BAMA MAMMOTHS

He was truly a super-politician but in so many ways, he was simply the caretaker of his late brother Buck's acquisitions. Buck was the model for the protagonist of DMAT and after Buck's 1920 death in Hot Springs. Baseball teams had spring training there and Buck was tied into pro ball. https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/major-league-spring-training-in-hot-springs-6221/ the Baker Lot next to the old pajama factory was the "Rec Center" for both races before construction of Wiregrass Stadium. Buck brought the Braves and Yankees to Dothan to play a spring exhibition game @ the Baker Lot. Baker baseball3-28-17.jpg

Big Crowd for Game

The Dothan baseball association according to President G. S. Jackson, anticipates the largest crowd ever assembled at Baker Field to see the Braves and Yankees game. However, Mr. Jackson asserts that there will be room and that the attendance, however large will be taken care of.

One thousand extra bleacher seats will be completed by Thursday, the baseball association having decided not to take any chances on being unable to seat the crowds. The sale of grand stand seats closed Saturday.

There is evidently poetical talent in the ranks of the Shriners for on the last page of the official program appears a sample that would make Shakespeare turn over in his grave in despair for he never wrote anything like this in his best days. But Shakespeare died before Alabama swatted Demon Rum and he did not have a fair chance in this competition. Official Ditty.

The ditty is entitled "Nobody Knows How Dry I Am," and it's sung like this, accompanied by an anvil chorus from a blacksmith shop.

"We are bone dry we are bone dry

Everybody knows we are bone dry

Our hearts are sad, we're feeling bad,

We need our booze to make us glad.

We miss our quart, we miss our pint, To keep us happy all the night.

We are bone dry we are bone dry, Everybody knows we are bone dry

We love the girls, we love the girls

Everybody knows we love the girls

They are so fine, they are sublime,

We want them with us all the time.

The lean ones, fat ones, tall and small,

God bless the girls' we love them all.

But when we want to take our beer

Our hearts are always filled with fear.

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"Bah!" his mother said, then she moved her eyes sharply straight ahead at Millie.

"That'n now. She'll never get a real man-ain't built for it."

Millie stood up straight and put her hands on her hips. "I don't know," she said. She moved to the side so her mother could see her and pulled her long skirt up nearly to her knees."If skirts were this short, I'd be beating them off."

"Humph! All baseball players, too."

Millie dropped her skirt and glared at her mother. She didn't say anything, and the room suddenly was very quiet.

"Baseball players?" Buck's quick words cut deliberately into the quiet. Millie nodded and her hands went back onto her hips.

"What of it?" She looked back at her mother defiantly. Lota cleared her throat to speak, but Buck squeezed her hand and stopped her.

"I never could understand," he said, thoughtfully, "how come you girls don't marry better. You're all right pretty, and I never saw either one of you with a dirty neck."

"Now, you just wait." Millie said her words slowly with a space between each. Her head went from side to side as she spoke. "As long as you've been living in Aven and running around with senators and bankers and really big men, you never introduced either of us to a man." She stopped abruptly and clenched her teeth. "Why?"

Buck didn't answer, but he felt a flush coming up his face. He let her eyes hold his for a moment, then shifted them uneasily to his mother.

"Think that over," Millie said distinctly, and turned quickly and walked out, closing the door softly behind her.

The silence was heavy until Jeanie Bannon said, "Whew, boy, she laid it on heavy, didn't she?"

BRAVES & YANKEES play spring training game on THE BAKER LOT next to the old pajama factory. from the March 28, 1917 MONTGOMERY ADVERTISER