The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-05-15
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| O2/tNTLAMO RICE

An srdsnt unbiased patriot writing tn
ono ~ No" pIp"rs,. Huggcsis that golf and
EoIf courses be abolished through the
pnr Hrd concludes his argument against
ID" game With this ringing announce
Wrut
Professor uurhopf of Yale uu,versl-
~, est.iualeA chat 3. .lGs 43g foot pounds OF
"nErgy aro daily wasted py golfers
W 'hm rnr'fF H 40 wlstcd, ihon Hll
sports should be- abolished and the only
sane system len would be for every on,
10 crawl to some son padded sofa or
chair aud ~ reserve an thus foot energy
ana not waste 70 step Along this pro.
'ound line ~ thought nlI exercise should
Dc wiped ont Hll football. baseball tennis
hrh track They, ug much l, gulf are
a waste of foot enrrE, They arc rven
worse, Tor they lll for greater waste of
arm and hack energy
Thin highly moral reform having been
accomplished. Us fat-hoirted. soft
muScied round grthed ludiRcgliyo.
"he"L'ug nation we would he iu AN deal
position TO carry on II gallant war TO the
finish
/ let US. by all means abolish golf and
all other forms Of sport and rocreatiye
exercise.
. A. substitute we can dcvelop our
foreafms wr,tnE suggestions 10 the pn
pers that everything elA be- abolished
leaving the uuivtrsf alone 20 moral Re
form "Neutus,' "NoN popuu' and "Dli
Subscrlbcr'
The ParslIels.
Baseball this season observes = by
Islander VIII run parallel 10 the allies
campaign iu Europe II The allies ar'
successful and n becomes evident that
they have all the best of N, then bal
parks VIII be .hled. But u the tide
should turn, n Germany should fors,
ahead, bsschell viii be AZ low chh "A
II is hardly likely now that ans hmcr
can cOntUgert will he IN action brfurl
October baseball IN this WAY VIII not bu
affected ono way or anothcr"
or Can't You7
We can do without poetry music al,
We. can do without conscience and d,
without heart
We can do without puddings. potatoe
and pie
mightnt Get Oy,
We can do without presidents, lawyer
and soap.
We can do without columns embrscin
the dope ~
We can DO without hearing from Brya
, again
As EASY as counting from seven TO ten
We can do without breathing minut
or two,
We can DO without wearing q sock or
shoe.
I We can do without bullets and powdc
. We can, do withou, Aus,rans, German
: and Huns
d We can DO without baseball and mashl,
!, We can aaG do S'S1pi %thou, Iausfsns or learn,r
to weep,
II So probably you. In your busy array.
.e Can do without any more verses today.
a The Greatest All. Arounder.
r so Billy Sunday says Mike Kelly Is I
,. greatest all around ball player, or sho,
-. 81. hat
"a Kelly was a great outfihlder and Il
II catcher also good hitter and W
! base runner But how about George X
~ ler--a fine pitcher. star frstbascm!
w. star outnelder a utility innelder n
hs also a great hitter and a great base ~
OF different Jobs on a ball club. WI
y Than average all around merit.
i And Others
-, Others who might challenge Kell'
40 claim are Hans Wagner and Bobby VI
"A lace. Wagner was y fine outflelder.
" good thirdbasemAn. a good rstbasem
and the games great short stop.
liz Wallace WAS a good pitcher. n n
~ ~ thitdbsseman. and star shortst
.s These two were both athletes OF mo
W than average nj laround merit.
~ The highest infeld average We ha
I, seen has been shown by Buck llcrEo
~, who has proved to be star AZ thii
w. w. short and second lie was the gam'
~ best third haseman In 1918 the gam,
., hest shortstOp I'm 1915. ard one OF I
s., games greatest scCondh1semen I'm ID
These are only few Tho game
u, replete with players who starred w
", more than one Job. bat In modern da'
lh at last, we fan To recall any one "
, figured In greater variety of Rsslgnmel
" than George Ssler. ~ the Browns
~ lie hasn't caught vet. but as pitch
no outfielder and inneldcr he has been "
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