The Pulaskian., 1917-05-04
DO NOT
 MAKE A SUMMER
NEITHER DO INJURIES MAKE A BALL TEAM, BUT WHEN TRAV- ELERS GET WHOLE AGAIN
 LOOK OUTl

 the students of the Arkansas School For the Blind invited the pupils of the Arkansas Deaf Mute Institute over to spend the day and by way of entertainment, rendered musical en- tertainment Later in the season the students of the Deaf Mute Institute reciprocated ,and baseball game was the entertainment supplied for the pleasure of the blind visitors.
 Deafness and blindness are about the only things the Travellers escape right now, but if a hospital was rung in, how those ball players represent ing Little Rock would fill it. Wares, Stevenson and Brock, inilelders, all out at the same time. This puts two outfielders and catcher in the in- field, and a pitcher i'll the outfeld. What breaks the makeshift team miss ed on bones, they lost on the field. for not once since the season opened has the Little Rock aggregation been favored by fortune, and now even tine umpires apparently think it great sport to call them against the home guard.
 But in spite of it all the team that represents Arkansas has been in every game, with heads up, fighting for vic tory. The players are brim full of pepper, and they fight all the way. A team that will continue to fight in the face of diversity, and against luck, is dangerous team, and just as a few swallows do not make a sum- mer, neither does a run Of injuries put ball team finally to the bad
 Little Rock has the best individual ball team in it's history as member of organized ball.
 It has the fielders, the batters and the pitchers. The players are excep- tiinally fast and they have brains an asset in baseball as in business. But not once this season has the en- tire team been out there in single game. There have been from two 10 five regulars ml sing in each game men who are counted on to pound In the runs.
 On pasC records the Little Rock team is tight fielding one, and should be able to hold a lead of one run, any time it secured it, but the team 50 far is more liable to be beaten any time it has a few runs to spare, than when it is run or so to t4e bad The team rests on it's oars when out III front but makes a desperate effort when taking dust. Tight fielding has been absolutely lacking, and the pitch ing his not been above the ordinary But warm days are coming, and then the Traveller staff is going to shine Bad luck in the way of injuries cannot last. Little Rock has been indeed fortunate in having versatile players who can plug holes in many places, but they cannot do this and insure the team work necessary to win ball games. It takes team work, and that cannot be obtained until the team is all in there, each man knowing exact ly what the other fellow will do in any emergency.
 Just because the Travelers have lost few more games than they have won, is no reason why Arkansans should make light os their ability, or their present day standing Remem- Der how the 1916 team rocked along on the bottom and see the spurt it made when it got to going. The 1917 team is far superior to that of last year, and is better balanced in every way. It will win ball games, but it cannot surmount the obstacles that have confronted it and still be win ner-it is too great a handicap. It is about as good team as the league affords, being a shade better than Memphis, and two or three laps ahead of Chattanooga or Nashville. the teams it has so far met When the Travellers get strung out these black berry winter champions are going to blow They cannot stand the pace Charlie Starr and Buzzy Wares are go- circuit.
 If you believe in placing few dimes, put them on Little Rock to finish, one. two, three, and it's odds on that you will cash a ticket There is not weak place on the team, and we figure it that President Allen will have several major league offers for players before many weeks have aass- ed. That shows the caIibre of the men who draw Little Rock pay enve- lopes.
 Shout the praises of the Travellers now, or someone will come along pretty soon and say, T told you SO"