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Show SPALDING BASEBALL GUIDE FOR 1917 OUT Tt would I'o difficult to pirk out any one chapter in the 1917 Spalding Guide that oould he featured more than another. j'Vlitor Foster's editorial comments are always interosting and sliow a deep study of every point of baseball, from both the administrative and the playing ends. Sentiment, Sen-timent, however, is not forgotten, as shown by his tributes tn those sterling exemplars of The sport Christy Mathew-son Mathew-son and' Napoleon JjH.iole who have re-linquished re-linquished the activities of the playing field for the reins of. management. Probably a chapter that is perused more generally " than any other is that on "Knotty Problems."' This is the third year that this department has been in the Guido and Its populn rily tg attested by the vrvuminous mai! that the editor receives during the playing season in answer an-swer to his invitation to Fend su-'h queries. larf year a selection from the lot is primed an i, although the points in dispute hlnce on the interpretation of con: pa. fa lively few rules. It is astonishing astonish-ing how mrny twists and variations are given to wiiat sec:ns perfect 1 plain in print. |