Show I CiSI EDIE P PECKS CiS 11 I YANKEES IN j jI I F Bm SERIES I II I Bat Boy For Confident Giants Will Meet Defeat I lb 11 D II n 7 Sp cal Correspondent of or The Standard rd Cop rIght 1923 by The Stand Cam rd user r EW E V YORK YORI- Oct Now 6 t 6 No Now that ou hale base read and read and digested per per- hips a per p a 1 I the he care carefully Cully predictions experts and and tho the mAnagers and this the pl-nen pl and tI the what not about the ot of toe 1923 world iriM perhaps ouI ou would I be In- In lc In I tc In a n politico I prediction the wisest kid In baseball Then 1 p ste this In la our hat as I coming from Cd Ben Ben lett bit 11 the usually lIpped eose rh The rho Yankees wilt will 11 win In There can be bc little doubt about I claim to bo bc the w t Iest l pst kid I though he h does doe not claim It himself HI His friends claim chains it for him and the claim chains appears to toI I o 0 a II lot of m roe roe-it lt for tor It Is based I or the tact fact that Eddie has ROen something better than se en hun hun- hundred hundred dred 1 big league leacue ganses co In the list e CI flue CIe e years T n T SOY BOY Eddie Is la the tho Yankees Yankee's BOYI mascot I bat ho bo boi I low ow It 1 were ero basing his on the dope as ao all the eat j eat army of ot baseball writers have to do h he might feel fec obliged 1 to hedge too even If It ho he know more nore about the tho gre great t l I pastime ard arch Its chief than mans mani mon ct of the experts do Bu Buddle Is I not all thing so 50 trickY as the dope He Ito has a 0 red rd hot hunch And It lok oI js it if there thero be a 0 a lot In it 1 I ye Ve v been In four world orld series aerie he h he sass 3 and the team 1 vm was a with Ith lot lost lot e ery esery ery ry time iliac Now row In every esery on one c C C those thoo thos series serl's m my club lost the thetos tos toss This ear the Yanks won on It II so 0 1 Im I'm picking them toI to I win III lie series These words word of ot wisdom w fell lOll ell from the Bennett Dennett lips as E Eidle stood b bu sl side o the tho dugout in the handsome new ne stadIum Eddie Edle declined to dIssect hi his club man mn by I y man or make maJe an t PredIction r what the Id pla pia cr ri would or would not ito fo In is til the serl series crie I He lie did vouchsafe the th Information Information tion Ion howe howes however er that tue-I ham Jones whom hom II lie ht pes to see ae in to n the fir fir- firing ng ing line for tor the Iho Yanks I In the opening open- open Ino ing ln r game came Is I just lust about the th fellow In the I world orld II- II has spent his winter inter with Sams Sam's folks r out at Ind md Eddie s started lart ell his hi as abIg a II aWe bIg We le guo eu mascot In Chicago fh fise e ars ago aeo when hen he was as almost 13 He lIe had Iad struck struel up quite a friendshIp friend friend- shIp hip with Happy Hippy now rel ch now an nn memory tot for most Windy Indy City fans fans-as fans lS as he sat at ama p-ama mc In the th bleachers out In Hap Hap- Hap pi I a part of ot the Far pardon garden BECOMES S SCOT I When hen Happy learned that F flies flie's 1 dies die's father tather had died h died 11 is mother bud bad died diM sonic some ome t ar ars before he talked It 0 over oser er with Ith his fl sand and the upshot was Vas that Edde became the White Whit Sots Sois o s 's mascot Thien came tle tJoe th black series tries with its It at- at atI at attendant I disgrace for tor and nd upped his hh stakes s and came camo cist t He lie landed with lIh the Brook n in 1920 saw Uncle Rob Rob- RobI Rob 1 Ie I ie Ic an 1 his crowd thi hi ouch th the world series wil with h and I then Ihen jumped to the th Yankees Yankee Waite Valle Ho lot t rot got him the Yankee Y job which he be has hs held now for tor three TI ere a a n great Ireat ib c-ib these I said ald Eddie with shining I II eyes I Great ball players and groat grent fellows But my favorite of ot cm em em emall all II Is 10 Jones I Are Aro you going out to Frankfort this winter Inter with Ith Jones the tho Writ tr t r asked aked No guess I I 11 StiCK stica In New York lork th this time he replied Whit Wo ate are re iou ou to do Do Oh Im writing a 0 a book All of us In baseball ret get the writ writ Ing bull bug sooner looner or later Im I'm call call- callig call nE ig It My y Fh Flue I Years As A a 0 Mas lIIas- Mas- Mas Mascot Mascot cot end nd nd say y Its GoIng coins to be bo pre pret- pret pretty pret ty pretty chapters chap good rood too 1 r o 0 got sot two chap chap- done don already And with that EddIe hurried off ott ottto Itero to eerie ten Babe Bobo Hut Ruts Rufi Uh a 0 war ci and nd a ask k him bins the something answer to which YOU vou doubtless Ios er win find 01 in the th book |