Sport: Living Legend

Carey hadn't hardly finished whisperin' when Ike got up and pulled it:

"Well, good night, boys," he says. "I ain't sleepy, but I got some gravel in my shoes and it's killin' my feet."

We knowed he hadn't never left the hotel since we'd came in from the grounds and changed our clo'es. So Carey says:

"I should think they'd take them gravel pits out o' the billiard room."

For a decade sportsfans have known that the "Carey" of Ring Lardner's immortal Alibi Ike is only a faint camouflage for the bowlegged, wisecracking figure of Charles Dillon...

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