Judge — August 25, 1923 — page 33: what you’re looking at

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The Campfire Girls’ Athletic Carnival Continued from page 16) can’t. Katie won. try to make us re- our decision. We think there ought to be at least. one sport. story in which likeableness does not triumphant. We hope Ralph Henry Barbour won't consider this an im- pertinence. but we Don't verse emerge \ye now we come to the baseball game. The ra in bloomers, take the field. Mrs. Hock- fleisch, now an umpire. cries, “Let us. start, girls This hasn't the felicitously imperative ring of “Play ball!” but it answers the purpose. For, look! the girls playing. Mollie Hoople, the first batter up, hits a foul ball over the catcher’s head that is good for three But the hit doesn’t do Mollie any more good than if she had cracked out a one-base foul, for, in’ the excitement of the moment, she for third after dropping the bat there she is, after running three i c ired on first. Still, even «© on a foul tip isn’t a bad per- formance, The next Is, dressed are bases. mere batter, Pearl Pastrami, is hit on the back of the neck by a slow ball that forgets to slow down. This is the first time on record—and we defy even AL Monro Elias, demon dopester, to disprove our statement—that a succeeded in being struck on t of the neck. Either the pitcher, hearing an injunction to “wrap it. around) her neck!” complied. with a brand-new curve that describes a circle; or the batter, unfamiliar with the approved position at the plate, stood with her back to the pitcher and tried to meet the as it headed for the catcher's glove. Or perhaps there is some. other explanation. We're not sure. It all happened too quickly for 1 Pearl, rubbing her neck and crying, down on the home plate. ‘The pitcher comes in to console her. While sits my love! leagues: ‘and a half.” I would fain go but three | this is going on, Mollie Hoople, who is tired of holding first, steals second, third and home, while her admirers fill the air with their ecstatic applause. | Mrs. Hockfleisch asks Pearl to. get off| the home plate that the game may con- tinue but the girl refuses to budg She insists that she wounded. Ina few minutes. she is surrounded by a worried group who begin to wonder whether the girl isn’t really going to die on their hands—or, rather, on the home plate. At this point one of the girls reminds everybody that it’s lunch time. “Very. well, girls, let us eat.” declares Mrs. Hockfleisch, mentarily forgetting—for she too has an appetite—her anguished patient with the bump on the neck. In the scramble for food, the suffering Pearl decides that there’s more nourishment. to be found in a picnic plate than a home plate and she suddenly finds her legs. And once she is eating a sandwich she forgets her worldly woes. The game is in the day, and, at the suggestion of} Mrs. Hockfleisch, who wants no more casualties, a rubber ball. is used—and perhaps this accounts for the elasticity of the score, which is estimated, by the : s, as anywhere from in favor of some one. to resumed — later | The rich little poor boys. has been mortally | | Learn in ONE HOUR at pome joing a wall-flower any’ ballroom. NEW EASY METHOD No Partner Needed No Embarrassment Six Lesson Course on FREE TRIAL WILLIAM CHANDLER PEAK, M. B. Studio 184 4601-4611 Broadway Chicago, Illinois | GREAT PRICE CUT | ON GEM Corps the tire that gives 10,000 | prices. | + Gein Cord half price for any tire | not SEND NO MONEY ANGEM CORDS shipped C.0.D. EXAMINE } If not the beat buy you ever made, | the Ureand get your money back < discount for cash with order, R COMPANY CHICAGO, ILL. of Au three $2. ify intial, length and color of belt R. M, Glover Mfg, C 1040 Wayne St INVENTORS | Wie, desite, to. secure patents should wri our guide book, “HOW TO GET YOUR PATENT.” Send model or sketch and description and we will give our opinion of ite patentable nature. RANDOLPH & CO., 789 “F”” Washington, D. C. NEW AMSTERDAM THEATRE at 810 POP.MATS.WED.Z SAT. NEW SUMMER EDITION GOODYEAR RAINCOAT FREE ¢.Co, 1356 RD. | Goodyear Kansas City, Mo, handsome raincont to 01 who will show and reco} want one write today Goollyear Bldg, offer to send a erson in cach locality nd it to friends, If you Inquiries on financial matters are answered gratis by the Investment Bureau. FOR MEN OF BRAINS IGARS “MADE AT KEY WEST—