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PIRIT
of, Ol
GERTRUDE MORRISON
AD it been for the corona-
tion of a king, not more
care could the two have
bestowed on the selec.
tion of that suit. Ripton,
the easy-going he of the
shambling gait, untidy
linen, green socks and dingy brown tie,
suddenly critical, corrective, a veri
table connoisseur.
“Something nobby,” suggested the
well-meaning Shelby, selecting from
his samples a pronounced plaid and
forgetting that what well became his
old good-natured, tubby style might
set differently on his elderly friend.
“Something less ostentatious,” Rip-
ton would insist. Nothing bizarre
nor rococo.” Shelby guessed the new
words from the rejection of his sam-
ples.
“Gray, exactly match.”
“Of course, now, it's your funeral,”
Shelby would acquiesce in cheerful
regret. Ripton consented to a hand-
kerchief bordered with color
w #* * * - * *r
Shelby began 't that day he started
leisurely up the hill to find Ripton. It
was spring-—real spring.
“Whew!” he panted, dropping
heavily into a chair that commented
to
~Because We Set Out to Be—or
Because We Want to Be”
on his 200 pounds. “What
there, Bill?"
‘Warm for April)
hastily shoving into
square white envelope,
shy defenselessness suggested failure,
and glasses stood on the table.
“Takes the ginger—out of a
to climb a hill—summer
winter clothes’
“Billy.” he finally continued,
ing back his chair,
you
agreed
his
Ripton,
man
weather
teeter
“how about
coming?
how,
terial?”
The older man flushed and smiled
sheepishly under the raillery
“They're not inviting me now.” In
the rebound of the admission he drew
himself up into a semblance of mili
tary dignity. “Young man.” he said
sternly, “time was when I danced with
the belle of them all”
Shelby nodded briefly.
“And a more slender waist, or a
trimmer foot—" he stopped under the
other's curlous gaze. “Shelby, we're
none of us—derelicta—because we get
out to be—or because we want to be”
The weak, loose mouth, the hand
shaking in its effort to steady a news
paper turned Shelby away in pity.
Striking out at random, in kindly ab-
sence of his former chaff, he coaxed:
“What is the letter, Billy?
help?”
“No, It's—-nothing. Just a
fun the boys are planning.
“Well”
“1 mean-—the boys—my boys.
pany B!"
“You—-in command?”
“Yes.” Years concentrated
bitterness in that word.
over the letter
“Now, do you know, they never told
me that”
“And you never guessed? Oh, |
know I've pretty well concealed it.
Even my walk's mellowed now.” The
crunch of th: paper in his hand ac:
cented his crackling mirthlessness,
It roused Shelby to sudden deter
mination. “See here, you're going.”
“Going! Coing--where?”
“Why, to this here Memorial week
reunion they've asked you for.”
“I=1"'m—" his eyes wandered over
his flimsy, faded clothes, “I'm not
fue)
going,” slapped
“You bet you're
down Shelby. “Don’t you want to
are
He had selected and rejected half
a dozen suits before he got Ripton's
reply. “They would be--my own kind
-=pnee more.”
His glance wandered to the glasses
andibottles. "They don't know. Each
I've pleaded illness or business.
Looks aristocratic,
Society editor short oo ma
little
Com-
their
I shouldn't want them to know.
s'pose 1 could?”
Their eyes met
would be a week.” Shelby was less
jubilant, “But see here, Bill,” sum
moning all his own buoyancy and en
thusiasm, “you can, and you must, and
you shall”
Ripton caught up the air of unsuc-
cess that had partially slipped from
him, “A week's a long time—for me.”
A thought loosed again the drab dra-
pery. “Shelby, d’s'pose,” lowering his
voice, “she'd be there” She married
one of the boys.”
“Who? Oh! the belle? She of the
slim waist and the slimmer ankles?
“George,” said Ripton, in his voice
a touch of gentle dignity new to his
friend, “we'll just not mention—her
ankles. They don't — among my
kind.”
