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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH, UTAH vrvW vv v r I Tm Released by Western Newspaper Union. YXHO is the most By colorful of the who ' legions of baseball players have graced the big scene? Ernest Haycox FINANCIAL SPREE AND A HANGOVER league THE ro1PBE'!V-.B,fBS0NWhile there may be a few other of business trends- - tells us: CHAPTER I mind picking away at the mystery the saloon rose at once to a noisy nominations, Babe Ruth still gets .l,g0Veental will have a system of socialthe nod from an overwhelming maof Jesse Rusey. This town marshal pitch. capitalism, in which business Hack Breathitt grinned. From the high edge of Mogul to had been in War Pass for twenty Id like jority of baseball addicts. The Bam- ized labor and government will particil the floor of Powder Desert was a years, yet nobody knew him, or to see Ben Herendeens face right bino never will be forgotten. His pate . . . The sheer drop of fourteen hundred and knew what he thought, or knew now. is in natural place was in the spotlight. business today . government . . An economic Hillhouse answered irritasixty feet; and even on the quietest where his sympathies actually lay. Charley Twenty-eigyears ago Babe re- revolution is going on within our Hillhouse and Breathitt came bly. If it was your beef, Hack, you day a stream of warm air from the to Boston the Red Sox as a own borders, and it is a real revoluwouldnt a make of ported it. desert boiled up the face of the rim, cheerfully forward and for a mojoke tion, even though a bloodless one Hack Breathitt had his moments so that if a man stood at the break-of- f ment these three fast friends stood pitcher. If Babson is right and he probHe of too wasnt he had and tossed his hat outward it by the hitching-rac- k his far thoughts. wisdom; and swapped happy Theres two kinds of people in this in the role, which ably is it means we are seeing the invariably sailed back to him. Clay gossip, pleased to be together again. end of the American system of free Those that have prevented his playMorgan had shown this to his All of them had grown up in the world, Charley. have got ing every day. He andthose that competition and are entering upon daughter Janet long ago. It was a country, they had gone to school got beef an era of state capitalism. part of their ritual on the trip to together and had worked and hunt- none. People, that stick and people liked to perform in The change comes, if it does, town, and as soon as they reached ed and had their fun together, and that drift. The Lord made you and the outfield. But the the rim this afternoon, she remindin trouble had stood inseparably side me different. v It aint my fault and Sox won the Amerilargely as a result of our speculative spree of the late twenties, ed him of it again; whereupon he by side. Clay Morgan said: Noth- it aint your 'fault. But I like my can league pennant when most of us expected to get way and no man can make me in 1915 with Ruths sailed his hat across the rim, caught ing new on Ollie Jacks yet? rich over night because of our marchange. it on the rebound, and witnessed her assistance. pitching Hillhouse shrugged his shoulders: Bens got nothing you, ginal against delighted smile. Afterwards they in speculative stocks and the opThey been repeated about it since said They arguing turned downgrade on a road steeply noon. Charley Hillhouse. offered either unwise or 1916, and in the seportunity I dont see nothin to argue Hack Breathitt showed Hillhouse ries of that and narrowly cut against the face about. We stock manipulators to unscrupulous Ollie year, dead in his a smart, dark caught of the mountain. expression. When Babe started his aspyramid financial structures with bendin over a Three Pines folks tracks, As they descended she began to calf with his get heated up, Charley, there tonishing nothing but a publics gambling iron. But theres a aint no pitching record of hurling craze halfway. Its one thing or 29 consecutive recite lines of Hiawatha, in prep- couple townsmen on the to support them. series without innings jury. the other. The sheep or the goats. aration for a school play. Riding Theyre the ones Rather a simple legislation might run. allowing hanging this thing He poured himself a second drink. have prevented it, or at least slightly back of her. Clay Morgan up. This shutout You know what Im thinkin, boys? pitching performance watched her small arms gesture Hack Breathitt grinned: Ben Im thinkin 'that this is probably was at the expense of the Brooklyn stopped it before it reached an and her naturally sober face lighten alarming stage. For one thing, a and grow faintly dramatic. To him Herendeens sore enough to shoot