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Show SENSITIVE BALL PLAYER HURTS HIMSELF i T31LL SWEENEY of the Boston Nationals, Na-tionals, u man ot five years' experience expe-rience plnylng with a tall end team, who gave Helnlo Zimmerman of tho Chicago Cubs a hard chase for premier batting honors In his league, said that the player who Is ovorsonsltlve to criticism crit-icism Is hurting himself and will not do his best work If he Is constantly worried ovor what may bo said about h(m If he makes a mistake. "I had a good lesson on this subject." sub-ject." said Bill. "It was when I was playing third base for Boston. Bill Dahlen was playing shortstop, anil the bggs who cor.grogate In the third base bleachers In Boston nnd bet oi the game got sore on Bill and could not give him credit for anything. If he H mlsied the hardest kind of a chance H they would roast him unmorclfully H and would never see him at all when IH he pulled off a good play. "They were to unfair that I finally ll got sore nt them nnd bawled them out ll a number of times for remarks they jH made to Bill. This turned them 1 against mo, and for awhilo I Just H couldn't do anything right In their H eyes. If I made a fumble or a bad H throw they were after me hot foot. il "At first they had me going, but after ll awhile I began to Ignore them, and ll then I got along much better. The ex- ;B perlence showed mo that a ball player jH Is a fool to pay nny attention to what jH Is said to him on the field, whether It ll Is good or bad," lll |