Show oi Of INTEREST fROM HIOM CEO GEIGER GEIGERt t i ON OI KANSAS ASAS 1 Tells How Ball Teams Raise Raisel Their Money Honey at City of Leavenworth This department is la In receipt of ot aa other interesting letter from Q George orge rge L I. I La Geiger the former formet well knows known Salt I Lake newspaper man who is IB now with WIt the tho Post at Leavenworth Kan Ran iron the story it can bo be inferred that ev even though George had his fill of or baseball hero horo last year he will again be te head over-heels over in the game before the th um om- pires pirca say I play ball Georges George's letter follows Leavenworth Kan March 5 Jae Ja k Sweeney president of the f league formed here some somo few days clays bui bu bae bati i is wielding in a a. fountain pen busily th thas days Jack has his binoculars upon pitchers especially and md is off some pome good ones Si Si Torrence an old American leaguer who will will be remembered for fort good work ork in in Detroit Cleveland and sal Brooklyn at different times is one W who wio Wo o has been tied up by Jack tho Gi Glad t Getter Another victim to tho the coaD I of Sweeney is is a Frosty Thomas with witt the tho Minneapolis Americans t ago aJo Scissors Ashley is still another knight of curves booked Ashley WU was wa wit with I tho the Western association last year doin doing good work for Oklahoma City and Inid The last two named will Ifill be bej t used by bv this cit city Sweeney has other others s signatures drying on his contracts hut but at the time present timo time prefers toy and look wise J This town is a good baseball tows It has Imas a population of and arc are baseball fans The ono one black sheep is an old oM fogy who had a w broken years ago ngo by bj boys playing the vacant lot next nett door The Tire 1 b hiked biked ke and the old man had bad to di dig u up 1 7 i cents for putty when ho repaired t the theama damage ama c so over ever since he has been on z I 1 grudge jI against the great national game But a as I was sa in saving this is a a. good 1 basketball bas bas- bas sl town Months before the season sea ItS wa-J wa son opens baseball tickets for the open open- in jag ing game aro arc on salo sale at the hotels hauls drug stores tores and aud other places about town towa The rhe monc money thus collected helps hells to Jeta get get-al ea team to together ether This is is a good deal deai like tho m mining game selling game selling shares on a plot of oC ground called a mine mine- mineso jno so 50 the lo loan lot I Ican lJ can an 11 be bc tunneled to see if it is as a mine But it goes oes All winter Ion long Jong o 0 ni nights hh when hen tie tb 1 blizzard i is irm raging outside boost slides shot slides slides' J Jare are arc being beins thrown on the screens in J mor-j mor in ing picture houses And they get Ket et hands bands hands too Only last nights night I fUat wM fU at a show The Tho wind was swishing aid and swirling R around the windows sumpita fierce Alon Along comes a slide It A A GOOd Good Baseball Team is a n Good Tonic fo for I City You should have havo heard beans tJI clap That's going goin some and it its worthy plaudit business too Goin Going back to this stunt of ot having the baseball tickets for tho the first gar game IDe of next season on sale salo at nt hotels thu thi gets coin coin in in a i lot Jot of ways W Drum ThUn read tho the si signs s it makes a hit mthr them Down DOWD deep in their jin po lc-po ke goes oes a mitt and out comes a coin fm tOU T J hi can ean buy a ticket at any figure the bIt bt drummer as proud o of goes away his bis feath- feath of pasteboard as a p peacock of oi help buy biry a mask MJ say the tire lintel hotel mime man I know the feeling because bt- bt Wj cause 1 ive i've 0 got ot a bit of ot past pasteboard b rd tucked away awa myself The feeling is i ure s it its it's rs simply buy buy or feel like I cha chaw I They can talk about the tho slow ol eM middle west although h Kansas is M U J when ones one's in Salt Lake but in IB respects tho the middle west Yost has bas got ot it p Put tr over ever the tire far west in in generous measure j jI I I. I al am nib t authorized by the mayor maor of for cit cit and the tire board of commission J this thre is iR a i town run T on tho the hidE ticket and Moines plan that the schemes arc are not copyrighted I Im I'm ra tell tell- tell teU it to San Sail inS ing tb this s to you so you can ciu make to Lake fans faus It t takes money monc the game gamo go co and I would like liko to K tP PJ from lying bID somo innocent young nian Dlan f at n nights 1 like l o I did last 1 MJ of Be eO iJ son SOD yin trying to td meet a payroll roll with hardly that 1 cents You know lwow how ho we u used et to burn the up trying to run rl do honest dollar olar J |