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...probable Bellboy lineup is: ends, Hunter and Wenzel; tackles, Thurston and Pirnie; guards, Call and Taliaferro; center, Clark; quarterback, Gordon; halfbacks, Hame and Blotner; and full-back, Lyford...
Also your translator seems to have blundered somewhat. "Gaibt gore nix drum fer maid hame nemma" means "doesn't care at all for taking girls home," not "likes to take a girl home." At the most, taking "gabit gore nix drum" as an understatement, it might mean "doesn't mind," but "likes" would be "gleicht," derived from the German adjective "gleich," meaning equal, similar, like...
...Abie Walbert fon drous hinnich da Lechaw Kerrich drin secht, er gaibt gore nix drum fer maid hame nemma fon da picknicks, yusht's dade'n so narafich mocha bis er sie g'frok'd het. Da onner owet hot er aenie hame shnarra wolla fon dons on Shamrock, ow'r in blotz fon sawga 'Darf ich mit d'r hame lawfa, 'hot er g'sawt. 'Its akinda feicht tonight.' 'S maid'l is noh laenich hame, un so is aw der Abie." Translation: "Abie Walbert from...
...story behind the song is sometimes more romantic than the song itself. Who knows, for instance, that the two great Southern songs, "Dixie" and "Old Folks at Hame," were both written by Northerners, and that the author of the latter never saw the Swanee River, but found it in an atlas? Or that the author of the pretty "On the Banks of the Wabash," and other sentimental songs, was the brother of Theodore Dreiser, most realistic of modern novelists?-Or that "Sweet Adeline" started life as "Sweet Rosalee...
...drives him till his hame...