Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-30


This is stout logic. But let sit tight, oh fan,
and be not entirely carried away. Admitting the
physicians conclusions in part, may justly doubt
the search for tonic would for kill
ing umpire, carrying off hero the Shout
ders, swattng your best friend on the for dis
putting the score of game played twenty years
ago, putting the chest at the very thought of your
intimacy with famous catcher, patronzing club
that has lost nearly two dozen straight games and
that is too demoralzed to furnish hrl-or sitting
for four hours on a sun bistered bench eating half
roasted peanuts and smoking cabbage leaf cigars.
the effect of which should CounteraCt the most
divine solar plexus CONFUSION. The hygienic
PLANTATION does not half explain. 1t limps. We
must find one more adequate.
Aha! Here is just the man, middle aged chap
at least he looks under fifty-whose heavy face
is wreathed in scowls, although the game is spirited
his hero-Hal Chase-is not playing first base this
afternoon. and that was the one attraction which
made him give up seventy-hve cents Sir, he
management announce it in the paperse This is
the kind of thing that the public on baseball.
What do care to these other loafers? Chase is
worth twice much the whole bunch combined.
He ranks with the best that ever played, and I've
seen EN- all. Bet your life on that-Bi Craver,
Dug Allison, Jim White, Charley Bennett, Silver
Flint Buck Ewing and Mike Kelly! This lad is
right up there with the men who could play ball
till the COWS come home. He's wonder-he's the
centurys marvel-hes the" etc, etc. For such
a man the diamonds lure is interpreted in two
words-hero worship
We All Love Hero
CINCE earliest times have loved and sung the
~ praises of hero Imagine the hand little David
must have got when he won the heavy weight cham
pionship from the giant Goliath! How about
Achilles who had the Indian sign the best fight
ers that Troy could put in the ring? Didn't the
English shiver with delight every time Richard the
Lion Heart despatched another thousand Infdels
with his six-foot broadsword? Was the American
nation outraged when Mike Kelly came on the
field drunk in the second game of the historic series
between Detroit and the Chicago White Sox? Not
your lfei The editorial writers treated it
delicious bit of humor. Kelly baseball hero,
and could get away with anything.
To this day every fam the lukewar1n, is
obsessed with certain admiration secret evil
dent, for particular players and teams When di-
rected toward club, it is known by the name of
loyalty and thus find the city of Boston pat
ronizng it's American League tail enders last
to the number of three hundred and eighty thousand
up to September The Bean Eaters had then lost
eighteen straight games and destined to lose
more; Captain Jimmy Collins wreck, and the
team falling to pieces; but Boston never altered in
its patronage. The composite attraction of Cy
Young. Dneen, Parent Hobe Ferris, the unfor-
tunate Collins himself, and other favortes
strong enough to outdraw the National League
competitors. The attendance would probably have
kept up had the team not won game all season.
1t does not take long to heroize ball player.
George Stone, Hal Chase. Arthur Devlin. Miller