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HOW IT HAPPENEDGabby 8 tract, the ‘Street of Chjuaca** that the Cardinal owner* guawed right on, hae at last related how he cam# to get the job as manager of the National league champion* Here It !*» in hi# own word* “Harper t Blake Harper, now commander m chief of the hot dog fiddler at Sportsman* park)wti after me for five or «U year#. ?Gabby related. ‘ He waa after me ! and I was after him. You see, I knew the Cardinal organ * ration waa # great chance for a man, and I figured if I ever got in Id move right up, though, to tell the truth I never even figured I might lead tba Cardinal# #om# day. Weil Harper and I would think we had it alt fixed up. He thought he aaw quail-ficationa m the old. sergeant a# a handler of men and every year he told Branch Richey and Sam Bread* don he warred to give me a chance, jBut every year Mr Hickey andMr Breadon eaid no, and I’d have to go out and find me another job I Wall, finally Harper persuaded Hickey that I had climbed aboard tha water wagon for good, I usedto be pretty fair hand with the old i ,black bot?ir, but I finally go? smart = aomeonc with the club to wheel j and quit. Well Hickey decided to Grover Cleveland Alexander around ] give me a chance, #o Harper came } and keep him dry. They decided j *o me all tickled to death and said 1 that the old sergeant, knowing all her# wu my chance, that the Card- j the trick# and ail the brand#, would mala needed a manager a? Shawnee j be just the right man to room with Okie, Where he waa going to be old Bate Maybe they reckoned too j president* Harper thought he had that with that combination they'd afgntd a man to help hmt run the *oon find out If old Gabby could Shawnga club,, hut then u waa rid# the water wagon good and der?ded the CmrdmMl^ ought to have j steady, I .od* tba wagon alright1I .and her# I am. ’
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Oil City Derrick
Oil City, Pennsylvania, US
Tue, Sep 30, 1930
Page 8
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