Argosy All-Story Weekly — page 167: what you’re looking at

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IZZY KAPLAN’S KOLUMN Received via W. O. McGEEHAN THE PRICE OF A PASS. HA NKS to the fact that Izzy Kaplan not only looks a gift horse in the mouth, but hires a veterinary surgeon to help him, and thanks also to the assiduity of his listening pariner, W.O. McGeehan, who se parated him from the result of his researches, this magazine is enabled to present to its readers a dramatic warn- ing entitled, ‘“‘The Price of a Pass.” There never was a time when Izzy would have bought the Woolworth Build- ing for fifty-five dollars from an open-faced stranger in a check suit without asking for a receipt. Nevertheless, his friend succeeded in extracting from Izzy, in a con- fidential moment, the admission that he, the all-seeing optic of sport, purveyor of the lowest down in dope, and unblushing associate of newspaper men, had once bitten at that infamous confidence game, the free pass, older thar: the gold brick, and more effective than the slungshot. Izzy has reserved the motion picture rights to this gripping bit of literature, "for he feels that through them he still has a chance to get his eighty-seven dollars || and fifty cents back—Tue Epiror. E and Moe Koenigsberg ain’t good friends no more on account I chust gave him a smesh in the eye. What did he done to me? Well, I will tell you. That feller ectually went and offered me a free gratis pass to the Polish Grounds to see the Giants playing a baseballing with the Pittsburgh Piefaces. You are esking me why I should hit a feller @ smesh in the eye on account he only offered me a free gratis pass to the Polish Grounds? That shows you ain’t had no experience with the free i pass business. When you been in the woild as and know about that pass thing you would hit your own brother on the five you a free pass. : I will told you how I found out about the free pass business. e is a sporting editor and he writes for the papers when he m the sympathetic gin. He told me confidential that | t on account of the great nerfous strain which he 3s comicbooks.com