THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO S. MAYNARD. Editor
RUSSELL G MAYNARD. Manager
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SCHOOLMA’AM OF OLD WORTH TRIBUTE, TOO
An inquiring reporter who restlessly prowls the
streets in quest of news checks in with the pleasing re
port that the schoolma’am of today is a great deal pret
tier and snappier than she was in the days when dad
went to school.
What set the reporter on on this observation was
the fact that he had just returned from a state teachers’
convention. There he had mingled with a crowd of
stylish and attractive young women who looked more
like moving picture extras than schoolma’ams, and the
fact went at once to his head.
The contrast is probably unfair. Yesterday’s school
ma’am lives on in the memory of the restless lads who
sat at her feet a generation ago, and it was always an
article of faith with them that the schoolma’am could
not be anything but a battleax.
They conceived of an eternal antagonism between
teacher and pupil, and to have admitted that teacher
was a charming young woman would have been to lose
half the battle right at the start.
So the memory of today’s grown men probably does
yesterday’s schoolma’am less than justice. But what
ever they think of her appearance, most men in looking
back will undoubtedly admit that the lady had a pretty
tough and thankless job and handled it remarkably
well, all things considered.
Any schoolma’am starts her job with two strikes
on her. She has a roomful of restless youngsters who
would rather be anywhere on earth than in a school
room.
bhe has to keep their attention, arouse their inter
est, make them behave, quell that red Indian spirit that
periodically takes possession of healthy youth—and,
those things done, give them an education, prepare
them for citizenship and instruct them in manners and
hygiene.
It’s a job big enough to make a strong man quail.
But the slip of a girl who hires out as schoolma’am tac
kles it without turning a hair—at disgracefully low
wages, often enough—and gets away with it.
Looking back, who can’t remember a host of things
he owes to the overworked misses of his grammar !
school and high school days ?
This one, by some chance phrase or other, snapped
him out of a tendency toward self-pity.
That one took a few extra pains and showed him
that the mysteries of mathematics were not necessarily
Another revealed to him the beauties of English
insoluble, after all. .. ,
poetry. -
A fourth somehow showed him that there can be
deep satisfaction in taking on a difficult job and doing
it well.
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A Michigan youngster told her parent she had swal
lowed a safety pin. It was her story, and she was stuck
with it.
And for reward—what do we give them ? We pic
ture them to ourselves as frumps and old maids. We
look at today’s crop of schoolma’ams and wonder why
our own weren’t as good looking and stylish.
We may actually have the crust to feel a little bit
sorry for ourselves for having grown up in the era of
unattractive schoolma’ams.
And today’s youngsters will probably feel exactly
the same, 30 years from now.
BASEBALL
SPOTLIGHT
PUBLICITY
By “Nosey”
Upsets and the thrills of a bat
tle well won, attended the games
last night between the Hammon
& Huskies and the Alaskans &
Commercials, before a crowd of
baseball fans, which not quite
filled the huge gymnasium.
“Nosey’s” prediction of a little
“cockiness” on the Husky team
appeared to come true. The Hus
ky pitcher showed the well
known inflation and was ham
mered hard by Hammon batters
before a substitute pitcher was
put in the box during the last
inning or two. Guess the Ham
mon. bunch got their revenge for
that practice game some time ago
The second game between Alas
kans and Commercials certainly
showed balloon-like tactics on
both sides. The game was fairly
close up to the sixth inning when
the Alaskans got to the Commer
cial pitcher, knocked him out of
the box, then knocked a substi
tute pitcher out and were finally
retired when a third hurler was
shoved to the slaughter, after
they had brought in 11 runs. The
inning before the Commercials
had staged a rally of six runs. In
the first of the seventh the Alas
kans didn’t get any and in their
last chance at bats the Commer
cials didn’t start another rally
until two men were out, and then
knocked in five runs before being
retired, just four runs short of
tieing the winning Alaskans.
Maybe some of you folks have
never seen indoor baseball be
fore. If you haven’t and like the
well-known outdoor American
game, you’ll find there really isn’t
a lot of difference. The crowd
for one thing acts the same. They
like to razz somebody and they
don’t care who it is, which all
goes to make the game an excit
ing and thrilling contest. You
should be sure and take in these
games. They’re going to get
i tighter and tighter as the season
progresses.
Noticed the Hammons have a
! southpaw pitcher Chuck O’Leary,
| who baffled the Huskie squad and
had them guessing plenty. We’ll
; see him next week pitted against
■the Alaskan sluggers, and that
should be a real game as both
1 teams were winners last night.
Saw a little spice with umpire
Lewis last night that was good
for a minute. Runner came in
from third on a force-out play
and the catcher didn’t bother to
touch him, but touched home
plate. The runner was called
out and bellered ‘‘he didn’t even
touch me”, in a wild voice. Ump.
Lewis, with disgust in his voice
came right back, “he didn’t have
to”, and the runner meekly sub
sided.
At least ninety percent of the
crowd didn’t understand a deci
sion of Umpire Lewis in sending
two scoring runners back to third
and second and another runner
on third back to first, in the Ham
| mon-Husky game. The play was
: made at first and the batter Ger
ry Harney was called out. How
ever, Lewis stopped the play,
called Harney out at bat on an
illegal hit, because he hit the
ball while his feet were outside
the batting box, and then sent
the runners back to their original
positions on the bases. Looked
funny, but there she is, and that’s
the way it should have been.
It’s quite a thrill to see a lot of
action in indoor games and last
night was no exception. Spec
tacular catches, long throws to
the plate, catching the runner,
and half a hundred other close
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hot plays characterized the game.
Judging the most powerful
teams at this time would be a j
hundred to one guess as to who
would win the series, but to all
appearances, tne iiammon learn
look to be the most powerful ag
gregation on the floor, with a toss
up between the Alaskans who
have developed marvelously, and
the Huskies, who appeared to
slip last night, and the Commer
cials tagging along at the repr.
However, you can’t tell how they j
will show up in their second en-1
counters next Wednesday night;
at the gym. It looks like the
Commercials better concentrate ■
on developing a strong pitcher, j
as well as the Huskies, which
was a surprise last night because
in the benefit game their pitcher;
performed extraordinary well.
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Did you notice some of the “old
bucks” of previous games fann
ing away at the ball but con
necting only with a lot of solid '
ozone? Seems to me they batter
get in some hard batting practice
or peel off a little extra weight
and fiOminess from their eyes.
Saw some of this on nearly every i
team. The cheechacco members |
of all the teams put in excellent
performances with the stick dur
ing the entire evening.
Well, haven’t g-o much more to
say at this time. Will probably
dig up a little ‘‘dirt” between
now and the next game, and we’ll
see if we can’t have some fun.
The winning teams look pretty
good today, but one of them has
to lose next week. Which will
it be ?
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