Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 140, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1919 — MICKEY WRITES ME UP AS “HALF-BAKED.” [ARTICLE]

MICKEY WRITES ME UP AS “HALF-BAKED.”

They used to call him “Lefty” and he had the league on fire with his strike-out records. Now he sulks in the dark corner of an office and tears his hair and pounds his typewriter, trying to get a dollar without working. When I walked in he was sittin’ quiet and I took it for a Society Brand poster; that’s why I stared. I been savin’ up to buy a “store suit,” but I don’t want to look like him. They ought to pull the blinds when a customer comes in. Anyway, he needn’t pick'on me; there’s others that don’t pay their subscription and he never really won all them games of baseball. He just throwed at the grandstand. I called them strikes and won the games myself. I’m wise to what’s eatin’ on that bird. It’s only sixteen days till his trial. But I didn’t bring on prohibition, and I resent him takin’ his spite out on my stuff. Too bad Mr. Hamilton can’t get better office help. You might say he’s running that office singlehanded. Have you seen that white-wheeled Oakland? She’s there like a “jazz band.”