OVER THE PLATE,
A RHYMING EPISTLE OF BASEBALL AND OF LIFE.
Bill Jones had the speed of n cannon-ball;
Jio could loosen a brick from a three-foot-wall: When he shot one across, it would hurtle by Too swiftly o'en for the surest oyo.. "No" one could hit him when he was" right,
As no eye could follow the ball's quick flight. Bill should have starred in a big-league role; But he stuck to the "minora, "he lacked ontrol,
Jack Smith had a curve like a loop-the-loop.
It would start for your head with a suddou swoop And break to your knee with a zig-zag wavo;
And the leagues' bost batters would roar and rave At the jump it took and the sudden sworve. Shades of a boomerang! What a curve!
Bat Jack's still doomed to a bush league fato,- Ho could riol" get it across the plate.
"
Tom Brown had both, the speed and curves, A combination which jarred the nerves
peas.
He would storm 'em by till they looked like: And they'd hop around from your nock to your kncos From the best to the worst in the longue, by jiog!
He had 'ern all in that pliantom swing.
But he missed the mark of the truly great,
Poor Tom, he couldn't locate the plate!
How is it with you, if I may ask?
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Have you got control "of your daily task?
I
Have you got control" of your appetite?
Of your temper and tongue in the old hard fight? Have you "got control of your brawo and brain? Or are you labouring all in vain ?
It matters not what your daily role,
Have you" got control"? Have you "got control "?
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It counts not what you may have," my friend, When the story is told at the game's far end. The greatest brawn, and the greatest brain The world has known, may be yours in vain. The man with "control" is the man who mounts. And it's how you use what you've got" that counts. Have you got the bead? Are you aiming straight? How much of your effort "goss over the plate 7
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have not boon scheduled. in any big show. The Japanese spanjel is not one of the hardy species, and this, no doubt, is the cause of so many exhibitors giving them up for the Pekingose.
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