Wj , ,ff if 4 'J' H 'V '" f y ' EVENING PUBLIQ LDaER-rPHILADBLPHIA, MONDAY, AUGT7ST 0, 1920 !8$fc fiertf's Afo Base Life Home uy . o. W'liwt.ii, V n..iL . lists St. j?'tH fflMfi f M new odeiilMi-e In Word L nmc Win onto." ''Thtrfa $0 Bac im , to roiJntlarZUt Bd Harmon. CHAPTUn I pint Innln n-..iJ, of the Hudson's river, N. "j Toe-Well, Joe. vn Have sot oft nDa . art aTrou ',avo Prob-ly no doubt ' till lapers and win tho first 5. of Z "eLon by tr.mm.n- the EJhin. with tho ridiculous case. kven win oy '". ' , oiinin hey. Joe? Them that's all ' la4nCOhUB 'off of me and you guys sot eleven lBt" tpfrll.Ie support f' wtHB "i bal! hU to the infield them J.1?) n nrtcd like It wns against tho lr,la,n oSch It "nd It mmlc the Bamo Ia. Pmorestln' to have tho bases loaded. ora?&r-a of ill n hv the arm nnd says this Is srilhll i?. n .ill came and not K banquet KS I hid better Bko baclt to tho bull pen SSh lam o's the Robins .wouldn't "t no more tban half a dozen hits each ort..?fJ.ni" I Havs "You wanna re Jmber this herfulll he the first real member w ,'',, fQr nearly two years Rd If them BVs does "ucfc themselves fnti a run or ho. don't blame It on mo. t 1SbiT wns n slow starter anyways." 1 -You a"d It I" Hays Mac. with ij sar Mtl?al sneer. "It used to srencrally bo fh first week tn December before you pot ?oln' at nil and what Bood Is a In- "Toe can vou tie that? This bird would And fault with a ten thousand-dollar b"wiiy vestenlay mornln' I am up In m flat. Joe. Tngageil In tho Innocent Mftlme of playln' with my baby whilst SJanne looks on with a lovln smile on he? ?qualy loiln' fneb and a book by the name of "The Whole KijbIIsIi Urn Imb" In One lesson" In her hand, when fhev's a ring at the bell. Our Imported n d from Yonkers trips llRhtly over a rue Into the room and exclaims that thev's a Buy outsldo by the name of Mac ihlch wishes nothin' better than to see me I give permission for him to come '"Well well." he says, lcttln' forth n rrln. "The happy family, hey? How is ctrtbody this mornln'7" "WhafB the use of WcWnr I says. What d'ye think of my child?' "Fine '" Fays Mac. "'What Is It? "What d'yo mean, what Is It? I hollers. "It's n baby what did you think It was, a giraffe?" "I mean Is It a boy or a B.rl, says Mac. "Save that comedy for the club house." "It's a boy." I says. "Somo kid, hey? "I'll n.iy he Is !" says Mac, approachln' carefully like he was afrnlil my baby was Konna bite him or tho like. "Looks just llko his mother, too. Oct them navy bluo eyes, eh?" Vocr mind tryln' to Bet In solid with tho wife!" I says, whilst Jeanne presents him with a dazzlln' smile. lD'e wanna hold him u minute?" "Well eh let's Rtart with somcthln' si!." says Mac. backln'. away. "He teems all rlcht where ha Is, I'll let that part of It bo for a while, hey?" "Cher!, say bon Jour to Monsieur Msc!" remarks Jcanno to my baby. "Ump goof waush Bunko!" rotund my baby, with a sarcastlcnl Krln. "Don't mention It," says Mac. "Say that kid's a wonder! Talks us pluln as I do. How old Is It bv now?" "What's tho difference?" I says. "Did you wanna sec me about somcthln ?' "Yeh." says Mac. "Put on your I ana com "I ain't drinkln "And " "I want you to come out to the park with me for about a hour," he Inter rupts "I have Bot hold of a bird which I can buy chenp from Buffalo and I ROtt.i get him quick If at all. I wanna fhort flash nt him at work he's BOtta be back there tonight. Of course. I won't have much time to see whether he's worth a clfrar coupon or .1 fistful of diamonds, but If