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Show Couldn't Focus On the Ball There'a a brace of very drastic punishments for you, and I question ques-tion the justice. The cablea from Warsaw said that the Polish players, whose Christian names were Kasi-mir Kasi-mir and Walentky, all but killed themselves in losing the first set 0-6. Unable to focus on the ball when they swung at it, they missed it and banged themselves violently with their racquets. I never have been In this condition, con-dition, being aa I never allow myself my-self anything stronger than absinthe, ab-sinthe, which, as you know, ia an innocent drink flavored with licorice. lico-rice. But several of my wastrel friends, who have been pickled so often they have a alight herring east to their featurea, tell me that the suffering which follows high-goal intemperance is sufficient suffi-cient punishment for anyone They spoke of "hangovers" and the "jitters," and aaid that the Polish players, specially If it were wine they had, undoubtedly underwent under-went tortures enough on the day after to more than square their debt with society. |