Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-06-20
THE BEST WAY TO SEE A BALL GAME.
Advantages Which the Printed Account
Has Over watching tho 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 wei, known that 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
at the end of story. They are thus at
once able to determine at the start whether
the tale is likely to prove a satisfactory
one or not So glance at the score OF
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, he knows Immediate
, Iy. 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 IL to 2, or King Kelly's
aggregation of talent by 9 to g. 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
i tors; the feverish changes from high exul
9 tation to great depression; from hope e
!, alarm, and finally despair, and the humili
alton and stings of witnessed defeat. AL
v this he who reads is spared as against hin
v who goes to see.
! 1t is also much cheaper to buy you
i newspaper than to pay the amount that Il
: required for entrance to the scene of thu
contest And, after all, the man must b
very rich or very thriftless who does no
7. think of the difference between five cent
: and seventy-five. Clearly the habit should
y be cultivated of economy, and this Is on
way to do it.
The baseball reports in any well con
}, Quoted newspaper present, as it were, pho
u tographic snaps of every detail, incident
!. event of the games. They are pictures Q
~ the most advanced school of realism, wor
r, pictures, and if the preliminary announce
ment Of the result proves to you that tn
matter that follows will be attractive, 20
ne ne can go into the body of the report, with a
to its descriptions, comments, talks, statistic
and calculations, with the full knowledl
80 and implicit confidence that the oaseba
hi editor has worked it out, and thought
a. out, and watched it out far better and II
n more accurately than you could have dol
r. for yourself Commercial q
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