Arizona republican., 1922-04-29
LARDNER WEEKLY LETTER
SENSE AND SOUTHPAWS
"WE4EN THEY ARE LUCID NOBODY COMPETE THEY
ARE NUTS, THEY

To the Editor:
Somebody sent me clipping from
= English paper though ! suppose
they would call it q cutting but any
way 1t was a article by a DIR. about
left handed people and their ailments
and etc. and the DR.. said they was a
gen. suspicion amongst scientists that
left handlers was more libel to be silly
than right handlers but still and all.
II you had kid and you seen he was
left handed, why don't try and cure
him all OF sudden as that may
make them stutter and etc. and in
some cases changeing them from left
to right handed has drove them Oft
their nut entirely.
He also exclaimed several ways
how you can tell If your kid is left
handed or right handed and one OF
the ways was roll ball at him and
see which hand he tried to stop it
with and which hand he rolled 1t
back with and also watch which
hand he acted the most at home with
vile eating.
Well friends have got Kiddies
and they all act terribly at home with
both hands vile eating but leaveing
jokes out of it, have always made
a personal study of left handed peO-
pie and though I amt no scientist
still they was a good many yrs. when
/ was baseball reporter and IN a
position to come in personal con-
tracts with right and left handlers
and learn what the different was
between the 2 sexs and suppose the
same differents applies to people IN
civil life as we'll as our heroes Of the
great national game.
So 1t looks like might maybe add
few pts. to what the English DR..
has got to say on the subject even
though no school OF science ever give
me diploma or anything but the air.
Off? Over the Hills and Far AwayI
Well they use to be a saying
amongst the ball players that so ard
so was crazier than a left handler
and it can't be denied that our pa-
tional pastime has boasted many a
southpaw that never was Threatened
with brain fever. but on the other
hand you take men like Lefty Lei
field and Doc White and Pat Flahei W
and when good many right hand
ers younger than them had been sent
to Root City in the Undergrowth
league, why these guys was still
pitching in towns Of over "a a million
population though their fast ball
acted like it was becalmed.
IheSe DlrdS USED their Drains Where
as they's a lot of right handlers that
II they was asked to do the same
thing, they would half to shu- down
for lack of raw ma .erial.
And further and more know ore
lefty that went all through his big
league career with the reputation of
being unhinged but he always car
ried his money in his righs pants
pocket where he couldn't get at it
quick on acct of being practically
helpless with his right hand, so when
he got through pitching he settled
down and lived on the interest vile
some of his right handed brethren
that use to call him bugs was apply
ing to the president OF the Mil
Stream circuit for a job as substitute
umpire.
The result OF my observations of
the 2 creeds is that they's about
equal percentage of cuckoos amongst
the both of them but that a left
handler goes to extremes, namely, if
they are lucid, why they amt no
body can compete with them in
brains, but il they are nuts they are
generally always violent.
TheS amt no lefty that is just a
little off If he is off at all he is
over the hills and far away. A right