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Show THE BULLETIN " Was the Author of Wrote (That Is, Unless Although Casey at the Bat in was frequently reprinted newspapers after its original appearance in 1888, the thing which started the poem on its road to immortality was its recitation by De Wolf Hopper, an actor. In the summer of 1888 Hopper was HOTELS appearing in an operetta, Prince Methuselah," at Wallacks theaHOTEL PLAND4IMK. SALT LAKE 4th So. Ktal ter on Broadway. One night the kiln II. M to fl.M qriBT KKSPKCTAHLK CLEAN players on the Chicago White la IE.SO NEVADA (la at tht Stockings baseball team were When HOTEL GOLDEN Ken's larcoat aa4 the and of the theater maat popular haul guests management of Wallack's gave THE WILSON HOTEL 75 Halt it the city tha hoaup Hopper a copy of the poem, a R. Balt Sod 8a. Hi. Francisco San from the clipped Examiner, to read between the CLAY PRODUCTS acts in honor of the ballplayer BOOKING TILE FACE BKICK guests. Flue l.iniig au4 Bcwcr Pipe rendition all CLA1 PRODUCTS Hopper's 8AI-LAKE CO. CLAY FIRE I'TAH of the poem brought a storm of on time from that applause and PHOTO FINISHING he was repeatedly called upon Coin Hull Djv ailh Print to recite it. He once said Where nr PHOTO DESERET No atampa. a3C I I t. Citv. Salt BovM. or what I may be playing, SERVICE. P. O. l.W free must, before the evening is out, FREE PRINTS Send 2 negative for introducing our famous Embo-rcome before the curtain and cample plu Wectern Scania Enlargement Print, Send thic ad with Se tamo fur premium. pitch to Casey. return negative and postage It has been estimated that Hop- rrnie eulurircment.on print, Emhaa Photo. Buz Ore than no Portland. less the recited poem per Film developed 10,000 times in the theater. Add KMHOSSU PHOTOS wide border, embossed Pinel Print to that his recitations of it over (Uiierb, and 2 enlarging coupon. S3 coin. Emboc-sPortland. Oregon. the radio in recent years and the Photo. Boa number of times his phonograph BUILDING MATERIAL records of the poem have been underto is INTERSTATE BRICK CO. easy played and it Fire Clay and Fire Brick stand why it is listed among the Building Vitrified Sewer Hollow Building Tile n in Roof and Mantel the EngTile Pine Drain poems He. MS. R. Uth E.. SALT LAKE SIN lish language. Another dispute over authorship OFFICE EQUIPMENT of a popular poem which was takUSED duk and chair. Sic. AND NEW of en to the courts was the case arldmD larnaarrltnea Solitude," better known by its It!) Recent Celebration of "Casey Night" in Baltimore Recalls the Dispute Over the Poem Made Famous by De Wolf Hopper, "Casey at the Bat"; There's Also Argument Over Who Wrote "The Face on the Barroom Floor" and Many Other Old Favorites. By ELMO SCOTT WATSON celebrated Casey THEY in Baltimore in honor of the man who is said to be the original Casey of the poem made famous by De Wolf Hopper. As a prologue to a night game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Jersey City Giants of the International league, they had arranged to have the once mighty Casey" strike out just as he did more than half a century ago. Up to the plate stepped seventy six year old Dan Casey of Silver Springs, Md. Rogers Hornsby, coach of the Orioles' and pitcher for this special occasion, wound up and shot the ball across the and plate. Casey swung missed by a foot! Again the wind-uagain the pitch and again Casey missed. -- p, And now the pitcher holds the ball, and now he lets it go and now the air is shattered . . But, wait! There's something wrong here! There goes the ball streaking across the diamond, out into left field. It's a single! For once, the last line of the immortal poem isn't true. "Mighty Casey has NOT struck out! Anyway, it was a good stunt, even if it didn't come off according to schedule, for it served its purpose of being a sort of curtain-raiser to next year's celebration of the centennial of Americas national game. Also, it rediscusvived a sion that has raged for years, viz: Who was the original Casey of the poem Casey at the Bat?" Who wrote that poem? There have been various claim ants to the title of "original Casey," but officials of the two major leagues and others in charge of the plans for the