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Show Does Marriage Rob Player of Needed Nerve? . , Ey Tribune Special Sport Service. . NEW YOIiK, Feb. 27. There's a -heated debate going on just now in baseball circles over this subject: "Is a married ball player of more value to a club than a bachelor ball player-?" One faction the wedded faction asserts loudlv that the wedded gent is more valuable to the club, while another an-other faction the unwedded gents take the opposite viewpoint. It looks : like a deadlock. The wedded fellow j savs that after a ball player gets married mar-ried ho quits frivoling, and that the less frivoling tho better it is l'or the ball club as a whole. That faction asserts that after a ball player gets married he becomes steadier in his habits; ho doesn't stay out all night, or even half j the night. " He realizes that he ha? familv responsibilities, and that he ! must keep working so as to hold his job, and thus keep the wolf from the j doorstep.' i 0!He O'Mars-, the shortstop for the Brooklvn Dodgers, and who is spokesman spokes-man for the bachelor gang, has this to say: "As soon as a guy gets married he. begins to go back. He loses his pep and he loses his nerve. He no longer . takes the chance that he did in the past. T-Ie doesn't trv the long shots on bases that he did before he got hooked up. "A married fellow detracts from tenra spirit. Instead of netting around ' with the boys in tho evening, he ducks off into somo corner and writes a letter to his -wife. Then he sneaks off for bed. The married fellow won't get into a card game unless the limit is about ten blue chipr, for a penny. (A married player doesn't Fas? a:i umpire as an - umpire sometimos need? to be sassd. "VThy? Oh. because the married fellow f'-;vs a rine and n later accounting tn wifcy for the shyness in the pay envelope. "Tri unmarried ball player plays baseball all the time on the u"M. on the Pullmans and in the hotel lobbies. As soon as a fellow gets married he plays the. game only on the ball field. At "all other tims ho plays -the bvo g a n i s . And baseball and love don't mix." Sems to us as if Ollie '? words are iTd:ng to be used re'dnst him some 'lay. Ollie is a rood looking voun:;- lV"w. he's of hf luroic ivp1 of r-:h::e. h.-V :i Beau B'.nnimel dre-j-cr ami he',- 'm;;--!c a pf-fcti v tre-oe-meTi!oi;-: hit u i: h th1 girlie fans in Br-rkly::. N. Y. Tne Dodger lionirt atir-ndan.- perk.yl up wonderfully last spring while Ollie was cavorting on the green, and cniiie a bully portion of the increased patronage came from the shy, sweet maidens who. i bbi'-.orn in Brooklyn, hvrrv t:nn (dlie1 amble -1 lo the pi;t;'e he v.-as greeted with j ln.i'.'-Mke I'r-'M'i'-, and v her"-'ver he: pulled a si;:..lii.Lr riuy around suor'fieldi he not- a r!'u:vl of aipl,';u-e from ' fc:: ir.in" ir-,:.f-. I Cp" da- '"Vii-' v.-e.-t ain! i ' his lr-r and wa -f- o nf. i u !.e , From that d;;v o( ',) -ie niieu-;-, ;!!!' ar ih'-- I'od-rv ) ;.ri; - Vow.l -e- -id-' '1 ? .'i:. oi; h it tii- vi- jfo.' ' t at the h of pita i -.iie'-e (Jibe v, us ''-ou- ! lined grew to astnii'-.-hiiig iof'orTion-. J So, von see. Oil U would better be j eai.'fnl about how he spools matrimony,; because some day j |