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By K. P. Middleton
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All politics aside, if someone can
as a young man at Christian Broth-
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inform T. J. Pendergast, Democratic
ers college in St. Joseph and later
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leader, what is the proper position
at St. Mary's college, at St. Mary's,
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to hang a good luck horseshoe on
Kas.
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his office wall, let him come for-
Admirer of Poet
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ward.
It recalled to his mind, too, the
e
It's true the horseshoe in ques-
poetry of Eugene Field, whose boy-
tion is gold washed and stands for
hood also was spent in St. Joseph,
r
something more than just a good
and of whom he is a quiet, but en-
-
luck symbol, but the party leader
thusiastic admirer, a fact not known
e
hasn't been able to satisfy himself
to many of his political friends and
as to how to hang it.
associates.
S
Herbert M. Woolf's galloping
In the spirit of reminiscence, the
-
Derby winner, Lawrin, knew how
party leader revealed another ac-
f
to wear the identical shoe when he
complishment of his youth, known to
d
pushed out in front to take the
few. He played the trombone in the
a
Derby purse last year. It was a
St. Mary's college band. But he
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good luck shoe then, even if it
didn't let his vocal efforts and his
;
didn't have a gold sheen.
trombone encroach upon his baseball
When Mr. Woolf gave the horse-
activities.
shoe, tinted with gold and mounted
He played on the college baseball
on a varnished board, to his friend,
team and just missed a possible ca-
Pendergast, as souvenir proof that
reer in professional baseball.
Kansas City could produce a Derby
"The year I left college," he said,
winner, he didn't give any advice
"I was offered $60 to sign a contract
as to how it should be hung; whe-
to play baseball with a southern
ther with the corks up, down or
professional team at Dallas. But
sidewise, to achieve the best pro-
when my father heard about it, he
verbial good luck.
put his foot down. He told me, a
Tries Shifting It
college education ought to be good
A visitor, noting the horseshoe in
for something besides playing base-
ball."
;
the party leader's office yesterday,
got an explanation of what it stood
As the party leader talked, his at-
for, but found him in a puzzled
tention swung back to the ornate
;
state of mind regarding its position
Lawrin horseshoe, with this final
observation:
on the wall.
"Maybe I'll have to ask Mr. Woolf
1
"I've tried it with the corks up,
down and sidewise," he said with a
how to hang a horseshoe. He ought
grin, "but so far I can't see any
to know something about luck after
change in my luck."
what Lawrin did last year."
He had racked his memory, he
said, in a fruitless effort to recall
how his father hung the good luck
horseshoe over the kitchen door in
the Pendergast home in St. Joseph
50 years ago.
]
He recalled some of the words of
an old horseshoe song he and his
1
brothers used to sing in his boy-
(
hood days, but memory failed him
(
as to whether the corks should be
up or down. The part of the song
he remembered went something
like this:
"If you would keep good luck in
store,
"Don't take the horseshoe from the
door."
A suggestion that the party leader
sing the tune was waved aside with
a grin. But it brought the admis-
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