1 the Voice Pretty a City Park ■Ilngly with the Detroit Players
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** 1 ~ ... ——,.ii. — .. ■ O 1 ly know Gltcbeapolls now. The busi- was del I cute and must be sheltered. BILL DONOVAN AIMS TO GIVE Diamond ness district has Increased tenfold. Never In all the history of hls family, And the place where Used to he the so far as J>an knew, had there been a BUGS BETTER BRAND OF. BALL pool and the playground of I>an Fall death from the malady that afflicted Squibs Is now laid off In us green and him. Yet his sentence was signed and Ing So far Ty Cobb ha* got along aw*. as one could wish sealed. 1 The Voice pretty a city park ■ilngly with the Detroit players. to see. But he harbored no resentment • • • become* I hls was ull In the Some when the city against mother. It In football dny, I they yell the signals ou' a of swans and game. She had done what she thought more prosperous, pair loud; Id baseball It’s a deep secret. § to he Intro- was best. And he to wonder • • • of the a herd of deer are going began Pack Vi to restore some of the natural In what he could get the greatest V duced, way Oreasy Neale should slip into the •5 wild life of the Hut In the sum pleasure from hls last six months of >5 purk. Phillies' outfield without any trouble bird* and *5 mer of 1SM0, a few small life. at all. v ! of breathed. • • v possibly half a dozen pairs squir- “Good Lordhe suddenly • K rels were the extent and limit of the “I may not be here to see the snows V Ty Cobb believe* that a team that wild creatures. And at the moment come!” i>an had always been partial V hasn't got the pepper Isn't worth Uj V one of these squir- to the winter season. When the snow V this story opens, salt. V rels was perched on a wide-spreading lay all over the farm lands and bowed • • • v L limb overarching a gravel path that down the limbs of the trees, It had __ Claud Derrick, former major leaguer slanted through the sunlit park. 1 he always wakened a curious flood of and last year with Toledo, has retired He wished that (Copyright, 1(00, Little, Brown A Company) squirrel wus hungry. feelings In the wasted man. It seemed from baseball. a some one would come along with to him that he could remember other • • • >..- ==o nut. winters, wherein the snow lay for end- A utility player will vouch for ?h> There was a bench beneath the tree. less miles over an endless wilderness, Love story, adventure fact that you don’t have to be a lawyer the life of Dan and here and there were strange, nature story-all If there had not been, to sit on the bench. story, dif- l»e fol- three qualities combine Falling would have been entirely tnnny-toed trucks that could • • • ferent. If the squirrel had been on lowed in the Icy dawns. But of course in the “Voice of the (leorge Toporcer should be quite a been It wns In the any ollipr tree, If lie hadn't Just a fancy. He wasn’t with the Pack,” a tale of modern spectacle Cardinals. Ilia ir* hungry, If any one of a dozen other least misled about It. He knew that man and woman arrayed shcll-rlmmed ones. hadn't been as were, Dan he had In hls seen • • • the forces of IhInga they never, lifetime, against age* never bnck the Falling would have gone wilderness. Of course hls grand- cheer old savagery. Plenty of lenders for foothal to the land of tils people. The little father had been a frontiersman of the game*, but none for baseball. Must he n 1 .-~f fellow on the tree limb first and all hls ancestors be- hushy-talled order, because they're not needed. was the squirrel of Destiny I fore him—a rangy, hardy breed whose • * • Prologue. wings would crumple In civilization— A protested ball game Is like the lived In BOOK ONE hut he himself had nlwa.vs well-known the ff on* can Just ll« clous enough to the "you’re only girl l jver cities. Yet the fulling snows, soft and breast of ths wilderness, he can't help loved.” Doesn't mean anything! but be Imbued wttli some of the life that gentle but with a kind of remorseless- • • • puleea therein- From * Frontiersman's Repatriation. ness he could sense hut could not un- Bill Wambsganss Is willing to pul! Diary. derstand, had always stirred him. CHAPTER I. another triple play this season, but he He’d often Imagined that he would Long ago, when the groat city of doesn't want to make 'em too common. like to see the