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CENTRAL OFFICE
5860 AVALON BOULEVARD
LOS ANGELES 3, CALIFORNIA

ESTABLISHED 1885
REPUBLIC 0138
McNEIL CONSTRUCTION CO
EASTERN OFFICE - HAY-ADAMS HOUSE
WASHINGTON 6, D.C.
JOHN N. BENTLEY
MANAGER

My Best Baseball Story
Mother used to tell me what wonderful people our
cousins in St. Louis were, the Millers, the streets
and glasgow, the cream of the crop. It
wasn't untill I arrived in St. Louis as
a member of the New York Giants baseball
club that I had the opportunity of meeting
them. They phoned me with an invitation
to dinner & asked if they could come out to
see me pitch that afternoon to which
I agreed. Having been purchased for $75,000
by the Giants from Baltimore and that I
was a cousin from Maryland had given
them the impression that I was the greatest
pitcher that had ever hit St. Louis besides
they didn't know anything about baseball.

I started the game and
in the second inning I was taken out, there
were so many line drives in the outfield
that McGraw was afraid some of his players
might get killed.

Then followed each trip to
St. Louis with the same result but my concern