he shows me anythlnB nt all. I'm gonna take him along. He's a Infleldcr by nationality and maybe I cin put him on second next year In Itrad of Watson " "What are you gonna do with Wat Km"' I s.iys "I thought ho wim the fame to tho club as the frnnchlse." "He's sllppln' fast," nays Mac. "He's enmmencin' to field like they was lovln' cups gle o he guj- '.vhlc's mado the most errors a camo and ho ain't lilt nothin' but four fouls since ho como conn to the tralnln' camp. Thcy's a Rood Uln' In one of them llttlo cigar ttores or the like thnt'R up to him !" Joe ain't that tough? Aa soon as a Ply begins to show tho first signs of wear they start srcasln' up the old Jlilds for him. Such Is llfo In baseball, ney, Joe? Today you're a knockout, to morrow you're a tramp I If you rap out a triple, tho mob Is wlllln' to elect you major If you fan tho next tlmo up, the bleachers turnB Into a coupla thousand would-be murderers. Joe. wouldn't It bo awfully if I begin to slip nnd let clubs like the Cards trim me? I often wish now that I had took up the dellcntes fen game or the tnovlen or tho like for a jlun' and not hae to caper around a Jt nil day for money Ilka a Idiot, hoy, Well anyways, mo and Mao climbed aboard my new auto which I now drive 'ne name as Barnev Oldflold as Rdod, but not as fast and outside of ono tramc cop glvln' mo a flve-mlnuto lee ;l"i' tl!1 ,n" subject of "Keep to the nKlit and a motorcycle cop showln' unusual curiosity regardln' tho reason why my motor was smokln', wo got out 'a the park O. K. Thoy was three or tour of the Bang there nnd also this nere find of the season which was In bneyform. Joe. ho was as big as WIN lard, ulth one of them fat, good-natured races which a bartender wns supposed in ,'..but 9n'y bee" on lilo that nLmyi ! fe a.nd he wau tne B"y which owned tho place. Well, Joe, Mac culls mm over. hin7hmt,.ur8'aJ1Kd "armon," he says to , "bat did you claim your name iitn'm, nBC0Yiman," he says, grin mn iko a wolf und shovln' out a paw 5?ni i- ns ,So.u,1 Dakota. "Well, nftt "Ml m Ki,t j Bhould bhako bunds your hat thing." I ays. .fI?tm .Iuftrmon' whlcli who don't heard tell of him?" , ''Tllt Kosconovitzman thing has got ", JK- ay Mac "Ifo too long I How Slf! i V eVcr Bct a trnde mark like 7,." . ,,? ft nox score? If you work for 21. -Ve.i' .ca" yu "o "os8, nnd let it so nt that, get me I" ti, .R..?,u,tl chango my namol" says Player?" nm Ia actor odcr a bnl1 tu'ni d?.n'1 .knw," says Mac. "Wo'll Ret ffi "" settled In a mlnuto ! Let's see w,X?UTnm,..a al et along." , "'!' Jo Smith Bets on a glovo nnd Bocs back of the plate and I took off my coat and cst and went out to tho oox. iko Ross, neo Tlosconovltzmnn, grabs up a bat and steps over to tho piate. . "Oevhalt '" he soys. "Only shoot It over and I'll murder It tho ball 1" Joe, It klnda peeved mo a trifle that this here bushcr with tho trick namo and tho Joo Welsh dialect should cast a reflection on my world-wldo reputation as r mound artist, ns the young report ers says, bo before I wound up I looked him over with that deadly cold gazo of mine which has quailed nnd flinched so ninny. "I lintc to send you back to the sticks, busher," T says, "but If jou lay n bat on this pill I'll nhlno your shoes In front of the city hall at S o'clock tomor row afternoon I" "Mnko It half-past 2," ho says, rub bin' his hnndn In the dirt, "nnd you could bcllovo It, I'll be there! If you could tnako mo fan, I could mako It a locomo tive not that you ain't some pitchers. Maybe tho first ono I would miss