:03:00
Thousands of men and boys
run it every day.
:03:02
Really? Seems like
a frightful waste of energy.
:03:05
There's an awful lot of energy
wasted in the world these days.
:03:08
That's telling her, John.
:03:10
- Isn 't anything more wasteful
than war.
:03:12
However, all the more reason
people ought to give it their full attention.
:03:16
What would you suggest,
Miss Harding?
:03:18
Abolish baseball for the duration
of the emergency?
:03:21
I think that's a very good idea.
:03:24
- Have I said something wrong?
- Just a minute...
:03:26
- Things they let them get away with.
- Maybe she was kidding.
:03:30
She knew what she was saying.
Know what that does?
:03:32
Take it easy, Sam.
Don't blow your top.
:03:35
We're concerned with a threat to
what we call our American way of life.
:03:38
Baseball and what it represents
is part of that way of life.
:03:42
What's the sense of abolishing
what you're trying to protect?
:03:45
That's a beautiful thought, Sammy.
:03:47
- You ought to write a poem about it.
- I'll do better than that.
:03:55
"...and she might remember what the
Duke of Wellington said about sports.
:03:58
The duke was the baby
who whipped Napoleon at Waterloo...
:04:02
...and made an ex-champ out of him.
:04:04
After it was all over, the duke let out
that the battle was really won...
:04:08
...on the playing fields of Eton."
:04:10
What?
:04:13
Well, that's about all, Miss Harding,
except at the end he calls you:
:04:19
"The Calamity Jane
of the fast international set."
:04:25
Yes, Miss Harding.
I've got my pad right here.
:04:29
Ready. Yes.
:04:31
"Mr. Craig cites Wellington's
observation concerning Waterloo.
:04:35
I assume his purpose is to demonstrate
that at one time or another...
:04:39
...he was subjected to
a grammar-school course in history.
:04:43
Naturally, Mr. Craig doesn't realize
times have changed since Waterloo."
:04:47
- What are you gonna do?
- What do you think?
:04:49
Swing with both hands.
We men have only ourselves to blame.
:04:52
Women should be kept illiterate
and clean, like canaries.