Baseball Joe Around the World

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ughout the country, sprang to his feet and held out a New

e, where Joe had come to rest up after his glorious victory in the last g

as she was about to bite off a thread. "You gave

ther so excited?" mocked

ounds?" drawled Jim Barclay, Joe's special

t; "but it's something that will make McRae and the

miliarity born of long acquaintance, and as his eyes

e read. "Gee whiz, Joe! I don't wonde

a very interesting conversation with handsome J

ooked relieved and

ain. It means a fight to disrupt the National and the American Leagues. It means all sorts of trickery and breaking of contracts. It means distrust and suspi

ered a little by her brother's earnestness. "You ca

asked Mrs. Matson, her motherly instincts taking

other's chair and patted

old, even if I didn't throw a ball in all that time. It wasn't the money I was thinking about. As a matter of fact, I could squeeze double

s mother. "You know the old saying that 'the worst thi

tily. "Let's take a squint at the whole article a

a baseball fan as either of you two. And Momsey is, too

his team to victory, that she had not picked up many points about the game in general. But anything that concerned her dar

ods," remarked Jim, as J

. "They've got two or three millionaires who ar

familiar," remarked Jim, with a sidew

but I'd bet a dollar against a plugged

ed Clara with qu

Fleming," r

ame," remarked Mrs

Joe got through with him,"

n looked u

didn't hurt him!

od of his soul," laughed Jim. "I

ither here nor there. He's the spoiled son of a very rich man, and he's one of the men behind this new league. 'A

hey want to?" asked Mrs. Matson. "I should thin

e is that there aren't enough good players to go round. All the really good ones have been already gobbled up by the present leagues. If the new league started in with unknown players, it wouldn't take in enough money to pay the batboys. The consequence is th

t off with copping the greatest pitcher in the game. They'd be willing to offer you a fortune to get you. Th

nd them off with a flea in their ear. T

o anything mean," said his m

ad," laughed Clara, making a face at

me. He took me from a second-string team and gave me a chance to make good on the Giants. He took a chance in offering me a three-year contract in place of one. I'm getting four thousand

we, Momsey?" said Clara,

ill we ever forget the day when we opened that letter from the dear boy, and the thousand-doll

Series games and so had enabled him to meet Joe's charming sister. Perhaps that vivacious young la

osity, and Clara was quick to cover her ow

hing!" she

Joe stoutly, get

larm. "Stop it, Joe, before it gets to you

mentor, but she eluded him

We want to keep our salary wings in good condition, and maybe the 8 open

at a moderate pace, only now and then unlimbering some of the fast balls that had been won

d soup bone feel

ave strained it in that last game. But it feels as s

interesting entertainment, for the names of several popular actors appeared on the program. But what made it especially attractive to Joe and his party was the fact that Nick Altman, the famous pitcher of the "White Sox"

They say that fast inshoot of his is a lulu. But

hey say that his contract calls for two hundred dolla

ou five hundred dollars a week the day after you

"but it would have been

ng violet," tea

is mother, who would have been equally sure that h

o their reserved seats near the center of the house, for Riverside regarded the famous pitcher as one of its greatest assets. He had given the quiet little

skit in which baseball "gags" and "patter" were the chief ingredients, and as he was a natural humorist his act went "big" in the phrase of the profession. Knowing that Joe lived in Riverside

etween him and Clara-Jim could be depended on these day

time he runs for poundkeep

s quick eye caught sight of something that made the

t of the stage a tiny wi

d would burn like tinder. There were only the two exits-one on each side o

by which, out of sight of the audience, he could gain the back of

a big bulk of a man sitting two seats ah

houted wildly. "Th