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Show ( Wgg EE SAYS ' j 'Wfir' "Why is a player not a crook , , , - SxLS) When e'er he steals a base?" p "Because the player passes on Alld leaves the bag 13 place-" There's a health wealthy village Thatls playing hob. they say, With its big- league speculations Franklin City of Pa. - , They read all the city papers. See what stars are in the deck Then thoy drill another oil well 1 And It gushes up a check. i They took Harris out of Cleveland. Aiid Walt Kinney 'way from Phtl No matter whom they want to get, I-'or the oil wells pay the bill. ' But spppose they took a hanker That they'd like Dig Ealie and Ty, i Trls and Rygor, mnj be Slsler 1 Wonder if they'd thon go dry? 1 Whenever some baseball star don't I show up at the clubhouse the manager ! sends a wire to Franklin City, Pa.. In- quiring if a follow ansperlng the de-I de-I scrlption of the absent one has been j seen prowling round the village greens. I Several much-sought-after big tent- ors have taken up their residence In the Pennsylvania city of oil gushers, i ... I Can you imagine a major league : prima donna, who Is used to laying in I bed so late he has to eat an early dinner din-ner for breakfast, getting mp by an ' alarm clock to lay a mile or so of i pipe line before the break of day, j They don't. . The money may hae something to : do with the trek of .star ball players to the oil city, but probably most of them have reasons all their own. - . s ' ,t r Joe lfarViH would' more than likely quit talking abour making a lot of dough out of his Ponnssylvanla pool room if "Doc" Johnston wasn't getting away on one leg at first base and at tile bat .better than any other star is on two. Kinney doesn't like lo play with the "Connie Mack" background of kids back of him. t You could name a dozen players whose minds have turned to the oil league brand of baseball from some personal motives. And then, you know, a lot of ball players have gotten Jnslde tips on oil 'atrata in Texas and hava Joined tho "rocking chair" boys. That's another angle. 9 You never can tell wlien a ballpla-er ballpla-er Is going lo become a financier ihese days. Kinney looked the gushers over, Then came back and doffed his lid: "Sly one. If you'll let me I'll come back and be a kid." But, of course, all of them don't stick. Connie's absentee la asking for another fling with tho Groen Elephant juveniles, and Is to got It. Sorno folks blame Fred Clarke for setting the "get-rlch-quick" example. |