| Show WIVES OF PROFESSIONAL ATHLETES ARE HAPPIEST SAYS NOTED FEMININE F FAN AN OF BASEBALL DIAMOND Dont Urge Your Husband to Renounce Sport in Which He Excels Is Advice of Mrs l Del Howard to Brides of Athletes No Woman Who Cannot Be an Enthusiastic Fan Has I Right to Marry a Baseball Player I 0 Stat Sta Staff Special SAN SAX PRA FRANCISCO CIS O. O Cal Sept 22 While While Del Howard ard formerly with tho Nationals of 01 Chicago gO Boston and ana Philadelphia and now manager of tho the San Sau Francisco Seals ls in tho tho thu Count Coast lc league o cn cavorts on tho the putt putting in gui gin in cr into his u o men and rattling the tho OrpO opposition hi his wife watches him with ith quiet pride and shining shinin C eyes s front from the tho grand EUln stand Polite Petite vivacious and a discriminating inn nn Mrs Jessie JC sic Howard is a notable example of tho the wives hes of ballplayers who chio help hell win games gaines nu and pennants pen pen- len nants Danis by their influence She believes H tho the better halves s of prof professional athletes are ire specially blessed over or m many n other women when tho thu union umon is 13 a happy ono one and that marri marriage o increases tho the efficiency of oC ball halt The disadvantage i ad go to us wives wives is in iii being IJ compelled to sit it in in the grand grandstand grandstand hear bear the tho knockers make uncomplimentary remarks about stand and our husbands hus bus ban bands e she bo be said with a m merry rr twinkle But Dut tit of coun OUne c we soon get et used to that Its only effect is JS is to inspire a a. a d deeper l loyalty toward oward our our men I sUJ suppose OIO you would call that a characteristic feminine fe trait and it j is certainly a strong ono one Before I got o accustomed to it I always s wanted to f fight whenever or I heard beard them roasting Mr Ir Howard Howar But now I know it is 35 all in tho the game I Mrs Irs Howard lIonard was a asked about the feminine admirers the tho fair hero worshipers wor wor- if if it wasn wasn't t just a 0 rankling ran ran- klin hung kling and inspired jealousy to hear them rave about her ner husband i Oh Oh she she answered earning they Hley arent aren't much interested after the they find out their hero lucre is married marrie Mr r. r Howard used to get et lots Jots of gushy notes from feminine admirers when wo we first married but they soon stopped comin coming coining when thc they remained remain cd unan unanswered worell J And And of course interjected a 3 friend lc you ou always s exercised a rigid his mail I J J censorship over o Yes sai said Mrs Howard we wives wives can I always go o through our husbands husband's a pockets Thank goodness that i is is not yet H n high crime or treason I Then more moro seriously 1 she sot set I forth I tho other drawback she in being boing tho the wife of a ball player H Ball Hall player husbands are arc away awa from homo honie a n. good deal sho io explained 1 Hand and it isn't always practical for thorn them to pack their wives around with them Of courso course wo we of tho the Coast league hero are more fortunate than most of or the tho Ea Eastern l league ngue players er because the tho homo home team teRm is away much HIt But them thero mn may many be he some virtue even evenin in iu this absence Perhaps it keeps the husband from seeing too much of his wife and precludes monotony of home life Each return u nJ after aCtor the tho short snort absence ab ab- ab sence senco is like a now honeymoon And anyway were we're not nearly so badly oft pH in this respect as tho the wives of traveling travel travel- in lug ing men meD When our husbands husban s arc are at homo borne wo we arc able to have o them with us a greater J part art of the day than is pO possible m rn most business and professions Mrs comes comes from a family of baseball enthusiasts her lion mother having bavins been ono one of the time pioneer women ball fans fani ITem Her own girlhood courtship and arill married life have ha been intimately bound up with wit the tho great American sport She is it is in constant atten attendance anco at the tho Continued on 00 12 u t 1 MRS Dru liu u WIVES OF Continued from sport pa page e. e games game anti ami kno knows knows- S baseball fro from I A to Izzard insi inside e rind and out When tho the vi visiting team ma mal maces cs cs a brilliant pay play Mrs Howard is 19 quick t to give 11 0 praise and when j her scores sho aho merely mere mere- Iy ly smiles with wih quiet quick satisfaction These qualities of good sportsmanship anti and a keen sense tenC ot of of humor havo o ha endeared her ber among amol ral fans wherever sho ho ROCS goes Two advantages cs the professional athletes athlete's wife has o over or r other othor married women OIn in ray 1 estimation sa says Mrs rather to Howard I may may teem vague men then but not to us They rho are aro tho favorable reflection in iii the tIme home nome life of the time enthusiasm an and buoyancy ball players have in their profession and aud the pride that tat is ours in iii 1 the widely heral heralded j of or our THAT PRIDE OF OP A WOMAN orA IN INTHE INTHE THE TItE PHYSICAL SUPERIORITY OF HER HEU HUSBAND IS AI ALMOST OST AN 1 IN- IN SO DEEP DOES IT LIE AND IT IS ESI ESPECIALLY CIAL Y PRONOUNCED PRO PRO- WHERE HER HUSBAND CO COMPETES PETES FOR IOn IllS HIS IlS VICTORIES AGAINST OTHER MEN EX I IN THE OPEN TO THE PLAUDITS OF EXCITED EXCITED EX EX- CIT CITED D THOUSANDS There Isn't anything much bi bigger cr than thau that in th the l lifo life o of a woman who truly ruly loves lo es her husband Love couldn't live ive lc without pride Mrs Howard Howar strongly advises the tho wives of or ball baU bal players an and other athletes athlete not to urge their husbands s to go into sonic some other business or profession Mr Howard on once co quit baseball shortly after wo we were married I sho she said paid aie but never again will wi I I urge him Jim to give it up until ho he wants to of his own accord I didn't know at the time tinie how deeply a n mans man's life becomes wrapped up in 1 tho the sport por that is his work The chances are to 1 that when whon an athlete gives ivo up against his hiB own wn wishes ho will wi become bemo a failure because his heart hear is not in what ho undertakes And certainly no woman has a aright right to be bo tho the wife tife of a ball bal player she sho can cnn take a deep interest in in the game unless game unless she i is is an enthusiastic enthusiastic en en- lan Inn |
