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Show IN BASEBALL AS IN LIFE I Senator Gardner's Words of Hope Might Well Be Applied to Either Ei-ther of the Games. Senator Obadiah Gardner, the man from Maine with the Mark Hanna features, fea-tures, gets more enjoyment out of a ball game than a chauffeur does out of scaring pedestrians. A short time ago, In the absence of a league game in Washington, Senator Gardner paused on his way to the senate to watch a bunch of boys playing on the Capitol grounds. One little chap had just muffed a pop fly that, If safely handled, would have retired the other side. He had to stand for many shouts of derision and deprecating epithets, and was greatly cast down. Senator Gardner called him over to him. "Do you know," said the senator, "I can remember, as If It were only last week, a game I played In, at center cen-ter field, when I was about your age, and how sore everybody got at me because be-cause I kept mufHng balls, always at the worst possible time. In the last ' inning I came to the bat with two runs against us and knocked a three-bagger three-bagger that put us one ahead. And all the boys that had been making fun of my fielding were the first to h'lst me to their shoulders and carry me off the field in a blaze of glory. So you can see how little sense there'd be In being cast down over a poor play, or swelled up over a good play, when people are so quickly swayed by a streak of luck. If I were you I wouldn't care a continental what they said about me. You may lam out a home run the next time up." And the boy seemed properly encouraged. |