Christy Mathewson brought something to baseball no one else had ever given the game. He handed the game a certain touch of class, an indefinable lift in culture, brains, and personality.

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than nineteen years of dealing with him across the desk.

This is the substance of our Plot-For those who play the Perfect Shot, There are ten thousand who do not.

You wonder how they do it and you look to see the knack You watch the foot in action, or the shoulder or the back, But when you spot the answer where the higher glamours lurk You'll find in moving higher up the laurel covered spire That most of it is practice and the rest of it is work.

Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend.

You are meant to play the ball as it lies, a fact that may help to touch on your own objective approach to life.