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, I the quqrest; ; erf t ter toimy' way of thinking is the mocl-tffn baseball fan, i^BioJbu ts disease or species all of itself, and,•past all ’understanding, “Take forinstance, the paid help which :are playing in our coast league, who are watched perform every day by more Coronans than you would ‘imagine. Many a Coronan • has‘business ;in ;Los Angeles ;that ■requires ;his entire day, and he spends the afternoon out at Wrig-ley park watching the boys cut capers on the diamond. Theycome back-home all worn out andtoll the good 'Wife that they hadabout that splendid flower show which the garden section ladies of the W. I. C-put over so .pleasantly .for us the'Other day was the exhibit of beautiful posies from the Lake Norconian club.• . . • ^ , To my mind it reflected a community spirit which should beencouraged. Rex ,B. Clark showed his interest in matters locally through this splendid contributionto the flower show. It behooves, Coronans to remember this and other things which Rex has done for Corona and reciprocate whenever and wherever the occasion permits. Really, it was Qne of the finest examples of community cordiality that I’ve noticed for aalong while. Flowers say words that everybody understands and bring happiness to many. Thisa tough lt;flay :in the city. .Baseball»;is just what the spring flower•tto the rabid fan is wearing, and we know of many a Corona .man who enjoys the wear and tear. Fact ds, I tfever lose an opportunity tto see Jem cavort on the diamond myself. .Was down there tfie other day and sat out a whole afternoon. I plead guilty to being all in when I got home. The wife won’t ever know but what it was business cares unless she reads this, which she often does. Then, rlook out.The baseball fan will sit. nil afternoon on a hard seat, munch away on three or four hot dogs in between two bundles of thick cardboard, swill it down with a lot of colored water and top it off with a lot of with several sacks of wormy peanuts. He’s too busy playing the game to notice-^the difference.show of ,the .garden section ladies did, and; personally .1 am very proud of living in a commuiiity where folks talk ‘through flowers. It makes life happier and sweeter, Passing posies about makes folks have lighter hearts. Great peacemakers, these little flowers, and that’s why you seldom see a man with a posey garden in his home fighting or argufying with his fellow men.I am sort of envious of my good friend Walter Clayson.He wants' every man on the ■field to be perfect. He expectsevery man on,the team he’s boost-♦ing for to hit the ball every time he comes up. He wants his pitcher to strike out all of the opposition and he boos and bellyaches on what the umpire calls a strike on his favorite player, although he’s a block away from the home plate. He a talking, fighting scamp, ready to heave a cushion or a pop bottle on the least provocation. He shouts out derogatory things to the men on the field that would land him in the hospital for a month, if lie said ’em to fellows here on the streets. In short, he’s a complete new breed of American, with a language all of his own and a mind of a fifteen-year-old kid when he’s out to the ball park. It’s an indescribable something that turns him from a staid business man into a howling maniac,, with liberties impossible to conceive. And day after day, these fellows will be at the park, howling and hooting at the work of a ’hired aggregation of players whoHis work in a legal way has lead him into interesting fields and he’s gained much valuable information as .a result.the Roeky Mountain belt to volunteer some information regard-* , 4 ».ing the philly-loo bird. We will try to tell what little we know of the fauna of this featheredvertebrate. . It (inhabits ‘the .Little Belt mountains 'west, of HarloW-toWn, Mont., and subsists principally supon grizzly bear and mountain lions. It is claimed that its ■method of corralling its prey is very simple. It sprinkles a few drops of near beer, for which it makes a special flight to Salt •Lake City, Montana being a prohibition state, upon the tail of the bear and of the lion. Bothof these animals have an innatelt;fondness for near beer, and after being sprinkled they smell eachother a long way off. Each at-%tacks the other in the rear and begins to swallow his adversary’s ’tail. This process is 'kept up until practically the whole body of ,tfae (lion is inside the bear that .of the bear inside the lion. At this moment , the philly-loo bird, which has been rubbering ’from a nearby peak, comes along, ^seises the void, takes it iback .to his aerie, cuts .it up into vacuums which .he consumes at his leisure. There are many other interesting points about The philly-loo bird, :for instance it generally flies upside down which enables it to absorb more violet rays from the blue sky, and thereby stave off rheumatism. This method of flying also contributes to the scarcity of ornithological knowledge among hunters as to its habits, and renders it almost impossible to get hold of a specimen, for when one is wingeditt i. • __, i i or otherwise injured in the airWalter is now engaged as lead- falJg up 'ing counsel in a case whi^h is coming up in the Los Angeles’ courts in the near future, in which the genuineness of heirlooms and works, of art is a mooted question. Handling such a case requires much study on the subject in hand IAnother authority, who disputes the word of Bob Loman, verified more or less by Jeff Man-love, both of whom haled from Missouri, that the philly-loo bird understand'Was used in the early times, bethat Walter has for many months ‘fore the coming of machinery for in the preparation of his easel reaming out corn-cobs, is Coachbeen delving into the matter of French history in a very thorough and careful manner with the re suit that he can discuss with considerable authority what a real antique or heirloom is, of what period it halls rrom, or what master created it, and by certain signs which none but experts can detect, can tell the genuine from the imitation. Making a special study of such interesting subjects, has consumed much time and hard work on the attorney’s part, but we are sure that he has enjoyed and profited thereby. Anyhow. I envy him. Newspaper making is largely hit-and-miss. You’ve got to be on the firing line every day, with something different bobbing up constantly. Today must be cared for. Yesterdays are gone. And we imagine that one can gain much inspiration toward enjoying life todayHancock of the high school. He likewise haled from Missuori. _l“’Tis not a philly-loo at all,” avers the able and affable schoolmaster. “It’s a gilly-loo,” and in substantiation of his statement offers the following clipping, declining to state front where or whence it came.