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W ed n esd ay, Feb. 27, 1929
W H Y I T H IN K BASEBALL IS THE FINEST
OF A L L GABIES
By C)i£ord Meachem, Chemawa Student
Baseball is the nation’s greatest pastime.
People,
regardless of their social rank in life, play the gaine,
if* they understand it. Baseball is not only a game
for the people in the grandstand to watch and enjoy,
but it is for the individual who is playing as well. No
other individual can derive so many useful qualities or
get so much joy and pleasure out of the game as the
individual who is actually playing it.
Baseball is a game that develops men for the game
of life as no other game can. It not only calls for
unrestricted team play, but for careful and wise play
on the part of the individual.
Baseball benefits the individual in many ways, for
one it teaches him the value of his initiative and
wise judgment.
Many games in baseball are lost simply through the
poor judgment of the individual. Likewise in life,
many of the games of life are lost through the same
cause.
Football to a certain extent teaches one the value of
wise judgment. But is everyone On the football team
taught this? No. The team selects a quarterback
and depends on his judgment as to what it shall do, and
naturally everyone on the team looks to the judgment
of the quarterback. But in baseball such a thing is not
taught to any one individual, but is developed in every­
one of theplayers alike. That is the thing that counts
in this game Of life; notth e wise thinking of one for
another, but the wise playing and thinking of the
individual for himself.
Baseball is not only a source of great pleasure and
recreation, but a means of earning a livelihood. Every
man can’t work the year in and year out
He needs
some rest and pleasure. That is an opportunity that
baseball has to offer that no other sport can One may
run a business during the winter months and yet play
ball.
Baseball is everybody’s game. Young or old can
play it. And that is where it resembles the game of
life more closely than ever; because the older one gets
the wiser he can play the game.
Baseball also offers good health to the individual
Who plays it. No other game calls for such perfect
co-ordination between the muscles, the brain, and the
nerves as baseball does. Every little movement must
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be done systematically, and the eye and brain must
function clearly and steadily at all times.
The most sucessful player ia the one with the best
physical qualifications and the keenest mind.
No other game so benefits the individual, physically
and mentally, as the every-d^y game of baseball does.
No cleaper gam« can be found anywhere. In spit£
of everything that can be said pf clean sPPri>, there
is always foul play somewhere, and this holds true in
the game of Ijfp,
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Baseball is a schooling in itsglf, so why opt more;
of us become ball players, and see just what the game
of life |s really like? Life is only a game. The more
ope knows pf both games, naturally the better player
he is.
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No other sport, in my opinion, can hotter teach the
individual the yalue of fair play, w’se pipy, ahd co'
operation, than the every-day game of bajpb^lL
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People have traveled far to witness the annual fall
classic known as “ The world series,” playedbetween
the two best tearps of the nation, and tfiey wih GPn‘
tipue tQ do so as lopg as the game of haspball 48
played.
SVPT. DAVIS EXONERATED
During the past few months articles have appeared
in Various periodicals that have reflected upon Supt.
Sam B. Davis of the Genoa (Nebraska) Indian School.
There are a number of people at Chemawa who are
personally acquainted with Supt. Davis and who in
addition to taking no stock in the reports broadcasted
throughout the country refuted them and branded
them as false— standing by Supt. Davis staunchly.
The truth will out, and it is now our pleasure to re­
port the complete vindication of the maligned man.
From a copy of a recent issue of the Columbus Daily
Telegram, published at Columbus, Nebraska, we are
running the following- excerpt, which is self-explan­
atory:
Charges of mistreatment and neglect of children in
the federal school for Indians at Genoa are pronounced
unfounded iti every respect by Lieutenant Governor-
Williams: Senator O. G. Clark, of Columbus, Repre­
sentative S. B. Turner, pf Fullerton, and Judge g | L.
Spear, of Fremont, in a report filed today with Gov­
ernor Weaver.
The governor asked for the inquiry following a re-
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