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a nc BST SOIEER. 3 aetna peemed to root him | nder him tongue-tied: Hally impressed, 10 Write | customary aesirence, Ui You're} forward to greet the visitora. and the THE GIRL ett A Romance of the National Game , PENNANT ae? ito areal Pohasnan, however, had sieited safer Kero, 1 j ut will) them from afar and bore down upon a 7 fendi woing to your ¢ months | them. + Novelized from : “Maybe you're 1 Good morning, Mise Fitzgerald,” he asnan tn al ‘ not over-cordial 1 would wait at the Mr 1 expected 1". Bohannan,” ce my tip] @swered the Kil whore presence had 3 Hteaity, and by| Stricken Copley Reeves into silence, “t $00, Ti add to sour] “ame out here to the park to mee the third of the World's weciee| team at Work and to talk to you." ove snow flien| She introduced the manager to her! CHRISTY MATHEWSON’S |’. ins Baseball Play of the Same Title “remem Copyright, 1910, ty The Prose Publish ing Co, (me New York ie Weel neo things « CHAPTER I. always follow up m Foul Ball! morning, lowed this one here Bagien had jumped into notice of late, First, heonuse they finished ur feet that pes #eeretary, Miss Squibbs, and to @econd in the National League list the ceding ywar, but chiefly tb ‘id Hed Ruest, Alice Tilton, a somewhat ote) y @ause they were the only professional » ‘ball club in America owned an © Soutuern « Bohannan suritly | acknowledged the introduction, then sald with what civility he could must “Tam very glad to see you, Miss Tite- * ‘ by a woman. Kee Ol4 Johnny Fitagerald had ormantzed the Facies; had carried them from Bush to Minor and from Minor to Big League. He had pushed them nearly @e the top of the baseball Iadder. Then, some months before this story bemins, he had died, bequeathing the club to his only daughter Mona Apart from the fact that she was an ardent fan, Mona Fitegerald was es Mttle qualified to own @ mafor league basedall ciuly a fun a@ dirigible alrship. And she knew It. Yet she accepted the burden as a eacred truet from the father she had adored, and ehe relied implicitly on her father's manager Bohannan to pull the club through. ‘Yet, when tie Eagles went to their apring training camp at Biigo, Tox., reporta that drifted Eastward concerning the team led M Fitzgerald jo on @ Southwestward trip to the man, occupied a more or honorary training quarters to consult with Bo-| Position on the team in order to be near hennan and to make certain quite femi-| 418 brother and to stand between him nine and unbusinessiike suggestions as/ 40d fhe countless scrapes that were 0 the club's affairs. forever stirring Punch's erratic path- to well out tha ies Behind “The Makings” “Bull” Durham is first, last and always a man's smoke. You never find a smoke-dabbler rolling his own, These thoroughly satisfying hand- made cigarettes appeal to the aggressive, stalwart fighters in ever walk of life—from the cowpuncher, toil- going to tell h |iaat ita a on ft from your] queried Mona Fitagerald, ‘t have @athered | “If ehe won lowly, SMT yn to yo ducks that were #ent ‘To Copley Reeves there seemed some: | thing tense, even ominous, in the inter- change of greetings. Intuitively he felt that a clash of some sort wae at hand. | tn the to me ¢ ‘wants to keep) the name of Fitzgerald in baseball, H all that slush. Why, if I could get this! club for Freeman Pa be on Easy Street! for the rent of my days. Freeman says! he'll let mo in as part owner if I ewing the deal for him.” “There's more than one road to Easy (To Be Continued.) et ANNUAL BULLDOG SHOW OPENS HERE TO-MORROW. won't @ell and na that you're with met” —INATU see. ‘They strolied off toward the gate. |Sam, having returned from the hote! Tor ene thing, Boharman was forever | "4y through iife. Btreet.” after delivering his message had r¢-| Thomas W. Lawson and other well he round-up, to the millionaire wweiting to her advising tht she sell the| Early one morning at Sligo John Bo-| “Not for me. I've alwaye travelled|turned to aeo if Bohannan had anylinown dog fanciers wil exhibit. thelr es nt idi Hell. for-leather to wi cud to @ financier named Freeman.|hannan strolied into the training | straight.” | further orders for hin, Coming to the|champtona in the annual bench show of | polo player, riding hell-for-leather n Yor enothor, he was trying to persunde| rounds, Summoning Sam, the team's! ‘So have I~etralght to what I want.|ap in the fence juat as his own name No U.S. battle- the Bulldog Club of America to-mor wed lived next door to the Fitsgeralis tn Afvany. ‘These two brothers—Punch end Cop- Rewepaper notoriety.of Inte years. father had dic: fortune bet on of4 conditions. bso stained from liquor for six oon- brother had th Punch was t Copley, far falled to master. Bagles’ crack pitcher, though @ successful busine A Finishing Touch ‘Teo many a dish anda keen ap- petiser for every meal, SAUCE he had known as a little girl and who! Jey Reeves—had come in for no little Thoir leaving @ comfortable to be divided between thom; Copley, the @éer, was to have sole charge of the estate until euch time es Punch should months—@ feat the younger negro, then gianced furtively around as though to make certain that no lolterer was in sight. After which he walked to @ spot in the fence where one of the Palings had been torn away and peered down the adjacent railroad track. What he saw sent him hurriedly back to a nearby bench, where he sat in an elib- orately careless posture and studied the cloudieas sky with the alr of @ weather | Prophet. A moment later the gap in the fence was choked by @ portly middie aged man whose squeezod