Evening star., 1924-10-02
THIS AND THAT
BY c. E. TRACEWELL

october-month of pennant- win
ming Nationals!
Brown October ale, turning leaves
| melancholy days, all the other age
old characteristics Of this month
give way this year to base ball.
| At last-after all these ages-the
Washington base ball team has
| brought home the bacon.
Is there a Washingtonian here or
afar who did not thrill at the news
that rainy afternoon when it was
| determined for good and all that the
ball team representing this city in
| the American League had won the
| pennant?
Champions of the league. with
! every expectation of becoming cham
pions of the world. the Washington
| base ball club, headed by Clark Grif-
| fifth and the redoubtable "Bucky''
| Harris, received a right royal well
! come upon their triumphal entry into
| the city.
October-month Of the world Sc
| ries-in Washington,
! X 4 X X
Whew. 1t is almost too good to
! be true.
Here we have been waiting for
something to happen all our lives
! and 1t has happened! Right under
| our noses the thing we have dreamed
| OF since we were Kids together has
| come true at last.
The rest of the United States will
| forgive us here in Washington IL we
| put on a pardonable strut
| You see, New York being pen-
! nant winners is something decidedly
new and amazingly pleasing to us
| here in the National Capital. We
are not used to it like you are. You
! are so large, so filled with talent
! of all kinds, drawn from the length
and breadth of this broad land, that
| IL seems quite the thing for your
! ball teams to win pennants
| Washington has been sitting here
! beside the Potomac for years, wait
| ing for something to happen" Now
| many croakers say that is bad
! thing to do. He who sits around
waiting for something to happen will
| sit in vain. That is what they saw.
| but we know they are all wrong.
! At least once.
! Since the world war Washington
! has grown up. and with il has come
! maturity for its base bah team. Our
| streets are crow ded with automobiles
| like real city. No more can any
| one brand Washington as 4 sleepy
! village.
Now, to cap the climax, autumn
| sees the American League pennant
| lying over Clark Griffith Stadium.
! When a Man Comes to Himself was
| the title of one of Woodrow Wilson'S
| best essays.
| When base ball team comes to
| Itself Is equally as hne an achieve
! ment. There comes time. in the life
| OF most men. when they get hep" to
themselves. one way or the other, and
! come To realize just about where they
| stand and what they stand for 1t
may lac book that does it, il may
! he a friend, it may be chance word
or thought flung out at random by
some one who only hopes to wound.
! But he gives help, all unknowingly.
| because he helps a man TO come to
himself.
! When a man comes to himself. in
| the way Mr.. Wilson meant. he is A
| success, whether or not he has gar
nered riches or stands applauded be-
fore the sight of other men. II is
this coming TO ones self that counts.
either for a man or for a base ball
team.
Today the Washington base ball
club has found itself and a city re-
Jolces. one does not have to be a
fan to join in the pleasurable feeling
success, wherever you find II. and.
when honorably won, is pleasing TO
all right-thinking people.
1t is not for nothing, then that
Washington, d. c.. Capitol Of the
Nation, is base ball mad" We are
crazy as Junebugs, and proud of it,
x x x
When most of US were little fell
lows. hopping around in knee