Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 158, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1913 — MARVEL. AT BASEBALL GAME [ARTICLE]

MARVEL. AT BASEBALL GAME

Chunky Individual Not Disturbed la Least While Pitcher Clcotte Struck Out Ty Cobb. It happened during one of the games between the Sox and the Tigers. High up among the grandstand seats back of third base sat a rather chunky young man wearing a good suit of clothes and a bored look. At the end of the first inning the game stood 1 to 0 in favor of the home team. ’ The visitors went to bat The young man, with a prodigious yawn, went to sleep. A few minutes later something happened and the crowd went wild. Everybody stood up and yelled. Everybody, that is, except the chunky young man. He sat motionless, with his chin on his broad breast still sleeping serenely. - Fifteen or twenty minutes later something happened again, and again the crowd went wild. Ten thousand voices rent the air. But they didn’t disturb that youth. Then the people around him began to notice him. They said to loud voices: "All out!” "Far as we go!” “Tickets!” “Change cars!" Take the car ahead!” Nothing doing. He still slept Then somebody roared in his ear: "Wake up, you lummux! You don’t know what you’re missing. Clcotte is striking out Ty Cobb —Ty Cobb, d’ye hear? —every time he comes to bat!” The chunky young man half opened one eye. “Call me at seven o’clock,” he mumbled —and dropped asleep again.—Chicago Tribune.