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Show THE MAN IN A PINK SHIRT Plays Stiff Game' of. Poker, Hunts Good Deal and U Familiar Figure at Ball Qame. , Tho telegraphic story ot the evnta which threw the fat Into the Are in Mexico and started the war over again, mentions a man In a pink shirt as the ono who led the attack on Juarez. Having touched the spark to the powder magazine Just as the belligerents wero shaking hands for peace and reformation, the man in tho pink shirt passes out of the telegraphic tele-graphic narrative and out of the history his-tory of Mexico. Unless this man In tho pink shirt la an exception, those who live In a country town know him well. The pink shirt ltBelf was bought at n racket store for 69 cents. Tho man plays a stiff poker game, hunts a good deal without reforenco to tho game laws, and Is a familiar figure at ball games, country fairs and foot races where betting Is tolerated. W.agerlng money on tho outcomo of a ball game Is too slow for him. Ho bets on whether the next throw of the pitcher will bo a ball or a Btrlko; whether tho batter misses, or breaks his bat; whether tho catcher running for a foul gets or Is cut on the barbed wire fenco. It Is disturbing to know thnt a man in a pink shirt could overrulo the General Gen-eral of an army and scatter death and destruction as at Juarez; doubly disturbing dis-turbing to bollevo that ho could change the destinies ot a nation. |