Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-05-18

- ~ ~'''Sf1' a. tr'ou uNti iiNc hhS
, ante season reports from the train
ing camps: it makes mighty good
| reading before the season opens, after
which you got wise To the lemon.
| guess from the mush you've been
writing to Bill that You've been stor-
ing too much Laura lean Libby lit
eraturo in your garnet. You take my
! tip and foul off that reading matter
before the hats in your upper story
wake IN. You can't dig up hits out
of the dirt while you are helping the
! hero rescue tho girl from the villain
About the time YOU get Il halr-Nelson
, ON tho villain with one arm. while
Won arc holding up tho fainting hero
Inc with the other, some guy will
siam hit ut You, and II will go
through YOU like n fricassecd chicken
, through the boarding house soup. If
you want to Test your batting eyes
! ly reading anything. Just run your
lamps over the sporting sheets and
. lot the mollycoddles read the heart
aches.
suppose the next thing you'll be
wasting your time and my money by
studying. About that time you'll get
the sign from your dad In steal
home, and there's an awful Jolt wait
ing for you when you slide in. The
guy who said "a little learning is
dangerous thing" knew the game all
right. 1t is dangerous In the same
| WAY as 4 glass of booze; it might
create taste for more. Now. I'm
not saying book learning isn't all right
in its place, but it's something like
beautiful sunset; it's mighty nice
! to look at, but Il blamed poor thing
to make living with.
! There's laundering lot i'm baseball
which you'll have to get outside of
besides eating up hits. stealing bases
and lamming the leather. The main
pipe in any business nowadays is to
get wise to the press agent bunk.
Success on the stage IS a tough nut
for the actress who plays straight
game, but it's a pipe for the one who
takes Il milk luth or butts into q
murder trial. The guy who lives In
church all day on Sunday and minds
his own business the other six days
of the week can't get az appointmen,
i'm the village postoffice, but the mutt
VINO is slick enough to steal rail
road and shoots the hot air into the
reporters can boss the country. In
baseball the guy who is as quiet as
Il Philadelphia Sunday might play tho
game up to the handle, bu. me isn't
as good drawing card rs the dub
who mixes it with the umpire. The
hit-and.run game is the cream candy
for winning games, but the hit-and.
get away game Is the bunk to draw
the crowds and get you write-ups in
the sporting notes.
Ty Cobb, OF Detroit. is the velvet
goods ut the hit-and- getaway game
Col,5 is n good ball player. but he gets
more press notices by taking n punch
mt his fellow players. The stork must
have had an awful Crouch the day Ty
was born. Kid IIlLerfield is another
guy whom the nmpires save to chase
to the club house regularly, and the
fans always know they'll get run
for their money when the Kid is in
, tho game. These scrappy guys are
the ones the managers try tn bluff
the public into believing they've no
use for, but you'll notice there's none
of them getting the can. The base
ball dads are hep to the fact that the
fans will always cough UP tho coin
to see scrappy ball, and no mans go
ing TO throw his meal ticket into the
discards.
The papers and the fans can roast
McGraw and his "rowdies" till the
crows come home. hut they always
dig up the price of admission when
McGraw comes to town. So if you
take your dads tip sonny, you'll pick
up some pepper and butt into the
sporting notes. You might be star
player and still be bum card: but
get rep as n scrappcr and you're a
headliner. The fans amt giving up
the ante to see bunch of dead ones,
because they can get into the morgue
free.
I've got bunch that you'll deliver
the goods all right, because you've
got them in your ware house. Bnt
you've got to get outside of lot of
inside baseball before you're ripe for
picking. Your knowledge factory
chaplain will tell You that honesty
is the best policy" but just the
same, il You get chance TO stretch
n single into Il double by cutting ton
feet off first base while the umpire
is doing the little Memo act. it's the
best hall playing to do it. You want
to be foxier than an old maid set.
ting n love trap. and rs full of SIR
priscs as n kids Christmas hosiery.
This do as you would be done by"
done is all right to deal out to the
infant class. tut If you take my tip'I
vou'll do those you expect to be done
by.
Will have to close now, as must
go down to the. club room and feed
the kitty. Will write again rs usual
next week. From your Dad
Rewards for Inventors.
a sum Of so pounds has been al
1otpd m cocb or tho nr}no;no1 donlr.