Show KNEW HE COULD REACH IT wonderful nerve of a player in a universo ty baseball team some five years ago a group of col legs ree men in which were nere many mem bers of the yale and princeton base ball teams was discussing the game of the next day which was to decide the championship slugger kelly the hardest hitter on the jersey nine predicted in the course of the con vers atlon that he would get a home run in the coming game the yale pitcher turned toward him and asked how certain he was of that home run kelly relly replied that he was vas sure to the extent of 5 and the yale pitcher rc remarked marked that he was convinced of the opposite to a I 1 ke degree the two players shook hands on the wager and went home to bed during the first eight innings kelly came to the bat five times and five times he got Ms his base on balls the yale man taking care to send in no ball that kelly could touch when the slugger came to the bat in the last halt half of the ninth there were two men out and an eager tiger was aas hovering off first base kelly I 1 new that it was his last chance to hit kilt the ball and as the first ball pitch ed came flying down far to one side of the plate the slugger i 9 stepped away across the rubber and his bat met the ball with a sharp crack the next second the broken bat was lying on the ground and kely kelly was flying 9 around the diamond he reached home with the winning run about a second before the ball landed in the catcher catchers s hands and as he brushed the dust from his shirt he calmly remarked 1 I knew I 1 could do it without entering into the question of the morality of betting that sort of spirit is what is needed today to day by the man who wants to accomplish something not the conceit of the man who deludes himself with a magnified picture of his own abilities s but the calm certainty of the one wh who 0 knows what he can do and intends to do it the world trusts the man who trusts himself |