The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-04

| game Then he may be as silly as he
pleases. But with all depending on
| him he hasn't the right to give you
| all his time and the thought. There!
| They are lining up. Oh, how pretty
| it is. As many times as / have seen
| 1t / am never tired of it. The smooth,
green field The darling ponies. The
men looking so strong and well. The
color. The movement. There is moth
| ing like it. There is life and vigOr and
excitement. 1t always goes to my
, head. And I know that you feel just
as 1 do. There's nothing SO good as
pole. l can. understand mans ador-
| ing it and forgetting everything else
! for it. Yes, if you have made Dick
lose interest in the game he must be in
| love with you, only he mustn't now.
Now they're off. There, old Jim Con-
yers has thrown the ball. How his
| bones must crack. I'm sure that he
feels as if he were playing again. He's
! always so proud when he can do so
much. / think he watches for the
chance like one Of the little caddy
boys. Sam Raikes is riding Chicane.
He told me that he threatened to go
lame. That's the roam he bought from
| the Fair Outs. Gracious, Billy Will
loughby has the chestnut which he
can't do anything with 1 hope he
doesn't mean to use her in the match.
She just plays with Billy instead of
Billy playing with her. Dick Sherwin' S
on the one that gave him the bad fall
last year. Missed his feet and went
over A most unpleasant sight. He
used to be ball shy, but Dicks got him
over that. Now they're away. They
should wipe the field, as Tom says,
. NTH 10 CPrTh To no fhPV
have to give them eleven goals There,
Sam has got the ball. Well done
Where is Mr. Lathom? He's No. 2
Why didn't Dick Sherwin see that he
was in his position? There Dick comes
himself Oh, Dick missed it. Actually
missed it. Anything more easy I can't
understand. ] never saw him do that
before. Now where is he going? Rid
ing off as if he were looking at the
landscape. OH There ne rode directly
over the ball as if he'd never had a
pole stick in his hand. What is going
to become of US If that is the way he
is going to play?"
Down at the edge of the field, one
foot on the board. old Jim Conyers
stood with his hands in his coat peck
cts.
Il tell you 1t isn't as it was in oul
day." he was saying to his companion
; whose weight classed him as a contem-
porary. And the game was another
thing. Every man was for himself
! Some dash, some individuality. But
But this team business is mere ma.
chine work. Oh, 1 don't say it doesn't
win matches, but we played for the
fun of it. Now, you might as well be
in a game of checkers with a move
here and a move there. The individ-
ual playing isn't anything like as good
Look there at Sherwin. Missed it! Dc
you think that Benny Wade would
have done that in ninety-two when ht
was playing at the top of his game
, Just watch Sherwin-the best man
Hasn't made a stroke today that I've
| seen. And as for getting up on the
ball, he might as well be looking fol-
four-leaf clovers for all the vigor there
is about it. That's not the way we
used to play. Missed 1t once more
, He couldn't hit the earth If he came
up to it on a walk. I'm going back tC
the club house"
Dressed and ready where the ponie:
} were being led about, Latham fairly
danced up and down with agitation
He had arrived late and Brownlee ha(
taken his place. Waiting his turn t
: go on, he watched the game.
! Whats the matter with Sherwin p
) he exclaimed. He was bad enough
before, but he's simply rotten now.
} 6-year-old child on a rocking hors,
could do better. There. he hasn't seer
: the ball. Oh, he has found it, has he
= Has some idea there is a ball. Tn
glad of that, anyway Get on now
Ride him off Ride him off. Littl
r Dodds pushed him away like an oil
2 boot. Not that Sherwin had any bus
ness there anyway. He's off side-of
= everything Missed it! Well, when h
{ has played before he used to hit it, blu
now He's worse than he's eve
/ been. There he goes again, gallopin,
s over the field as if he were lost ant
was trying to find the way home" AM
t Lathom turned away in deep disgust
e He's playing polo as If he were deliv
e ering milk"
ent trio sat on the veranda of the Lind
say cottage" Dinner was finishe
! and the Team-minus Sherwin-ha
I gathered to discuss their woes.
! You look like mOurners," said Mrs
: Lindsay arriving through the window
4 I'VE are a committee" Willougbb
I announced in a desperate tone. "W
e are considering-can't you help"
5 What can I do?''
use your influence"
Mrs. Lindsay nodded as if with tn
Y best intentions she could accomplish
nothing.
\ You know what's the matter wit
f Sherwin. He's i'm love with Miss Nor
: ris to that degree that he's not goo
\ for anything. Can't you induce her t
e let up?"
, i've told her." she lamented. a.
have demonstrated with her For tn
: last three days / have watched. Sh
has been perfectly horrid to him."
e That's it, then" said Raikes sud
[ denly. That's what's made him s
]. much verse. He's doing the blighte
e being now"