Evening star., 1909-05-02

happens to let down for half minute
or so. It's all right to say that the
finger hadn't ought to pay any atten-
tion to that stuff. but pitchers have got
ears. and they also have bumps of SEN
! sltlNeness. and when they hear that
measiy squeak. even il they know all
about the kind of fatheads the Take
I'm out people are, they can't help but
feel nervous and clinky and disturbed for
little while, anyhow
the old-timers. when they hear that
Take i'm out" stuff. fetch their teeth
together with a click and say to them
serves, III show that piece o Edam a
thlng or two. and then they settle down
and get a-hold of themselves and strike
rev people out in neat row and cop
1.-The game for themselves.
The less experienced beavers however
when they hear that Take i'm OUT
shrek. sort of curl up and take it to
heart. and not a few of them go to pieces
under the impact of the jeer.
Heaven never intended the Take i'm
out mullet. either. but he's wit us. all
the same. and what's going to be done
with and about him.
Nothing. He pays his way IN at the
turnstile. and that gives him the hollerng
privilege.
But il he'd only take the New Thought
treatment or something. hey?
Oh. yes: and then there's the bleater
who has never seen the home team win q
game of baw-hall i'm all the time he has
been coming out here.
You know him. too. and you've sat next
to him. of course.
Maybe he isn't a sad-sad to sit next to.
too.
He isn't regular. only an occas asional.
Home Team Must Win.
That being the case. he feels profoundly
that when he visits the ballyard. why.
the home club has got to and must win
the game. see?
why the home team should and must win
the game. The home team. naturally
would Ike to cop the game, and all that.
but just because the occasional visitor
al the ballyard has got seat up yonder,
accompanied by bag of peanuts and .
large expectation. there's no particular
and especial reason why the home club
should HAVE to win.
AS matter of fact, on that day it
doesn't win.
Then the ''They never win for me"
bleater begins to get in his detected and
detecting work
We'll. never agayne for muh. he says.
petulantly and cloomily. that every.
body all around him can hear him and
partake Of his gloom If they're built that
way. mix any more for me. know
when I've had enough. Daggone Ii all.
can't make em win! They won't win
for me. l never saw 'em win a game OF
bail yet"
Somebody with an idea of soothing
him. observes that nevertheless and not.
withstandinS. there have been times. right
here the home grounds, when the
home team has won games.
We'll. they gotta show me. that's ALL"
says the bleatlst Il don't know whether
they ever won a game or not. but If they
ever did | never saw em do 1t. Never
saw em win game in my life. Been
out here bout four million times. at that.
But they always lose when l come out to
a came dusgone 'em Every time | get
La hunch that they're going to cop and nag
my business and creep out here. why.
dang it all. they run out on me. that's
what they do-run ont me! They
won't behave when l'n here. | don't be-
iieve they know the rudiments OF how to
play ball I don't take any stock in
what sec i'm the papers about their win-
ming an occasional game of ball. | guess
that's all fun about their ever winning.
If they ever win. why don't they win once
just once-when I'm here the job.
hey?"
That's unanswerable. of course-that
is. nobody wants TO answer It, And 80
the bleater maunders on, making folks
unhappy and miserable and depressed
Why doesn't he buy season ticket, q.
at any rate. hire hall?