New Britain herald., 1920-09-02
HARDING SPEAKS TO
 CHICAGO BALL TEAM
Cubs Are Greeted With Base ball Terms-SenatOr
 Knox There.

NiaTlOns oss sept. HIS political creed into the vernacular of baseball, Senator Harding delivered front porch speech today to the players of the Chicago National league club. appealing for better team work by the American nation lon the home grounds. under the rules"
 Many issues. including the league of nations, one man government. pre- paredness and progressivism were touched on by Senator Harding fin de- cla ring his love for the great Ameri- can game. The Cub players had come to Marion to play a special exhibition game late in the day as personal compliment to the nominee.
 Tn another speech delivered to a committee representing several as- zsociations of teachers. the senator said the low compensation of teachers had brought on a crisis in education, and pledged himself to do everything in hts power to secure better pay for them. ..-s
 Both Addresses Short
 Both of the addresses were short, and the greater part of the day the candidate reserved for conference with Senator Knox of Pennsylvania. It was understood that many detailed features of the new association of nations proposed by Senator Harding were to be taken up during the visit of the Pennsylvania senator here. Pays Tribute to Baseball.
 Saluting the baseball players simply as Cubs" Senator Harding plunged directly into his discourse on political issues as analogous to the problems of the diamond.
 .'I pay to you" he said. my tribute to baseball. because l like the game just like every other real American. It has been in the hood for over a half century and it has helped us as | n people. Of course there has been a l vast improvement since the early game. but am sure it is not re- nctionary to remind you that you | still try to hit them out and the big thing is to reach the home plate. There are progressive ideas. but 1t | retoices the average crowd of rooters to note an soid-fashioned Tinker-to- | Evers-to- Chance.
 I "I ike the tensiCn of tight rsme. It is great to be rooter. It is fine to see him in rec ornizing a great play. but l like His partisa nship. That is the eNplanl- | ton of baseball popularity. We are all partisan of sane team. l am sure reioiced as much as Garry Herr ! mann when the Reds copped last wear. I feel the same way in big na- tionaI matters. l like to think of America first. | want our country '" float the championship pennant in tho contest for human achievement. You can't win a ball game with n one man team. l like a pitcher | ,1 Gfu hiz feIders to play their stations. Maybe 1t is old fashioned but I am for team play. l am opposing the one man play for the nation. Too much fam ming out. too much unpreparedness National unpreparedness for war cost us many precious lives and endles: billions in waste and preparedness for peace is costing billions more and holding us in anxiety and uncertainty
 "It is my observation that the na' ftional team, now playing for th' United States played loosely and mut
 fed disappointingly in our domestic affairs. and then struck out at Paris
 No one can dispute. the American
 team played today when 1t got on [
 foreign field.
 "Piay According to tho Ttuics.'
 And I am advocating somethini
 more--pluy according to the rules
 The rules in the supreme AmeriSa'
 game are in the federal constitution
 and the iimpire is the American peo
 pie. There was meeting of leagu officials where the coniending tean
 tried a squeeze play and expected ( (Ccntinued on Eleventh Page,.