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Sweeney to Sanguinetti to Schultz
What the Eight B&h&cms Were Supposed to Do—What They
Did—And ike Last Triple Play Pulled, Sweeney
to Sanguinetti to Schultz.
- - *
BY CHRALES E. VAN LOAN
' * The world's most famous writer of baseball fiction.
SYNOPSIS.
8<v«ny, S»n*«!n«tt! and s.-hulta, star
uiflold of the Mudhena, aro inseparable
•companions In mischief. Tho combine be
gins when the first two get into an ar
tument over a close decision in a St.
A fight ensues.
Schulte saves the day. Thereafter for
three yean the trio cut up. Finally
they quit, go straight until they land
*n ot. L«oula nnd go to a show. The
daughter of one of the principals 1b In
»,' H*®*1! Th?1 press agent ha:» trained
eight baboons to take flowers to the
leading lady.
^\T E now have thirteen characters
*” In the cast—Sweeney, Hanguln
etti, Schultz, the little lady in the
box, the press agent and the eight
baboons. Destiny sent the fourteenth
actor in the drama lurching through
the doors shortly after the opening
of the second act. The fourteenth
<* aotor was fat, red in the face and
of fitful, troubled Ideas. His name
makes no difference at all, though jie
told the police afterward :hat It was
John Smith.
e An usher looked at John Smith
doubtfully as he seated him in the
very last row upon an aisle.
"Keep your eyes on that souse," ho !
warned his companion.
John Smith oozed into iiis seat. He
found the music soothing, and, with
a series of nervous jerks and quivers,
fell asleep and dreamed of strange :
animals.
In the upper stage box Snngu'.netti
and Sweeney leaned out over the rail
trying to flirt with .ha third c.ne from I
,.fhe end. Schultz slumbered fitfully,
for he was tired, having played
pinochle on the train the night be
fore. The scornful little lady counted
the house and sniffed.
Out in the lobby Mr. Walker and
the trainer marshaled the eight flow
er-bearing baboons.
"The house is dark for the next
song,” said the pres agent, "and that’s
the time we’d better herd the monks
into their positions. 3ho lights up
right after the moon song tor the
'finale of the act. Now let's see—four
pionks to one aisle and four to the
other, and you're to send 'em down
with the flow'—a after the third cur
tain call. Tlu newspaper men pro
gll in front."
“Did you give ’em my picture?”
asked the trainer anxiously.
"Surest thing you know!" lied Har
ley Q. glibly. ‘‘They'll probably want
to interview you afterward." They
Aflld, too.
“All right," said the trainer. "All
set? Hup! You Battling Nelson!
«uit that!”
Battling Nelson, a blond baboon
with a blue face and pink whiskers,
*■' showed his teeth in a deprecatory
■mile, and the procession began to
move.
• • •
TIJE lightB were low when the
flower bearers entered the audi
torium. The stage was deserted Bave
for a very big woman with a very
little voice, who was singing a song
to a greenish property moon. The
house was absolutely quiet save for
the vocal struggles of the large lady
upon the stage.
^ At that very moment John Smith,
dreaming of pink lizards and purple
mice, awoke with a snort and a
gurgle. He jerked his head about to
make sure of his surroundings, and,
in the ehadowy gloom of the place,
his astounded eyes rested upon a
solemn procession of dog-faced apes
with bouquets in their hands. The
baboons were passing along the run
way behind the last row of seats, and
they were so close that John Smith
might have touched them,
e Now, everyone knows that when a
man is accustomed to pink lizards
and purple mice, baboons with roses
in their hands are a terrible shock
to his nervous system.
John Smith leaped to his feet with
a hoarse howl of terror, and even as
he yelled he launched a tremendous
Vick at the baboon nearest to him.
Then everything happened at once.
You can kick a baboon if you see
him first, but you cannot make him
like it. A baboon is sensitive. He
“*doesn't look it, but you never can
tell from the color of a baboon's face
what his disposition may be.
* * *
TWO baboons and three ushers
hurled themselves upon John
Smith, who began to fight like a
maniac, screaming at the top of his
voice. Those in the back of the
house had Jumped to their feet with
the first, yell; now Smith’s cries were
mixed with the chattering and bark
ing of the eight baboons.
Down in front a woman began to
scream hysterically. It was her
voice which stampeded the six ba
boons who had, up to that point
“taken no part in the battle. One of
the brutes sprang upon the railing
and started for the footlights over
the heads of the people, and as he
went he used his sheaf of American
Beauties as a club.
The other baboons followed him,
shrieking and chattering like crazy
things. One baboon would have bee*
enough to create a disturbance:
eight of them complicated the situa
tion somewhat.
A panic resulted. Men and women
were swept out of their seats and
carried in a wave toward the front of
the house. The aisles were full of
ytruggltng, screaming human beings,
and behind them came the baboons,
like hairy furies.
From their seats in the upper box
Sangunettt and Sweeney could not
see what was causing the excitement.
They saw only the panic swirling
down the aisles toward the northern
•'pit.
