Show DEATH OF BASEBALL BASEBALLS S SAVES PlA PLAYER PLAYERS VIR I Li H S UCH I WORRY Merkle Merkie World World Series Series Goat and Hero Finds It Unnecessary Unnecessary Unnecessary Un Un- necessary to o R Retire tire oN By ByC Har Harry Neily Sept The The demise of C CHICAGO baseball has solved a problem for tor forone forone torone one able athlete at least The Thes s same lIne is Fred Merkle I who played the best game of his his career reer during the season which finished Labor day Hiking East on the the last trip the veteran veteran veteran vet vet- eran first baseman turned to o a reminiscent reminiscent reminiscent cent mood Being old In ia the pastime he realized that baseball In its heretofore form torm was about extinct Therefore he was inclined to sadness which sadness which however was tinged with Joy Merkle Merkie Is well provided with worldly goods which he accumulated accumulated during ten ear f toil in the ma ma- jors V VI I fOI often wondered he started what would happen to me if it I grew old enough not to be able to play in the big leagues Each spring rJ It has taken me longer e to get tC ln Into Condition n Each gh season first lr I base Is ono one nore step toward right field I ISo ISo So I used to sit around winter evenings evenings evenings eve eve- and ponder If It ifT I T would be shunted into the minors and whether I had better quit then and go to farming But he finished with a chuckle they saved me the trouble of a decision de de- de- de They yanked the game out from under me and when Im I'm old I can can- look lookIn lookIn lookin In the books and arid s say y to myself Well Fred old bo toy boy you OU were were- hitting when you OU quit juit |