thinking about anything else ello that pleased him Ho could write enough ballads In a t day to set up their little club In fun funds s for a week eek He Tie wrote rote them for cr c every department of the paper Including tho advertising ad department Ono One cs day he wrote rol Ca Casey e at th the Bat Bat and I 1 was one ont of those thoc who told tol him It of Its kind He Re didn't was as good goo stuff stuff stuff-of f Ie I think much of ot that but he sat pat at up imp and took notice when tho tIme Sun praised It IL It I I i guess e It was that Sun s a praise else which I started trouble Tho The erse verses began to n apI appear ap ap- pear In iii the hack woods and mountain top I papers signed with Ith tho names of o local bards Then the songbirds on the city papers rs began to sign their names to It It and amid pret pretty soon you could get et a rise out I of or Phinnie by asking asking- which of ot the poets he lifted it from One day Archie Gunter showed DC De I Wolf ol Hopper a a. clipping clipping- o of the rr verses 1 he its got from the Examiner and Hopper memorized mem them to lo recite at al a performance I sonic Borne lomo baseball players wore were rp to attend Then be began nn Hoppers Hopper's trouble Gunter didn't know who ho E L L. T. T was and hopper Hopper Hop hop- I p per r couldn't learn lear because bec he didn't know what paper Gunter had clipped tho the verses from After fer turning down several hundred d I bogus claimants sonic somo of whom tried to touch him for tor roaH royalty on his lila r recitals Hopper was Introduced Gd to a I staid wool merchant In Jn Worcester 3 as the sure suri url enough author of ot the verses veres the actor had hal be been n obliged to recite a thousand times II But Dut Im I'm Im glad Mr Dys has imas laR come in He Is ht late but bul welcome welcom and Ive I've 1 0 no doubt that will 1 add his name annie to I his Index of ot claimants claimant under both Dand Dand D D' Dand and V |