| Show T Horseshoes Dont Don't You Believe That Stuff About the Good Old Days Days' r. r r y ROle Rode the print printe papers So o 0 often everY e about what a great place placey 4 way y wa WM WAin in the nt t believe of it d dur u rII r- r II prohibition lamer lamer- c j IJ u in iny thumb fu u v a and ald Y ey y of os US who mixed up upare it are lucky be In one oneA inin inc in- in A for Billy Rose BOM Roseto in c Late to one night Leonard Lyons 1 l were ere ph bisecting ecUng a blintz at ve Blue Room Room The door oed ed and a gent with half a load lIked In in He was togged out r camels camel's mels mel's hair coat that the theet tl et eat t dromedary would be proud pear he be passed paired our table he noI no- no J I wu was staring at him What at 1 he snarled I 1 was wu admiring your coat I pi know said the theMI k MI I dont don't think I like ya hats iW's end of beau- beau Well the a ul friendship I 1 flipped lipped Why t you Ou run along sonny bo boy part of the thc room li is reserved rown ups is to Jt It Its It's Pretty Boy Suddenly Lyons yanked me to tor r f t and hustled me out the thedoor eat st door into a taxi Drive ugh U the e park he told the cab cab- e. e the big hurry 7 I asked columnist Ibe Hie Ibe fellow you were getting Uy s 1 with irith laid ald Lenny is Js Pretty Amberg Ho He has something 50 O notches on his sawed oft tty etty Boy usually gets paid for w work ork rk but sometimes he does docs for kicks step St p on it ft I said to the thc cabbie Amberg tAmberg likes to do em up n the columnist went on After disabling a victim he usually usually ally puts him Wm in a car pours kero- kero sine do the thc floor and seats scats and throws In a 1 match Its a little hot In here I said to Lyons as the thc c cab b stopped for a alight light Would you mind opening the windows Lenny chuckled both open he said A few years before Blue Room I came even closer to joining the Order of the V Ventilated Ventilated Venti Venti- Jated Forehead It lIt was when was when T r was operating a Ii smoke filled called the thc Backstage club From Brooklyn Yet One afternoon I decided to find out what the other half of ot the world breathed and went up to the Polo Grounds to see the Giants Giant play the Dodgers As I settled back In a seat behind third base a pockmarked pockmarked pockmarked pock pock- marked gent next to me said thinks thinka Heinle Heinie Groh Groh was the Giants' Giants third baseman baseman base base- man man man-a a smart little ballplayer who held his bat short as though it were a bottle and u usually hit the ball where he wanted to Hes pretty good I said mean pr pretty tty good 7 snapped the stranger greatest ballplayer ever put on a mitt All right I said greatest ballplayer ever put on a mitt Yer from Brooklyn said the Giant fan I don like guys from tram Brooklyn That's Him HimI I decided to needle Mr Pock PockMark PockMark PockMark Mark and root for the Dodgers If It Groh fumbled or struck out Id I'd let go with the long loud cheer no ao O popular in the Bronx I figured that by 5 o'clock my seat next-seat neighbor would be ready for a psychiatrist But I never got around to this rib Just as the thc first batter stepped up to the plate somebody hollered him and three plainclothesmen plain- plain lunged at the Heinie Heinle Groh admirer Two of them grab grabbed d his arms and the third snaked aked a long blue pistol out of ot hl his pocket The papers papera that night were full fun of the capture of the man I was going to needle He was a freelance freelance freelance free free- lance bootlegger n named a m e c d Paul Emanuel Hilton HUtan and he was wu wanted wanted wanted want want- ed for tor half halt a dozen murders Bit nit of a Loony According to the cops he was a abit abit abit bit of at a loony and whenever he got mad or confused he started shooting I felt a little funny in the stomach stomach stomach ach as I put down the thc papers paper So this w was the bucko butko I 1 was going to rib and have ready for a psychia psychiatrist trist by 5 That afternoon Heinie Heinle Groh had struck k out twice and bobbled an easy grounder grou On each occasion I probably wo would ld have yelled Back to the bushes you bum If It the cops hadn't arrested Hilton HUton Id I'd have had the thc satisfaction of ot getting getting getting get get- ting the loony both mad and con can fused In which case I figured to get geta a Ii small red hole in my head No siree I cant can't go along with those pieces about those were the thc good old days on Broadway These are arc the good old days Copyright 1948 by Billy BUly Rose |
