Scott's turn to bat and Barry their mgr. hesitated if he should send Ruth
up to hit for Scott or not but finely he left Scott go up there and he was
just dragging his bat off his shoulder to swing at the first strike when I
whizzed the third one past him.

"That is what we call inside baseball or stragety whether its in baseball
or war is walking a man like Hoblitzel that might be lucky enough to hit
one somewheres but if you don't give him nothing to hit how can he hit it
and then I made Scott look like he had been sent for but couldn't come.
Afterwards in the 11th. inning Duffy Lewis hit a ball that he ought to of
been traded for even swinging at it because it come near clipping his ear
lob but any way he swang at it and hit it for three bases because Jackson
layed down and died going after it and Lewis scored on a past ball and they
beat us 3 to 2.

"So that is what we call stragety on the baseball field and it wins there
the same like in war and this war will be win by the side that has gens.
with brains and use them and I figure where a man that has been in big
league baseball where you can't never make a success out of it unless you
are a quick thinker and they have got a big advantage over men that's been
in other walks of life where its most all luck and I figure the army would
be a whole lot better off if all the officers and gens. had of played
baseball in the big leagues and learned to think quick, but of course they
ain't everybody that have got the ability to play baseball and stand the
gaff but the man that has got the ability and been through the ropes is
just that much ahead of the rest of them and its to bad that most of our
gens. is so old that they couldn't of knew much about baseball since it
become a test of brains like it is now.

"I am afraid I have eat up a lot of space with my little Article on War