Picture Play Magazine (Oct-Nov 1915)

PICTURE-PLAY WEEKLY 3 ■ Show up at the ball park this aftiriioon I sez to him and you will find this jitel pal of yures thare to gete you. Thare aint no trees out thare neether I sez and so if you show up you can igger that you are jest as libel to have i chunk bit out of you as not. I thot Persey being so afrade of dogs ike he had showed he was wouldent have the nerve to come out to the ball jrownds this aftirnoon when he herd rne say that I was going to take Jack thare with me, but I dident figger on 'lis being so craizy a bout Fanny that he .vas redy to taik aney risk to be nere ler. It may be thow that he thot I was onely blufing a bout taiking Jack a long vith me to the ball park and he would >e safe in takeing a chancet on show-ng up thare. But aney way he come out on the limund today with his unieform on. I lad all redy been out at the park a lour and I was standing talking to anny in frc^pt of the grand stand. She lad Jack in her arms and was talking i foolish line of baby talk to him be:aws as sune as I had showed him to fier he had maid a hit with her. I hap>ined to look ovir towerds the club tiowse and I seen Persey jest starting tcrost the feeld. Let me have Jack jest a seckund I sez 'O Fanny. I set him down on the grownd and >ointed him at Persey. Thares yure neel tickit I sez to him. Go ovir and )imch a cuppel of holes out of him. Jack dident wate for no secund initashun. He started acrost the dimund .ftir Persey like a shot out of a cannen .nd the minnit Persey set eyes on him le terned a round with a yel and bete 1 -t back to the club howse. He was ' vithin a cuppel a hundred feet of it vhen the dog started for him but at hat he onety got thare a seckund a led of Jack and slammed the door in lis noze. That was the last I seen of Persey '.11 aftirnoon and I gess I have maid ];ood and drove him off of the teme at s ast. I figger when he sees that I wasent •lufing him when I sed I would bring he dog out to the ball park with me nd heres from the uther felloes what have all redy toald them and that ,S that I am going to bring Jack with ' ne evry day as long as Persey is with 1 'he Cubs that he will go hock his unieorm and forget his idear a bout being ■ a ball playir forever. At leste that is what I figger Gus. Yure pal Bugs. Old Pal : This here teme Gus. Shecawgo Sept. 30th. Persey is still with the iut I dident miss geting It wasent my day to heve the old pill in thare but Roger knowed that I had it on that Stallings buntch and so he sent me in agenst them. I had them wiffing the old Oh zone for 2 inings and then I come up to bat in our */> of the seckund. This hear Rudolph let loose one of his fast ones and it mist the plait a mile. Strike sez O'Loughlin. Jack started to help me out an caut a hold of Silk in wun of them deth grips of his. throwed off of it myself by mutch. It all happined on acct. of that mutt I was teling you a bout in my last. I have sold the dumb hound Gus for 50 cents to the butcher on the cornir and he can maik sassage out of him for all I care onely I want him to look out that he dont send none of them a round to the bordeing howse whare I am filing in at aftirwards that is all becaws I am off of that dog in aney shaipe or form. The next day aftir I wrote you that I had scaired Persey out of the ball park by seting Jack onto him I took the mutt out thare with me agen so if Persey come a round I could give him the gait oncet moar. Well the poor nut hadent showed up by the time the gaim was redy to start and I left the dog with Fanny in the grand stand and started out to the box to work agenst them Boston one-time champeens. I sez to him put on yure glasses why dont you. You blind boob I sez that one was wide a mile. That will do for yures he sez. Dont give me aney moar of yure guff or I will chaise you to the showir. I sez I wouldent say nuthing to you but send you a box of segars for Xmus insted if you would onely call strikes rite. That one was a ball I sez and you know it. Bete it sez Silk taiking off his mask and steping back from the plait to point me to the club howse. Then I got soar Gus. I sez to him I had oughter bust you one on the jaw I sez and the onely reezun I dont do it is that if thay is a law agenst soaking a guy with glasses thare is likely a hevier one for belting a guy that had oughter ware them but dont. I bawled back my fist as I sez that to him Gus. And the dog that had been taiking it all in from the grand stand with Fanny