on account from being a llttlo cold, but oy I what I'll do to the rest of them I This hero's a big chnnco for me. Mister Har mon. I got It a chnnco I should get In tho big's lenguc. It's next to the biggest thing which It ever happened from me In my life. I should miss it, hey? Say I'm laughln' at you 1" "What was tho biggest thing that ever happened to you?" Mnc nBks him, Erin nln nt me. Ike rubs his -chin a minute. "Well," ho snys, "off tho hand. It's qulto a question to answer. Stlll.v I think that tho biggest thing which It ever happened from mo was tho day I was born !" Tho gang gives Mao the laugh and I shot over a fast one whilst Iko was lookln' at him. He merely sneered nt It and Mnc hollers for him to tnko his bat ofT his shoulder and not act llko he wns cnrryln' a buii nnd If he did think he wns to at least como to present arms with It. I eased over another one and Iko missed It from here to St. Paul. I put the third ball under his chin, Joe, nnd ho swung nt It so hard that ho spin around llko a top a coupla times and wound up slttln' on the plnte. "Oh, bov!" bawls Mac, holdln' hla nose. "Who Inld mo on this guy? Bean him with tho next one, Harmon, and I'll send him back to Buffalo on a shutter!" "What Is this nussla?"- says Iko, gettln' up nnd dustln" off his uncyform. "Couldn't'n. mnn Bet It a chance here? Suppose I should miss, now, two of them? That first one wns a ball and I got one strike left, na? That makes no matter from me. Now say they Is a man on first, a mnn on second, a man on third n. man on well, thnt's cnoush! I'm nt tho bat's. Ono strike I Bot left. If I should rnp It out a hit now, tho least I brlnB in Is a run. na?" "Ych," s.vys Mac. "and If I had Mor Ban's bankroll the least I would bo Is a millionaire. You Bot tho same chance of Bcttln' n hit on tho next ball as I have of bcln elected chief of police In Bulcarln. "Tnko off that uncyform nnd ex change It for tho gate. How I over fell for you Is past me !" "A minute !" says Ike. "The contract was I should have It a hour to show what I sot. Knlr Is fair nnd risht Is right, pa? A man's word Is the satno llko his bend. Vo with tho others llko you wnnt they should do from you. Don't kick a man which ho's down. No body's perfect. Forgive nnd forget. A man which " . .... "Half a loaf's better than a charlotte russe," hollers Mac, dancln' around him. "A rollln' stonc'a llablo to hit some body. A stitch In time saves buyln' n tiew suit." Ho run over and Brabs the bat off Ike. "Shut up!" he bawls. "What d'ye mean by pullln' that stuff nn iiie' I'll cive vou exnctlv n half hour more to show mo you ever son a ball park before you come hero todny ; and if you nln't a riot, I'll knock you kick- In' with a bat for wastfn' my tlmo. Now Bo to It nnd show melt' Iko irrlns nnd roaches for another bat. "fair enough I" ho says. "Oh, what I could do It In half a hour I Why, would youbcllovo It. Mr. Mac, only tho other nlBht I win five dollars In half a hour from somo friends playln ten cent draw poker?" "You win fivo dollars In ten-cent draw, elW sneers Mac. "Well, you must of drnwed a gun on them guys I C'mon, Hnrmon, let him havo It." well, Joe, I let Iko havo It ; and to show they wns no hard fcelln's ho let mo havo It, too I You nover seen such a change como over anything In your life, not even tho Gcrniiin prinv ni the one that took place with this Iko Buy. I felt klnda sorry for the poor hick at first, because he suro looked pitiful stnndln' thcro without a friend und the gang rioiir