The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-05-28
GAL
GIVE AND
TAKE
BY Babe Ruth


PHILADELPHIA, May %.
Baseball as / see II, is . give
and take game Il II ) worth
anything 70 kids at all, i !
because Of that And the best
advice / can give to kids y
Just this Don't do anything
Ia the other fellow that you
wouIdn & want him 70 DO 70
you
Play to win, but if you
have to lose kake your beat
ing ike regular fellow
Argument, Tnnbling and
grouching never get ! fellow.
anywhere iii baseball Of any
thing else Play hard but
play clean and 50 far as
sand lot games are concerned,
lust remember that baseball,
after d IS Just game. The
licking you may have to take
today don I mean anything
when they announce the bat
fefies tomorrow.
ou rs out Is biz league games
ana avef- now and then you see
pfayers arguing with the umpire.
That's bunk It's even more bunk
when the films u the stands II art
riding an umpire The average fen
III the stand don't know any more
about unlpirdllg than know about
PLAYING cricket And they can u
see play from their seats. Kide
Sc the grpwfi-ups pan the umpiTes
and they think ii Il smart Id do the
same thing III kid games. But
don't do ID. Nine times out of ten
the umpire Is right and right On
wrong hes stu be umpire
one al tile best laughs I ever
Had happened ~ tile stadium
one day. Earl Nllitehill was
pitching Tor Detroit and CIar
eIace Rowland MAS behind the
plate Nliitellih struck me out
and ] missed the third one about
two feet.
Ths fans had been on Clarence al
afternoon, and after I missed that
third one turned around and spoke
to him.
.ltatss right Babe. : some Hay up
ii the stands yelled. Tell him
about Il. He's just = bum. Tell him
plenty
That fellow thought was arguing
with Clarence. A. a matter Of fact
what / really said was this:
Gee. Clarence, did you see that
hook I never saw Whitehill show
that much Of curve beforei
IKE laughed about that q lot
since. IL just goes to show that
half the time when fans get al *.
cited about what they think are
arguments. they're not really argu-
naents at All. After all YOU tan't
tell from the stands. And the best
rule III baseball is to keen quiet,
play the game. and forget the argu-
n1ents.
About the most enthusiastic bunch
Of baseball fans / know are the kids
In New Haven. guess / never
went through such q five minutes
Of roughing as got up there re.
GENTLY when the kids swarmed over
the field and broke up an exhibition
game III the eighth inning. Lou
Gehfis got rougiIed almost az much.
J really didn't mind. As Il
matter Of fact sort 81 liked II.
There's OFe thing about kids.
They're always lHyal-alld they
stay yOnr friends whether you're
swattlng the hall nut " the
mk nr striking nut with the
bases full. Which Is more than
nan b said for the grownups.
However. didn't start out to
talk about kids I've known. The
point I wanted 10 make was that
lot of the fellows who are bowling
about kids losing their interest in
baseball are all wrong. If they
could see tho kids who hang around
the Stadium every afternoon: IL
they could see kids who swarm on
the field as those kids swarmed at
New Haven, and, more fmp0rtan.
than that, il they could see the
Thousands Of kids playing on the
sandlots or the hundreds of letters
get from kids all over the countr,
they'd change their minds.
They're not just letters of con.
graduation. either All those kids
want something and the thing they
want most is advice as to how to
pifch. how to hit. and how TO play
baseball. George Names, who is
handling thu amateur baseball or.
ganizafion - New York for the
American Legion. tells me that
they would have 10000 teams en-
tered from New York alone il they
had way Of accommodating all OF
them.
Copyright. 1928 by the christx
Walsh Syndicate1