LET US GO AFIELD 



manhood or at least not so good as they would be 

 if they would work harder and not pay to see some- 

 one else work. 



If you want to sell a story or picture, have it ob- 

 jective and not subjective. If you want to succeed 

 in business, be a man of deeds and not of theories. 

 In actual life take the concrete, and not the abstract, 

 as your creed. Therefore, applying these rules to 

 your own case, should it not be plain that in ob- 

 jective baseball, applied baseball, there is much more 

 benefit than there is in the abstract or subjective 

 baseball as practiced by the man who pays a fee for 

 his entrance ticket, and who thereafter leans back 

 and criticizes the players but does not himself play ? 



Baseball is a splendid game if you play it your- 

 self. Football is a splendid game if you play it 

 yourself. I played it for four years in my own 

 college time, and I loved it. So far as it is an ama- 

 teur competition I love it still. But if football 

 became a professional thing in this country as it is 

 in Great Britain, I should not care for it at all. I 

 should not pay to see it. Neither, I fancy, would 

 my sporting editor above mentioned. We are a 

 minority of two men out of over a hundred million 

 now. Must we remain so solitary, gentle and think- 

 ing reader? 



My hardy sporting editor is guilty of these 



