Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-05-16

made UP my mind that thereafter for
me sock ball was out OF the running
When got home found that father
and my brother aturgis, who was
two years my senior and mighty handy
with the ball, had also been witnesses
Of the game and were about rs enthusi
ssuc over II as myself In fact, this
awkward squad from New York state
hsd !noculated the whole town-in less
than a month the baseball craze broke
out Ike spring measles in an orphan
asylum don't mind telling you that
! got the biggest dose OF all, dose
from which have never recovered.
and probably never shall.
It didn't take the Anson family long
to pick up what there was to be learned
about the game of baseball as 1t was
played at that time For my part,
made II my chief business by day, and
It was the subject OF my dreams
when I slept Father and Sturgis
were almost as devoted TO It rs my
self, but after while the old gentle
man came back" long enough to real
l2e that was loading up my system
with baseball to the exclusion Of
everything else Although he had not
absorbed enough book lore In hla early
day TO fit him for o college professor &
ne vowed he wouldn't have his sons
grow up to be a couple OF numskulls.
and he called us in one day TO have
serious talk
81 don't believe you boys can figure
long division" ho began rs a cheerful
Introduction
81 can" declared sturgis promptly.
TITS no trick at all for me-"
How about you, AGrau?" lie con.
tinued, fixing me with look that |
knew meant busineos
squlrmed little. but u was no
use. knew per'eejy we'll that
couldn't do an example In long d.
vision to save my hide, and also
knew better than to put up any claim
that couldn't make good
SO It was decreed that we should
start right In and prepare ourselves
to enter the State university. II was
not a Job TO my liking, but ! saw no
way to escape Y, | got out my books
and soon found that my taste hadn't
developed any since laid them down.
/ All that summer | put Up mild blum
over the book problem. but | took
mighty good care that the baseball
feature Of my education shouldn't he
neglected
Al the entrance examinations that
fall the Anson boys were conspicuous
only for what they didn't know. II the
fellows who got up those question pa.
pers had heen hired especially to So
lsct Lat OF subjects that had nsysr
come vithio tae range OF the Anrou
family they couldn't have done bet
jer Job Asa result We escaped going
10 the state university by big mar
sin,
don't m'ud telling you that we
we're uoAiet 20 death over the out
come but eur rejoicing was soon
,prned into fresh trouble Father made
3p bis mind thar We should have some
sort Of an education even II the state
university d'an'I take kindly to the
scheme. So he sent us TO Notre Dame
lulverci;y, at South Bend, Ind, an in
Stituucr that had a reputation n be
ing able 20 instruct rOys when all 9th.
az attempts had failed When We were
made acquainted with the plan we felt
thai everything was over with us, we
had heard OF Nore Dame and the
methods In vogue there aud we DO
lievcd that no Anson could thrive un'
der such treatment. II We had been
startiag for the retormatory on that
day whom We bade gcodhy to Marshall
town ana baseball we couldn't have
been more depressed
Contrary 10 our expectations we
found the Indiana scGOci very much TO
our liking About the arst thing that
waa asked us on our arrival was
whether We played call, and when my
brother who acted ~ the Anson
spokesman. couiossod 10 mild fond
ness for the sport, we were given the
yled hand all arouud and taken into