Judge — March 5, 1910 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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NUMBE! in some of the interior towns in Jersey are out bright and early this year with plans for their annual move- ment designed to kill off Sunday baseball. They have not been successful in the past, and so this pason they have a new scheme—namely, to submit the ques- tion toa vote of the people at spring elections. They claim that if this is done they will win, and that a majority of the people in any community is against Sunday outdoor amusements. This is not true, as a glance over the situation throughout the country will show. And, by the way, do you realize that the ery that the cosmopolitan East is the only section advocating the ‘‘ continental * Sunday is a joke? Why, there are more op- portunities for the ‘‘ six-day workingman"* of the middle and western portions of this country, the home of the ‘native sons," to get a little outdoor amusement on Sunday than the East ever has seen or will see for a long time tocome! However, as we remarked before, the small-town Jerseyites mean well; but if they expect to win by popular vote, they will have to put up some pretty strong. arguments. Otherwise they will be in the same boat as the ex- horter who invaded an Ohio Ri city, determined to carry on a « vigorous campaign, The hall was well crowded at his first meeting, and he had the time of his life as he dilated up- on the wickedness obvious on every side, and the punishments to come to the transgressors, Finally, in a mighty burst of enthusiasm, he cried, ‘‘\—— is full of poker, women in low-cut gowns, and divorces!"’ And just then a bass voice boomed out from the back of the hall, “Oh, death, where is thy sting!” “Doc? Scanlon, the Superbas’ pitcher, is credited with having a nerve equaled by few in baseball. A story is told that during a game last year between the Brooklyn and the Cincinnati clubs, Scanlon looked over Vakes, who was injured during play, and then sent ina bill for ten dollars for pro sional services to the Reds’ management. An effort will be made to have platforms for the judges erected at all future A, A. U. meets, that they may clearly see the finishes—a thing they have not always been able This is good as far as it goes, National Guard regiments pulling off of well-meaning people ‘The pleasant expression Jeff wears in the ring more to do when standing on the floor. but if some of the WHY Ah! whom have we here? They are merely a collection of be dead for a long time. viduals who believe that every one should 5 Cheerful sort of bunch, are they not ? NOT BE HAPPY? * Mayhap a gathering of the regular patrons of the Br ‘Oh, you of the Ancient Or; there'd be fewer doctors F-DALL GUFF: ela SIR A. A. U. contests will voluntarily boost the size of the expense amounts they dole out, a whole lot more good will be accom- plished, and tnere will be fewer kicks, suspensions, and less desertions to the professional ranks. There is. story going the rounds that Donlin, Seymour, and a bunch of money are to be given to Chicago in exchange for Kling. This is certainly unexampled generosity. Why not throw in Matty and Larry Doyle and put the Giants entirely on the fritz? Kling is a wonder, but there are limits to his valuation. A St. Louis newspaper recently came over with the follow- ing choice bit of information: ‘* New York is a wild place, governed mostly by four-flushers and women of carmine in- People can get away with a lot of stuff in New York they would get killed for in St. Louis.” Everything now seems clear. The reason the St. Louis ball clubs never win pennants (a thing that the metropolitan outfits have done « cca- sionally) is because they fear the surprised public in the Mound City would rise up and commit whosesale murder. Up to this time we had incorrectly imag- ined that St. L. captured no pen- nants because her teams played particularly awful baseball, Giddap! On his way to San Francisco recently, James J. Jeffries, who had just closed a $100,000 vaude- ville starring trip, announced that after he had straightened up certain pressing business mat- ters, he and Sam Berger would ergage training quarters at Los Angeles, and then go on a month . hunting trip before get- ting down to real training. This hunting trip, however, will be for big game jnstead of dollars. Welcome change! Arthur Howe, the Yale quarterback who sustained a broken collar bone in a recent hockey game, says that after he has been patched up he will go back to fovtball. He is heartily tired of rough sports. The American League has decided that Ban Johnson shall be president of the organization for the next twenty years, at a salary of $25,000 per. Let’s see—what is the average annual salary for a good, all-round, and well-broken college professor? The American League also came out openly and put itself on record as against skindicate baseball. The organiza ns to maintain its reputation for clean sportsmanship. Too 1 that the skindicate octopus has such a grip on the old Na- tional League that it cannot do the same thing! clinations. The genial fighting face of Misto Johnson. 1 rapid transit system." say you? Nay. nay! your coniec adiat feast ope day ia the week meditating of the fact that all of us are I wich cheer up! Remember, if there were mote laughter comicbooks.com