The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-09
THE BEST WAY TO SEA- BALL GAME.
Advantages Which the Printed Account
Has Over Watching the Game.

Has Over Watching the Game.
Reading the reports Of baseball games
has some obvious and great advantages
over seeing them played, and this only
need be mentioned TO be recognized.
First of all, you do not have to wait for
two hours to see how it is coming out 1t
Is well known that a great many of the
most expert novel readers owe no small
part of their success to the habit which
they have carefully cultivated of beginning
1t the end of story. They are thus at
once able to determine at the start whether
the tale is likely to prove satisfactory
one or not. So glance at the score of n
ball game as published the next morning
in the newspapers gives all the important
information that those who watched the
game the day before had to spend two
hours in getting.
Thus there is a great saving of time-and
to most men time is more or less valuable.
This seeing the end from the beginning is
what all the great lawyers and doctors and
business men are constantly striving TO do
and it is certainly power that is of large
Importance. It's value as applied to the
science of baseball is so apparent that
words need not be wasted in discussing it,
By this plan one not only sees the end
from the beginning, but he knows at once
whether he desires or not any further in
formation. That is, be knows immediate
ly. and thereupon decides, whether he
wants to know the steps by which the re-
suit was reached Thus your paper in the
morning tells you that Latham's company
was defeated by 12 10 2, or King Kelly's
aggregation Of talent by TO 8. Well, that
ends your interest in the thing, and it is all
done in the twinkling of an eye. You pass
on to more interesting themes. But those
who saw the game had to wait two hours
and more to find this out.
Consider, also, the anxieties of specta-
tors; the feverish changes from high exul-
tation to great depression; from hope to
alarm, and finally despair, and the humili-
alton and stings of witnessed defeat. All
this he who reads is spared as against him
who goes to see.
1t is also much cheaper to buy your
newspaper than to pay the amount that is
required for entrance to the scene of the
contest. And, after all, the man must be
very rich or very thriftless who does not
think of the difference between five cents
and seventy-fve. Clearly the habit should
be cultivated of economy, and t1is is one
way to do it.
The baseball reports in any well con
Quoted newspaper present, as it were, pho
geographic snaps of every detail, incident,
event of the games. They are pictures Of
the most advanced school of realism, word
pictures, and if the preliminary announce
ment of the result proves to you that the
matter that follows will be attractive, you
can go into the body of the report, with all
its descriptions, comments, talks, statistics
and calculations, with the full knowledge
and implicit confidence that the baseball
editor has worked it out, and thought it
out, and watched it out far better and far
more accurately than you could have done
for yourself.-Cincinnati Commercial Ca I
Zette