The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-02-09
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Into the night go one and ALL
| w. T.. Henley.
| Where age the burly fists that swayed
The raging millions-blow by blow"
The crushing jabs that each essayed
| For cheering crowds to see and know
| Old John LIS slam against the foe?
| The brave - the big = the fast - the
slow
Into the night go one and ALL"
War gods that led the Big Parade
Where Ruby Robert got the dough:
Or out the regal cavalcade
Where Big Jeff ruled the fighting
show;
| Hail-Fighting Men--in battle glow
No answer echoes to our call.
Save on the far winds undertow--
Into the night go one and air
The curtain swings - the slam IS
For whirls the cheering. to and fro:
Fame stalks across the open Glade
For stalwarts forming. row on row:
Jack Johnson? None might overthrow
This sable kings eternal thrall.
Until his time had come to know
Into the night go one and all
So one by one they come and go
Nor heed amid the laurelled stall.
Fame's vanished ghosts that whisper
! Into the night go one and ALL
Old Frank Adams. the philosopher
of pessimism, chides us with all the
subtlety of his satiric touch for suc-
costing that Johnny Evers. through his
keen Judgment. should make winner
as sporting writer.
Johnny, it SO happens, has done quite
q trfle of writing. He has the faculty
of expressing himself on paper clearly
and directly. This faculty, backed up
by the Judgment we referred to. is all
sporting writer or any other writer
needs whose main idea happens to be
tho development Of information. It is
many reels beyond fancy writing that
gets nowhere beyond mere language.
We still stand by our original declara-
,ion.
Evers happens to be a citizen with
an unusually keen brain. He has an
exceptional faculty for observation.
His Judgment is always worth con-
sideration. If Evers was reporting a
ball game we would be interested to
know what he thought about it--what
he had to say about Especially If it
was Il game of any Importance.
Still another point to be made is
this: F.vers knows Il human interest
story well beyond the average. We re-
call "A certain game played last summer
at the Polo grounds. 1t was a cold
raw, rainy day where the Giants and
Braves We're forced to finish the con-
test. despite the rain. After the game
a number Of non combatants, players
writer's, etc. We're discussing the un-
usual turn Of an umpire forcing two
| ball clubs to play three innings in q
driving rain upon a cold day. Later
| on Evers had this to say: THE things
| we have been talking about do not
| form the main story of this game
| whats the idea?" some one asked
"The story of this game" said Evers
| was Christy Mathewson coming in as
| n relief pitcher in a cold rain. When
the old arm was worth $4,000 a month
| to n ball club he would never have
been given the chance to hurt his arm
| I have been in this league IA years
and this is the first time l ever saw
! AIatty called in under such conditions
with the risk involved. Stars and dubs
they are all the same out at the enc
of the road. You can let this game
stand as the official finish of Math.
ewson. the pitcher" And after thai
| game Matty only started about twice
! And neither start carried him very fal
along.
PLAYERS sign stuff they have never see,
not only makes for poor reading. bu
the essence of fakery all too palpable
| But a few keen observers like Ever.
and Mathewson with a fair amout O
training would soon build up base