Show I L u Tell Em a ZOO II I ra E S os ON THE SE E TIGER OeR I ANG AROUND j iii LAST iAB A ABIT BIT 0 N NICK MASCOT ALTROCK-MASCOT A. A I W WASHINGTON HINGTON SENATORS SENATOR'S T j C I I J I I 7 nE f cuB S KNOWS THE J-IE J ATHLETICS I AROUND CHICAGO tE n HAVE A eA LD CARRY CARR AROUND AN ELEPHANT ON CAT FOR THEM M THEIR R SWEATERS tZ ti v Tw s s a wise guy guv wl who made the crack that everybody is Is' Is I lie He e. e nut ut have b been en of ball bail ballplayers ballplayers players in particular when l n he made it the most sup superstitious r tito g lot tot of I hired mer that charge a agate gate fee tee to see them exercise All AU of ot em em are afraid of or f being spoofed I Once the they v get the idea In their domes that that- the sign is on em em they're em they're heyre a gone gon ball bail club lub I IThe The gent referred to is Is' Is that psychic Individual known as THE JINX Hes He's a weird bird Hes He's liable to drift 0 into any ny ball balI camp campany campany campany any time and hang around any length of ot time lime A As long ashe sits on a teams team's bench the players player might as well stay the clubhouse clubhouse club club- house and play I It would save laundry bills i clUb I Its It's the JINX that's to blame for tor it all Most clubs seek an antidote in that other personality the personality the mascot Hes He's the gloom choser the choser-the the omen of good the good the uncanny something that gives a ball club the breaks In fact he amy i be most anything so long as he successfully successfully successfully success success- fully spoofs away that arch enemy the enemy the i jinx I All the club clubs have some soft sott of a mascot mas inas- I cot round handy handy- I Anything will do The majority of mas-I mas the sixteen big league teams are partial to animals I 1 I Detroit has a tiger He used to todo do great things for This year the Royal Bengal seems to have or something I The bear cub bear cub has stood by the Chicago Nationals fairly well He hasn't brought I a pennant winner to the windy city lately lately late late- ly though Clark Griffith is more human than most managers He selected Nick Altrock to chirp the Senators up So far Tar they haven't giggled themselves up very near the top The Nicks Nick's ar art ad acre just the same The h fans s go to the G Georgia avenue aye ave flue nue epa park to to- tose o se hf his circus ct Occasionally g fo they watch the Scoreboard Both New York Tork clubs took the mascot cure tills this year The Yankees came came back from Florida with Alo Dorgan a baby alligator Huggins l kept ept him round until th the Babe began to smite the the- apple appie like the experts said he could and then consigned him him to the zoo over in the Bronx until up into a n. respectable able handbag McGraws McGraw's got a Mexican wild cat They call him Bill Pennant but what's in a name Bill aint much yet for forthe forthe forthe the Giants His tastes are low Mr 11 got the heaviest dope He has the kid outfit of ot the big league circus To keep his juvenile Athletics from getting chesty Connie Conni has em elephants on their uniforms You tell lei em mascot mascot mascot-I'm Im I'm a zoo |