Frank Church became captain-manager of the Cubs where Everson and Black played and of course they had to talk over the great college games of 19-- again. Twitchell was showing the fans down in Cincinnati how to play right field. La Joy turned up as manager and second baseman of the Naps of Cleveland. Sam Warcford and George Mellen found old foes and made new friends when they met Jenkins and Robb on the Tigers, and you would have seen the surprise of your life if you had been present when Howard Cam and Tommy Beach hunted up the manager of the Pirates and found it was former Captain Larke of Lowell. Roger Brest, it was learned, was trying his hand at managing the Cardinals of St. Louis, while Hollins landed with the Athletics of Philadelphia, and Harry Laird went with the Red Sox of Boston. And so, boys, you who read this have read the story of the two greatest baseball teams ever known and seen how most of them learned their baseball; and you who live in the big league cities, if you want to see some of these boys play, you can do so almost any day from April to October. These fellows are just as much the heroes of the game to-day as they were at Lowell. They like to play the game for the fun there is in it as much as the profit. They like it for its thrilling situations and its excitement. They love to see the big crowds and when the stands are filled and they have to let the crowd out on the field they play their best and they all are just as anxious to win every game, as they were back in those good old days at Lowell. CHAPTER XXVIII SATO WRITES HOME Sato, the only member of the Jap nation at the university that year, had not attended any of the games at Lowell up to this time, but the excitement around the school caused him to follow the crowd one day, and afterwards he wrote home to Prince Igo, his father, his impressions of the great National Game as follows: “Baseballing is great college sport presently. I walk to-day much distance to where town ceases and come against high board fences; also law guardian, from which issue big noises frequent. Then silence great. Soon of each more. I ask law guardian why such yells. “He reply, ‘It is the fans. Man came home.’ Am now desirous also to welcome traveler’s home coming. [Illustration: He reply, “Man came home.”] “‘Away long time has gentlemen been?’ In interrogate. “He answer, ‘Been long time since he came home before.’ “Then I approach said gates of welcoming and enter one saying grand stand, giving printed pasteboard to much red-faced man at door. “He destroy said printing and present to me one-half; the other he keep. On honorable pasteboard is printed ‘rain check’ and I presently comprehend thus the stopping rain in great United States when baseballing is to happen.