Mitting the king . . .

AND KING GEORGE

HAD NEVER HEARD

OF HINKY DINK!

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So Frank Murphy and Joe Roach

Had to Explain About the

Chicago Alderman.

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New York, Nov. 20.—What would you think of a plain, every-day king who didn’t know “Hinky Dink” Kenna?

Well, Frank Murphy and Joe Roach can’t figure it out, either, and they haven’t got over it yet.

You remember Murphy, of course. He was a star with the Cleveland nationals, back in ’84. Roach was a captain on a Lake Michigan tugboat. Although neither will ever see 50 again, they decided in January of last year that they ought to get into the big fracas, went up to Canada and hauled right off and enlisted.

Roach’s fame as a tugboat captain cropped out after their arrival in England and he was given charge of a tug in the channel. Murphy became his mate.

One day King George was at the wharf, preparing to sail for France. Murphy spied him, wiped some of the grease off his hands with cotton waste, elbowed his way through a crowd of dukes and generals and such and exclaimed:

“How are you, king? I’m Frank Murphy, formerly with the Cleveland Nationals, and this”—turning to the abashed Roach—“is Capt. Roach, one of ‘Hinky Dink’ Kenna’s constituents. You know ‘Hinky Dink’ naturally.”

George Frederick Ernest Albert, “emperor of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and of the British dominions beyond the seas, king, defender of the faith, emperor of India,” etc., etc., grinned a most unkingly grin, shook hands heartily, with both Chicagoans, and inquired into their history and future intentions.

But—and there was a note of sadness in his voice, denoting a sense of loss—he had never even heard of “Hinky Dink.”

Murphy relieved the King’s embarrassment as neatly as possible by discussing such light topics as the war and British politics. Oh, well, such is fame, anyway.

Murphy and Roach, who arrived here to-day on the Allan liner Grampion, said that while in England they also “mitted” Secretary Baker and had “one heluva fine time” with Senator J. Ham Lewis.

Note—For those in the same predicament as the King, “Hinky Dink” Kenna has been Democratic alderman from the Chicago First Ward since the days when Armour had only one shoat.

Syracuse Journal, November 20, 1918.