men as well as stevedores are real "fans." We are told, for instance, that Some years ago, before the formation of the Steel Trust, and when Charles M. Schwab was still president of the Carnegie Steel Company, a Pittsburgh newspaper in looking for local features for its Sunday edition planned a story on "A Day with the President of the Greatest Steel Company in the World." Having no feature writer available to handle the "copy," it drew on the sports department and assigned the baseball writer to the job. The man whose daily literary duty had been confined to more or less accurate accounts of the doings of Hans Wagner, Fred Clarke, and Tommy Leach made an appointment with Mr. Schwab and called at the Schwab home at the appointed hour to get the "dope" from Mr. Schwab from which to construct his story. Mr. Schwab's opening remark effectually gummed up the carefully prepared catechism of questions with which the embryo feature writer hoped to lure from the steel magnate the information he needed for the construction of his feature and then be on his way. "I suppose your idea is to put me in a box score," said Mr. Schwab. "Oh, I read your baseball stories every day. I'm a fan you know." Then followed a long discussion on baseball, from which they drifted into musicit happened that both Mr. Schwab and the baseball writer were skilled musicians. Then they went in to the music room and played a few duets, Mr. Schwab at the piano and the writer on the violin, on which he was a proficient performer. The evening waned in social intercourse between the steel magnate and the baseball writer without the latter even touching on the topie for which the appointment had been made, which was Mr. Schwab himself and his duties as president of a great steel Corporation. For this neglect Mr. Schwab apologized When the hour grew late, and made a subquent appointment at which he said he would give the writer all the information he desired. Followed another meeting between the two, at which there was further "fanning" on baseball and music, but at which the writer secured the information he sought and a lot more that neither he nor the editors of the paper had ever dreamed of and which Mr. Schwab thought would "help the story." When the completed story finally appeared, Mr. Schwab sent for the baseball writer. "How would you like to enter the steel business?" he asked. The baseball writer demurred, saying that he preferred to work out his own destiny in the newspaper game, and they parted with the steel magnate saying that if he ever changed his mind and decided to accept his proposition he, Schwab, would give him a position that might lead to a seat high up in the steel business. Aided by the exclusive information given by Mr. Schwab, the baseball fan, to the baseball writer, through a common interest that had drawn them together, the story made a pronounced "hit," and the baseball writer was assigned to cover another Sunday feature story. This time it was "Stringing a Schedule," dealing with how this difficult problem is solved by the railreads, and the writer went to L. A. Robinson, then General Passenger Agent of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad, to get his information. In Mr. Robinson he encountered another baseball fan, and the talk dwelt more on NYONE who follows the progress of domes Atic architecture and building will realize the extent to which home improvement is developing. A particularly noticeable detail in the modern all-white bathroom is the Church Sani-White Toilet Seat, promoting harmony and insuring cleanliness. 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Later the baseball writer got into some dispute with the managing editor, who was A. P. Moore, recently appointed United States Consul to Spain, and he again called on his friend L. A. Robinson, the baseball "fan," and accepted the position he offered him on the railroad. That writer, Win B. Morris, is now one of the head officials of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad-and he reached that position through the fellow feeling that exists between baseball fans. Still more picturesque and conclusive as testimony to the popularity of baseball is this following story: In the spring of 1915 a ten-year-old nephew of George Elkins, the Philadelphia multimillionaire, suffered a long siege of sickness. For a long time his life was despaired of, and his uncle told him that if he would be a good boy and take his medicine regularly, when he got well he could have anything he asked for. When the boy finally recovered, after a lingering illness, Mr. Elkins reminded him of his promise and exprest a willingness to fulfil it, requesting the little convalescent to display no hesitation in asking for anything in the world he desired. The boy thought it over for a long time. His uncle was financially able to procure for him anything his boyish desires might crave. Automobiles, ponies, hundreds of things which might be expected to tempt a boy thus fortunately situated probably flitted through the little fellow's mind. After days of careful consideration of the question, the boy finally decided: "Uncle George," he said, "I want to shake hands with Alexander, the Phillies' pitcher." His uncle argued with him in vain. The boy discarded everything that money might buy just to "shake hands with Alexander, the Phillies' pitcher." Mr. Wolfe gravely informs us that "that little boy, the scion of wealth, voiced the spirit of the baseball fan as he is to-daythe spirit of democracy." He goes on: Only when larger boys, through a common interest, forget their first impulses to profit by the possibilities of their own selfish position will that result be finally achieved. And baseball has provided that common interest to a greater extent than anything yet invented. Democracy consists of an equal distribution of effort and reward, based on a proper proportion of each. Instead of this we have been living too much in first impulses of increased profits by the man in the private box and decreased efficiency on the part of the man in the bleachers. Common interest in baseball is proving the humanizing factor that is drawing the two ends of our social and business life together into a citizenry that is just human beings. Go to an American League ball game in Washington and you will see there the nation's chief executive, President Warren G. Harding, keeping his score on a score eard the same as an ordinary "fan" in the bleachers. Scattered through the grandstand and in the private boxes you will see United States Senators, judges of the Supreme Court, foreign diplomats, high officials of the nation and Government employees of all classes. President Harding himself once owned a ball club in Marion, Ohio, and many of the Senators have played the game in their younger days and have been rabid "fans" ever since. Attend a ball game at the Polo Grounds in New York, and if you have any kind of an intimate acquaintance with New York's business life you will recognize there many of the leading kings of finance and captains of industry in the commercial life of America's metropolis. Engage them in conversation and you will find many of them as much interested in the daily doings of Babe Ruth as they are in the trend of their