The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1910-09-01
HUGH KELLEY
DISCUSSES BALL
THE NEVER SWEATS OF LYONS
RECEIVE MERITEO TEN
TON.
PERCY CR0SSMAN AND SPORTS
The Writer Concludes that the Club
Made the Village
Famous.
PERCY CROSSMAN AND SPORTS

The careful students of human his.V
tory, down through all the long ages,
have invariably come to the conclusion
that the games and pastimes of peo-
Pile denote their physical and moral
status. AS Jack plays so he will
work. Allow boy no wider range
than to play croquet, with bevy of
old maids and cat for companions,
and an admonition to be careful of his
complexion, and he will grow up a
dude with few scattering ideas in his
seldom brains about second-class ar
and low-grade literature. But give
him pair of boxing gloves and bull
pup for companions and he'll forge
his way to the front every time, Base
ball, football and kindred games have
ever been the sports of world compel
lers never the advertisement of anaemic
dudes. They foster spirit of manly
self reliance, proud contempt for
danger. 1t has been said that it was
the OlYmpian games of Greece that
developed the soldiers that made pos
sible the Pass of ThermOpylae and the
Field of Marathon. There seems to be
a growing sentiment in this country
against games that require strength
and courage and dodare against
really virile games. This is to be re-
gretted, for our morals as a nation will
sink ever lower and lower as the red
tide in it's veins becomes diluted with
the whey Of dudeism AS we drift
farther anu farther from the rugged
sports and solid literature that char
acterized our ancestors. Look over
the list of names of men who have dis
tinguished themselves on the field of
battle or in the halls of legislation and
[ defy you to find one who possessed
no higher qualifications than pair of
yellow shoes and wilted chrysanthe.
mum. Men strong of hand and heart
must be reared in an atmosphere that
has some ozone in it. With these facts
and many others like unto these star
ing them in the face the married men
of Lyons, Baraboo's western suburb,
assembled themselves into baseball
nine to be known as the Never Sweats.
Carl Dubois was elected captain and
F. E. Berkeley manager. Just why
Carl was chosen captain L do not
know unless it was because he was
not good for anything else. In seek
Ing membership one is not debarred on
account of the color of his skin, the
language he speaks or the Sunday
school he attends, but it is imperative
that he be married man. John Mar
tin, the blacksmith, wanted to play
shortstop but Mr.. Berkeley thought if
it happened TO be hot day and John
was running bases he would make q
good many short stops before he made
score, so he was turned down. Percy
Crossman has deep, abiding love for
field sports so made application for
swearing by all the gods
Of Egypt that he would get married
this fall or early in the winter. Newt
Moorehead stood up and said he knew
Percy previous to the glacial period,
when the Wisconsin river ran through
Devils Lake gap and the Bar
aboo emptied into Pewits'
Nest, and that if he got married this
'aIl or next winter it would be some
thing new. Tom Johnson also voted
against Percy because, as be said, dur
ng the long term of years he had
known him many a damsel, fair to
ook upon, had budded, bIoomed and
in the neighborhood without
the bachelors heart. Mr..
Xman's application was laid under
she table. Someone brought in Tom
Rodwell's name stating that his resi-
1ence in the city was only temporary
and that he would soon be back on the
'arm. Lem Hewitt killed the petition
oy illustrating how hunter that
couldn't tell the difference between a
house cat and wild cat, in case of
matched game could not distinguish
the team he was working with. One
Door fellow, whose name [ did not
learn, said he had been married several
but his wife had left him, and
although he contended that this was