centennial seem to have decided that the Casey who didn't strike out in Baltimore the other night, is the man. And here is his version fit the incident that has brought him baseball immortality: I was a pitcher for the Phillies. I guess you'd call me the Hubbell of my time. We were playing the Giants in the old Philadelphia ball park on August 21, 1887. Tim Keefe was pitching against me and he had a lot of stulT but I was no slow poke myself. It was the last of the ninth and New York was leading 4 to 3. Two men were out and there were runners on second and third. A week before I'd busted up a game with a lucky homer and folks thought I could repeat . . But he didn't repeat. Instead he struck out and the baseball fans of Philadelphia forgot that they were citizens of the "City of Brotherly Love." Instead, they were just as enraged as any rahid fans of any Mudville" in the United States would be when their popular heroes fail them. The D'Vys Version. As to the authorship of the poem, one of the persistent claimants to that honor was George W. DVys, who spent his last years in the Home for Aged and Infirm in Cambridge, Mass. His version of how he carr.e to write the poem which, incidentally, makes Mike Kelly, instead of Dan Casey, the hero of the piece, is this: It was back in August, 1S86, when I saw the great Mike Kelly play with Chicago against the Boston club. Kelly, the Babe Ituth of his day, had a chance to win the game with the bases full in the ninth, but he struck out before a huge and spellbound throng. The Boston fans wete more grieved to foc Kelly fun than they were happy to see their team win and I felt something of the same thing, too. "The next day, a Sunday, I was lying on the glass in Franklin Park, in Boston, thinking about the game and Kelly and the disappointment of the fans, and into my mind came the opening stanza. That night I finished the poem I sent it to the Sporting Times in New York, anonymously because my father, a burly sea captain, looked upon poetry with horror. Other claimants to that hor.oi include Joseph Quinlan Murphy, Will Valentine and. finally, the man to whom most authorities award credit for its authorship Ernest L. Thayer, once a resident of Cambridge and now living in Santa Barbara. Calif. Thayer, a native of Worcester. Mass., was graduated in 1885 from Harvard where he was president of the Lampoon and After ivy orator of his class. leaving college he started on a tour of the world, pausing in San Francisco long enough to get a left-hand- serio-com- r" PHOTO-KRAF- T ECONOMY FILM SERVICE Any Roll Developed with - - - - 25c 8 Quality Print 3c Extra Print Wrap coin and film carefully PHOTO-KRAFBox 749 T Sait Lake City. I'tah SCHRAMM-JOHNSO- DRUGS N HEARING AIDS ic o DEAFNESS a Karin AIDED aid fl'ted to your in- of dividual t?'d hy thwp KETTEK Aids fur Hotter HraritiK nine 102. Acousticon Institute ZIU Ba. S.at St. - - gait Lake City Phone Was. 7SSI for Free Demenatrntiaa ail-i- 211-- -- -- double-heade- -t PHOTOS best-know- ' Dan Casey, the "original Casey at the Bat," is shown recreating the historic scene when mighty Casey struck out. Behind him is Bucky Crouse, catcher and manager of the Baltimore Orioles, and Umpire Roy Van Graflin. GOOD ATHLETIC WESTERN Bat. Glares. Baseball. Softball. LTAil-IDAH- tl Vollyballa. Athletic she. etc. SCHOOL BIPPLY CO Salt Lkc. EREAT I'niform. barmy autumn night and a goodly lut waa there, That (iveriaw Joe' barroom ai court upon the square; And aa a sons in wit and story ekes through the oaken duor A vagabond atept slowly in askan upon the floor. ICE CREAM FREEZERS ICE CREAM COLN SODA FOUNTAINS TER FREEZERS and Ira Cream cabinet Steam Bar Fixture. Stool, Carbonator. Tables AIm reconditioned wiipant tnaa H AN Manafactarcra ARTM CO. MOSEK-I Pont Offie Place - - Boll Lake City According to Titus, the scene of this incident was a tavern in Jefferson, Ohio, and his use of the word barroom meant courtroom, since the tavern was once the site of county judicial sessions. A Different Locale. In the. version of the poem written by D'Arcy, which appeared in 1887 under the title of The Face Upon the Floor," the locale is in New York city instead of the little Ohio town. The circumstances