I wish you could be here for the serious Al but you would have to stay at a hotel because we have not got no spair room and it would cost you a hole lot of money. But you can watch the papers and you will see what I done.

Yours truly, Jack .

Chicago, Illinois, October 6.

Dear Old Pal : Probily before you get this letter you will of saw by the paper that we was licked in the first game and that I was tooken out but the papers don’t know what really come off so I am going to tell you and you can see for yourself if it was my fault.

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