Judge, 1923-10-06 · page 8 of 36
Judge — October 6, 1923 — page 8: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# "Fielder's Choice" - Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page collects three separate humor pieces typical of Judge's satirical approach: **Main Cartoon ("Fielder's Choice")**: A visual gag sequence depicting baseball-related scenarios. "Fielder's choice" is a baseball term, and the cartoon plays on double meanings and physical comedy common to the era's sports humor. **"Egg View News Notes"** (by Leslie Van Every): Gossipy social commentary in short anecdotes—a new currency design announcement, a man struggling with a secondhand car, and a romantic eclipse reference. These mock small-town American life and social pretension. **"Accomplishment"** (by Edgar Daniel Kramer): A short poem mocking a failed poet—someone who aspired to write novels and screenplays but ultimately produced mediocre verse. The page satirizes American consumer culture, romantic conventions, and social aspiration through lightweight humor. The dialogue snippets offer quick jabs at pretension (the "bold, masterful" type, the golf player's excuses). Overall, this represents Judge's formula: mixing visual gags, gossip-column satire, and light verse to entertain middle-class readers with observations about their own society.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
MLA Aina, sr Ayn Di VV Ta Ay ff Fielder’s choice. Egg View News Notes “There are two sides to every question.” Accomplishment anise hat’s what hurts statesmanship, We : by Leslie Van Every dedlased ‘Senator Glubb: by Edgar Daniel Kramer TRIED to write a novel And then a movie plot; ved short stories, ; Jost when Balboa Bogger runs out of things to wonder about, the ment announces that one-hundr He—I suppose you have no respect for -dollar men who ask for kisses? bills of a new design are to be placed in She—No; I like the bold, masterful on the lot. i irculation. typeof men. gg : . | ileo Sprawl, who bought him a ans Undaunted by hi ] second-hand automobile last’ week, to Mac—Sandy, why don’t you use your He made the | save himself a lot of steps, walked three iron? When he became a poet miles yesterday climbing in and out of it, Sandy (in the rough)—Ye puir fool. And went from bad to verse: ] trying to get it started! That ba’ cost me a shillin’. ox | It got so dark here, during the recent eres j eclipse of the sun, that Chet Lumley in- Nowadays, no man is a hero to his E ; vited Miss Lutie Banks to go riding with valise. As a rule, it's the valise that's Biggs—No, not a bit. / him. the hero. “Loan me thirteen dollars.” comicbooks.com