mm to a larc-thcc-wcll. 1 Well I thought, I'll easo ono over sq's he can innk.' some kind of n showih" I beforo he gets tho gate : nnd with that. .ioc, i snot nun ono right in tho groove, Joe, ho put It up ngalnst tho tobacco sign in right field, and tho bunch beBlna to ride me. I flBurc by thin time I havo done nil for him that he can expect, so I feed him my world-famous slow drop next, and ho lays It in ho left-field Koaohcrn. Joe, I nm gettln' sore, nnd I bIvo that baby everything I got in stock, from that wicked Inshoot of mlno Galvanized Boat Pumps I.. 1. lleiTfr Co.. 0D N. Sil St. .Unbi loot). Market SSI. WATER PAINTING A smfit'' by machine or brush. Artistic designs, any color. Wm. B. Southern 12th & Spruce N. W. Cor. DIAMONDS nniiRUT BOUGHT , House of Established Reliability Highest Prices Value Guaranteed I IPHTFV'Q 6 North 11th St. LlOn lb I J i Door b. Market SMALLER GAS BILLS Send for circular deecrlblnB the fluo on our caa range top. H'b a money-saver. A Tatented and Guaranteed by W. H. Pearce & Co. 41 S. 2nd St. T.ombara 41-15 rooT ANIV T,1ID IIIUUII i.i.-i Instantly relieved bv nur itneclAl arch support, fitted and adjusted by experts. Our HmitUms Klastlo Hosiery, the most comfortable support for vari cose veins, swollen limbs, weak knees nnd ankles. Trusses, abdominal nna ainimio oud- nnrtrrR nf nil IHnria Y.nrrA.t mfrs. of doformlty appliances In the world. 1'hlladrlphln Ortlmprdle Co.. 40 N. 13th st. Cut out and keep tor reference. V. L. frWF Announcing Heppe's Annual Sale of Used Pianos and Player-Pianos now avf fi1S!cct!?n of hfuh-erndo ir.strumcnt3 a five vei0ble ot unusun"y low Prices, with mango privilege. Call or write today. C J. Hepped Son in- Downtown Uptown H, l'" a"a Thompson Sti. '-" - ? uSi, 'ti'.d.ii ,.' , .ui a ,t V .aS ..j. . . mihS&huX.,Z..' xT2': VTJUl'v- " - r to my notorious wlgglcr, which Is as fast lis a frightened bullet nnd twists llku a tplleptlo Bnnke, Joe, ho cat 'cm nil up, fillln' the nir full of baseballs; nnd Mao give. a. sarcastical grunt nnd aks me mo ne roommates. Ho even nut n wild pitch up ngalnst tho flagpole In deep center; nnll Hmith. which was cntchln me, never laid n finger on tho hnll becauso nono of them got that far. When he slammed my llghtnln' outshoot so hard that It must of como down In Htisala for the first bounce. I throwed off mv glove and null : nnd Mnc tells him to go out on tho lot with tho rest of tho gong and show him a plcco of fieldln'. Joe. that bird would never of hit mo as hard ns that If I had been In my bnsfbitli itncylform Instead of merely stnndln' thcro In citizen's llfo clothes, becntiso t am what they call n artist nnd rnnnot pitch my best unless everything Is Just so; nnd besides they was no crowd thero cheerln' me on or yollln' for mo to bo took out of tho box, ono nt the other, nnd that sowd mo up too, Any guy which Is what they call n artist Joe. can lell vou the miinc thing. They Ir n thing which Is knowed among us fj-cat men as temperamentnl ; nnd I wns took with a sudden stroke of it or that guy would never of laid his bat within telephone dlstnnco of tho ball. Well. Joo. wo nil took turns rappln' out balls to htm In tho field ; and If ho was good with the old wagon tonnue. hn wns n fiend when It como to fieldln'. Ho was faster on his foot than a rabbit, nnd as for a throw In' arm- oh, boy I Joe, ho snapped ono from second to mo nnd I thought they wns a motor In It from the way It sounded goln' past my car. Beforo I cohld raise a gloo to It It wns bouncln' oft