under which it was written, according to Porter J. White, a veteran actor who died in 1934 and who claimed to be the first man to recite the poem in public, were 1358. In the Christmas, 1993, issue of the Scrap Book an exhaustive examination of the question Who wrote Casey at the Bat? appeared over the signature of Harry Thurston Feck, at that time professor of Latin at Columbia HARLEY d Motorcycle U HOUSE OF HOPPER. DE WOLF HOPPER 1 "cr-igiii- seven-cant- o 2444 Bound Trip Salt Lake to Yellowstone 20" Bound Trip 1 Vacations the DeLuxe and Saving WAE. mif TF.VA A . he finished reading the ng hi stanzaF. White his thorough approval ot aad splendid epportaniue. Ex- the poem Solitude recited and coatmiaaionunnecessary. Writs Stanley D. when some one asked who wrote Kence Ufa Insurance Company, Nehmaha. Grand Island. had he declared colonel that it, the written it in the Galt house in FENCES Louisville, Ky., back in 1861. of When Mrs. Wilcox heard this, she immediately denied his claim. Wonderful new controller designed for piasteffectiveness and improved safety. Each Joyce continued to assert that er anit elrctrifia ten mile of fence. Priced the poem was his but ignored her from lit up to 224.65 postpaid. Battery or power operated. Salesmen Wanted. challenge to prove it. ELECTRIC FENCE CO. INTERNATIONAL His book A Checkered Life, Portland. Oregon 23 written in 1383, contained PHOTO ENLARGEMENT poems but Solitude was not of edition In a later among them. Any nil np to and laeladlna 21x41 the book he inserted the poem but (11) davrieped and ENLARGED retained the copyright date of ? twe ta six time. 1883. He also published the poem SVC enlargements A oec as a song, whereupon Mrs. WilJ ar I renter prints cox began suit against the John Service Photo Enlargo Church company, music dealers Salt Lake City. UL P. O. Box 51 of Cincinnati, for alleged violalaw. tion of the copyright SALT LAKE Week No. 1827 , The suit never carr.e to trial. WNU According to Mrs. Wilcox, she dropped it upon the advice ol friends. Joyre pointed to the fact PHOTOGRAPHY that the suit was dismissed for want of prosecution and that the ROLLS DEVELOPED XoriDtsIdamblo weight enlarge menu costs were assessed against Mrs or rtiur choice of W print without tcea enlartement a c coin, Wilcox as acknowledgment of his NORTHWEST PHOTO SERVICE authorship. Later Mrs. Wilcox ofyarn Dapt.ll - Kens Peseta fered to give to any charitable ELECTRIC FENCES many lime on the vaudeville and burles'ii.ie singes Years later "The Face Upon th? Floor" was renamed "The Fare on the Flour" by some sell a edhor ar.d was converted ter i: e au tcirr't ranee propaganda much to D'Aroys vexntmn, who Micr.dcd the poem as a plea for kindness to derelicts. Ore interest mg ar.e.e of the dspu'e over the authorship of th.is poem is tl;e feet that both claimants at one time or another went into court to estnbosh their i ights to the honor of having written it "The Fare Upon the Floor' was set to music and became a favorite u vaudeville and barbu shop tenor, who, huweier, to D'Arcy's disgust gave it the title of "The Fare on the Barroom Floor." In 1!'J2 D'Arcy sued Frank Harding, veteran song publisher, for not giving him civ.l.t for being author of the poem ar.d a few years later Titus sued llarding to "recover his title from the desecration of the ballad." So far us is known, neither author ever sued the other, so the dispute over the poem is still undecided. But since Titus is still living, at lcat he has the l.i;.' wold" iri claiming autliorsh p. Raiervationi at your Hotel, Western Union, Potfil Telegnph, or our offices at Lot Angelei, La Vega, Idaho Fall, Salt Lake, Pocatello, Yellowttone, Butte, Helena, Great Fella or Glaciur. 