Leavenworth New Era from Leavenworth, Kansas • 4

A 11 A VP yPUTiTOVER) ra "vsn? all ukusa THE OAT I' I 1,1 ft Of Course, We Could Have Had a Game Like the Above Last Wednesday, But We Were Shy On Boats I' Next Monday Will Be Obseirved as a Holiday, with Possibly tb Leaveowoirili Red Soss Vs. sar's Team am Sla Momia, amd the WMt Son Vs. Booker 1 3 13 AO REVOlIi, DENT Dent, the prized pitcher for the Hooker T's leaves next Wednesday, at the expiration of a six-year jolt. After pitching in a few games for the Army service nine, at the Kort, he will proceed to Kansas City and be given a trial by the Kansas City Giants. For a little man he is a very good baseball pitcher, and leaves behind a great record of victories won, largely through the unerring science of his trusty right wing.

Dent has fooled all, and realty plays league ball. He is a good batter and at home on an' spot of the diamond. As a fielder he has few equals in his class, but excels as a pitcher. When the Hookers had Dent in the box the' never hesitated to put up their last square of navjr or their last sack of smokes. And it can be said of him that he nearty always brought home the bacon.

A HORSE-HIDE ENTHUSIAST Kdward Hartstrom, of Denver, believes in baseball for boys. He says: "It's good for boys, baseball is. It teaches them the trame of life and how to play it fairly. A crooked finger is better than a crooked character. I haven't money enough to buy the land so I lease it for the boys.

They can have it as long as they want it, and the only stipulation is: play hard and play fair." Again the god of rain came in at the eleventh hour with a wet deck, stocked with goldfish and angleworms, and all bets as to baseball were declared off. No UvSe talking, we are playing- in the toughest of tough luck. It's bad enough to be in a penitentiary and ride the waterwagon from dressing-in to dressing-out time, and from dogdays to Palm Sunday, but it's certainly the limit when it conies along and runs over 3011 like this. Looks like the weather man was trying to turn the inhabitants of the cell wings into snails, or slugs, or something, the way they are bleaching out looking for a bright day and a ball game. There's no use letting out a squawk anytime except on weather.

Any one ought to have a licence to take a kick at it, and the ones that don't, simply lack spirit. They are too far gone too kick! Besides, it was made like a plug hat and for the same purpose to be kicked at. And anybody that wouldn't kick at a dug hat is not fit for a decent funeral. The week opened wet, but Tuesday the clouds jockeyed up and down between the power house and the Deputy's office, till finally they cleared up, and the sun came out. Things looked promising until Tuesday night, when grumbling was heard in the southwest, and later the rain came down in sheets and blankets.

Danny Claire had run the stone roller over the diamond all that afternoon, trying to cinch, if possible, Wednesday's argument between the Kagles and White Sox, but no use! Where that roller went is now the abode of bullfrogs, and wild ducks are Hocking to the ball park. There's no use talking -we're up against it! Joe White, when the rain poured down Wednesday morning, swelled up with the remark that it was all that sav ed the Kagles from a shutout. Now, can you beat that for gall? PRISON EDITORS SEEK PAROLE Thomas Hrophy, who writes under the non de plume of "Cuba" in the Kansas Penitentiary Bulletin, printed at Lansing, and his brother, Jeremiah Hrophy, who signs ere," writing for the newsy little Reformatory Record at Hutchinson, Kansas, are asking for parole from Governor Capper so that they can go to the printing school at the Kansas Agricultural College. Neither of the boys knew aught of newspaper work until they entered the State Penitentiary. Since then, however, their writings have been given considerable notice in the prison papers throughout the country, as well in the metropolitan press.

We sincerely hope these boys will be granted parole, for which they petition, feeling sure they have profited through their incarceration and will make good in the calling they aspire lo. RAVE ON We have been accused of occa-sionaly pulling unique stuff for a prison paper, but if it were our lot to dream as does the Hon. Jewell Mayes, in the 1915 Yearbook of the Missouri Hoard of Agriculture, this publication would be used to lift men from within prison walls and aero plane them on the filmy cobwebs of heaven. Read: Tw. Missouri uiiiiiliMi in Miiy-Time is tlio sweetest mid the f.iirest Mower in the wide, world's pi i-den of elm nns tlie Mny liirl whose glorious Tiiees thrill mid enthrall the Imirt of the Kinjr of ISeasts ns she (ills the hind with joy mid ff'adness mid brings us the June wedditifrmid its month of nt roses without the Missouri iirl in Miiy-Time we.

eon Id not hope for joyous June with its bankruptcy of beauty! The Missouri boy on Missouri farm in May Time, blessed "wit li the loyal love of a modest Missouri maiden, is the II nest lixed folk in all the en talon of nations kings and queens, war lords and nation spoilers not ueeepted! "Cuba," of the Kansas Penitentiary Utilldhi, frequently delves into music verse; so often and with such success that we've grown jealous. So here goes: THE LAST WAD Selected (Tune, "Sweet Rosy The bells were ringing fit o'clock When to the store came Kate; She should have come at lint the girl did sleep too late. She was a weary salesgirl, Andasshedid seem real glum She felt beneath the counter For her 'working wad" of num. The gum was none, 'Mireat heavinns!" Cried the girl, "Oh, Man! h. Maim! Some of youse nirls came early And has beat me to my The nirls denied that they had took The gum and walked away, Hut theydid ha tin their heads in shame When Kate to them did say: nours: "1 may be but a work inn noil.

