Show PITCHER PITCH S SA SA A CElE RITY IN N l OLD HOME HO When the professional baseball player goes homo home to his native village lid is isman isman man of mark a local celebrity says an Eastern scribe One such professional long famous is a n native of a a. little college aol col lege town to not far from Mason and Dixons Dixon's Dixon's Dixons Dix Dix- ons on's lino line I I Ho left his n native th-e th place early cary to become become become be be- come n a professional pitcher and nd for years his fellow follow townsfolk have hac watched his career with interest When he lie ha has nothing else to do he lie goci back to the tho village find and loafs comfortably while whilo his old oIa neighbors work Now and ana then he be consents to take talo part in an out of sea season OD ball hall game at home and then everybody who has bus time I turns out to watch him His Ills goings and I comin Comings s are chronicled by the local pa per Everybody L in town knows when he heis heis heis is to go 0 South for winter practice and most persons who take an nn interest in in b baseball know all alJ about his engagements and the amount of his pay I It is his play and his leisure that impress impress im im- im press his neighbors moM Wh Why he lie hegelE gels gelE three times as s much as a n college professor is a a. common phrase in his I native town h ro a college professor is re regarded as fiS a well paid man enjoy enjoy- lag ing a soft snap Not n a professional man in time the commit commit- community nit earns earn as much as the pitcher and aud th they a nil all know it So far ns as income counts he ranks alon along with the half dozen capitalists of the tho little comma nit There Thre are arc families with 1 b bp houses ample grounds anti and carriages of ot their own whose annual expenditures arc less than his As to the hard work- work mg jug mechanics of tho the community half balf halfa balfa a dozen of them put together hardly earn carn ns as much as the pitcher This career with its incidents of leisure and public fame has made a great impression on the youth of the town When hen the tall pitcher walks the imo ho c streets ho lie is follo followed rl by b by scores of admiring and envious youthful ul eyes ees It happens that an old retired pro professional professional s e onal pitcher lives lins in tho the s same me town managing a toro soro which ho he set up years cars ago on his savings The Tho presence of the active pitcher with v th all an tho tIm marks of ease caso and prosperity and of his ret retired red fellow professional l lin living in comfortably enough twenty years after his Ins early carl triumphs tri tn- trio makes the baseball prof profession more than ever o attractive c to local youth The pitchers pitcher's younger brother r c every body knew was wag preparing to follow theelder's the tho elders elder's example and local critics Watched with interest tho young onn fellows fellow's fellows fellow's fel fel- fel lows low's play wh while Jo ho he was yet et at nt the pub pub- He lie school When he entered the local college c he became a tower towel of strength in the tho baseball team Then tho the college and tho the town wore surprised n a and d disappointed to learn that he be had quit in the midst of his course and gone gono to a somewhat bigger college something ng like miles away It was soon eoon whispered that somebody had made it worth while for him to leave leao his bis alma mater Later to the joy of the town he ho came back finished his course and started ted out on his career as a professional professional player That t town wn with ith two active professional professional professional b baseball players calling it their home bome and a retired pitcher lending it the distinction of his presence is vastI vast vast- ly I- proud of itself Perhaps the older i iI I villagers rate a college professor above c a baseball player hut but there is no question question ques ques- tion in youth youthful minds that the most distinguished residents of tho the town are not the professors I |