The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-20
The Baseball Season.


means this stirring about town. this
avidity to read the third page OF the
Star-Courier daily; this anxiety to
learn what is going on 1T Terminal
Park; this eagerness for the latest
news from Waterloo and Keokuk; this
fear lest something may happen to
James Drohan's good right arm: this
inquiring as to what grade of talent
will be uncovered when the curtain is
raised April 80?
! What means it al!2
The baseball season is here.
If the millennium is ever to be real
lied, if supermen are to be produceG
and complete brotherhood brought
about, the Washington Post declares
| that baseball will be the medium OF
achievement. Human selfshness and
/ fallibility are said to be the chief
/ obstacles in the way of the millen-
mum, but even these disappear entire
i ly on the cay of the opening game.
/ The laws of nature are supposed to
be immutable, but the evidence is All
/ the other way Will : the baseball sea
son is in progress. Our bodies and
our brains need replenishing, but who
ever heard of a. man complaining of
1 hunger when one of the sluggers ct
home team bats ball against the
! center field fence?
1t is one of the laws Of the family.
IL not of nature, that men and their
sons should not be late for supper,
but the baseball season puts all sucn
4 rules at naught The old curmudgeon
i generously makes room on the
benches for the man who owes him
money, and they hug each other
when a safe hit is made. Men who
beat their wives become numani ar
ans, vikings become gifted in repair
tNe, mild men who would not lift q
hand in self-defense brayely kick the
fat man in front under the inspiring
influence OF the national pastime.
1t is marvellous what good game
: of baseball will do President Wilson
is fan. and there is no doubt thai
he forgets all about tariff and patron
age troubles when he witnessed the
opening game. He may hare had somt
i miggivings about reading his message
to congress and about going to tht
I. capitol to confer with the finance
2 committee, but he was sure of him
self and the true brotherhood 0
3 those about him when he went to tn
ball game.
If scientists would set themselve
: to solve the psychology Of baseball
$ they would find the cure for all men
e tai and physical Ills If men woul'
. take their enemies to bal. gam
! they would turn hatred into undyini
q dissolution would move upon he bal
I grounds in a body, all dissension
; would disappear and they would liv
, happily ever after
g The baseball season makes tn
It whole world one. It gives a roin
s and purpose in life. 1t restores til
t true perspective, the true sense G
e proportion legislative and othe
s rrobiems find their lever far below tn
n humanizing good fellowship and OF
II timism Of the ball field Formalitie
IS such as eating and drinking and sleel
is ing become the mere shadow Of If
70 with baseball as the substance.
"a The dirt accumulated upon til
IS baseball diamond" says Vice Pres
dent Marshall. "is clean. A Democr;
es cannot say that for al her diamond
10 in America. = There's the commo
N sense Of 1t. OF what use would be a
Id the diamonds in the world to a ma
nh II he could not see ball game2
ne Get your season ticket early
]. Baseball is not money-makir
III proposition in the Cen raj Aseoci
,s- ton. The men who direct It are !
re- terested only because they like Il
no game. If You too, enjoy the spol
~ boost little and make # a oil east
OF to keep the ball rolling towards Il
Sc pennant pole.