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WHAT'S the young manhood of America dotns? Jobs for baseball plajers at from $1,500 to $5,000 for six months work and no applicants. Tho bis baseball teams are being manned by gTand-

Ne-vr York has n toam this year that will average 37 years In the Yes. Irrdet-iL Chase S33, Doyle 23, Fletcher 33, Zimmerman 39.

Practically every man ou the Infield of the probable -orld"B champion team is within the Oslerian period. These old men will make, if they win the National League pennant, anrwhere from $7fC00 to $12,500 each for six months work. And we cry about the rights of man and the plight of tho proletariat. What a lot of young fellows want to do, 6hould do, Is to quit talking o-sd taking pity on themselves and get out there on the old lot and practice a little baseball. There's a barrel of money in being a good baseball player. The young American is not playing enthused the youth of the nation in the baseball. Tho young American is not middle '80s, the days of real Americaneven practicing at baseball. Tennis. l3m, when even an Irishman was regolf, roQue, games that do not pay, are garded as a sort of half-foreigner, superseding the game tnat pays. The when Germans were looked upon as young men who fhould bo out there amazing interlopers and when the true digging them out of the cinders we Americans were native-born and had dug them out of tho cinders and off negroes for cooks. coachmen and the rocks when wo were boys are hostlers; when negro coachmen wore walking down the sidewalks between immense bearskin capes as they sat on the rows of lombardy poplars and the boxes of the carriages and had weeping willows, clad in flannels and cockades in their silk hats. Therecarrying pendant rackets on the way was a legend that several faithful neto the municipal tennis courts, or to groes has frozen to death on their the municipal golf links, or driving boxes rather than forego the staid digthe family motor car. Fbr. poor be- nlty of their positions. Then every yond fancy, is the American family family had a stable with three or four that hasn't got at least one motor car horses and a carriage, a surrey and a these days. Poor indeed. Poorer than storm buggy, and the negro stablemen Job's turkey if that mythical bird ever took the horses out in the alley to

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YounK America Is Looking Foi a White Collar Job,

The young American djes not ceem

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groom them and gay br.dlnage passed to and fro, and you, the small boy, were honored by being permitted to take part therein. Father wore clay worsteds and a "blkd" shirt on the

hottest summer days and soft collars and Panama suits were unheard of. dirty old swimming places, natatori- not make the athlete the son of the

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mak it and save it and leave it to 1 were me uaj s o: true American- urns vn u;iutu, utic iu .aui "aiu mny . juwv him. Hard work? Oh, boy! not for of John King Kol.. Anse, John was muddy and always ill smelling, sey is the finest physical specimen

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Dutch and has a pretty good idea that he can whip the world, too. But he is not strong for hard work. Getting out there in the sun and laying the old

brick, getting down there in the mine

"Honest John" Kelly, king of all umpires. Foutz, "Parisian Bob' "We-Are-the People"

Gaffney, tho "ling Lave" Carruthers, Jim Mutrie;

beaches in this great city and not one the past thirty-five years, probably the

of the stores offered bathing suits for finest physical specimen America ever Fale. Pathing Luits were to be found has produced. His tremendous back

manager of the great Giants; Steve

then only at seashore resorts. They were ail of one port, black or dark

and digging the old coal, slipping into rodle. Lillicn Russell, Delia Fox, blue, all ugly and all rough. But now

the quarry and cracking the old granite well, that sort of work was good enough fr his grandfather, who probably was Irish or Czech, but it doos not suit the nerves of youns America. He wants a white-collar job or at least a Job on which he can wear a sport shirt, and that sort of a

'Peeka-Boo" Scanlan, Jack Dempsey.