forests In winter. • • • Oltcheapolls was a rather email, un- Dan Falling stepped out of the ele- In him you could see a reflection of ^ tidy hamlet In the middle of u plain. vator and was at once absorbed In v r Robert E. Harrison, a pitcher, has the that beside the pond ? It lined to he that a of wnter, boy played of pool the crowd that ever surged up nnd jairtrsaf&— been elected captain the University of snow wuter, twenty years before. ysssr posalhly two hundred feet square, one W/ of nine. His home Is In Cin- down Brood afreet. He was Virginia Just Ills dark gray pyes were still rather gathered every spring Immediately of the of not cinnati. ordinary drops water, and the wasted flesh hack of the courthouse. The snow large perhaps Quakertown has been sitting In on cellar baseball for several season* • • • an Interesting, elaborate, physical ntid around them made them seem larger The Phils have declined from winner under Put Moran to falls thick and heavy In Oltcheapolls chemical combination to be atudled gradually pennant Connie Mack wrecked a ball team to than were. But It wus a little the wan they the bottom of the ladder. In winter; and pond nothing on the slide of a He give youngsters a chance. How differ- microscope. hard to see ns he wore large than snow wnter that the Ineffi- them, Wild Bill Donovan, former boss of the old New York Highlander*, will tfy more wore neither ently the White Sox machine was fHlrly passable clothes, Hls mother had been sure, cient of the did glasses. his hand with the destinies of the National league club this season, and the drainage system city rich nor He was a wrecked. shabby. tall man, that he needed not absorb. Besides the years before, glasses; fans are to him to get them some kind of a winner. Quakertown Isn't • • • quite being hut gave no of looking Impression strength and she had found uu oculist and easily a The want In not the worst. despulr of the plumbers the city because of the of crazy for pennant. bugs Just something baseball, The St. Louis Browns have a mir- exceeding spareness that with her. It waa a Revere at ruin on agreed “1'iu not any or but I do think that I can engineer, his frame. As long ns lie remained niuklng promises predictions, acle man. Phil Todt has been called the Instincts of Now that he was alone on the path, out of the at bund that will not run Donovan heauty-loving every III the he wasn’t mold something material last,” a Babe Ruth, a Speaker, a Sister and a crowd, Important the of color In hls Inhabitant In the town who had any utter absence said. enough to he studied. Hut soon he Malls. cheeks wns startling. Ttiut meant tile I would like to • • such Instincts. It was muddy and the and "The club needs strengthening In several departments. • turned off, through purk, of absence of red—that warm glow behind but a intlelder. But murky and generally distasteful, found himself alone. have some young blood the and good peppery auy Hornsby Is playing third for straightway the blood and alive In hls Rogers of eager one who follows baseball knows that and them are A little boy played at the edge The noise and hustle of the crowd— wanting players getting the Cardinals these days. The $.'X)0,nno veins. an observer would the this of ago. f Perhaps two different things. wnter, spring day long never loud or so contin- very Is crowning the old hailstone startling, but have noticed lean hands, with beauty for Ills Interest In the It blg- “The trade we made with the Cincinnati Reds strengthened our club, even Except pond, uous that the senses nre some, too. scarcely knuckled a rather firm mouth, would have been worth while Angers, If It Is claimed we the worst of It. wus a good there Is no * * • scarcely more of them than of heat- got Rlxey pitcher, aware the and dark hair. He to to the trouble of that closely cropped of hut 1 think Ring can win as many games. Neale go explaining of one's own doubt thut, Jimmy Just A home-run hitter can’t be -expected ing heart—suddenly and was of hut he contained no fish, twenty-nine years age, and will add to our out Held.” It lie, however, at border Is a good ball player strength to be much ns n base stealer. When utterly died almost the very He know now the fact. In looked somewhat older. bitterly regretted truth, of the The noise from the he gets through ruuning there's noth- park.