The Connecticut labor press., 1919-06-14
REACHING FOR PENNANT
 WITH GEORGE WEISS
Young Owner of the Weissmen
 Has Hopes and Smile.

"Aw gee" drowned Jimmy. "Its Saturday and l can't go to the ball game!"
 Go ahead we can manage!"
 "Yeh! You can manage, but 1 can't! My pockets bid me stay away"
 Broke. Jimmy"
 Yep! BustedW
 1 pondered.
 1 reached for the phone.
 I spoke with George Weiss, hero of many corner lot kid.
 Jimmy and I went to the ball game.
 There it all was again-the bleachers with the white shirts and straw hats and kids and faces, mostly faces-the grand stand with here and there lot of blue or pink denoting girl, the chicken wire to keep the ball from mussing the gen. era1 appearance of the fair ones, the peanuts, popcorn, crackerjack and chewing gum boy, the cold soda water right off the ice fellow, the official score card vender, the reporters, the luke warm fans,-the players benches with their white and gray clad teams-the diamond all smooth ard even and brown the field all smooth and fresh and green-the automobiles, the score board, the signs-the game, all rush and ex- citement and sportsmanship.
 Gee whiz, look at Chief Meyers. Amt he some guy thougf-1ook at them shoulders. And whaddye know, if that aint Jack Nagle throwing them down to second like he used to when we knowed him. Don't you like the way Red Torphv whips that ball across the diamond? There's that Courtney they say he's got war cross-don't look like fighter but you ought to have sen him pitch that no-hit game that time. Some speed and curves-oh boyW
 Guess they're going to begin, Jim my Let's keep score!'
 They began almost immediately by executing one of those squeeze plays that gets you all excited and prepares you for the worst or best as the case may be. It was good game until one of those queer things happened to the young boy they had pitching and he couldn't find the plate at all. The best pitchers have those times you know Run after run came across the plate and Jimmy just couldn't look at the score board when at last the third man was called out.
 And I bet dime they'd win :oday," he groaned.
 Such is the uncertainty of life and baseball.
 Presently 1t was all over and Jimmy had lost his dime.
 Tt was a good game, thought" said optimistic Jimmy as we stood watching the players run across the sun swept field to the club house in a far corner. A o1o fiji | they are-bas ebal1 players as they ought | trim.
 "Ain't they some bunch--gosh would n't I like to be like them?" You may be some day, Jimmy here's MT. Weiss!"
 And because Jinny's main ambition in life is to be reporter person like Helen Mary and MT. Editor, let Jim my do the honors. He shook hands with | the young owner and asked him point | blank what he thought of his ball club | MT. Weiss being young and new to the business wasn't prepared to say, but he admitted that he liked some of his players and was going to get more un- til he had a club which would put the coveted flag on the pole for that special purpose. He had a late start this sea- ! 1 hopes and sportsman enough to appre- ciate the showing of the fans at the games He's going to give them run | for their money.
 q like good ball and good ball means good players. I'll have good ball if l have to SCOUT the country!'
 His blue eyes looked very determined as he said this and woe unto the boy who doesn't play his best brand of bal for Weiss Kind of think he'd smi1< chummi1y at the boy who did though
 Presently Jimmy was shaking hands and saving goodbye and in no time we :, were homeward bound. T 'Well?" said I.
 "Gee-he didn't say much, did he?"
 No. Why didn't ycu ask him more ?
 Because, 1 saw his club play, 1 heard him say he'd have good ball as soon a! he could get it and I know from pas experience that anything George Weis! promises to do, he does!"
 All of which leads us to believe Ina Jimmy will make a good reporter anc George Weiss will have good team.
 So, roofing for the fellow who tries let's all applaud at the next home gamt the Weissmen play.