Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-04-12 | Page 9 | This Man Never Saw a Ball Game

THIS MAN NEVER SAW SAM A BAll G GAME GAMErt ME Arthur rt Bennett Confesses to a o Novel ov e Record for o r Au Adult t Americana American merican You Yon have heard of ot th the Man Uan Without without without with with- out a Country an and the Missing Link but have ha you ou ever or in all aU your our experience run across a n. real live Uve American with red blood in n his veins who has never no never s seen Jen en a n baseball baseball base base- ball baU game 1 Well Vo 11 there is such a R. roan man and while he isn't In captivity hes he's in San Francisco Fran ran Francisco cl cisco co Just at present Arthur Bennett artist former racing writer follower of ot all sorts of sporting cv events and publicity agent for tor it u. circus confesses without a blush that ho doesn't know what a baseball game looks like The national pastime to him is s a closed book and although ho he frequently reads the accounts of or the games ns d dIn in the dally daily papers It is s like so 50 much Greek Grech and might as well be written In n Russian for all he can understand what is going on The man who has never seen Been a ball game stands all by himself No one ono else In the width and breadth of or this country countr has ever claimed the same Sarno unique an and possibly doubtful honor Arthur Bennett has been known to the tho Pacific coast for tor man many years and andis IB is just the sort of or chap you OU would think ought to yell himself lt hoarse from a grandstand seat Ho lie has worked the newspaper game through through- throughout hout h- h out the country west of or tho the Rock Rocky mountains mountain has leas dabbled In tho the racin racing k game gam and has haM dono done more or less painting chiefly of ot thoroughbreds All of ot which shows Iho s tho the active life lite ho he is leading Still he never hover went to a game not game not even en a town lown lot affair be between between between be- be tween schoolboy nines I dont don't ont think It so strange ho he remarked re remarked remarked re- re marked that I have never s seen cn a n ball ban gamo game nut I wasn't t and after ft brought 1 T grew up nn In un that en- en e I U U L V up VI J new il V V J lri 8 rr I f r had u a desire to see a game game- ergo I presume 0 I dont don't ur understand what it its it's s all about about- It seems sill silly to mo me for tor a alot alot lot of people to sit out In the broiling sun bun all afternoon an and yell ell their heads head s off orr when wizen some somo chaps in uniform ar arc c knocking a a. ball ban u un up z in its the air If It you ou never ne believed od there thoro was su such lIuch sucha ch cha a a. man you'll have o to confess contess It sounds sound s plausible after aCter rea reading what ho hato hato ha has hasto to say San Sau San Francisco Francieco Examiner r. r