with AiMcuity {through the narrow aperture, The man Was !mmaculate in dreas and of a se- jrene, well-fed countenance. A physiog- | nom t would have read there an un- shakabie good nature, blended with an entire Inck of scruple or conscience. A baseball fan, without gleaning these | facts from the stranger’a appearance, | would have recognized him @ quarter | mile away Henry Weiland, owner of hannan, glancing up in assumed sur prise, “Where did you drop in from?” “Brom my private car down the track there, of course,” answered the rival that,” emtlingly conceded Welland. “But things ate beginning to brace up a little Since I got into the game. When I dought the Hornets I wasn't out to doom the holy name of Sport. I was in {t for my own pocket, I was out for big money. And I'm getting it. Tf the Hornets win the pennant for me this, } clean up a snug half million on | “The pennant™’ repeated Bohannan. “Thore'li be another side to that, The Eagles this year aro far and away tho best club in the league. “It's a cinch that elther the Eagles or the Hornets will grab the pennant. And 1f"—— “You can't count on it," contradicted Bohannan. “When you've been in the jong as T have you'll know o such thing as a cinch tn big league baseball. By the end of the season we may both be tall-enders.” ‘Tm willing to take that if Before he could decide anything as to Ita possible meaning, the texm came swarming onto the fleld and made for thelr quarters with much laughter and horaeplay. Bohannan, returning, strode into the Jolty mob, shouting orders and assign- ing training duties for the morning to the varioua men. For the next half hour the team tolled and mweated as Athletes do at the dawn of their train- ing before #inews turn {0 steet ishes and wind grows perfect. Some were sent out for batting prac- lee, others to pitch, others for dis- tance running. Punch Reever, winded from a “three \timea around the park,” Jonged back to the bench where Copley, his brothar, was readjusting his spikes. “Bohannan's been giving me a call for being late this morning,” observed Punch, ‘a it'll comt me twenty-five next time. @ chance to get in on the world series. “Can't be done Fiverybody'd be on. You can't double-croas in baseball, man. | team’s owner. “Rotten trip from New Why, your own players would get wise ina “I know. But ft didn't take. I—say, Cop! Look at the bunch of loveliness oosing through that hole in the Both men rose to their feet as three and |* muscles to iron and loore flesh van- ning, Ne Hept: A Drew, Mount Vi begin at tl o'clock and continue till eve- | | rk; RR. Littlefield, Gardner A. M. Lederer, East Williat 1. Bower, Philxdoiphia; Jonn EB, Harris, Ri Now York; H. B, Judson, tone: ) Brooklyn; W y Bushton, A Buchanan, Amble: it 4 ew y Park; Pa, ati A few of the prominent exhibitors are: | Steward, Chicago; William T. | non; Robert Lebban, her to let him sell Pitman, an old time | Diack factotum, he ordered him to go at} That's why I'm tn baseball. Pinseball, W988 spoken by the man wer, he had | row at Grand Central Palace, Only bulls Pitcher who had helped make her fath-(02c0 to tho hotel and tell the captain | tan't Just a sume nowadays. Ita busl-| halted tnvoluntarity, v he came | wit be benched, but in thie class 119 3 ship ever leaves port without a supply of ere fortune and the Pagios’ fame, to;tiat the team was not to report for|ness,” forward, his black forehrad wrinkled | doa wili supply 190 entries. “Ball! Durham on boardno U.S. Army Post ever runs short the Minors. Then too in the Eagle, York at the park before half past ten. “A clean business, though.” {With hia effort to digest the fragment) John F. Collina, Preatdent of the Rull- of “th Makings. ‘camp were two players, brothers, whom| Bohannan looked after the departing} “It hae been—it has been. Tean’t deny! Conversation he had just heard. | dog Ciub, will do the fudging, which will c La g Ask for FKie: book of ‘papers’’ with eachSc sack the Hornets baseoali team, the Eagles’ | eal r ’ S laughed Welland, “All I'm f 5 & Clonest and bitterest riva | to do fe to He down atthe end of thel comer net on ree timen.” anawered the fresh fragrance “Why, hello, Welland!” exolatmed Bo- | season, if it's necessary, and give m e "BULL DURHAM SMOKING TOBACCO (Enough for forty hand-made cigarettes in each 5-cent sack) “As many cigarettes are rolled trom ‘‘Bull’? Durham in a year as all brands of ready-made cigarettes in this country combined, Showing that there are millions of men of this fine, manly type an international cup. GENUINE | i i i i } throughout the world. And the sales of Bull” Durham are still growing, Get a sack of “Bull’’ at the nearest dealer’s —“‘roll your own’’—and enjoy and mellow flavor that make “Bull” ” Durham ciga- inute” rettes so wonder- ; fully co ‘THE AMERICAN TOBACCO COMPANY women emerged through the fence gap into the field, At eight of the foremost of the trio Copley Reev: and a light sprang into | York, but ¢hen any trip te awful that/ ‘The players!” carries & man more than three miles/ utter ecorn, “Wh: from Broadway and Forty-second street. | to do about anythin, echoed Welland in ve the players AROOKLYN AMUSEMENTS. p NEW YORK TRING THEVTRES, EMPIRE | ETHEL BA tra || | Special Election]! Day Mat. Tomorrow. |! AMUSEMENTS, . ) _B.F. Keith's New York Theatres _| COLONIAL, 4) 7 H AMUSEMENTS. SHIPFODR | ‘Madam President,” Mis PLEASLE the Inugh hit at the esi, Tee Garrick. CRITERION 1i.:* Kast Week Tis Tat JOHN aa wt KNICKERBOCKER, Fives. at hy Hundred Thousand Dollar tock Tariff Day January Ist. 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