Show atoo clean aggressiveness will win games says evers cubs second baseman hectares Dec tares team must take long chances to ga nv c tores copyright 1910 by joseph B bowles when I 1 enter a game of baseball no matter whether the pennant depends apon the result or whether it is an ex hibi tion game I 1 do so with but one purpose in my mind that is to win ind rid to do so without injuring any op physically or resorting to any thing dishonorable the desire to win was mas I 1 believe born in me and from the time I 1 could crawl it was there irom observation since my connect tion nith ath baseball I 1 have learned that good 00 I 1 clean aggressiveness of the alia 0 e P asan as an qs set than any other bother particular gift in I 1 player s make up I 1 always am on the lookout for some loophole through which a point may be gained for my team it makes no difference how email small the point Is if it Is to our advantage there are am e points even big ones which it pays to overlook purposely because ovel looking them will tend to throw he opposing team off its guard and thinking I 1 am not paying attention to v 4 N EVERS the finer points of the game they may be led into blundering A team must take tak long chanced u and I 1 believe my best aset as a baseball player has been this particular point 1 t believe in taking all chances to ft in I 1 mean good sensible chances not the ones dues that mean certain defeat bit the ones where thele Is at least one chance in ten of succeeding bucce eding in ta king these chances be careful not to injure anyone in rare cases placers caught taking desperate chances will resort almost to anything een eien to cut ting down an opp opposing placer to gain the point that kind of playing does not win in the end I 1 never admit that a game is lost until the last man is out sometimes so not riot then and after a game Is over I 1 play it over again inning after in ning a dozen times in my mind the next day I 1 read the papers and pick the points where we succeeded or failed and tra tr to remedy the mistake the next time the situation arises I 1 earned the title of crab by being too close an observer and rel re using at all ELII times to give up until all hope had vanished I 1 like to win and that some times makes me a hard loser au As I 1 bald hen I 1 I 1 enter a gan gap e I 1 do so vilta one purpose WIN ill and w the at times that the game Is 1 buffing b a commercialized oro both dmn r am the owners and the placers standpoint it la Is galling when playing a game I 1 never think of financial benefits no matter how large the players part may be I 1 have played in three world s championship series and 1 hold two winning emblems which are to me the source of more pride and pleasure than I 1 ever derived from the money received play bard hard play fair never give up until it was over then study your er bors and correct them Is the recipe for making a winning player as I 1 see it |