Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-06-21

intimate and direct means of self-ex- pressicn, the voice, is for the moment used without reserve. We put all we are of delighted youth into the liberal impulse. We sing aloud with glad ness. We have glimpse of the power of unity. We delight ill the oneness of the impulse. It . is harmonious sense of pleasure in achievement. /No 1 individual is heard. All are doing the same thing. All are stripping off the I bonds which forbid them to be natural , and simple and free. We step for a moment out of the shades of the pris- on house. We understand for the in stant the freedom, unafraid, of the sons of the morningAthose who shouted for joy when they heard the stars sing l together.
 The spectators at the ball game feel not only the fredeom of their own jol- ly uproar, but the free and efficient use ] of other powers displayed by the con- tending teams The splendid swing of the pitchers arm when he makes the ball do his bidding, the resouding 1 thwack of the bat (that does not come too often), the mighty forward lunge of the runners, the swift fielding, the reckless sliding to the base, the quick kSn work Sometimes there is aero batic fun, too, as when with two men on bases, both begin to run madly, On a chance. Then the ball is here, there, everywhere, and the man whe has it last utrns a somersault bodily over the runner. The people like in baseball the perfect, prompt action. The technical excellence of the players wakes just admiration in those thou sans of spectators. Most of them are men and youths who have no oppor- tunity to use their legs and arms and hands and running apparatus gener- ally. They sit boring over desks With a pen or behind counters with yard- stick or scales or their only tools for self-expression. Lacking the oppor- tunity themselves to become technical experts in baseball, they are delighted to be reminded that there is such a thing as bodily prowess. They approve this masterful use of members which certainly are for use. It makes folk feel for the hour more like men and less like machines for turning out dol lars. When one considers the hun dreds of men and women who never use even the power of running, who never jump, who never throw, who rarely lift the arms above the head or raise the knee higher than the long step to a street car, the thou sands who never even walk l5 mln- utes a day, one can understand why the great American game holds It's sway. Mechanical contrivances of hundred sorts, elevators and motor cars as we'll as shoe machinery, de- prive humanity of the ire exercise ol their powers. The very bricklayer by the new methods may no longer stoop to pick up his bricks. He must stanc all day in one position. re young lambs bound to the tabor's sound, Du! only the children among human klno initiate this vigorous and happy free dom.
 Observers Impressions.
 The crowd at the ball game is worth study. How is it that so many thou sands have 75 cents tp spend semi weekly at these games? The great mass are men, though there is fall snrinkling of women. One concludes that the crowds are not always the same. and that if every one who wish ed to come came every time he Wlsh- ed. there could be no structure large enough to hold the people. The 7o- cent seats outnumber the 50-cent ones l enormously, and the section where one lmay sit for 9 cents, facing the sun and far from the battery" is small hut. tight packed. When the ball by l snto fhOco OhnQnpl sections-the bleachers, as they are called because they are not rooted it is never thrown back. The finder may keep it and pay for his next ad- mission with the ball. This is an amusing bit of tradition among the l"fans" which is new and interesting to the observer, but matter of course to the habitue. When the ball. how ever goes into the 75-cent or $1-a-sea1 section it is sometimes thrown back Another one of the customs at the bal game is seen at the seventh inning when everycbdy stands up for a min- ute or two.
 Work Not Everything.
 The amnhUheater at Boston is a high flung brick structure The walks leading to the top of the deep tlers of seats are winding inclined planes capital means to handle large crowds. One simply walks up hill to the top, where the rows of faces break suddenly on the sight. They are ar amazing spectacle. first seen. Here a broad esplanade. open on one side to the Boston Fenway, presents vlstas ol the suburbs in wide pillared spaces One may sit in the topmost row and fel the fresh spring breeze across the park, and see it lift the big folds of the flag. flung from the tall staff wonder, and watch the steady and swift, the strong and ire actions o1 the players, the happy enthusiasm of the crowd. This is to get new view of Americanism. This is clean and wholesome if utterly inoonseauent form of sport. It draws the people as