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Show ijllllljll jtin ini piiimii inn i)tiii!iiin lllllllllj 1111111 H!' II 1 f: ''Hi! ill ' ill III I llj , I. j in,. I j .'ll! (! !; I 'll ill I'll Inn iiiillllinlln. ill mi iiiiniiiillll I liiiuiiiiilll Inn inilllllllllliilllllli .IM, Bl M l The teacher s..ld to Johnny Ji.nes Before the whole darned class. "New. Johnny, lell trie i isht a Way W here is Caps Hatteras?" 'Well. Johnny squirmed and Johnny blushed And Johnny rolled his ee:-. He looked around the room In hope Some one would put him wise. But no one even gave a hint. And he was doomed to fail. So he replied: Miear teacher, I Believe I'm going stab . 'I've studied long. Pve studied hard. Until I cannot think; Perhaps my zeal to le.irn has put My brain upon tho blink." Therefore, the teacher pltv took And sent him home to rest Whereat the other kids agreed He w.-ls the cleverest. w William Tilden, of the DSVis cup, tennis team, has gone back east to rest sailing lo Australia in November Novem-ber ll. has "gone stale." - After exhibition matches in Pittsburg, Pitts-burg, Chicago and the northwest, he found that be lacked his usu .1 pun b. Chirk Garland, of Pittsburg, was beating beat-ing him regularly. So he's going to leave his ra quel alone until he regains the spirit of the game. Ouimet says golfers "go stab " when the) gel too much of the gams He cites the case of vardon and Baj tin-Kngiish tin-Kngiish pros, who have completed remarkable tour of exhibition matches In this country. - Few golfers, says Ouimet, can stand jup under such it drive. Even Vardon and Kay fell off in their game because be-cause the competition became tpb frequent fre-quent and too stiff. liven in the comparatively short season, sea-son, football players often go stale. It Is strange lhat baseball players do not "go staJe ' more often. They ' into slumps, however, as the ex-pn ex-pn - .on is, which is the same thing But considering the length of the sea-son. sea-son. and the dally routine of a professional pro-fessional ball player. It's a wonder I more of them don't slump. Tennis Is a strenuous sporl. and it Is 'not odd that players going at top speed ajter a time get sick of the ga me I ' Golf Isn't strenuous, and yet (here's la lot of nervous and mental tension for a man playing In close matches 'day after day. ! PerhajMI temperament has a lol to ;do wlih it. Ball players have been called tcm-p.-i inw-ntul. but. alter all. they take things pretty calmly on the field. They confine their exhibitions of temperament tempera-ment chiefly Is limes when tbey are discussing their salaries In the spring. I Their moves on the field seem to become mechanical und the successful Player Is the one who takes thing He '..is and fields better and lasts longer in the game. |