Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-06
BASEBALL E|V|GMAS
BY GOVERNOR TENER
Bunch From a Running Interview
With the National Leader in
the New York World

When Governor John X. Tener, the
National League president talks about
baseball, it is a safe bet that every
word he speaks will be read. Through
out the United States the impression
prevails that because Governor Tener
is in active baseball again, there will
be new era in the history of the ma
tional game.
In the magazine of the New York
World on Sunday, Governor Tener is
prominent in a lengthy interview
Here are a few epigrams punched
from Governor Tener's statement:
The American spirit is typified by
the National wallop."
Phrases taken from the language
of baseball enrich the vocabulary of
success. Making a hit and put
ting one over are generally accepted
and widely popular forms of express
sing accomplishments"
Baseball. like the Constitution, fol-
lows the flag. The impact of the will
low against the horsehide sphere is
heard around the world. There are
Guam, Hongkong and Toxic, and root
ers in every known tongue"
Gallant Commodore Perry opened
the ports of Japan to American COM
merce, and globe trotting mines open
ed the parks of Japan to the great
American game. Thu are the peace
full messages of New World civilization
carried to ancient peoples"
| Modern ciyics finds one of its abl-
est allies in baseball. Executive, judi
cial and legislative branches of gov
ernment year after year are recruited
| from the diamond. President Wilson
was a ballplayer: so was President
Taft. The distinguished Chief JUS
tice of the Supreme Court of the
United States never varies in his loyal
support of the game, and so it is all
along the line"
IF we were to have another escut-
cheon to express the popular side of
national life, and the design were to
be decided by popular vote, it would
be two bats crossed, with a fielder
mltt set in the. upper opening of the
sawbuck and catcher's mask under
Meath"
Taking the game as 1t is played
professional, professional, col
lege schoolboy scrub and one-old-cat
there are in all probability a million
Americans who find pleasure in par
ticipation in it. And there are other
millions in the grand stands and
beachers and on the side lines
| Whenever men seek relaxation,
bankers, brokers, employees of busi-
ness houses, mills, shops and factories
l
game Baseball is the big event at
every outing, and it is more import
ant than the fireworks on the Fourth
of July. Fat men play the lean men
the tall play the shorties, the married
men play the single men, the book
keepers play the sales department, and
so on It's the great inspirationaI
contest in every State in the Union
every county in the State and every
town in the county"
IF all the ballplayers In the coun-
try were organized into an army, they
would form force that would be in
vincible. They would be a defense
against the armies of the world"
mo event In the coultry's regular
calendar is of such vital import to the
masses of the people as world series
contest No hamlet is too remote
lnot to receive a flash of the result, nc
community too engrossed in it's imme
diate personal affairs not to join witt
the crowd anxious to find out wht
won. The message that Is flashed tt
the White House is duplicated to the
lbackwoods of Maine. to the Everglade.
of Florida, to the ranches in Texas anC
to the fruit belt of Oregon. Even the
Indians in far off Saskatchewan come
down one-hundred and fifty miles tt
Portland to get the news and take il
back to their people.
I'VE may look for internationa
baseball. 1t is bound to come. AL
ready the game Is played around the
world. The Waseda College team o
Toxic defeated the University OF
Pennsylvania team last season. The
Chinese team from the University o
Honolulu beat a strong semi-profes
sional team. The big games will com,
along International yachting, gold
polo, tennis and shooting are now OIL
the worlds card. AS a development
of the Olympic spirit we will have tn,
worlds baseball, and the contest fo
,supremacy will be the most momen
Itous event of the time"