Jack McAuliffe, Ike Weir and the rest, all true Americans, all or almost all dead and gone. Y : ! lVhen Golf Wa Tiheard Of, I .Men Played "Kctcir In Street '

I see the beautiful parti-colored bath

ing suits of the day on sale even in towns on the Great American Desert.

and shoulder mu?cles is the result of many generations of hard rock mining and drilling, lumber-jacking, railror.d driving, boiler making, all the hard work that men can do. Nothing makes the athlete like hard work. I met an

In fact. Salt Lake is one of the great owner of a baseball club the other bathing suit towns. day, who said that he was going into Times have changed and with the the coal-mining regions of Illinois to times the boys. We have no more ünd some 'oune Plac. "They alouarrymcn and bricklayers. A boss did tu om la-vcrs ln the niin'

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ing region, and they always will turn out players in the .mining regions," he said. Coal mining is among the hardest and most distasteful of tasks. But it gives men great power in the hands and arms, and after a day in the mine the miners come out and frolic like lambs in the sunshine.

Xathe Americans I.eain Hard Work to Foreigners

Then our only pastime was to go in-

Job is no sort of a job cn which to to the alley cr out in the lot and quarryman said to me the otheT day train a baseball player. "warm up" by throwing a few curve?, that he had got 1,000 men from a All the old stars were bricklayers or Come to think of it is ages since I have United States demobilization bureau. Quarrymen or sons of bricklayers or seen men and boys play "ketch" in the former soldiers, and not one of them quarrymcn. Remember "Toad" Ram- street. When I was a boy we played worktd a full week. Of course not. say, who had a drop ball that made "ketch" all over the place, mostly In They are nervous young Americans, them all look silly? Toad was a star the alley, for the rolice would not let Stolid work does not suit them. Yet thirty years ago. He gM his great us play in the street. No ono had ever without our quarrymen and without drop ball from the fact that he was a heard of a golf links then, though I our bricklayers what are we going to bricklayer and that the thumb and had read of golf in a book, read of it do for baseball players and prize fightforeünger of his left hand became ab- as a game for the shepherds of Judea. ers. and other athletes? What aro we normally developed from laying brick, a dead game in thought. As for a going to do for Americans? For we

After laying several thousand brick a tennis court, I had seen one some- are ody thirty-five years or so in the cavc j,3(j 3 vsjt to tne coaj mines day a baseball felt like a feather be- where about Newport. IL I., but never ra of elevators, apartments, motor- for EOthing. The day has changed in tween the thumb and fonflnger of one west of the Alleghanies. We had cars. etc. Thirty ycara ago mechanics the black belt, too. The native AmcrTom Ramsay. He could make it do two or three kinds of ahletics bas- walked many miles to and from their Icaa j3 a rariy jn tfce mines, and the anything he wanted it to do. 'What he ball, gymnastics in Y. M. C. A. clubs, work. Now they ride in their big mo- iriSti. Scotch and Welsh have pretty usually asked it to do was this: Shoot or turnings schools, and a little, a very tor-cars. One man goes around and well got out of tbe holes, too. The up there, chin-high, and as it got with- little track athletics. I can remember picks up the fellows in his locality and Italians are there in great number?, in hitting distance lose sieed and drop the great city in which now live they all pay. and there you are. It is and for all "Ting" Bodie and Toney

down dead to the batter's feet. If the when it was without a tennis very easy, but wnat about tne leg batter could hit it when It was dying court and certainly without a golf c the next generation? They will be and dropping, all right". He couldn't, link?, and when the only real baseball xnade of gasoline. So "Toad" ran up a string of vie- diamond in it was the regular major For the man who is two generation--

I am afraid thatthe club owner will

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The game of baseball had its beginnings in Massachusetts and Nctt YorX and as was natural the fartory town of these states snt up alot of players, Mike Kelly, Connie Mack. Buck Flirts. Curt Welch. Dan Brouthcrs, Mickey Welch. Mike Tlernan. Bill Joyce, Ecorea of the old-timerf. were former factory hands hard workers and the sons of men who had worked hard. For if yna want baseball players you hare fxt to go to the hard-forking classes to gt them. The sons of men who have heJd white-collared Jobs are not mutcular enough to hit tho ball hard or to endure exposure under the smn. You must be an out-door man and the fen of an outdoor man to piay good baseball. The fon of men who work Indoors and who are indoor boys can not stand exposure in the sun. Their nerrc give way after playing two or three innings of ba5ball. I have eeca the sons of well-to-do parents play thre Innings of baseball and then hare their nerves give way. They simply could not concentrate on the grama. They had to chase an Ice-cream vender, climb a tree, shoot craps, eat a watermelon, do something el?e other than that which they started to do.