the last time1' us three will sit- at Dodgers in 1916 and the Chicago raise in federal reserve rediscount the jury. He gave Charley Hill- the same table. Cubs two years later. Starting it was a matter of g asrates to a point where the public house a slanting, skeptic glance. Dont talk like that, said Char- against the Dodgers, he gave them could tonishment that one not borrow money with which one run the first inning, then blanked ley Hillhouse. to gamble would have stopped a girls head could hold so much. But them both for of the following 13. them were watching The silence and the slow way she part of it all; or legislation Clay Morgaivwho sat silent all the In 1918 he shut out the Cubs for large had of judging people came from such as our present security law in his while, buried own thinking. the him. The vivid imagination and the nine of the would regulation innings have the foisting He had always been the silent one, first game. He came back in the of worthless prevented growing beauty came from her stocks on the public. the to one last He speak. said, very fourth game for seven more scoremother. It was something Clay MorBut until we had burned our finwith his I want quiet words, you gan had watched for, through the to know this, Hack. If you ever less innings. He was relieved in gers, until our visions of wealth the ninth years and yet, much as he had exhaving pitched wild were dissipated, any such legislation get in trouble, come to me. Ill ball. Butframe, he finished the game in would have been decidedly unpopupected it, it still was strange to see stand behind you. in this girl the image of a woman left field. lar. Charley Hillhouse shook his head, nine years dead, to know that the We paid for that financial spree Ruth has a bothered by Morgans words. batlifetime I tempestuous Lila who had been his knew youd say that, Clay, but I ting average of .346. He hit more of the twenties with a long and sewife now reached out of the grave vere depression. Now, according to wish you hadnt. Makes it tough than 800 home runs, to remind him of the one brief and including those Babson, we are to pay for it on me. Long as I work for Three poked out in exhibition violent and miserable and beautiful games. He with a loss of theagain which has let system Pines, Ill between nothing get accounted for 60 home runs in 1927, made us year of their marriage. In the beand prosperous. We me and the ranch. Nothing at all. great ginning she had said she loved him; He met Hack Breathitts glance and batting in 164 runs and hitting .356. are to exchange it for a system she had died hating him. But the Babe is just as proud of which has wrecked European naquietly added: Dont come to me. Powder Desert began at the bothis pitching record. He claims the tions. It is a heavy price to pay. Hack. tom of the grade. Sand and sageor lifetime pitching That was all. These three rose best five-yebrush. hummocks, built by the east and crossed the room, pushing average in the game. And he in- CANNED BAKED BEANS wind, lay before them ; around these through the, doors. Ben Herendeen cludes Mathewson, Cy Young, AlexTHEY TELL ME at the grocery lumpy barriers, high as a mans remained under the locust trees, ander, Ed Walsh, Walter Johnson shoulders, meandered the deep twin with Lige White and Gurd Grant and and all the rest. Although he was that there will be no more canned baked beans for the duration beruts of the road. This September a group of Three Pines riders. Sher- allowed to pitch only five years, his cause n of a shortage of tin for cans. in the west days sun was was iff Nickum was also there, coat average around .700. and heat lay heavy on the flat; In the happy vacation days folhung loosely to his gaunt frame. In 1919, his bat accounted for 29 lowing ' the trails of the Canadian and in the near distance, on the Jesse farther down Rusey, the homers, then a major benchland at the head of the desert, record. northland, we had baked beans, but street, watched this crowd; and on The manager of the league Red Sox was they did not come in a can. The the houses of War Pass made an him Clay Morgan put his glance Ed Barrow. He and Owner irregular outline. Toward this catHarry baking was done by Joe Friday, a for a moment. Charley Hillhouse Frazee sold Ruth to the tle town they traveled, Janet Yankees competent Ojibwa Indian. went across the dust to join Heren- for a record price of $100,000 and dreaming her dreams Joe was a master at baking beans. deen. Janet out turned of McGa$35,000 worth of ball players. Then in sober stillness, Clay Morgan holdWith a gallon bucket, on which was l rrahs Morstore, toward Barrow advancing followed Ruth to the Yaning his clear intimations of trouble g a If they dont