and Baseball so I will end this little article up with a little comical
incidents that happened dureing our training trip down in Mineral Wells,
Tex. a year ago this spring. The first day we was out for practice they
was a young outfielder from a bush league and Mgr. Rowland told him to go
out in right field and shag and this was his reply. 'I haven't never been
in this park before so you will half to tell me which is right field.' Of
course right field, is the same field in all parks and that is what made
the incidents so comical and some of the boys is certainly green when they
first break in and we have manys the laugh at their expense."

That is what I wrote up for them Al and I wound it up with that little
story and I was reading over what I wrote and Johnny Alcock seen me reading
it and asked me to leave him see it so I showed it to him and he said it
was great stuff and he hadn't never dreamt they was that much stragety in
baseball and he thought if some of the officers seen it they would pop
their eyes out and they would want to talk to me and get my idears and see
if maybe they couldn't some of them be plied to war fair and maybe if I
showed them where it could I would get promoted and stuck on to the gen.
staff that's all made up from gens. that lays out the attacks and etc.

Well Al Alcock is a pretty wise bird and a fine boy to if you know how to
take him and he seen right off what I was getting at in my article and
its true Al that the 2 games is like the other and quick thinking is what
wins in both of them. But I am not looking for no staff job that you don't
half to go up in the trenchs and fight but just lay around in some office
somewheres and stick pins in a map while the rest of the boys is sticking
bayonets in the Dutchmen's maps so I hope they don't none of the gens. see
what I wrote because I come over here to fight and be a soldier and carry a
riffle instead of a pin cushion.