Shelby buried his amusement and
his smart, to follow eagerly in the
wake of this chance straw. “She'll be
there. The women great on re
unions, Bet you'll her on the
train.” He rose. you're going
all right, old man
about fixing you out
» . * . ® * *
D'you
doubtfully. “It
are
find
“Oh,
As they walked the platform, wait
ing for the train to pull in,
part of a prosperous country gentle
man, albeit one with a touch of sport
ing blood, us was evidenced in the gay
border of his handkerchief. Not his
the nervousness and the uncertainty
His bearing was dignified, his
going back to keep
boys.” Back farther vet,
herited and conventional
Shelby, who, for the last few we
had in turn steadied him, sobered him,
cajoled, flattered, browbeat and in-
spired him, poured every ounce of hi
own vigorous will into the other's
vacillating temperament, found him-
self undistanced, unable to
this quiet, self-contained
whose side he trotted, and
aware that the change was
well as outward. His last
counsel and pleading clove
tongue as he gazed
own handiwork. Perplexity
her beady sign across
He could only rasp out, as he
his friend mount the
drop, a drop, mind
Understanding what
do for him, Ripton
clammy hand and the train pulled
out, carefully replaced the gay hand
kerchief with a white its 'R’ fas
tidiously arranged to
Three days passed
surreptitiously
Friday
step with "the
to things in-
man by
was dimly
inward as
words of
to his
helplessly
wrote
forehead
helped
his
steps
not
wrung his fat
as
one,
view
Thursday Shelby
hung around the sta
he met the trains openly
“Bet Bill's full”
“of the spirit of SL.”
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they
Martial sounds hurried him
There they came
another down the
to
a big
line,
Me
the
street
leading
morial days. Two rode in
horse of one refractorily impatient of
the band's big, booming drum
little girls, clad in white and beard
wreathes: the local boys’ brigade
long line of carriages,
er than last May, with their precious,
sad remnants; the young men of the
Spanish war; the bands; and, in
rear, as in the van, the flag whose
stars had been kept intact
Shelby scanned the faces
riages
front,
the
ng
in the car.
once in sudden hope bec
wave of the hand.
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It was an-
“Look! There Me Is!” She Cried.
whose feet kept time on the curb. He
sharp disappoiMment. Ripton’s fall
all that gaping crowd; even the young
thing beside him whose skirts the
skirtling: wind blew back from slen
der ankles, It shook out over their
heads, the passing flag.
“Look! . There he is!” she cried
An iron-gray man in quiet suit and
plain tle, the feet within his dusty
shoes marking time despite their
weary lag; his face drawn in a suf
fering beyond weariness or weight of
flag-pole; but about his mouth the
look of the grandfather who fought
under Perry, and of the ancestor who
fell on Lexington Common one April
morning; his eyes full of the spirit
of "61.
Shelby beamed on the girl her
own pride glowing his heart,
“Mother knew him,” she explained
shyly, glancing at her black frock,
“and fathor-—that was he who waved
~=father and 1 found him on the train.
He wanted to go back three days
ago. But we asked him to carry the
flag.”
TIGERS’ STAR HURLER
Willing to Play Any Position
Manager May Request.
Jean Dubuc, French-Canadian, Has
Willing Disposition—Fields Posi-
i tion as Few Other Pitchers in
League Can.
Jean Dubuc stands head and shoul:
ders above the ordinary pitcher when
it comes to hitting
Jean can hit when he
thing else,
Dubuc depends
change of
can’t do any-
principally upon a
pace and a crossfire, His
slow ball 18 thrown with identically
the same motion us bis fast one, and
the batter who divines the Tiger's in
tentions is considerable of a mind
reader,
The first impression of Dubuc
usually a favorable
is not
To the unin
pitcher
is throwing himself off balunce when
pitches and that the batters,
when connecting, would have little
difficulty driving balls through the
box
But
one
though the
after watching
doubtful
dispelled Dubuc
other pitchers in the
Dubue field his
impressions are
fields as few
American league
There is seldom a but
he has three and four assists
and he handles them all cleanly
Jean is modest He
success the fielding work behind
of pitching and Jean will
ug plays that jerked him
from ticklish situations I
talking pitching and
what the other rs
He keeps himself
There FOUnE
id lose their }
game
that
sft rib
ites his
to
him Talk
tell of field!
Hist
he will
have done
in the background
pitchers
were they
are who
to
Jean Dubuc
I
smiled
‘nun this Fre
with Dubue.