the side of the dug out. Mac sent tn somo other Buys to work out with him so'n ho wouldn't feel lonesome; and ns far as fieldln' was concerned them guys could of stnrted a crap game, bccauBo Ike never slve them n chance. Ho covered moro ground than tho prohibition movement; and If Ty Cobb could of scon this bird work ho would of Bono to tho nenrest drug store nnd took a seldel of arsenic from plain Jealousy, Joe, he missed a odd ono now nnd then or he would of been unhumnn ; but ho gavo n exhibition of thn gamo of baseball nil by himself out there that would muko Krtrtle. Collins look llko a bushcr. "This fiuy's n gold mine'1' Mac whis pers to me. "He'll be tho talk of 'hn country In n coupla weeks and so will I for dlggln' him up. Why, they won't bo nothing nn tho front nana at Mm papers but his pictures and the like; nnd they'll run what's happenln' In tho rest of the world In the advertlsln' sec tion Ho's got Watson's Job sewed In tho llnln' of his vest now, and I only hopo ho won't ask for a cut of tho Liberty loan to bo to work for me. If 1 got to do It, though, I'll bIvm him the clubhouse nnd tho grandstnnd to get htm to try out a. fountnln pen on tho bottom of a. contract." With that ho yells for Iko to como In. "C'morol" says Mac, when Iko como grlnnln' up to tho plate, "and tnko that simp look off your face whilst I'm talk In' to you. I must say I'm a wholo lot disappointed nftcr seoin' you work. I thought you had big league stuff In you, but you got mnnys tho year to go yet on what you've showed today. You small tlmo knockouts arc nil alike world be.it prs with tho high school boys und tramps when you get In tho Ulg Show. How over, I'll glvo you n chance, but you vo got to Improvo BOO per cent over your present work. I counted all tho bulls hit to you, and out of thirty-six chances you missed two that's terrible! Tho only reason you got a hit nt all off Hnr mon was becauso I told hhn not to ex tend himself and tnko chances of hurtln him nrm. If ho had really let himself out you would never of put wood on the ball, get that?" "What clso Is tho matter from me?" says Ike, scratchln' his head, "I'll leavo tho blcachern tell you nil nbniit that thn first time you work," , says Mac "How much dough do you think you ougnt getr "Well." says Ike, "that's a question. How's boslncs3?" "How's business?" hollers Mac, "Say, how long havo you been playln' pro fessional baseball, nnywnyo ' "Oevhalt!" snys Ike. "You should live that long, I wnnt only I should savo enough money to open It a delicatessen and then I wouldn't .caro If I never seen n umplro oen for tho rest of my life." lie begins wuggln' his head from one sldo to tho other. "Tsch !" ho says. "UaHcbnlts that's a business I Strlko one, Btrlko two, ho's out, he's snfe, bat tels up, bnll six, leavo him In, tako him out, kill tho umpire, oy!" Mo and Mac Is havln' trouble with a bad case of tho hystcrlals ; and fin'ly Mac demnnds to know nt onco how much money Iko wants and bo done with It. "Well," Bays Ike, "so'a wo wouldn't wnsto till day with fighting and llko that how's six thousand a year?" "That's nlco money," says Mnc, "and I bet Itockefcllcr nnd Morgan hit around that practically year In nnd year out. I'll snllt tho difference with you and mako It two thousand. C'mon down to the olllca nnd I'll Blgn you up beforo I change my mind." "Oy," hollcrg Ike, speaking to the flngpole. "Two thousand a year I I'm laughing nt you I A conductor from a street car gets two thousand n year nnd first cracic at mo nicseis anu you want I should play baseballs for that, hey? Either I get It six thousand or I go back to Buffaloes. You cowM' taKk It or leavo It." , , ,' 'Z i "All right," says Mac, turning Tr. "I'll leave It. So long, stupid." 