Show Birds M Mate te Then Make Nest Neston OR on Bees' Bees Bell Every Everyplace place I hang my hat is home home sweet home This may be popular with Weary Wear Gus but riot not so with witha a pair of newly mated sparrows that make merry around the Coast league ball park These newlyweds are re exceedingly ex exclusive exclusive exclusive ex- ex and must have a a distinctive home home or or probably they would dub it a s domicile At any rate there is a ro romance roo ro mance behind all this but that doesn't Interest a baseball fan These two sparrows who mated orthe on or the Bees playing grounds began looking looking look look- ing for a place to build a home upon the self same day that Blanks Blank's swarm and the Oaks got all tangled up with a 15 to 12 score twenty walks and numerous mistakes It was during the Thursday carnival of misplays From the press box in the grand stand chimed forth the bell in lusty basso Evidently the honeymoon birds got their heads together and decided that no better place could be found for a home than inside the bell Believe this or not but yesterday when the gong was chimed for the Oaks to warm up it was so full of twigs and feathers that it sounded like ike cracked ice And when an obliging press guest answering to the name of Hardy Downing reported to poke out some of the nest so the bell would chime as of yore a pair of sparrows began flying frantically about But Hardy did not let sentiment get the best of him and he poked loose as much of the nest as he could and Bob Tennant dragged the remainder out after the contest Manager Clifford Blankenship is wondering whether or 01 not this is a abad bad omen or the coming of the fair hand nand of Dame Fortune to his ball club |