Violet wrote that she wished me all the luck and happyness in the world but it is too late for me to be happy Al and I don’t care what kind of luck I have now.
Al you will have to get rid of that lease for me. Fix it up the best way you can. Tell the old man I have changed my plans. I don’t know just yet what I will do but maybe I will go to Australia with Mike Donlin’s team. If I do I won’t care if the boat goes down or not. I don’t believe I will even come back to Bedford this winter. It would drive me wild to go past that little house every day and think how happy I might of been.
Maybe I will pitch tomorrow Al and if I do the serious will be over tomorrow night. I can beat them Cubs if I get any kind of decent support. But I don’t care now Al.
Chicago, Illinois, October 12.
Al: Your letter received. If the old man won’t call it off I guess I will have to try and rent the house to some one else. Do you know of any couple that wants one Al? It looks like I would have to come down there myself and fix things up someway. He is just mean enough to stick me with the house on my hands when I won’t have no use for it.
They beat us the day before yesterday as you probibly know and it rained yesterday and today. The papers says it will be all OK tomorrow and Callahan tells me I am going to work. The Cub pitchers was all shot to peaces and the bad weather is just nuts for them because it will give Cheney a good rest. But I will beat him Al if they don’t kick it away behind me.
I must close because I promised Allen the little lefthander that I would come over to his flat and play cards a while tonight and I must wash up and change my collar. Allen’s wife’s sister is visiting them again and I would give anything not to have to go over there. I am through with girls and don’t want nothing to do with them.
I guess it is maybe a good thing it rained today because I dreamt about Violet last night and went out and got a couple of high balls before breakfast this morning. I hadn’t never drank nothing before breakfast before and it made me kind of sick. But I am all OK now.
Chicago, Illinois, October 13.
Dear Old Al: The serious is all over Al. We are the champions and I done it. I may be home the day after tomorrow or I may not come for a couple of days. I want to see Comiskey before I leave and fix up about my contract for next year. I won’t sign for no less than five thousand and if he hands me a contract for less than that I will leave the White Sox flat on their back. I have got over fourteen hundred dollars now Al with the city serious money which was $814.30 and I don’t have to worry.
Them reporters will have to give me a square deal this time Al. I had everything and the Cubs done well to score a run. I whiffed Zimmerman three times. Some of the boys say he ain’t no hitter but he is a hitter and a good one Al only he could not touch the stuff I got. The umps give them their run because in the fourth inning I had Leach flatfooted off of second base and Weaver tagged him OK but the umps wouldn’t call it. Then Schulte the lucky stiff happened to get a hold of one and pulled it past first base. I guess Chase must of been asleep. Anyway they scored but I don’t care because we piled up six runs on Cheney and I drove in one of them myself with one of the prettiest singles you ever see. It was a spitter and I hit it like a shot. If I had hit it square it would of went out of the park.
Comiskey ought to feel pretty good about me winning and I guess he will give me a contract for anything I want. He will have to or I will go to the Federal League.
We are all invited to a show tonight and I am going with Allen and his wife and her sister Florence. She is OK Al and I guess she thinks the same about me. She must because she was out to the game today and seen me hand it to them. She maybe ain’t as pretty as Violet and Hazel but as they say beauty isn’t only so deep.
Well Al tell the boys I will be with them soon. I have gave up the idea of going to Australia because I would have to buy a evening full-dress suit and they tell me they cost pretty near fifty dollars.
Chicago, Illinois, October 14.
Friend Al: Never mind about that lease. I want the house after all Al and I have got the supprise of your life for you.
When I come home to Bedford I will bring my wife with me. I and Florence fixed things all up after the show last night and we are going to be married tomorrow morning. I am a busy man today Al because I have got to get the license and look round for furniture. And I have also got to buy some new cloths but they are haveing a sale on Cottage Grove Avenue at Clark’s store and I know one of the clerks there.
I am the happyest