'j ; Wo got nbout thrco feet away, 'J, when Iko comes runnln' and grabs MMi-: by tho arm. . 1 "tllmmo It the papers," ho aaysr "Tit ' ;t sign 'em. You could tako a Jok couldn't you?" . . Well, Joe, wo got this here worM t beater for about tho Bamo money the) ? groundkeeper gels and I only hope h j-i, .lnn'f flirt, mil In tA n flnoh nf tl.iv nar. 4 Mno had a lotta fun ccttln' his release- tf from Uuffnlo which must of seen a rat , ivlipn tin wont nftrr lien. hrrnllRn virn hail V: to glvo $7000 and two good outfielders to get this $2000-n-ycnr champ, r Wntt linnnn nlltf. n ca iia,1 Im . '$K mark In tho trenches nnd I hope thlnrs vV Is iroln' O. K. with you. I don't work 'if uf?nln tor threo davn nnd thpn T nlftt &2! the first game ngalnst tho Phillies. Tho ? i' nnlv nnn nf them rilvn which will m ''s j first bnso will be tho bird which' Is a playln' that position for them, hey JoT Mi outa common politeness, Jcanno seTids ir her love. , 1UUIB II UIJ , ED. HARMON. (Tho Extryordlnnry pitcher do luxe), Copyright, 1020, by Doublcday, rags t, Co. (CONTINUED TOMORROW) ir s ss ss ! -- f - .----. TtTTXT nm Avfl OCX " t t o HHHHPHsWHiiH -3m h ...as M? lit- H ..JT vr1 jfrs EqrVrrffrr? . ; r WHO PAYS FOR PNEUMAT6C TRUCK TIRE EXPERIMENTS j WHEN an automobile owner's tire goes back on him he more or less cheerfully charges it off as a personal loss and tries to do better next time It is different with the motor truck owner. Every tire must do exactly what is expected of it or bevcharged against his business. Experimenting with tires is not the job of the truck owner The United States Rub ber Company spent two years in developing the idea of putting a heavy truck on air before it brought out the first pneu' matic truck tires. Even then it was not satisfied Even at that time it saw that you could not take an ordinary passenger car tire, enlarge it and make it do what truck owners expect of their tires It went back again to first principles to the foundation to the bead of the tire i lislssBw Wm nm in ! W a vIHaBA VSSBBBBrBHSBBHBBBVflBSSBrSBBJft c l HKL' vl H The car owner who seeks United States standards in tubes is well pad in more mileage for his tires. I'. S. lied Tubes. U. S. Creu Tubes. It created a new type of bead construction, posi tively anchoring the cords. It put in the right number of' breaker strips, stronger side walls, a heavier tread. The result- was a pneumatic truck tire not an enlarged passen ger car tire. Created to fill a need not padded and bolstered up to . fill a market already created. There are still some sizes o U. S. Nobby Cord Tires you cannot buy. The market is there, waiting for them. But they will not be released until this company is satisfied that? they will do what truck owners expect of them. The United States Rubber Company has never asked truck owners to pay for its tire experiments. ' 'If U.S. PncumaticTrutk Tires Rubber Company United States Tire Division Branch, 329-331 North Broad St., U. S. Pneumatic Truck Tire Dealers in this City: JOHN A." PALMER 28 No. 40th St KEYSTONE TIRE & RUBBERCO. G. E. Tanner, Prop., 1310 Callowhill St. FOURTIETH ST. AUTO SUPPLY c?akLx ' ....tiwW r.W. ... t ... ,'..,, .. . L.,, , . ,. t,wV..rt,: ,,. ,. m .1 r'i Tti
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