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038 CONFIDENTIAL Press Conference #141, In the Study of the President's Home at Hyde Park, N. Y., September 5, 1934, 10.50 A. M. THE PRESIDENT: Where is the Captain? (Referring to the captain of the ball team which had played Lowell Thomas' team at Pawling the Sunday previous.) Q On the way. Q We have discovered a way to beat them. We are going to put two left fielders out there with gloves. Q I will say you have to have gloves. MR. McINTYRE: The best of that strategy is having Fred (Mr. Storm) in the box. He can't hit. Q I think we will play Stevie (Mr. Stephenson) on the fence all the time. THE PRESIDENT: You are certainly good, getting over the fence. Q (Mr. Stephenson) Wasn't I? And with my eye on the ball all the time. That eighteenth time is what wrecked me. THE PRESIDENT: There is only one way we can be sure of winning and that's like in the old Harvard . the Crimson Lampoon games. You never had a keg (of beer) on first; you had to earn that. But we did have a keg on second and one on third. Q How did you get anybody back to the home plate? THE PRESIDENT: Oh, we had two kegs there. (Laughter) Q Speaking of kegs, what did you feed Upton Sinclair? THE PRESIDENT: Do you know what I fed him? Two long glasses of iced tea. Q You must have had something in them. Q He was babbling when he came back (to the Nelson House).