Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1906 — Why Kelly Langhed. [ARTICLE]

Why Kelly Langhed.

Baseball cranks will all remember with pleasure tlie late ’Alike” Kelly, the star attraction of the famous Bostons, then champion- of the National League. The Bostons were playing in a western city, and had just returned to tbdj* hotel after the game, and the memtfcrs of the team were separating and going to their rooms .while Kelly headed for the bathroom to take liis regular "rub down.” A few minutes later one of the other players on the team, while passing down the corridor, heard Kelly's well known laugh inside tlie bathroom, and stopped at the door and asked Kelly what the joke was. Kelly replied; “This is the first time I ever got out of (lie hath tub without stepping ou the soap."