Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 190, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1919 — METHINKS THE DOUGHTY LITTLE MANAGER IS SLIPPING. [ARTICLE]

METHINKS THE DOUGHTY LITTLE MANAGER IS SLIPPING.

. It was with p heart filled with pride and with worshipping eyes that young Billy Grant stepped on a Monon train Tuesday morning prepared for a visit to the city where street car strikes and race riots are rife. For wasn’t the grandest of all fathers going to.take him to the magnetic city for a “dose-up” view of Fred Mitchell’s north side ball park and the athletes that gambol therein? Long had Sir WilMam awaited the opportunity of viewing his heroes in (baseball scenery right in their qiwn ball yard. Wig eyes Shown with delight when visions of hiis Cub champions came to his mind—the dynamic Herzog, the brilliant Htoll'ocher, the mighty Alexander, the peerless Vaughn, the steady Merkle, the wonderful Killefer, the flashy -Flack —Deal, Hendrix, Robertson, surely a mighty array of baseball talent to 'be loaded into any 'bail park for a youngster to view. But alas! today there is no longer pride in the heart of the young man and no longer does he speak of his father In such tones of awe. William is crestfallen and his estimation of his father as a eonniseur on the great national game has fallen many points. All because of a sign which decorated the front of the box office at the Cub paric, and which read: “No game today. Culbs in Brooklyn; Sox in Washington.”