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In tin.1 light of u'l t!C evderiee, Proi'es-'ii- r l'eek rcce! r.i the L'onciusun that for tins, the greatest of my s'rs. to b!."0 was Moic dX'.euii to cstabi sh authorship" is ibc ease of another famous euem, known by two tules The Face on the Bar The Fact Boom Floor" cr.d Upon the Floor." The rivals tor recognition as the author of lins classic arc Joint Henry Titii. still living at the age of ninety-ore- . mid Hugh Antoine D'Aicy. who died November 11, 1925. Titus, born in Jtirerson, Ohio, began writing poetry at an early age and in 1872 produced a poem, called The Ideal Soul." The fifth episode in it he called "The Face on the Barroom Floor." The first stanza was 43 opening lines Laugh and the PHOTOS World Laughs With You, Weep Haw I closer print In albumette sensational, and You Weep Alone." It was A 2 professional enlargement 25c coin. 2e eo. Btar Film Company. Payette. Ida. claimed by both Ella Wheeler Wilcox and Col. John J. Joyce. PHOTO SUPPLIES Mrs. Wilcox asserted that she wrote it in February, 1883, in the Bond for Photographic Barcaln Almost 100 paao of outstanding Bulletin. home of Judge A. B. Braley in value. West 12nd. New FOTOSHOP. 1S6-Madison, Wis., where she was York City visiting, and read it to the judge TRUSSES and his wife before it appeared Hospital Buppl in the New York Sun on February Surrieal Instrument, of Abdominal S Manufacturers Trusses. 21 over her maiden ' name of Elastic Stocking. porter. Company Supply Tha inPhysician Wheeler. In May, 1883, it was 41 W. 2nd South 8t. - - Slt Lake City. Utah cluded in her book Poems of AGENTS WANTED Passion. Rival Claims. NEBRASKA MUTUAL ESTABLISHED COMPANY desire Two years later Joyce heard LIFE INSURANCE la Wyoaiina and Utah. Liberal Temperance Prii;agan:lj. Farr Salt Lake to Lot Angeles HOUSEHOLD In subsequent years Mr. White Ti.::s re: st ag fl.e the Barroom Fin ;r. SAMPLE FARES: I. to ret: le il in public. oil Pricaa catalogue. Balt Lake Poatcard. 2c each paid la advance, tail FREE. CLAUDIA MAILING SYS-!Miriiawaka. Indiana. Dept. the poem and asked permission Jo n Writ for 14 E. Bdy Saving on Round Trip Fares Idrcca Ui'-'i- i ien.a.n 37 POSTCARDS THE F ACE UPON THE FLOOR Tii a a hummer evening, and a ynudiy croud iva there. Mill'd Jm- IVh.i Ii u barroom on the corner of the quare; And at son,' and witiy Cories caine ihtniiah the ai en d'ior A vocal' nl crep! slouiy in and posed toe il ..r Wlit-i-i EXCURISON RATES MOTORCYCLES these: One night in August, 1887, White was awakened in his room in McPikes hotel in New York city to find his neighbor from the next room, Hugh Antoine DArcy, character actor and theatrical manager, standing beside his bed. D'Arcy was clutching some pieces of paper and seemed greatly exThe reason was an incited. cident which tie had just witnessed. With some friends D'Arcy had wandered into Joe Smith's saloon at Fourth avenue and Fourteenth street. As they sat there talking a tramp walked in and begged for a drink. He drew a picture of a woman's face in chalk on the floor. As he put in the finishing touches the bouncer spotted him, and out he went. DArcy followed him, offered him a little money, learned that the vagabond had been a cultured man and an artist driven to drink by the loss of his sweetheart and the treachery of a friend. Concluding his account of the incident, D'Arcy thrust a manuscript into his friend's hand, and White, now thoroughly awake, began to read The usual procedure in killing or getting rid of a tree is to cut it down close to the ground and from then on prevent growths developing from the stump or suckering from the roots. Decay may be hastened by boring holes in the stumps, filling these with salt and water. Keep doing this for a few months. ATHLETIC GOODS 'Twai job as a reporter on the paper owned by his friend and fellow Harvard man, Willie Hearst. While thus employed he wrote a poem called Casey at the Bat, a Ballad of the Republic, Sung in the Year 1888 which appeared in Hearst's San Francisco Examiner June 3, 1388. Thayer Has Best Claim. Despite the fact that others have claimed the authorship of Casey at the Bat, Thayer's right to it seems to be pretty well established. Albert G. Spaulding gives him credit for it in his account of the poem in America's National Game," a history of baseball. Several years ago Thayer himself, in defending his claim, wrote to the New York Times as follows: I note in the Times a dispatch from Cambridge, Mass., in which G. W. D'Vys is reported as claiming the authorship of Casey at the Bat.' He says he sent the poem in 1886 to the New York Sporting Times, where it was published anonymously. 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