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THE LEADER TRIBUNE, FORT VALLEY, GA., AUGUST 6, 1920.
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SYNOPSIS.
PART I.—His star pitcher definitely out
of the game, throngii illness, Trls Ford,
manager of the famous baseball team,
tbe Giant-Killers, secures Barney t*irkln,
brilliant twlrler, but eccentric and dissi¬
pated, and after a nerve-shattering sea¬
son the Giant-Killers win the pennant in
the American league. Gamblers, without
Giant-Killers, apparent reason, bet heavily against the
in the world's champion¬
ship games with the "Phillies.'’ AVinton
fihute, Ford’s king of second basemen, and
main hope at tlfe bat. is kidnaped
before the first game.
PART II—Shute, awaking from stupor
on steamer Colonia. miles out from New
York, learns he was brought on board ap¬
parently Wtnton Intoxicated, under the name of
Italy. James, and Is on bis way to
A wireless to Ford Is answered,
apparently dares by the manager, and de
Shute is with the team and play¬
ing. Shute accepts the inevitable. He
becomes acquainted with Miss Riley, fel¬
low passenger, and something more than
friendship develops. At Genoa Italian
secret service ofib-ers search (lie ship
Miss Riley confides to Shute that they
are after her, und that*her name is Leon¬
ard.
PART III.—At Naples Shute meets Trls
Ford, there with the Giant-Killers an-"
tile Philadelphia team for a series r.f ex¬
hibition aames. Shine knows the Phi! i
delphfas won the pennant, A in ericas
gamblers, counting on the absence o!
Shute from the world’s series games had
made a big "killing.” Shute is not as
"sore ’ over his experience as l-’ord thinks
he should he. Trls meets Miss Leonard
aiul understands. Largely through the
wireless operator of the Colonia. one of
the conspirators Ford gets t o evidence
he wants against the gamblers, Miss
Leonard, it seems, is wanted only as a
witness against magnates of the powder
trust, in whose offi> es she was a .stenog¬
rapher. .|n an exhibition game at Home
the G nt-Killers defeat their rivals the
Philadelphia*, clever mainly through Shiite's
wor:.i:n of r e “double squeeze.**
That ev.-:, • arranges to sign a con
tract wit* 1 for a lifo en
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When Win Shute talked with Trls
Ford over the telephone about the dis¬
appearance, reappearance and •'fool ex¬
planation,” Trls replied:
"Well, we’ve won Hie pennant, and
they’re here. What we got to figure
on now is so’s It won’t happen again.
Want to talk over the world series
with you."
There was an entirely new element
In (he approaching blue-ribbon event.
Of course the Giant-killers to a man
wanted to win. It meant perhaps fif
een hundred dollars more money In
j each player’s jeans. It meant, also,
,
I to continue to be known and pointed
- out as world champions.) And the club
owners were out to win—keen to win.
First and foremost for the glory of It.
Then for the prestige It would give
the Giant-killers all over Hie league
circuit—rathpjj, which they would con¬
tinue to enjoy another season. There
was a third reason, a very Important
reason.
Not once before In the thirty-five
years of the club’s existence had ihe
Phillies won a pennant. Vet within
ten years pennant winning had be¬
come something of a habit with the.
.Giant-killers. Naturally, therefore,
they had the call on the patronage
of Father Penn’s home town, having
commanded popular favor for a num¬
ber of seasons. This popularity was
now In jeopardy. If the Phillies dem¬
onstrated that they were the better
team, the fans would turn to the new
kings of baseball the next .season. For
the fan dearly loves a winner.
On form--relying on the weak broth
er, Barney Larkin—the Giant-killers
looked to have a shade the best of
the argument. This ladng so, why
were the Phillies the favorites in the
betting? Even money was at first the
rule. But over in New York the
gamblers soon had the odds hammered
down until the Nationals were favor¬
ites at 10 to 6.
Gambling Trls Ford abhorred, re¬
garding It as the ever-nres'■ 1 menace
to tlio Integrity of th* national gamo;
and If he thought a man, however
prominent, or Important, was seeking
a line on the Giant-killers as a guide
In betting, Trls would shut up like
a steel trap. It wasn't the betting it¬
self, but the Information behind the
odds, that troubled him.
It did not surprise him—why, he
did not know—when 1^« received a
, letter, special delivery, from the sport
j lug editor of one of the New York pa
j pers. The man who wrote It loved
1 fair play ami dean sport, and looked
upon Trls Ford as the apostle of the
one and the exponent of the other,
The letter read:
- In this town the gamblers are
plunging on the Phillies. Regardless
of form, yuur club Is being forced
down -steadily in the betting. Jake
Stinger and other big gamblers don’t
look upon tills betting proposition as
a ‘gume of chance,’ not they, Uttin
bllng to them on such a scale means
a sure thing. It Is no secret on the
Inside. They say you Imve only one
pitcher who can stop the Phillies, now
at the top of their batting, and that
Is Barney Larkin, They boast that
they have got him.
"Take this for what It's worth. You
doubtless know Larkin—but I know
Stinger’s crowd. They are betting on
a sure thing, or else somebody Is fool¬
ing them most awfully. Anyhow, look
out. Good luck.”
After reading this letter to Win
Shute, Trls Ford observed: "There’s
something behind those long odds—
I’ve thought so right along. >*
“You don’t think they could bribe
Barney? With all his vices he wouldn’t
sell out, would he?” asked Win rather
anxiously.
"Not for one minute.” said Trls
positively. “Money means nothing to
him-—leastwise, a great deal of mon¬
ey. I keep his coin for him—deal it
out In small bits. I find he’s as
pleased over a two-dollar bill as be
la over a five. And a tenner looks
to him like Rockefeller’s dividends for
a whole day!
“The money end of It don’t worry
me,” Trls repeated.
"Then what Is bothering yon? n
The- manager of the Giant-killers
hesitnted, his expression becoming ab¬
normally serious. "I don’t know that
I ought to speak of It even—It might
gel the Idea started, If It hasn’t al¬
ready.”
“What Idea?” almost snapped Win
Shute. “What’s on your chest? II
It’s something threatening, we ought
to plan to beat It. Tell me!”
Trls showed Ills anxiety In his face,
“Kidnaping!—that’s what I’m afraid
of,” lie whispered to Win Shute.
<> Kidnaping Barney Larkin? They’d
have to hind.and gag his giant keep¬
er first.’
“f>h. thoy’d nmnage that if they set
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