“Gentlemen and friends. I am no speech maker and I guess if I had to make speeches for a liveing I am afraid I couldn’t do it but the boys is anxious I should say a few words about baseball and I didn’t want to disappoint them. They may be some of you boys that has not followed the great American game very close and maybe don’t know who Jack Keefe is. Well gentlemen I was boughten from Terre Haute in the Central League by that grand old Roman Charley Comiskey owner of the Chicago White Sox in 1913 and I been in the big league ever since except one year I was with Frisco and I stood that league on their head and Mr. Comiskey called me back and I was still starring with the Chicago White Sox when Uncle Sam sent out the call for men and I quit the great American game to enlist in the greatest game of all the game we are playing against the Kaiser and we will win this game like I have win many a game of baseball because I was to fast for them and used my brains and it will be the same with the Kaiser and America will fight to the drop of the hat and make the world safe for democracy.”