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Show KIND OF A FAN TO ENVY He 8IU Through the Game Silently, Though All the Time Enjoy- lrg It Hugely. He Is young, tall, Blender, wears blue serge, and even on very cool days in the early spring ho goes without an overcoat, Simeon Strunsky writes in the Atlantic. He Bits out the gnmo with foldod arms, very erect, thin lipped and with just tho break of a smllo around tho eyes. Ho usually comes alono nnd has llttlo to Bay. Ho is not a snob: ho will respond to his neighbor's cotnniontB In momenta of exceptional emotional stress, but ho does not wear his heart on his sleevo. I Imagine him sitting, in very much the same attitude, In college lecture rooms, or taking Instructions from tho bead of tho ofllce. Complete absorption ab-sorption under complete control ho fascinates mo. While the stout young man behind mo chatters on for his own gratification, forgetting one moment mo-ment what bo said tho moment beforo an empty headed young man with a tendency to profanity ns tho game goes on this other trim young flguro in bluo serge, with folded arms, sits Immobile, watching, watching with a calm that must como out of real lenowledgo and experience, enjoying the thing immensely, but giving no other sign than a sharper glint of the eye, a slight opening of the lips. In a moment of crisis, being only human, ho rises with tho rest of us, hut deliberately, to follow tho course of n high fly down tho foul lino far toward tho bleachers. When the ball is caught ho smiles and sits down and folds his arms. 'l envy him his capacity ca-pacity for drinking In enjoyment without with-out display. This Is the kind of a fan I should like to be. |