He keeps himself
# willing to pit
ailed
pinch
IES
infiedd or «
Dubuc is
pig her,
round
but he
player
PLANK
Fielder Jones Is Much Pleased With
Presence of the Former Athletic
Star on His Team
IS SOUTHPAW'S JINX
Fielder Jones recently remarked
that Eddie Plank iooked just the same
to him as he did «ight years ago, and
added that he was mighty glad he was
with St. Louis instead of
team in league
Plank was the toughest man | ever
faced.” said Jones I could not hit
him with a board fence, and I don’t
think any other left-hander can i
would hate to see him working against
my club. He looks every bit
saw him
the Feds
other the same
as good
look and he
because he knows more It
is oven
better
Eddie Plank.
will be fine for me to bat against
Plank in practice and try to discover
just why I never could hit him. Every
time I think of what he used to do
with Danny Green, Frank Isbell and
myself | feel like swearing, because he
certainly had us right. Believe me, |
got a bargain, Eddie Plank is good
for several years of star performing.
Remember that and see if I am not
right.”
Kiem Praises Yanks.
Bill Klem, the National lsague um-
pire, pays that Donovan's New Yorks
look 50 per cent stronger than a year
Ngo.
FEDERAL LEAGUE
DEVELOPING STARS
EDOW
Figures
league is developing
who bid
prowess, the most
known vete
the equa
the two
a nucle
there has been
ling of t
developed wonderfull
He
the Hrooklyn
cnsational
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NOTES -
nch hitter
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Han Joh
Can
all,
nson bas pledged the
league clubs to play faste
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Ed thea Bi
ing arcording
from the Pacific coast
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Walsh, g Mooae, is
back nformation
Alexander
great-grandpaw, see
more worlds to conquer
» » *
Grover
Lefty Leifield, formerly a C
er, has joined the Bt Paul
the American association
* * .
ub pitch-
team of
Ww he n
winning
one victory is hailed as
streak,” one gets a
idea of the fang estimate of the «
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lub
¥y Cobb favors
it's now up Mrs
serve that baseball
ers.
woman's suffrage.
Pankhurst to ob
is glorified roun
to
Joe Jackson has been starving all
winter with
Girls This summer
with the Losing Boys
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Tow
be may star
Goro Mikanie, the Jap. who was re
cently elected captain of the baseball
nine at Knox college, is one of the
most popular men in the school
“ » *
Jawn McGraw evidently realizes at
fast that while three hunks of Roque
fort may beat a brick of Camem-
bert, it takes porterhouse steak to
Win.
» - -
Marty Kavanagh, who is playing
first base for Detroit, holds the cham-
pionship of the American league for
being the homeliest man in the cir
cuit,
3 * - .
Pitcher McConnell, now with the
Chicago Feds, learned the art of poker
while with the Cubs on the spring
training trip, and is a regular at the
evening sessions.
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Eddie Collins is growing in favor
with the fang every day. He pulls a
wonderful stunt every afternoon and
ofentimes his clever work turns the
tide in the right way.
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The Brookiyns are slow on the
bases, If manager Wilbert-Robinson
wants his team to occupy a respect
able position in the pennant race he
will have to develop more speed in
his men while on the paths,
leag !
farnmi
nwortl
with the
81x chances
own the di
but one
“¥
made
‘hadbourne takes
enter field
MY in ©
ANS SPINA NPN
of Cincinnati
| at Suggestion of Well-Meaning
i
!
Manager
“Bug” to Avoid Injury
It a well
meaning bug that the ideas of
orings adopted in unif
i TODea
col
» Eu
war migh » quite wal
for baseball
And how
| Herzog of the Cin
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i
queried
innati
puzzled face
"Why. that's
explained the bug
ish gray or
target for
brighter colors
to understand
“Khaki or green
easy
the marksman than
while
white uniforms—dike those all
EA
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Manager Buck Herzog
wear on the home grounds-are the
easiest marks of all. Now, then,
isn’t it only fair to assume that ball
| players, uniformed i sGie such color
pitcher to hit? Quite a protection
from injury, 1 should think”
Buck. “Make "em harder to hit? Say,
man, what we want is something
that'll make ‘em easier to hit--let me
have three or four men hit by pitched
balls in one game and I'm likely to
have enough runs foreed in to win an
ordinary game!
hit, huh? Depart from here by the
process of placing one foot before the
other, In vegular alternation, before
you make another suggestion.”
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Easy.
How did manage to win the
an heiress?’ asked the en
vious fried of a “dancing man.”
"Oh I glided into affoe-
tions.”
you
er
her
the average
grindstone
About the
boy does not
only
turn is
stone
the
tissue.
“There's a Reason”