"Hell’s loose in the back of the
house!” shouted Sweeney above the
clamor. "Let’s jump down on the
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stage and beat It out of the back
door!”
“You said it for me!" yelled San
guinetti excitedly.
* • »
JUST then the scornful little lady
called attention to her presence
with a succession of piercing screams.
“Mamma! Mamma!” she wailed.
“We can't leave this poor kid here,”
said Sweeney. "Got to take her along
somehow.”
He picked the child up in his arms
and she clung to him, still screaming
with fright.
''It's ail right now," said Sweeney,
“it’s all right. Cheese on the noise,
little one. We’ll get you to your
mamma. Herman!”
“Vot lss?” demanded the big Ger
man. 1
"Herman, you jump down on the
“Shultz was HurprlMcd to wee u young
lady enter.”
stage. Sanguinetti, v hi drop into
the box below here. I’ll pass the kid
along to you and you toss her to
Schultz! I’ll follow. Quick now!”
It was the commanding officer
speaking, and, like trained soldiers,
Schultz and Sanguinetti obeyed. By
this time the uproar in the back of
the house had begun to subside, but
the sight of two men leaping from
an upper stage box did not tend to
restore public confidence. One of the
men Jumped on the stage. A third
man appeared in an upper box with
a child in his arms.
“Now then!” he yelled. "Sweeney
to Sanguinetti to Schultz! All set?"
Sanguinetti braced himself against
the rail below.
“Shoot her along!” he cried.
SWEENEY leaned far over the
roaring abyss, with the squirm
ing, screaming child balanced in his
muscular hands. A shout of protest
went up from the mass of humanity
jammed into the aisles. Sweeney
gauged distance and drop with prac
ticed eye, and the yell of warning
changed to a gasp as the little white
bundle flashed downward. Sanguln
etti caught the child deftly about
the tiny waist, and, with one swing
of his powerful shoulders, sent her
flying over the footlights to Schultz.
And that put the finishing touch
to the panic, for it showed the crowd
a way out of the place.
In less than ten seconds the stago
was black with scurrying people, and
when the curtain came down hun
dreds tried to fight their way
through it.
Sweeney, Sanguinetti and Schultz
trotted down an alley chuckling to
themselves.
"And nobody but us could have
done it so slick," said Sweeney. "I
wonder how you’d score that play?”
They found out in the morning
You might think that an affair of
that sort would give a press agent
pause, so to speak.
Nothing of the kind.
HARLEY Q. WALKER needed an
alibi badly, also a scapegoat,
and fate sent him three of the
best little scapegoats that ever went
bleating into the wilderness. In some
subtle way, known only to press
agents and diplomats, he contrived to
cast most of the blame for diio entire
affair upon the battle-scarred shoul
ders of Sweeney, Sanquinettl and
Schults!.
Y-e-e-s, he admitted that there had
been a trifling disturbance In the
back of the house, but that was noth
ing. It would have blown over in a
minute and the people would have
gone back to their seats but for the
melodramatic horseplay Introduced
by three rowdy ballplayers who be
longed to a visiting team.
“They’re bad fellows,” explained
Walker to the newspaper men.
“Hhey’re always getting soused and
creating a row'. Look up their records
if you don’t believe me. Why, they
might have killed that poor little
kid, throwing her around like that.
Her mother is going to sue for heavy
damages—shock to the kid’s nervous
system, and all that sort of thing.
And there wasn’t any excuse. Hand
It to ’em good and plenty!”
* * *
JOHNNY MOORE read all the
papers every morning in bed.
This was one of the front page head
lines which greeted him:
ROWDY BALLPLAYERS CREATE
PANIC IN THEATER!
This was another:
SWEENEY, SANGUINETTI AND
SCHULTZ AGAIN ON RAMPAGE!
And this was the way one of the
arlicles began:
"Not content with their rowdy con
duct on the diamond, three ball play
ers named Sanguinetti, Schultz and
Sweeney, lust night broke up a per
formance of "The Gilded Lily" and
endangered hundreds of precious
lives. As a result several suits for
heavy damages may be filed."
Reputation can be a fearsome thing
at times.
Before Sweeney, Sanguinetti and
Schultz rolled out of their bods in the
morning, the fate of the International
Alliance w'as sealed. They rolled out
when Johnny Moore sent for them,
and they went, up on the managerial
carpet with clear consciences. They
had not seen the morning papers, but
Johnny shook them at the culprits as
they entered.
When the manager got through
frothing at the mouth, the defendants
began to talk ail at the same time.
"A-h-h-h, shut up!” snapped the
manager. “Think you can play me
for a sucker all the time? This is
where I’ve got you with the goods!
I’m going to split this combination so
far apart that no two of you will
ever be together again! That’s what
I’m going to do! I wish they had a
baseball league in China!”
Considering the limitations of or
ganized baseball, Moore did fairly
well. Sweeney went to Boston, San
guinetti went to Chicago, and poor
old Schultz remained with the Mud
hens. Moore said that Schultz would
have been all right but for Sweeney
and Sanguinetti.
