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 the idea of filling that baseball opening in his place. Belonging to an athletic club, I had kept in good condition, having continued to pitch occasionally after graduating from college. In ten or twelve weeks of summer baseball, at the salary offered, I could earn enough to pay my brother's expenses at Princeton for the coming year.

"If the man who had made the offer were to learn that it was a brother of the famous Princeton pitcher who responded, instead of the pitcher himself, he might be inclined to cut down the amount he had flourished as such an alluring bait, and hence it was decided not to take him into our confidence. Mr. Cope, I humbly crave your pardon."

"Oh, thunder!" exclaimed the delighted grocer. "Don't mention it! Lordy!  Lordy!  Ain't it funny!"

There were some persons present, however, to whom the humor of the situation made no appeal whatever.

The Kingsbridge pitcher continued:

"As the given name of both my brother and myself begins with P, the mistake of the photographer who handed out one of my pictures when Mr. King's obliging friend called for a photograph of Paul Hazelton is readily under