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A BRATZ 1 I r u v t WI i v u I r 1 I a i 0 o 9 r ball ban appears to be making a hit with everybody but T TWILIGHT the tho bull ball players who arc forced to miss some Barno of their evening tea parties On the other hand if it it were not for the tho twilight scheme most of oC the boys bos might not bo be eating regularly 1 t HAT has become of at the old fashioned Oklahoma colonel T WHAT wanted to match Jess Willard Villard and Fred Fulton 1 f t never remember the snags and mud of ot the tho old Y YOU hole but you never forget torget tho the cuss who used to make you chaw bee beer 1 T BEGINS to look as though Heinie Zim and Eddie Collins I I A IT I not not have a n chance to repeat their little foot root race raco after atter all nIl full fall I II I CADDOCK and Strangler Lewis wrestled again th the other I II I I E EARL nl night ht The They will soon Boon be in tho the Lan McVoy Langford class clan as brotherly actors J t E NOTE that Jack Inck Dempsey has bought a a. ranch for his folk WE W end and that Benn Benny Leonard went to tho the trouble of ot calling hi hla mama over ocr long distance all an tho the way from San Francisco to 0 New ew York to tell her that he had won vron a a. bout and that h he lie waa I well f Surel Surely a t fellow who still sun says mama and telephones her hor I night or buys a ranch for mother cannot bo be real in these terribly degenerate days Surel Surely a fighter who pays his own expenses for fori any anything thins let alone alono a patriotic purpose must be bo a creature of at a perverted brain He cannot really real exist in flesh and blood And BO so o U Benny Denny nn and Jack ma may blow up In smoke some Borne da day but while th the th delusion lasts let us hug It to our hearts 4 It is refreshing to toll say ll the least to find a boxer these day daya wh who is charged with childiSh childish innocence about the family Where h f good old father is tho the governor or tho the old man if It not worse wore and mother is lightly characterized it i is II good to be fooled tooled into thinking that there IDa may be even a a. fighter who knows tho the word I mama Where there Is so much tat Is horribly sordid and nd greed greedy and selfish it Is bull bully to think of or someone who I is said to do things disinterestedly and without hope of financial reward The writer does not kid himself Ho lie admits he may be awfully spoofed with this stuff but so 50 long as he ho has 1135 no convicting evidence he lie Intends to look 1001 upon these young men as is exotic and to take off ort his hat to them every time he ho thinks of ot it And may the awful awakening be long delayed 1 HE death of ot good good old Jake Old Eagle Eye bring bringa T THE back to some Borne of ot us the now hazy hay recollection of ot the days ot of quite a while ago Jake was on one of ot my ideal ball baU players in the days das when I was a kid Many lany o otus ofus s lived in t tall ll g grass 8 towns The baseball we ordinarily witnessed waa wa not even of ot the bush variety it was the tho common or garden variety and not any too good at that The big fellows used to go out to Mayers Mayer's grove groc measure out a diamond In the pasture and go to it We Ve kids used to sit around the sidelines and bats play carry backstop or 8 some some- mc- mc thing Them was the happy happ days and even if It the baseball was weird we certainly enjoyed it Then when things broke a a. little better for tor dad and 1 lie he gamely made up his mind to go down to Chi on tho the boat to see a baIl ball game gamo remember the excitement 7 Nothing since has approached it You were combed and scrubbed and prepared as though th the journey journe might be your our last one and you ou were doing doing- the most wonderful thing in the tho world Gee how you have haYe wished since that some Barno o of the I so called big moments of ot your our later lives were half halt as big as those preliminary moments and the glorious hours you jOU spent at the old ball park parle where such men as BeckIe Beckley Waddell Brouthers Rusle usIe Burkett Clarkson Stahl Nichols Brodle Brodie Selee Keeler McGraw Jennings Kelly Crane Hanlon and man many others were wont to pull their wonderful stunts Doggone the days of ot youth after atter fter all all are the rea real days Later we get Jet blase and cynical We Ye get critical and crotchety I wish the kindly fates could bring back Just a n. few of or those days Mab Maybe just the sight of oC some of ot those old boys bos now would give a fellow an Imitation of ot day another thrill Id I'd like to have ve ono one again j HE survival of ot the fittest are aro making a R. great stand for the tho T THE grand old game gamo of baseball in these stormy storm days daB and those leagues which succeed in battling it through will In future years receive their reward in that thc they will always be recognized as as one of ot the circuits which weathered even the war j This is Js a a. wonderful America We Ve Americans boat bont tho the earth in most things Think of a a. nation that can keep up a a. game like baseball and at tho the same time keep the world fit to live in by fighting desperately its Ita battle It is 18 wonderful when one seriously contemplates it Here We wo are suddenly called caned upon to make a sacrifice before which all prior national sacrifices look insignificant We re change our very natures In the twinkling of or an eye customs that we have had left to us as a 0 heritage from a great ancestry are overcome in tn a breath extravagances that have ha made other othor people gasp for wonderment are aro turned In an instant into savings that are at Rt once the admiration of ot the world and yet to all outward appearances nothing particularly unusual has hns happened We go our accustomed ways seemingly without any particular change We appear to enjoy ourselves just aa M much as ever eer Wo We are game that's all And so 50 we turn to baseball The good old oM game rame grips TiP tra In ou cwt om time of ot anxiety and trouble It is js a a. friend and companion on on od which we can lean And it lo is bully that it is so no If It the tho American people ever get ot and disheartened God pit pity our country It is because we can smile and sacrifice that wo we are great Let us keep keel U up our Interest in jn sports Let us enjoy ou ourselves while we can Ther There may come a time when we will have no desire to play Let us get as much out of ot what is left of ot life lite a aa M we wo can an and trust to the future Let us enjoy baseball while it Jt lasts |