Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-05
"BREAKING INTO
THE BIG LEAGUE"


that have been printed. OF course, any story
that is written about the national game is
bound to be widely and closely read; but
this will grip the interest of those who
don't much about baseball
To begin with, it is recorded by great
authority on the subject, Bore man Bu1Rer
And if you start out with the idea that it is
fiction. you will quickly change your mind.
especially if you are follower of baseball,
and try to identify the player, who tells
frankly and convincingly his experiences,
which really begin with his trying to make
the team in college 1t is plain enough that
this player could tell the story, though he
could not write it. Of course, there isn't any
question about the ability of Bozeman
Bulger to write it.
Even to those who call themselves fans
which is probably baseball abbreviation
OF fanatic by the way-this story will be
a revelation; for it tells in simple, natural
fashion SO many intimate personal things that
never before have found their way into print.
There has been vast amount written about
inside baseball; but this goes much further
than that. 1t is the baseball player from the
inside. the human being as distinguished
from the playing machine-and you know a
man IS always about hundred times more
interesting than a machine
10 the professional ball player the big
league means the highest plane of achieve
ment. He applies the phrase to everything.
When you get this point of view, you see it
has wide application. It takes about as
much capacity, hard work, patience, and re-
straint to fit oneself for the big league as it
does to become a leader in any walk in life.
If you have son who is crazy about base
ball. a son whom you want to make amount
to something you will be mighty grateful for
this article, which is one of series. You can
go over these articles with him again and
again. and point out how the facts fit him.
what he will have to do and endure if he is
going to be big league man, no matterin what
manner of league he purposes to play or work.
And if yor are a man, or even a woman,
if you read with one eye directed inward, it
may help you to define weaknesses that have
interfered with your success.
BREAKING INTO THE BIG LEAGUE
will be published in several instruments, and
the first will appear in our next issue.
A PTERODACTYL makes call upon the
explorers in the next instalment of
THE LOST WORLD. and even Professor
Summerlee is at last convinced. If you begin
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's great adventure
narrative with this number, the action will
carry you along swiftly, with SO many
thrills, with such constant excitement, that
you will not have time to think of what you
have missed in what has gone before. Of
course, you can read the summary; but a
summary at best can't be wholly satisfactory,
and you will find never so many people willing
to explain more in detail. So, if you have
been SO unfortunate as to miss the earlier
numbers, begin now. Only it is fair to warn
you that you will be highly impatient for each
succeeding instalment.
A H LEE BUNG'S VACATION is another
of Wallace Twins delightful stories
that revolve about the old, whimsical tricky,
loyal Chinaman. who1s you can't help liking,
for all his strange ways. In each tale Mr..
Irwin makes it plain that most of us haven't
any notion of the human side of the race SO
difficult to understand. You will be i'm
pressed with the strange mixture of childish
ness and the wisdom of the centuries
TITLE SISTER WITH THE BLUE
EYES. by George Barton. is hardly a
story at all; although, if you have any mag
lnation you can supply the background for the
experience of the woman who was tired of the
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