Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1920 — BASE BALL BRINGS GRIEF TO PAPA EGER [ARTICLE]

BASE BALL BRINGS GRIEF TO PAPA EGER

Papa Cleve Eger is''all put out ' this bright Monday morning—-all ' because he harbors beneath . his roof a young man who is ambitious to emulate the deeds of -the mous Rube Waddell, Rube Marquard and other famous southpaws • of bygone days. . I With the first touch of Spring the younger Eger hies himself to , pater families and touches him for a-new base ball glove. Papa Eger, his heart a-flutter with pride, read- , ily consents to b ein g ransacked for I the price of the necessary article ' and hurries himself to the nearest sporting goods house and purchases A glove. The time and place shifts here. Sunday morning (perhaps we should say Saturday) the junior Eger, his heart filled with joy, with the , new glove, takes himself to Billy Grant’s baseball orchard and announces himself as a candidate for a position, on the letters crab. . The young leader places Mr. Eger ’on the infield—and then the trouble ' begins. , I Papa Eger had committed a mon--1 umental blunder by purchasing for his offspring a glove which flts_ the flapper with which young Mr. Eger throws! / .. . I Utterly oblivious to the fact that his future great was exhibiting the eccentricities belonging to the small colony of lefthanders by throwing his slants from the south side, and taking it for granted that his son was normal in every way, the fond 1 papa lays down four doMarn^ for a glove to be used by rigntnanuers ° n And now there’s troublea-brew-ing. Young Mr # Eger wants to be a regular ball player and have a glove- that conforms to his style of flinging; the elder Eger can's see the Joke of toying down four more dollars to At his son 'and the sporting goods man wont exchange the glove as it has been Someone’s got to dose in tangle, and we’re venturing the prediction that it won’t be young Mr. Eger nor the sporting goods man. 1 Take your choice. . ■■ . ■" * -