Show AMERICAN association alliterative assemblage 8 teams of 0 s and C s would make strong show ng wile ie W s wn lirt also run strong any artful all te ration overdone Is an example of audacious effrontery or so say the great literary sharks of all time the greeks started it by framing up a maxim nothing to ex ces ce s the romans made only one exception to the rule fighting and handed it on down when the ger mans found it they immediately ex eluded beer from the law and passed it on over to the irish who in turn took baseball out of the list affected by the nothing to excess maxim therefore anything goes in baseball even artful or artless alliterations what started all this however was a glance over the batting averages ot of the american association and the noting of the fact that strong tive teams could be selected there are not enough A s to form a team but the B s bould w do with a little judicious padding here and there beckley brashear bush and burke on the infield would push brown bate man and barbeau darbeau to the outfield deville could catch and brandom pitch mixing the metaphors slightly these B s certainly would make hay the C s are also to the marshmallows put cook coulter and congalton outfielders carr carlisle cross and dark clark infielders crisp catcher and curtis pitcher together in the same bottle shake well before using and a strong mixture will be the result if mccormick mcchesney and me ale carthy could get rid of the ales me s they would strengthen the C a wonderfully no D Ds s E Es s or F s appear numerous enough to form teams and there are only four G s the H s are strong with hughes and honley ho ie catchers hall and hitt pitchers hopkins hayden and hall man could fill the outfield with har ley as shortstop and hugh hill on first base hopke and HI hitchman would complete the infield going on down the list again there are six K Ks s five L s and eight M s counting me ale s of course the only other letter in the A A alphabet that sports a team Is W and it puts up a great crowd nobody would kick on wood wilson and west for pitchers and wakefield for the backstop woodruff welday and would work well in the gardens while otto williams clyde williams zeke wrigley and eddie 11 heeler could be shuffled around most any way in the infield it if anybody ob ejects to wrigley under the reformed spelling rules one of the pitchers would have to play second base |