Trouble Along the Way Page #7

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- Can l have some cream?

- You don't need it.

What happens if our fellows don't

wanna give up their summer?

Oh, they'll train all right. Remember,

they're stockholders, not college boys.

Hail to alma mater.

Hail, all hail to thee.

lt's always a pleasure

to welcome a new student body...

...to the summer school

of St. Anthony's.

To look out upon row after row

of eager young faces...

...who've given up their summer vacation

to further their quest for knowledge.

l notice our new freshmen,

shy and timid as usual...

...have seated themselves

toward the rear.

Gentlemen, we're all united

in the brotherhood of scholarship.

Would you rise and move forward

to join the rest of us...

...as we will all move forward

during the coming term...

...in the eternal search

for truth and beauty.

We will lift our voices into song.

What's up?

We wanna congratulate you

on your new freshmen.

lt's a nice-looking mountain of flesh,

isn't it?

Don't you think

you may have overdone it?

Ring Lardner once said,

''The race is not always to the swift...

...nor the battle to the strong,

but that's the way to bet.''

We've been looking over the high school

record of your young men.

- They look extremely good.

- ln fact, too good.

lt will be best if they all took

an entrance examination.

Why is it that a minute a boy

with a fine physique enters college...

...his intellect is immediately suspect?

l'm willing to take his records in good faith.

Why can't you?

There's such a thing as misplaced faith.

Why not have a little Christian charity?

Let them prove themselves

one way or the other.

Mr. Williams,

they'll receive no special consideration.

We're all working for the same things.

St. Anthony's, Father Burke,

and 170,000 bucks.

lt's the F sharp, it's a clinker.

l asked for six tickets and end up

with two on the rooting section.

How do you like that?

l wish we had as many requests

for seats in the chapel.

Well?

l have a letter

from a John McGivenny of Boston.

Says you baptized him.

He wants 10 tickets in the 50-yard line.

- Send him one. l only baptized him.

- All right, Father.

You sell any more seats,

there won't be room for me.

Then we'll just have to call off the game.

What's the matter?

We've just been clipped from the rear.

Yes, yes, go on.

So, what the kids in the block do to me,

l should worry.

Ringing my doorbell

at 2:
00 in the morning.

Undertaker comes,

he wants to know where is the body.

Throwing rocks through my window,

it's all right.

But when they call my Maria

Watermelon Bottom...

...the city of New York

has got to do something.

We're taxpayers.

I'll have a talk with the children.

- See that Maria keeps out of trouble.

- Sure, sure, Miss Singleton.

But you talk to the kids today.

Tomorrow, l get a baseball bat.

- I'll take care of it. Goodbye.

- Goodbye.

- Hello, Mr. Williams.

- Hello, Alice.

That's what it said on the letter.

And l feel we're such old friends.

- How's Carol?

- Fine.

You're not holding up

any more gas stations?

l know we're gonna have to fight you

when custody hearing comes up.

But what's this all about?

You've got to let Carol

see her mother on that date...

...or you're in contempt of court.

Why don't you let Anne

do her own dirty work?

You're smarter than that.

Don't you know she's using you?

Go and help old Watermelon Bottom

and her kid. They need it.

My Carol doesn't.

l've raised her to take care of herself.

She'd get her own baseball bat

and tell me about it afterwards.

- Why don't you come out of that shell-- ?

- Mr. Williams, l suggest that you follow me.

- Where?

- Someplace better suited to your manners.

- And where would that be?

- The nearest saloon.

That ought to quiet your nerves.

- Steve, darling, hi.

- Hello.

That was Beanie.

l see you brought me

to your home territory.

Mr. Steve.

- What do you want here, Mr. Steve?

- Bourbon and water here.

Scotch over rocks.

Well, how do you do, Miss Singleton?

- Don't plan on a campaign.

- Might not be a bad idea.

- You're showing signs of being human.

- Must be the light in here. Cigarette?

They're the kind all lady doctors smoke.

Thanks.

Well, let's get down to business.

Yeah, it...

lt says here, ''The child must be turned over

to the mother Sunday, September 20th...

...and she shall have custody

for the ensuing day.''

Sunday, September the 20th.

Who's brilliant idea was this?

Mrs. McCormick insisted. She said

that was the most convenient time.

Glad to hear

she still reads the sports pages.

That's the day of our first game.

Mr. Williams, aren't there more important

things in Carol's life than football?

- Just as there are in yours?

- Not this week.

lf l made Carol go see her mother

on Sunday, l'm a heel.

lf l don't, l'm in contempt of court.

lt's the old squeeze play.

Well, that's one way of looking at it.

Don't you realize

this will make her hate her mother?

What makes you so sure?

She might find a whole new world

that you've kept her from.

How do you know your way

of raising your daughter has been right?

Because l asked her.

That's the best way.

How many pink dresses does she have?

How many hats she can't

play baseball in?

Maybe it's been easy so far.

What happens in a few years

when she stops being a girl...

...and becomes a young woman?

Are you preparing her

to meet those problems?

I'll pick Carol up Sunday morning.

Look, could you hurry up?

Everything's set. The boys are at Mass.

- Better get moving.

- Sure.

l want to see the face on that

Santa Carla coach when we shift from T...

...to the single-wing to the box.

They'll think they're playing six teams.

Listen, Carol,

you're not going to the game.

- What are you talking about?

- You have to see your mother today.

Alice is coming by to pick you up.

- Alice?

- Miss Singleton.

- You're kidding, aren't you?

- l have a court order.

Even you can't fight city hall.

But today. The first game.

How could you let them

do a thing like that?

l'm not going to go.

Could have spared

one of my school days.

A lot of things

more important in your life than football.

Should've put up a fight.

That's what you should've done.

Look, who's bawling out who?

Who's parent here and who's the child?

l got something for you.

- What's in this?

- A time bomb. What else?

Open it, blow us all up.

You promised me l could go.

Now you won't let me go.

l planned it all week.

l don't want any of these things.

Good morning.

l'm delivering the package.

Handle with care.

Steve, Steve.

Steve.

She's the law.

Now, stay out of trouble

and kick on third down.

That's a very pretty dress you're wearing.

ls it new?

Last year's.

Let's go.

- No, thank you.

- Thank you. So glad you could come.

Go on in and join the children.

Hello. l don't know that it was a good idea

having all of these children in.

l'd hope you would spend

the afternoon alone with Carol.

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