throw Ollie Jacks gan. Her little shoulders showed he would put in an kees, becoming business manager inch of boiledlid, ahead. in the cooler, there aint no use for straight in the sunless cover them beans, her Col. under light, Jacob Ruppert. Turning at the comer of Gentrys juries. with a layer of salt pork, then more small feet made a quick tapping on corral, Clay Morgan faced the With the Yanks, Babe switched to beans and more pork, until the the sidewalk boards. She said: Your boss is gettin pretty large length of Main Street, with its douthe outfield and electrified the sports bucket was filled. A hole in the We are having supper with Ann ble row of angular wooden buildings for his pants, Charley. But then he world with his sensational hitting. ground was his oven. He lined it Her McGarrah, soft Daddy. smile and its deep golden dust. Under the always was that way." held 1921 its In secret he poled out 59 home runs. with rocks and then filled it with again, her eyes courthouse locusts at the corner of Ben Herendeen owned Three showed it. Didnt I He tell was rewarded with a $52,000 sal- pine needles for a roaring fire, until you? Main and Stage, a large group ol1 Pines, and Hillhouse was the rock and earth were well heated. Charley Hack Breathitt removed his hat ary for 1922. men idly waited; and he knew then Herendeens foreman, to the with a flourish. When the fire had burned down to loyal How, honey? that the trial of the rustler, Ollie core. Hillhouse said in a mild voice: But the next season his but a bed of coals, Joe would put fell Hack. How, hitting Jacks, was still unfinished. off. Baseball writers termed his the that If throw Hack dont Ollie said: and beans into they Come gallon of Jacks with a along He dismounted by the stable and in the cooler busted phenomenon. Then, in 1923 the hole, shovelpork there no over use aint for it the hot sand gentleman. both horses to nose into any juries in this he came back with a .393 permitted from the side of the fire, and the Janet her country. hand put in average Hack the water trough before tying them and 41 home runs. After all, Hack, it was Bens Breathitts fist and walked next morning we had pork and to the rack. Janet said: I am goaway i beef. with beans that were superior to any Ruths him. worst season came in 1925. ing to Ann McGarrahs, Daddy." En route canned laid home his from Morgan moved shoulders against They toward the Long variety. She always had a quick smile for spring trainThe war may stop the canning of Grade saloon, three abreast. Direct- the wall of the saloon and freshened ing, the Babe collapsed and spent him when she mentioned Ann Mchis cigar with a match. The in a hospital from the comoeans, but it will not stop the operagroup weeks Garrahs name, as though there ly opposite, under the locust trees, remained bined tion effects of Joe Fridays method, and I beneath of noticed the the locust Clay influcrowd and indigestion trees, grouped Herendeen and might be some secret involved. I Lige White now talk- enza. When he returned to active am glad I remember how it was think, she added, we will eat sup- around Ben Herendeen Gurd Grant Lige White, both big cattlemen, ing together while the rest remained duty he staged a row done. per there and watched him a mo- and and Sheriff Ed Nickum, and a few silent. A good many people had with Manager Miller Huggins. The ment with her observant eyes. smaller ranchers like Hamp Brig- come to the street, scattered under Babe was fined $5,000 for misconGOVERNMENT COST You seem pretty sure of that. ham and Vance Ketchell. Heren- the board awnings. All of them, he duct off the playing field the stiff-e- IN WAR EFFORT Morgan remained near the stafine ever charged IF YOU HAVE a bank account or bles hitching-rac- k to roll up a quick deens riders, with a few townsmen, noticed, were watching the courtagainst a play-e- r. house. Tension crawled up the Again he was considered smoke. But he was never a man made up the rest of the crowd. carry an insurance policy, you are Hack Breathitt got a bottle, two street, strong enough to touch Mor- through. He had hit only .290 and helping indirectly to finance the to let his eyes be idle; thus now, while his fingers tapered off the cig- glasses, and a bunch of cigars. They gan s nerves. J esse Rusey never had totaled only 25 home runs. war. Federal Reserve member arette his glance ran down the went to a corner table and sat down moved from his position as he, too, banks purchased a total of Once more Ruth silenced his critthe courthouse door. A of street, past the courthouse and post Hack Breathitt passed the cigars watched ics. In 1926 he paced one of paper within the the past government to Morgan, poured a drink for Hill- stage