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to go qn. the fight and bust things up. Bill atted as urap, but he kept 'em from killing him by callin' himself boss instead of um pire. "With -ball games every day life wasn't so hard for my friend. Bein' as they was polar bears, he named one" team the PulaSkis and the other the Kosciuskos, and 'they were evenly "balanced. Had a regular league, and at the end of the first month each had won and lost the same number of games. The bears liked the sport, too. "One afterfioon when the two teams was having a hard game, Bill, who was umpiring behind the plate, sighted a canoe landing down on the beach. His spirits riz right up, 'cause he thought it was a rescue party. When he got a second look, however, Bill's heart jumped. "The canoe was loaded down with fierce-looking savages, each one with a spear and a knife, and theystarted yelling horrible when they spotted Bill. Scared! Say, 'Bill was worse scared than a rookie pitcher facing Hans Wag ner. The wild guys started wav ing their cutlery and streaked it up the beach toward Bill. There was about twenty of them in the bunch. "In the meantime, the bears had all -gathered around the home plate, peaceful like. Getting killed wasn't nothing new to them. Evidently these savages must have been in the habit of calling around every now and then and settins- a nev? suodIv of meat Bill wasn't worrying no more than Frank Chance is about his pitching staff. Some worry ing! "He took a look at these peace ful bears, and seen it was up to him to take a long chance. The heathens was only about 25 feet away. Bill took a long breath, and let out a bellow like a fog horn. " 'Umpires !' he yelled. 'Kill the umpires !' "Just for a minute them start led bears hesitated- Then the baseball instinct came to the sur-. face. They was worse than Ty Cobb climbing mto the grand stand. Bill hadn't no more than finished yelling before they was mixing with the enemy. It was a grand fight. The bears scrapped something awful, and they had the biggest gang. Each one picked out his particular savage, and what was left over acted as a reserve squad, sneaking up be hind a busy brownie and batting him over the head. It never took but one smash to do the business. "What was Bill doing all this time? He stayed behind the bears till he seen that all the other fellows was too "busy to no tice him. Then' he broke and streaked it for that empty canoe. There wasn't no one on guard when he reached the beach, so he climbed aboard and shoved the craft off, "set up the sail and got under way. "The last he seen of his bear ball teams the boss bear was toss-" ing the chief savage like he was a batU and the rest of the bears Vfl rh I ' 1 4.y&Ct5i flc gfcoft 4s