Show C Ci fl i F Additional Sporting Sporting News News' I I Scribe Sings Praises of Spring k I As Gotham Ball Season Opens r Even Een V Brass Baud Band Sweet as Giants Tangle ith Phillies l I I By PAUL GALLICO NEW V YORK April 18 Well this just goes to show what a good spell of bellyaching will do TIlls This afternoon it looked as though you couldn't play baseball in Eskimo kayaks And yet et I am here a hotdog in one hand a typewriter in the other in the Polo Ground press box I Below an American Legion band bandin in gray un uniforms and led b by a drum major aU all in red is breathing into its twisted tisted tubes of brass and banging its calfskins The National lea league ue ball baIl clubs of PhIladelphia and New NewYork NewYork York arc drawn up across the dia dia- mond Jumbo Elliott Is warming up for PhiladelphIa and baseballs baseball's great est and most graceful left left-hander Carlos Hubbell for our side The stands are arc all a burble a-burble with the excitement bleacher seats scats were sold old out at 2 p p. p m m. Acting Mayor Deutsch paraded to the flagpole and back and with him marched Charley Stoneham and Jim Tierney owner and secretary respectively of the world champion Giants There was wasa a pregnant hush as the band bugler blew sweet Taps for John McGraw l Everybody felt that if such things could be John was there occupying a 3 vacant corner of the dugout Jackson Looks Good Before Belore the game the Giants were in the field practicing Travis Jackson Jack s son n scooped cooped up a grounder on the run and with the same motion shoved it over to Blondy R Ryan an on second A Afan Atan tan fan let out a yell then he stopped and chuckled and said all to himself Same old Jax Old Jax like old times Look at the old boy out there Just as good as ever Then he walked on looking just as happy and pleased as though he had inherited a million dollars donars It is a crowd with a 1 Lull tun heart In our ball park I dont don't know whether other cities love the their r ball teams the way New York fans love theirs Of course there were a 3 lot ot of folks around town who weren't loving the Giants when the Giants weren't winning winning win win- ning and who just reacquired the theold theold old p passion when the boys won the pennant and the world series but anyway you could feel the affection In the crowd in the warm surge of applause as the old heroes of last year rear Hubbell and Terry and Ryan Ran and Jackson stepped to the plate Hubbell got the biggest hand of all Greets Bill Terr Terry S Said fd hullo hubo to William HUam Terry just before the game down in the dugout He He said he was delighted to get to work He said also he was delighted to see so much money in the house I asked him whether he didn't care for his art too He said yes but he did like to make money Candid soul I feel the same way about it How good when a ban ball is hit to hear the muffled roar of the crowd that sounds like a distant sur surf and which ceased cease abruptly when the ball vanishes Into the mitt of an out 1 fielder elder ka It If there ic anything wrong wIth you I mean if you dont don't feel good try coming out to the ban ball yard the n next nice da day Even it if you ou dont don't know anything about the game Jame it will make you feel good to be in the midst or of so oro man many people who are havIng having hav- hav Ing one swell time |