stood by the Mountain House office and the Long Grade and now are carrying year, saloon, house teams greatest in baseball to hotel, At the stable, go. ready and for himself and settled history a total of $36,500,000,000 in loans to past the Mountain House hotel and into the first of three straight pen- the government. That, of course, is beyond that to the little cluster of deep in the chair. For that little Parr Gentry sat on a capsized bar- nants. He batted .372 and hit 47 done with brick and dobe buildings of Old interval he was as relaxed as he rel, lumped over and apparently the of the banks could ever be, still smiling a little disinterested, but Morgan saw the home runs. The next year he was depositors and money Town. Two is the safest investdropped still with the mans way the sparkle of secret from a higher level of the hillside. eyes traveled responsible for the greatest slugging ment the banks can make. amusement in his eyes. He said around. Hack Breathitt and Janet record of all time 60 home Up there sat the high, square, It would better serve national runs. To law and order, houses owned by the and downed were crossing the dust to Tanners if the bonds were purstability to According Hugh S. Fullerton drugstore and at this moment Ollie one wealthier merchants hnd the big the drink. chased by individuals, and for the of the greatest of all baseball cattlemen who liked to winter their said Hillhouse tolerantly Jacks, freed by the jurys verdict You, as individual, for the banks, governBabe was from a careless, reckthe courthouse, looked writers, stepped families in town. This was four are an ornery ment bonds are the safest investinnocent-minde- d to less, either end of the overcrown oclock and already the street was street, and The country aint the same ment that can be made. boy and always tried to please halted. in shadow, though the far desert murmured Hack. Theres one Here are a few astronomical fighell where He was a wiry man with burned up its brown-gra- y of a beautiful ruckus cornin. The the He oncesmall boys were concerned. on the ures glitter. of the governumpired a game between ment and thefinancing Jesse Rusey, the towns marshal, sheep and the goats. Thats it. The drawn, blank face of a gambler he war for the fiscal year two kid teams and had to be reswas a man who had been cruised the walk short, broad body sheep and the goats. Accordin of 1943. It is expected that governcaught to stealing beef and now, by the act cued by police when more than Ben Herendeen Im one of the swinging a little. He had the shoulment goats. of the jury, was free to ride out. expenditures will be someders of a wrestler; above the sweep Bens about ready to work, on His shakeyoungsters crowded around to thing over 70 billion dollars. Of that the horse his was in hand. of his mustaches was a glance as goats. Gentrys stable, fifty amount, it is believed the public will feet from where he stood, cool as flint. This man had a kind yet this Although he cost the Yankees Charley Hillhouse, who was a was as far as he buy bonds to the extent of from 12 of rocky solidness, a kind of formid- quiet workhorse got, this rooted $135,000, the Babe of a man, slowly repaid the club to 15 billions; insurance companies position before the courthouse with able courtesy. He said, How are nodded. Jesse Rusey. on one side of him many times over. His lure at the will absorb about two billions; other you, Clay? and passed by. Breathitt started to speak but was ana Herendeens institutions some three billions. gate was responsible for Yankee staHillhouse and Hack Charley group watching dium quick-risin-g The remainder must be met out of stopped by talk on him the the house from the that Ruth built. Breathitt broke from the courthouse street. A man other, and with all taxes or provided by the banks as struck the swinging the town looking on. and walked At group toward him, their doors of the that moToday the Babe probably would additional loans to the government boots puffing up the streets dust; and rushed in.saloon with both fists ment he knew what Clay Morgan give half of his possessions to be He or saved by congress in cuts for in a half and every soul in town knew: said, but for a moment he remained shout, he backup the big leagues. But the non-wThey let Ollie Jacks free expenditures. Every dollar slackly by the hitching-racmemory of his past deeds should saved would his and ran out. The conversation in knew he was a dead man. help the American peo(TO BE CONTINUED) prove sufficient solace. ple to the war load. u ht left-hand- - - never-endin- nine-year-o- ld 20-ye- ar ar half-dow- nine-year-o- ld tight-fittin- - rip-roari- st $18,400,-000,0- cross-stree- ts ed v n. ' 10.-0- 00 ar k, carry 00 |