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Show I A damsel passed them on the boulevard. boule-vard. t The man turned round and rubbered good and ha rd . His wife bestowed a stingy little glance, . And didn't seem to note the clrcuni stance. But when he .--aid: "Dear wife, Now wasn't she a queen?" She answered: "On my life I don't, know whom you mean. Perhaps it was that kid Too skinny and too tall. At any rate. I did Not look at her at all She wore some satin pumps And hdse of purple lisle. Her hair was done in lumps, Her hat was not in Style; Her gown was trlcotlne, Mjii when -oh, goodness knows;., Her waixt was crepe de chine. An awful shade of rose. 'ne pump had lost a bow. Her stocking had a run, Ker fur a rabbit skin Had faded in the sun. Is she the one you meant? On other things, alas. My mind was so intent I didn't see her pass." ai Whereat the husband turned a sickly 1 shade m And said: I was mistaken, I'm . afraid; 4 I live but do not learn; on every hand A The world has puzzles I can't under- J Woman Isn't the only baffling thing . ,vj There arc others. ,i Baseball is a bit odd, don't you H know, after all. That Is, .there are A fome queer quirk? and twists to it -B You can't always figure out the an- H Fans' psychology isn't easy to fig- j3 nre out. Just when you think the H fans are going to do one thing they H up and do another. j Fans Sre fans because they loe ,9 baseball They go to SOS baseball nd Je $bey don't seem interested in things Bsa outside tho actual performance of the athletes. If their favorites are clever ami agile on the ball field the fans ire pleuned. but beyond that they don't care a whoop. In other words, a fan will get vastly mote excited oer Ty Cobb getting S suing of hit? than over the gambling scandal 'hat has blemished the career of Hal chase. I'hances arc. if Chase could get back Into baseball and play in his old-time sparkling manner, he would get th: same old cheers from the fans. The Carl Ma ease last winter threatened to disrupt the American league and thre was plenty of talk about expelling him because he walked walk-ed out on the Keu Sox and left them flat Rut that was soon forgotten. There wa talk of driving him from the game when he threw the ball that killed Ray Chapman, but the New York fans cheered him to the echo when he appeared ap-peared the other day against r. tr It. Of course, he New York fan cheered cheer-ed because the did not think it was just to drive Mays out of baseball because be-cause of that fatal pitch What the fan In other American league cities I w'll do when he pilches remains to be sr-en. The fact that Mays pitched again so j soon after the death of Chapman and was apparently well received by the ! New York fans simply goes to show 1 you can't always figure out some of 1 the angles of baseball. I Joe Jackson enlisted In a navy yard j during the war and there was Wild , talk about his slackerism and about expelling him from the came. Hut j0e l:.uic back. Rnlntlriir .-hips hadn't . dimmed his batting eye and he is up I there today getting his share of the I applause. |