Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-04-12
FIND DEFECTS By
Getting IN GAME
BASEBALL BRINGS OUT ANY.
THING AMISs IN THE MAKEUP.
IT IS NOTHING BUT ball
Young Amcrta I'm Tulsa, Favored by
Weather, has Been Laying 10 IL
Fp Two Months.

The boys OF one hundred years ago
fifty years ago-brng It down to
twenty years ago-had very little for
which to yearn in the opening Of
spring, the Tipening of summer and
the fading Of the fall in comparison
TO the amount OF yearning and the
bind OF yearning which In this day
lays hold Of every young American
'he baseball fever.
Only the young Americans? Not
by any means There are scores, hum
dreds, thousands Of the old Ameri-
ans, they who missed the scientific
game OF today In youth and who per-
haps quarreIed as TO whether the
thrown ball passed in front or be-
hind the base runner. grow raving
wild over the one natiot-.l game But
With young America Is. Is different
For the two months past In Tulsa
young America has been playing base
GALL. On February days when II was
very comfortable on the inside with
The doors closed and the gas stoves
!aring gaudily in blue and red, It
vas common sight to see contesting
mines in practice al. over the city,
And the game has been developing
since at a rapid pace, every nook and
Granny OF ground atrording space for
the holding Of game having been
called into use. The starting of the
scheduled games among the mines of
The grade schools has placed any
number Of Juvenile teams In the field,
and there are now probably anywhere
rom twenty TO fifty different bands
of swatters of the horsehide sIyerule
laying to t.
For young America is ehting base
ball, drinking baseball and sleeping
baseball The game becomes more
keen with the coming of vacation
they can thon lay to 1t as hard and us
much AS they choose. There is moth
ing doing In the marble games. Few
OF the younger ones know little OF
pitching shoes. A few of the Older
and simpler games do very well for
period Of recess, but that is only be-
cause the time allowed for this rec
"eation perlod is even too short to
get an arm limberel up In n base
ball game. Even AT that there are
few of these old games getting any
recognition
Pass by rne school grounds sur
rounding any OF the public school
buildings In Tulsa at recess time and
take notice, The young catchers and
pitchers are developing.
believe me, that was a pippin OF
crop" shouts back the Coming Catch
er as he returns from chasing the
all that want too low for him to ar
rest.
You should see that one when I'm
in practice reverborates the Pre-
mature Pitcher.
Then he winds up n la brush leag-
uer, after having slobbered along the
seam Of the ball, looks behind him.
and taking a mammoth step ahead.
swings himself off both feet In the
OF n new try that floats
gracefully upward and passes between
"iphty and three thousand feet above
the head OF the Coming Catcher.
Even the girls are taking keen de-
light in becoming real expert with
the mitten and the baseball, and Il
is no uncommon sight to see as many
CT the school maidens whipping
curves across the plate as Is seen
among the boys.
But Il Is n great game for all. III
takes the rust out OF every muscle in
,he body; II there is rheumatism the
-same progresses but little before
i is found out; of the heart Is weak
here is little chance Of chasing fouls:
bad eyesight is ample provision for
broken noses-practically any defect
Of the human body will show up IN
hot game Of baseball. And the ex-
element Is there. It Is an easy mat
ter 10 engage In quarrels OF which
everyone and all the umpire is the
Foat. There is no game unless there
IS an umpire, who must also be
healthy and filled with all the acldity
Of vinegar and nerve galore. Pugil-
istic instincts are also required ac-
Nowadays It is nothing but baseball
with the youths. Few of them are
caring for fishing. Any OF them
would rather engage In game than
70 to the circus, Swimming comes
efter the game, not before. There Is
'nly one thing in the entire world.
II is BASEBALL.