Well they aint no use telling you the rest of it. I wasent in no shape to play my game and Thomas beat me by 3 or 4 holes. Carpenter says I was 18 down at the end of the 1st 9, but he was stretching it.

You beat me all right, I says to Thomas, but you know what a fat chance you would of had only for that ketchup I had for lunch being spoiled and made me sick.

I am glad to get that news about ketchup, says Thomas, because when the country gos dry we will want something that effects a man that way.

Then Carpenter says that wine was a good anecdote for a man that got poisoned by ketchup and he says he would buy a bottle when we got in the club house.

So I says Yes you cheap skate. But you wouldent buy no wine if you had to pay for it. Any body can buy wine when all as they half to do is sign there name.

So he says the reason he suggested him signing his name was because he thought I was too sick to sign my name. So I says, I will show you if I am too sick or not, so when we got in the club house we had 6 more bottles and I signed for them.

Well Charley they got me that time and got me for $50 which I suppose is pretty near as much as the cup is worth that I win from Thomas. But they wouldent never of got me if it hadent been for them pickles I eat for lunch and I will get back at Thomas if it takes me all the rest of the summer and he cant never beat me in the world when I havent eat something that was spoiled.

Your Bro. F. A. Gross .

Allison, Ill. Aug. 3.

Dear Charley: