by Michael Ceraolo
One nickname given to me was The Christian Gentleman,
which then as now connoted to some an insufferable prig;
I wasn’t that at all, as Jane and my teammates could well attest
I loved to gamble
I drank and swore occasionally
I was intensely competitive in everything
I mostly (though not entirely) accepted the code of the game
Being overseas in the war at the time,
I wasn’t able to testify against Chase,
and actually had to coach him
after he was acquitted!
A player has no control over the nicknames given him,
but I did my best to live up to that one.
