Judge, 1910-05-07 · page 3 of 16
Judge — May 7, 1910 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three distinct pieces: **Top Section ("Base Ball To Day")**: A satirical cartoon about a baseball game where a Shakespearean scholar attends and becomes so focused on Shakespeare-Bacon authorship controversy that he loses track of the actual game. The humor mocks pedantic academics who import literary debates into everyday activities—here, a professor nearly misses the final score while arguing with spectators about which poet wrote Shakespeare's plays. This reflects genuine early-20th-century scholarly obsession with the "Shakespeare-Bacon Question." **Center**: Player portrait cards, likely featuring contemporary baseball figures. **Bottom ("Stung")**: A domestic cartoon about someone who bought 24 beers from a man claiming only 23 remained—a simple deception joke about dishonest dealing. The page primarily uses baseball as a vehicle for gentle social satire about academics and petty fraud.
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