“I have read with much interest the authorities which you quote on the philly-loo, and especially regarding the extinctionof the boid, and if I hasten to point out several glaring inaccuracies, please believe that it is not done in anger, nor even in sorrow—I like to do it. The bird in.play to entertain rather than for| learning The habits, character-the sport.These same fellows fail to get excited over teams in their home communities, ■made up of fellows they know who play for the sheer love of the sport. The average baseball nut passes up the amateur games every time. 'It is past understanding.istics, hopes and aspirations' of those interesting fellows who lived hundreds of years ago. Newspaper making and the legal profession lead into many strange paths and he who -serves beat must find the way through, no matter how .much hard work is required.question is not a philly-loo bird at all; its habitat is not in Mon-ftana nor the Dakotas, and it is! not extinct. Otherwise the articles show admirable truth to nature and fidelity to fact. The birds correct name is gilly-loo, derived .from its plaintive cry which may ’be heard just at sunset on any summer evening in the lake country of northern Wiscon--sin. And if the bird himself doesn’t know what his own name is, \yhat prairie editor shall un-“dertake to tell him? Fondness of the gilly-Joo for doughnut holesI watched “Hen Johns perform the other day. “Red” is a new jpitcher who was bony lit by Hollywood from a Texas league team, and for cockiness and.self-is nature’s (provision for maintain-This matter of the origin or {.ing inflation of a sort of pneu-demise of the philly-loo bird jmatic inner tube that aids the! aseems to have been disturbing the peace and tranquillity of nob a few Coronans, who since a re-, cent effusion in these columns started folks to delving into birdconfidence he’s got all of the | lore for information on the sub-Johns ‘boys that we ever knew ject. if the unnatural historybird in swimming, continues theschool man. I can vouch for this•peculiarity because I know thatif our cook threw out any dough-)nuts with holes, the gilly-loo ao(punched clear off the earth. The Skipper injected “Red” into the .game when things looked rather dark. Two men on the bases and nobody down and the Seals’, larripin’ lobsters coinin' up. Johnswalked out there with all theconfidence in the world. He was•+- *•better’n ’em any day, and believe it or not, that old confidence won. He had those big boys from up the coast whiffin’ the ozone .or else poppin’ up weak little lobsto the infielders. I couldn’t helpbut 'wonder if tlu hundreds ofwould descend in flocks and de-vour the whole. The gilly-loowhich various and sundry indi- • birds are related to the wold cold-viduals have dug up for us is of shuts and fuzzy billed sidewind-any value to the situation then we should be glad to have been of some service. Mayor Colbern, who previous to his coming toXCorona was a habitat of the plains of -Montana and in work on one of those large ranches where you start out where youers. The last named is largerare going today and reach yourtired business men watchin“Red” got a lesson from his stuff. If they would put half the confidence and cockiness, into their business deals that “Red” has in himself when he’s out there toss-in’ ’em up to those sharpshooters, they .would find themselves pitching close to .1000 in the businessleague. The man or bqy who can get a lesson in confidence in himself, finds his time and money invested in tin afternoon at the-ball :park well placed.restination tomorow, was an eyewitness to the activities of many of these piiilly-loos. In support of hi.; icntcntion that he wae right, he springs on us a copy of the Harlow tow n. Montana Times, which says in partithan the gilly-loo and when emboldened by numbers and driven bv hunger has been known to at-itack an unarmed swamper. This is so well understood by the old hands that newcomers in camp are always warned.iOne of the finest thingsThe editor of a Southern California newspaper tells how to catch a wampus, an animal which grows in the Florida Everglades,and is about as big as a boogie-* hug, with a long tail like a.folly* wop. He also tells how to trap a whiffenpoop, an amphibean something on the grampus order, with a two by four and a bag of peanuts,Several other authorities have*from time to time, informed the■philly or gilly-loo editors hereabouts that, were wrong in the origin and demise of the bird in question, hut their statements have been so unreasonable tna-we have declined to publish same. However, with the two. eminent authorities quoted today. it.should settle the question locally for all time and not. make it necessary for us to return to thesubject.♦Main street of Beaumont is* •now being repaved with one-way■traffic in effect for about three and then asks somebody in blocks. . i
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Corona Courier
Corona, California, US
Fri, May 03, 1929
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