And all, mind you, for an act of
pure heroism.
It doesn't seem right, even to this
day.
(The End.)
RIVAL BATTERIES FOR BIG SEMI-PRO GAME
edly take advantage of the new
ruling made by the Tuscarora Canoe
Club. It is expected that the Wyona
Canoe Club of AVeequahic Park will
follow' the same plan as their Branch
Brook rivals.
Ironsides and Meadowbrooks
to Clash in Fourth Game on
South Side Oval.
All that Is required tomorrow is a
clear day and the fourth game of the
Ironsides and Meadowbrooks will be
on. The contest is considered the
most important in years, and while
the Ironsides have a game the best
of it, their opponents are figured just
as strong by many who saw the three
previous struggles. There can be no
denying that the Brooks got the
breaks in the Initial game, while luck
favored the home team In the second
and third. Who will get them tomor
row is the question. The teams will
have the benefit of two umpires,
namely, Frank McTague and Jack
Beck. That German, Irish-American
combination ought to go well.
McTague worked alone in the other
games and he was In trouble fre
quently, although his decisions were
apparently very fair. But a ball
game crowd is usually a most ex
citing one, and the word “exciting”
in this series has stood out in a most
prominent manner. With the double
umpire system in vogue, however,
there should be no disputing among
the players of the opposing teams.
The clubs will appear on the field
with their regular men. George
Hughes, who pitched the Ironsides to
victory In the last game, will, in all
probability, toe the mound again and
will most likely be opposed by George
Huntley. Joe Bachs will receive
Hughes, and Crelln will back up Hunt
ley. Harry Kurfess may also be
given a chance to beat the Brooks,
while the latter aggregation will hold
Harry Durkee in reserve. The game
will get under way at 10:16 o’clock.
Hoffman Wants to Make It Two Stralgt.
Manager Bill Hoffman, of the Mont
clair A. A., will use Ills star battery,1
Jerry Maude and Ackie Force, In an
effort to take the Imperial A- A., of
Harrison, into camp In the second of
a series of battles, on Shellbark Oval,
Thomas and Burnside streets, Or
ange, tomorrow afternoon. The teams
met earlier in the season and Mont
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Collins and Ryan will be in the points
for the Imperials.^
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A pitcher with professional league
experience will probably be in the
box for the Putnam A. C. against the
Bloomfield F. C., on Harrison Field,
Bloomfield, tomorrow afternoon. Joe
Horrocks and Adams will do the
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After balancing the question of al
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membership roll for some months
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recent meeting finally gave way and
aB a result there promises to be some
girl champions as well as the boy
tltlo holders from now on. While
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Preparing for Golf Tourney
to Be Held on August 28
Will the new golf champion be
Evans, Ouimet, or Travers—or will
I he be someone else?
These three stars, oach of whom is
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So far a,s known the great players
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SEMI-PRO JOTS
Freddie Ktebler, the prize-fighting
manager, says his Melville A. A. will
engage in a double-header in Irving
ton tomorrow, meeting the Normandy
A. C., in the morning and the Black
Hawks in the afternoon.
South Side Oval tomorrow after
noon should be the scene of a lively
encounter when the Alerts will op
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morning the Arrows will visit Fast
Orange to play the Fast, Orange F. C.
Considerable interest Is centered
about the contest which is to bo
staged at the Roseville oval tomor
row morning between the All
Scholastics and the Newark Ath
I letics. The All-Scholastics are com
I posed of several of the leading high
I and prep, school players in the city—
in fact what may ho considered the
choice olty scholastic nine. The Ath
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of mostly sand lot product, semi-pro
players, who acquired the finer
points of the national pastime
through their personal experience.
Charlie Weber’s Vailshurg Tigers
will play the Windsor A. C. in the
Anal game of a series tomorrow
morning at Bonscher’s oval, Irving
ton. These two teams met in a
double-header earlier in the season
and each nine won a game. In the
afternoon the Tigers will Journey to
Orange and cross bats with the
Knights of Columbus team, of that
place.
Two rival West Hudson teams, the
Arlington Company A. A. and the
Arlington Council team, will clash on
Pyralin oval, North Arlington, to
morrow afternoon.
A game that is creating great in
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morrow morning between the T. A.
B. S. and Sacred Hearts. Shrimp
Reilly will pitch for the T. A. B. S.
Members of the Milford A. A. will
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noon to oppose the Morrtstwn A. A.
The Speedways will engage in a
double bill on Motordrome oval to
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the afternoon the Chester Athletics
will appear.
Two rival nines, the Bloomfield
Catholic Lyceum team and the South
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noon. Ferguson and Coyle will form
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gunizatlon. That will come later,
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competing against those of her sex.
Bhe was unable to take part in the
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MONTREAL, Que., Aug. 21.—The
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beating Duchess at the finish. Duch
ess was favorite with Scott barred,
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bus gelding, Victor Star. This is the
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The most sensational heat of the
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was the first race in which the New
England teamster had driven this re
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