OCR Text |
Show USESFUNERALMONEY FOR BASEBALL TOGS San Francisco, March 16. Mrs. Lee Bo King of Chinatown fell ill last week and it looked as if she would die. Her sister In Oroville sent down $100 to defray tho funeral expenses. Mrs. Lee recovered, however, and the money remained in a dragon vase on the mantleplece. There Lee Kin, aged 12, the pride of the household, found it. He questioned his father closely about the condition of the sick woman wom-an and when assured that his mother would get well and there would be no need of the services of an undertaker, undertak-er, he appropriated the hundred dollars dol-lars and hied forth to buy everything an American boy uses to play baseball. base-ball. After a 24-hour search, the father found young Lee walking along the street yesterday, carrying, balls, bats, gloves, bags for bases and Buita - , - enough to equip a whole team. Only $59 of the hundred remained in hi3 pockets. "No hav.e funeral," he explained to his parent, "so why not play baseball?" base-ball?" "' |