Rut working gnils rights, And to preserve that wad ofnum I keep it here at nights; And no poirl aint no lady. And a crook she has become. Who'd steal from any workinn goil llcr only wad of truni." HE'S NO BALL FAN She Would you leave your home for uie He I'd leave a ball game in the Want to know something about Decoration Day as a holiday? Well, next Monday will be recognized as a holiday all day, with a possible game in the morning with the Leavenworth Red Sox by leaser's nine, while in the afternoon the White Sox and Hooker T's will play for supremacy. Dent will pitch forthe Hookers, and this will be his last game, as he goes out next Wednesday morning. (All this providing, of course, the heavens don't interfere with another deluge.) It is probable that next Wednesday's game will be the postponed one between the Leavenworth Kagles and the White Sox.

Much interest has been manifested in the outcome of this much-delayed fray, and if it isn't pulled pretty soon there'll be more "nuts" around here than ever before. And that would be awful. Chaplain Waring, of the Fort, has 'phoned that he will bring a nine prisoners; Itoill me i-MSi quiim 1 naiiiRhs iimi ueunuMiiiy, or wen- ncsda- a week, to cross bats with one of our teams. Dully for you, good oor Chaplain!" friend, but we cannot refrain from uttering: "Poi A CHALLENGE The New KkA hereby issues a challenge to Warden Dotkin, of the Lansing penitentiary, to bring his crack-a-jack DIack Sox team over here and get trimmed. If we don't do it, Warden, we're willing to do half your time.

Much has been said and printed about the ability of this Kansas prison team, but if we haven't got two teams here either one of which can trim that Lansing bunch well, we'll stop talking baseball, and that would be difficult to do. Addendum-We've got the finest prison ball park in the land. We dare you, Warden! The Hlack Sox, the crack prison team at Lansing, scalped the Leavenworth High School nine last week to the tuneof 12 tot). The Kansas Penitentiary Jiulfetin is certainty a good booster for another game between their crack Hlack Sox nine and one ot our teams. It will be remembered they came tons last Decoration day (just a year ago) and, we regret to admit, trimmed us.

IIOWKVKK, yer kant do it ag in, gol darn yer pesky hides! Why, we had you whipped to a frazzle, and would have won ding it! had not something happened; let's think- what was it happened? Oh, yes, you got more runs than we did. That's all. Darn you! Anyhow, we dare you to hang onto Warden Hotkin's coat tails until he becomes so disgusted that he'll say "yes" to stop your pestering. We have the swellest ball park for forty miles around. And take it from us, we have two of the best ball teams this year that ever had fingerprints recorded.

Come on over. The New Kra gives in detail an account of the game between the U. S. P. Hooker T's and a colored team of soldiers from Fort Leavenworth in which the soldiers seem to have been given a good deal the worst of it.

The score was Ye little fishes! What a game! The prison team is reportetl to be very fast; in fact, they had to be, to trim by such score the crack nine from the Fort. From the account, the game was replete with fast plays by members of the prison nine, and the writer states that it was demonstrated beyond a doubt that all teams playing against the Hooker T's this season will bite the dust. This is a rather sweeping statement, yet there are grounds for its truth unless the Hlack Sox (Ionising) should take a notion to visit them. Therenic.howcver, no visible signs of such a thing happening as yet. So the veracity of the New Kin's sport writer must remain unquestioned until it doc.

Kansas Iv'eforniatorv AVron. NO NATIONAL HOLIDAYS Kditor Please print in our paper what national holidays there are, if any. A Reader. Several months ago we printed a reply to this question, which was: "There is no national holiday, not even the Fourth of July. Congress has sit various times appointed special holidays.

The Fifty-third Congress passed an act making Labor Day a public holiday in the District of Columbia, and it has recognized the existance of certain days as holidays for commercial purposes, but, with the exception named, there is no general statute on the subject. The proclamation of the President designating a day of Thanksgiving only makes it a legal holiday in the District of Columbia and the Territories. SAN QUENTIN CLUBS There are two prison nines that lead the Six Club league in the San Ouentin penitentiary, whose picture is being run in many papers in the West. They steal bases and rim home, just like professional ball players, and under the very eyes of the warden, too, but they cannot jump their contract and are never guilty of umpire-baiting. Playing" baseball is one of the very few things that relieve the monotony of prison life, and the prisoners have been lavish in their expressions of praise for Warden Johnson, shown in the center of the picture.

The prisoners who cannot "make" the teams are allowed to watch the contests', ainl they "root" just the same as the average, dyeil-in-the-. wool follower of the uat ional game. ninth inning with the score a tie. "Get home! (let home, you mutton head, The fielder's lost the ball" "Taint that, Mack, what keeps me back It's that guy on the wall!" A GRAND OPERA DONKEY One of the many unique the Ijiwii f'arnival at Fort vtuwi.rlli ill Ix--t ruso.Tcxas. a white and nray -hillr'Hs donkey with a wonderfully sweet voice.

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