, JUST PALS? ii Where are all the people now who used j ;lt;Xo call themselves the friends of Grover , j Cleveland Alexander? There used to be j ; several thousand of them, but not much J ! has been heard of them lately. The i question of course is not meant to be an- ; swered. The people who used to call themselves the friends of Old Pete, be- j ing the kind of people that they are, will j • not be heard from, now that Old Pete ! is down. *Not only Tommy Thomas but Ted Ly- I ons has a sore arm. This leaves, the White sox wide open for some sort of derog- i I atory note, but it is an old axiom of ping-j pong that one should never hit a man I when he Is down. Besides, Donle Bush Lis a chap ^ho can come back up swiftly. I' The Giants borrowed a kid's bag of | marbles gn a rainy day at San Antonio I and played while waiting for the field j to dry out. Tfhey ought to bring some I of the marbles back with them, and use [ them instead of baseballs when playing j the Cincinnati Reds.