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IT INTO A BARH!
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BASEBALL FAN
"I can't understand," said Reggie Blossom, "why you don't assert your self and tell her the facts. Good heavens, your married life will be one long siege of misery, if you can't go to a baseball game once a season!!!
Peter Mason sighed deeply, and eyed his friend with an expression akin to despair.
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than baseball
But, on the other hand it was decided- ly pleasant to think of spending
That thought lifetime with Ella. was deliciously sweet. Yes he decid- ed, he'd rather have Ella without an occasional baseball, game, not to have Ella with game every week.
Twice he started to leave the stands. But each time Reggie pulled him that Gehrig had back, shouting smacked out another homer, or that it looked pretty bad for the Yanks. Also, Peter had made a small bet on the Yanks, and he felt duty bound to lend his long power to their sup- port.
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"Reggie, you don't understand. Ella thinks baseball games are-well, vul-
To make matters worse there was gar, lowbrow, if you know what I a girl wearing a red hat sitting
dozen rows in front of them, Sho likes the better things also seemed to have an interest
the Yanks. She shouted lustfully and waved wildly whenever the New York- ers turned a trick worth notice.
mean.
opera, art, drama, musicals, If she thought that I was a baseball fan, that I sat in the bleachers
thousands of common people,
who in
If only, thought Peter, Ella were with
like that. Now there was a girl she'd for you. Certainly there was nothing "crude or common about her. One
break our engagement in a minute." would expect to meet her doing the
Reggie pounded the desk. "Then I'd let her break it and be darned
better things, such as attending musi- cals and operas, etc., and not think her out of place. Yet here she was on the victory.
A man's got to have some sort of
Peter wished that Ella could have diversion that he can let occupy his been there to see the girl. It might
By Richard Hill Wilkinson
so have changed her opinion about the
ball games.
'common people" who attended base-
at- At
mind when things aren't going hot at home. I'd let her go hang"
Peter's lips, tightened. "Just a minute, Reg. Ella's the best girl in the world. I love her and would
anything to please her. If she doesn't The girl in the red hat was, stand-
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want me to attend baseball
Peter sighed and devoted his tention, or tried to, to the game.
The Yanks were vic- last it ended. do torlous. The crowd was wild. It stood up and shouted itself hoarse.
ing on her seat, crazily waving her games, arms and yelling at the players as
baseball games are out. And that," they left the field.. he added, "is that.".
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In the rush that followed for the Reggie gestured. "OK." He pro- exit Peter had time to think, and his duced two tickets and looked at them thoughts were black. For the life of understand what' sadly;
"A pair of tickets for the him he couldn't last game of the series. I figured Ella saw about a baseball game that we'd go Well, perhaps I can sell was so distasteful to her sense the other. Good seats. Well, so long. decency. There was the girl in the Cotta be getting out to thẻ stadiúm." red hat, for example, Peter recalled that despite the fact he had obtained He waved indifferently, started for only a rear view look, she appeared the door.
smart-looking and refined. Why, in heaven's name, couldn't. Ella have "I think," said Peter, putting on his been like that? He decided suddenly hat, "that I'd better use that other to make a confession. He'd confess ticket. Fact is, Reg, Ella and I aren't to Ella (that the had attended
the married yet. Time enough then to: put my resolution into effect."
It was a good game, the best of tic appeal, try to get her to attend
a game with him, see for herself. the season. There were thrills plenty. The type of baseball to stir Reggie was enthusiastically yelling the corpuscles of red-blooded Ameri- in Peter's ear. Progress toward the cans.
Yet somehow Peter couldn't gate was slow. The crowd was .in enjoy the contest as much as he had high spirits, jostling good-naturedly. hoped. Thoughts of Ella constantly And then suddenly Peter found him- provoked a guilty feeling. If he really self staring at the red hat: It was loved her, as he knew that he must, directly under His nose. he wouldn't be here this afternoon.
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game, held tell her, about, the girl in the red hat; he'd make one last fran-
He'd be home reading Dickens, or Impulsively Peter pushed forward, attending a recital at Music Hall, determined to get a good look at the trying to improve his mind, trying to girl's face. He came abreast of the gain an appreciation of the better girl. At that moment the turned and things.
Tooked up into his face. His Jaw sagged and his eyes popped.He could
It wasn't pleasant to think of spend- scarcely credit his gaze; for the girl ing his whole married life in music who looked up at him was Ella! halls and opera houses. He told him. self thatűif he didn't nee: a'": "baseball
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