Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 222, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1910 — Reynolds Will Oppose Wrens At Riverside Park Sunday. [ARTICLE]

Reynolds Will Oppose Wrens At Riverside Park Sunday.

Reynolds will play In Rensselaer Sunday. Hanks and McLain will be the battery for the Wrens and this old team of dependables will be a sufficient guarantee that the points will be well handled from the Wren standpoint. Reynolds is said to have a good team. McLain has been in poor health for some time and consequently out of the game, but he is better and will be at the receiving end Sunday. Game called at 2:30 o’clock.

That ever funny Orie b’dunghill, of the Brook joke-sheet, reports the Wrens-Brook ball game in his most humorous strain, provoking uproarious laughter with his keen thrusts of wit. Orie is certainly the greatest humorist of the age, and his athletic pen pictures rival those made by Briggs, the famous sporting artist of Chicago. With such brilliant attainments it is a shame that Orie conceals his talents under cover of such small surroundings. Fame awaits his embarkation into the literary centers of New York or Boston. The coining of new words is another attainment of Orie’s, and we are wondering why he does not turn lexicographer and write a dictionary. We are envious of the rare ability possessed by Orie and of his great vocabulary and grace of composition. Orie states that the Rensselaer backers went over to Goodland with their pockets filled with greenbacks and returned with their chests flat and flabby. He calls the backers of the Rensselaer team a “bunch of hot wind chasers” and uses the name of Elizur Sage derisively in the write-up. Orie addresses his latest amusement contribution to “Mabel dear,” and it has been suggested that this must be an affinity whom he hopes to entrance by public acknowledgement. ** Orie is bewitching, bewildering, invincible, and from the comedy of his latest production we feel sure that his probosis hairs need trimming again, for, shall they grow longer he will kill half the readers of his paper in convulsions of laughter. Funny Orie, the community clown.