the Italians have yet to make good as baseball players. Further, the coa miners have their own motor car.i these days, and go plrarure fctking

playing baseball. The Illinois and from tho same- necK of the woods and Pennsylvania, coal fYlcL hare tuiii'd from the same vein of coal. I cannot

recall oh hand just how many stars th:- Pennsylvania mines sent up, but Hugh Jt-nnins-5. Ed Walsh, Jack Stive-its, Otis Ciymer, Tim Hurst and a lot

! Baseball ITa Xo Attraction For I ! the Farmer Bor, J i j ; JThe farmer boys hare been a rtancby in baseball, but the. farmer boy can make so much money on the farm nowadays" that baseball especially !:i the minor leajue offers no attractions from a financial point of view. It !s easier work to play baseball than It is to farm, but farming is surer. Tho boy who Rtart out In June ana wno follows the Karrest to September cr.n make more money than the lad who Joins a class D baseball club at $125 a month, and the harvest hand haa the surer job. In the end, as matters stand, tho fellow who goes at farming for keeps, saves r.s money and buys some land or some stock, has a better chance of being well fixed in life than the fellow who take to baebll. Farming is relatively a sure thir.g. If you- get hold of a pieco of land it is due to Increase 10 per cent in every year. The natural increment in that way will make a man well off when he is CO. In baseball you may run into a manager who may not like your work. You may be battered around, you may be sidetracked you may be hurt, you will last but five or ten years at the most and baseball does destroy tho habit of work. So we are losing our suppl7 of baseball players Prfcro the end of 1M1 we will have grandfathers playing the gamo. The baseball player, the prize fighter, the athlete of all sorts must come from the ranks of the hard manual worker. And we are getting a now order of manual workers. Probably the best athletes wo hare now are negroes. Assuredly, the greatest pugilists we have had in recent years, bar Jack Dempsey, who is part Indian, have been negroes. I have seen many negro baseball players who would la ttars had they a chance to so Into fact company. There is very little money in playing baseball on negro clubs, from $73 to ?K5 a month. So there is no incentive for negroes to follow tho national game. Those who do follow it are fast livers and do not endure long. They play in the North in the summer and in tho South in the winter. Palm Beach 1 a great resort of negro playcis. The hotels hare uams of their waiters, and the jad guests bet snd the players, who are professionals, profit thereby. But the chance for a career in baseball is poor for the negro. He is barred in the leagues and can not get much money. The hard-v.orkiig classes the "mudsills of society," as a famou3 proslavery orator called the negro, produce the athletes and the hard-xork-ing classes are no longer natlre-born, Iri'h, British, Germanic, but mostly Italian, Greek, Juco-Slavlc, etc. There are many Slavs, etc.. in the leagues today, some of them more or less good baseball players. The Covaleskles Pole from the Pennsylvania mining regionsare probably the most prominent Slaves, or mid-Europeans, in th pamo. They havo been very good pitchers, very good baseball players. Hugh Bezdek, manager of the Pittsburg team, is a Bohemian, which would indicate that the Slavic charac- . tr is not unfitted to baseball purposes. Yet. on the whole, the Slars or no other peoples have shown thj same aptitude for the ball game as the Celt and Gaels, Irish, Welsh and Scotch. Pelota (ball) la the production of the Celts, or of that Iberian-Celtic race known vs the Basques, which inhabits the northern province-s of Spain and

the southern departments of France.

out enormous levies of players. One little coa! town iu Southern IlIicoY sent Pay Chapman, Bob Yeach and Bill Borior. to the league in on .season., and Arthur Fletcher, Larry Doyle.

Pelota is played with a curved basket against a wall, much on the lin of handball, with a touch of !a croce. the tall being caught in the basket and thrown against th wall. This

of others came from the anthracite game is of prehistoric

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tories and shutouts and strikeouts that league park. There were two or three removed from hard manual labor will and hunting and fishins instead of Ray Schalk and many others come mines of Boi3e Penrose's &V

Basque province.