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Show f Laugh Makers in Town Ring and Irv Are Here Want to Be President I Ring W. Lardnor and Irvln S. Cobb, woll known as humorists, woro Ogden visitors for a short time today, ar-i riving horc shortly after 8 o'clock and i departing for the national Democratic headquarters at San Francisco, a short time after. They departed on wost-j bound train 19. j Lardnor, famous for his "You Know lie, Al," stories, which have hit the baseball world by storm, when Inter-1 viewed at the local station attempted' to sidetrack the roporlor but once J jfc polntotl out by the station master,! roadlly answered when the "news' Lardner turned quickly and In a flash hurled back, "You know me, Og-don; Og-don; you're somo town." A long conference was then held. It was long in one sense and short in another. Lardner would fire forth one question and then alothor, thus keeping the reporter in an uproar until un-til finally tho inquisitive reporter said: "Now that you have asked mo a million mil-lion and one questions may I havo the ploasure of asking you and the Hon-! orable Mr. Cobb a few?" I Tho request was granted and the! questions were fired in rapid order, ala machine gun, so to speak. j Fit Ac a Fiddle. ) Lardner refused to answer one ques-l tlon pertaining to his age, stating that ho was between 1 and 100 years of ago, fit as a fiddle, but that tho music . nowadays was not half as jazzy as it was prior to July 1, 1919. "Tho chango duo to tho absence of Johl Barleycorn, has not only hampered mj work," said Lardner. "but it has alsv I hampered tho work of several other co-workers In tho editorial office of a certain Chicago office. In fact, to tell . y'u tho truth, It has certainly played havoc with 'Al.m y baseball pal,' and of late the poor kid has been unable to gQt going in the majors. Hush, Ring, Hush. "Say and do y'u know that this kiJ Al, has got anything in the big show cheated, has he, you yell 'em. And how that boy can hit. Say, he rode one out of tho Chi park a few days ago that would havo made Dabo Ruth, tho war horse of tho Yanks, sick with envy. , But getting back to the points, tell me whore can a feller get a drink?" During tho spasm of spieling by one Ring Lardnor, I. S, Cobb sat on tho bench at tho dopot, with cars uplifted, uplift-ed, eager to hear the very words of tho famous humorist, Cobb, however, finally said a few words and stated mat news with him was a scarce article arti-cle since he had lost a certain wager made on the recent Republican convgn-tlon convgn-tlon at Chicago. "I am on the bum, believe me, down 4 and out. For once in my life I picked a loser and. she was some loser too, bollovc me, brother. One of tho scribes at the convention made a 3 to 1 bet with me on the first day that neither! Wood. Lowdon nor Johnson would be I chosen for tho presidential plum. Ah, says 1, that's a cinch bet. So with confidence galore I tok the bet, and as - n nn -m n i i i i you luiow the result I don't need to explain. ex-plain. But I havo hopes of having bet-jtcr bet-jtcr luck at the San Francisco contention." con-tention." When asked as to who was the originator origi-nator of the "You know me" chatter now hitting the country by storm, Lardner replied, "You know the original origi-nal humorist of the country, don't y'u, well 1 wasn't him." Lardner prior to boarding No. 19 stated that he was out for a "wet" platform for the Democrats and that if they would elect him ho would bring homo the bacon. sure Is Thirsty, I "Since July 1, 1919, I ' have been homesick, yep, downhearted, and I am sure that if tho Democrats name me ifor the position, I will be able to again give drink to tho thousands of dry tongues in the country. If they don't name me I will have to sail for France, because I am sure thirsty for Just a little of that famous stuff that car-'ries car-'ries a kick like ono of those Browning Brown-ing macii'inc guns." I Lardner and Cobb were originally 'attached to tho newspaper special that went through Ogden yosterday but failed to make conections at Donver i duo to a party. However, they managed jto get away with all of tholr property intact and stated that even If they (Were a lap behind in the race, that they could beat any aggregation of their clasB in the world, at ringside weights, In any line of chatter, athletics athlet-ics or teas. They havo departed, but may Lardner Lard-ner return with tho presidential plum in his left hip pocket and may Cohb bo tho'cholco for tho second honors. |