own business affairs-they hire men to attend to the latter, while their own private interest is absorbed in the former. This spring the Governor of the State of Oregon declared a legal holiday all over the State on the day the Pacific Coast League season opened in Portland, declaring in his official proclamation that "baseball has become a national institution and should be officially recognized as such." Interest in baseball and other sports has introduced a better code of sportsmanship into the business world, made men more appreciative of the efforts of a "good loser." In the World's Series of 1912 the New York Giants and Boston American League Clubs battled for eight games before a decision was reached. The first seven games, which was then the length of the World's Series, resulted in a deadlock with three victories and one tie game, so that an extra game had to be played to decide the championship. That was the most closely contested World's Series that has ever been played, and when the seventh game carried the series into a tie and an extra game had to be played excitement ran at fever heat. In that series Christy Mathewson, whose recent return to the game as owner of the Boston National League Club has been received with nation-wide acclaim, pitched three of the best games displayed by any pitcher who performed during the seriesand lost them all through the errors of his associates. It was the eighth and deciding game of the heart-breaking series, staged, as de cided by lot, at Fenway Park, Boston. To Mathewson's cool efficiency the New York team had intrusted its final desperate ffort. Through it all "Matty" bravely faced a wildly exultant and hostile crowd of fans and tried to stem the tide of defeat that again had been turned against him by the mistakes of his team-matesbut that game was finally lost through Snodgrass's now famous $100,000 muff of a fly ball that gave the world's championship and the victor's share of the spoils to the Boston team. As the last man was retired Mathewson took his worn glove in his hand and started to walk off the field with bowed head. Until that last man had been retired he had kept his head up and his shoulders quared, fighting against the inevitable and refusing to acknowledge the impending defeat that was plainly apparent to every spectator within that densely packed inclosure. But as he started to walk off the field alone and defeated his shoulders sagged and his chin was on his chest. Through the long stretch of that heartrending series that crowd of Boston fans had been reviling the New York players, -the ideal vacation land SWIM, canoe, golf, hike or rest in luxurious ease midst the scenic beauties of the "playground of the continent." Excellent hotel accommodations at reasonable cost add to the pleasures of a vacation of health, sport and fun at any of Canada's wonder spots. Dress UP or Rough It Canada is a great vacation land. Interesting places, scenic woods and waters are found all through the land. 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But now, when it was all over, when their ends had been finally attained, with one accord that crowd of 30,000 fans forgot to glorify their victory with exultant cheers, forgot to enthuse over the final achievement of what they had been "rooting" for through eight nerve-racking afternoons, while they rose to their feet and paid due homage with their applause to the lion heart of the defeated pitcher. Relieved of the emotional impulse that had obsessed him through the actual period of struggle, in the end the baseball fan proved himself big enough to forget his own selfish purpose and pay his respect to the merits of the cause against which he had been arrayed. This is the sentiment that baseball brings into business life and that makes relationships there more human. While to the superficial observer the baseball fan may appear selfish at times, just so long as the baseball fan can see something bigger and better than the final score just so long may we harbor an abiding faith that once his emotional period has passed the average American, whether he be employer or employee, will be having his final say for that which is fair and right. THE YOUNGER GENERATION IN THE TENNIS WORLD WHILE clergymen and social workers are wringing their hands over the doings of the Younger Generation in the line of social diversion, William T. Tilden II calls attention to the doings of the Younger Generation on the tennis courts. No one is better qualified than Tilden to size up the caliber of these embryo stars, for not only has he been tennis champion of the United States for three years; he also has been a leader in the development of latent talent among the younger players. It is commonly admitted that Vincent Richards, who has emerged from the juvenile class to become one of the foremost players in America, owes his rise to fame largely to the careful coaching given by Tilden. The champion now is devoting his spare moments to developing the technique of a new protégé, of whom he says, in an article in a recent issue of The Outlook (New York): My own little doubles partner, Alexander L. (Sandy) Wiener, is a unique personality in the tennis world of youth. Still in the boys' class, this small lad is the purest stylist in the game. Sandy is not a winner yet. He has not yet realized the power of his own game. He often falters with victory in his grasp, because he does not realize that it is there. Modest, retiring, shy, his very temperament robs him of victories that are his due. Yet when one realizes that in one year, with no previous tournament experience, this youngster earned sixth position in America among the boys, and forced recognition of his style from the highest critics, surely his worth STANDARD DICTIONARY superiority quickly becomes plain to the man or woman who investigates. Restful Keep calm with "a sensible Deliciously flavored BEEMANS Pepsin Gum BEEMANS PEPSIN CHEWING GUM GOOD FOR DIGESTION American Chicle Co. for the future is established. I look to see Sandy, after several seasons of what may well prove bitter disappointment and discouraging experience, find himself and become one of the greatest tennis-players in America, if not the greatest. But the full flowering of Sandy's ability still is a long way off. Meanwhile it may be well to note the performances of Arnold W. Jones, who has already "arrived" as the National Junior Champion. Tilden tells us that Arnold's success is due to serious study and hard, conscientious practise, PERSEVERANCE WINS Constant practise made Arnold W. Jones the Junior Champion. and that this youth should be an inspiration to every boy or girl who desires to succeed in the game. We read that Arnold is the son of J. D. E. Jones, who has been a national tennis figure for twenty-five years. Arnold is a sophomore at Yale, and one of the greatest players in collegiate ranks. Last year, as a member of the Yale-Harvard team which toured England, he made the memorable record of six victories and no defeats. It is a marvelous game with which Jones has earned his position. In 1919 he won the boys' national title, with little more than a splendid forehand drive and remarkable fighting qualities. 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