THE WAUPACA REPUBLICAN POST

June 5, 1913

 

LETTERS FROM FORMER RESIDENTS

 

                                                            City of West Allis.

Home Coming Committee, Waupaca, Wisconsin.

            I wonder if you will have a baseball game and if the “Waupaca Co. Baseball Club” will play?  My, but what a club that is!  “Dirimple and Scruten,” why it makes me go almost crazy now to recall to mind the greatest battery that ever appeared on any diamond.  Not even the great Chandler, who, by the way, was the first curve pitcher, idol of the fans that he was, and still is, could dim the luster of Dirimple.  Dirimple.  Oh, Ye gods, how he could pitch!  Talk about cannon balls belching forth from the mouths of the enormous death destroyers.  Why, look at Scruten’s hands after the game, and you will know that catching cannon balls would have been child’s play beside of Dirimple’s terrific pitching. And, say, Chandler is some pitcher, too.  How would a game with these two great pitchers opposing each other go?

            Will Tom Anderson be there?  He wrung my neck once and it is hardly over it yet.  May be I can lick him now.

            I wish you would invite Frank Selleck.  You know he’s kind of freckled face and red headed, and we can have a lot of fun with him.

            Well, I’ll close, wishing you success, and that every body will come and have a good time.  Good time!  Why, with all those people who are going to help, a “good time” is so well assured that it will be the best time ever.

                                                                        Yours sincerely,

                                                                                    Frank Baldwin.

                                                                                                Mayor of West Allis.