Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-06-24
No YOU ALWAYS MAKE G0OD9

The following Is from the pen OF
James EMERSON, a sporting writer
for the New York Telegraph. Read
II, II may do you good:
''Paste this up in your garnet ana
think 1t over, you guys who sit up IN
the grandstand and roast a player LOT
booting the ball or tanning in pinch
Think over your own work and ng-
ure out If that player you just called
a sawdust-brained dummy for slip
ping up on chance isn't filling MS
lob with a blamed sight fewer mis-
takes than you are getting away with
in yours. Think of what a monument
tai success you would be in the bust
ness world II you made as few mis-
takes as the average ball player, ana
then consider the more trying condi-
tions that surround the ball players
EFFORTS. After you have dons this
lie your head isn't stuffed like a rag
dolls you'll see where you get on on
the road to success, and you'll toss
vour hammer in the scrap pile and
keep your face sewed up when ball
player shows that he is only human
after all.
II never see a guy getting up on
his hind legs in the grandstand and
calling a ball player sap-headed
rummy for getting pinched mapping
of first. that don't feel as II ]
would like to fash in front OF his mug
a list of the number of times that a
guy himself has been caught asleep
at the switch in his own business
never hear some big stir beenng
about some player tanning IN a
pinch or foozllng a hit, that ! don't
think I would like to go over that
guys books and make record OF the
number Of times he has failed 10
come through with the goods.
i've got good strong bunch tnat
Iif the average business mans mis-
takes and shortcomings were haunt
ed in the public eye lik' the pail
player's the traffic along the ROAD
to success would be blocked Win
busted regulations. II the DOCTOR
makes a mistake it is hauled away TO
the cemetery and buried. II the law
wear makes a mistake 1t is showed IN
tn iail or electrocuted and the puDhc
calls it justice. If the merchant OF
the grocer or the butcher makes a
mistake it is covered up with mort
gage till he can put one over on some
lother guy and even up the score and
Iit is called business methods. Bu'
when the ball player makes a mis-
take It is hooted at by ten thousand
bowling idiots and he is called rotten
by the entire population OF the town
and his mistakes are plastered up II
the official averages and syndicateo
to the newspapers all over the coun'
try.
"That's where the ball player
stands in public life, and take 1t from
me. when It comes down to com
uarison Of positions he's got the
worst of the deal. Why not hant
him a little sympathy instead OF cen
sure when he falls down? That's wha'
we get when we lose out in an homes
|, effort in the business world. II thes'
guys who roast player for flaming
lin a pinch would only consider tn'
, fact that there's a pitcher working
out there on the mound who draw
a salary for making him fan in
pinch and II isn't so much the battel
who is falling as 1t is the pitcher who
lis making good, they'd stop knocking
the batter and applaud the pitcher
III the fans would only get THU
, dope packed away in their garrett
, there'd be blamed sight less knock
|, ling and more applauding handed ou
' at bali games and they'd hsee
blamed sight better brand Of baseball
dished up by the home team, too
The ball player Is only a public en-
i. Itertainer, and he is entitled to tn
: same respect as an actor, and '--er'
! Isn't blamed one of you who woul'
q think Of getting up in theatre am
: calling an actor bonehead, II b
; happened to be shy few antes o
4 enthusiasm when he makes love t
r the heroine.
think It over, fellows"