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pTTTTTS? But civilization has come to La guna Beach and pushed the game country back. Now it's a ten-mile hike to get birds, and over some of the most rugged country in the United States. --. "Believe me, it'swork to hunt here," he said. "I use up as much steam on a single hunting trip as I do in a dozen ball games. You don't realize how much hill there is in some of these mountains until you start to climb them." Ernie Johnson discovered Laguna before he became an outlaw. He was playing with Los Angeles two years ago and happened upon the little town at the edge of the sea by 'accident Now he goes each year from Chicago. Cravath is one of the potentates of the town. He owns four houses, a "tin Lizzie" and three lots, which is quite a portion of the city. "They tell me," he said, "that La guna is a summer resort, "but you couldn't prove it by me, because I've never been there in summer to see." Cravath and Johnson are known as the "Gold Dust Twins of Laguna." They are inseparable. No baseball for Cravath or John son until next spring. "I don't play winter ball," said Cravath, "because I don't want to cheat. It's like a man taking a-vacation and working at the same time. "I rest Next spring I shall go back to the game fresh and enthusiastic. What's the gain, anyway, to play ball in some obscure league for about one-sixth of what you get in the ma jors? You keep in condition? Yes, but I keep in condition in a better way. Hunting and fishing keep me in perfect physical trim." Johnson and Cravath have a unique way of fishing. They hunt for fish. Shouldering their rods, they walk along the high bluffs that rim the ocean and peer down into the clear water. When they see a school of fish they stop. If birds are circling close to the surface that, too, indi cates fish. There are 90 varieties of fish off Laguna, so the baseball twins decide which variety they want and then bait their hooks accordingly. Bass, perch and sheepsheads are the most common. But now and then they hook a shark. "And, believe," Cravath exclaimed, "a five-foot shark will break your pole and burn your thumbs and give you all the fun you want" Both players are married. Cra vath has one child, a girl of 10, and Johnson has two, a boy and girl. "The first duty of the wife of a big leaguer," says Mrs. Cravath, "is to get something into his stomach just as soon as he gets up. That keeps him from being as cross as a bear, in which respect the big leaguer is much like other men." "The thing that appeals to me about Laguna," said Ernie Johnson, "is that there isn't a saloon within 30 miles. It's no place for a fellow who wants the wild and riotous life of the gay white way. But if it's a home he's wanting, Laguna it is. "We never get lonesome. Fishing one day, hunting the next, and may be gouging abalones off the rocks an other day is the sport for us." "And in the "winter," Cravath said, "on days when you can't get out, you sit in the window and listen to the crack of the surf and watch those big waves hit the headlands. They slam the bluffs and send their spray clear over them. As far as the eye can see the ocean is a streak of white." But the Laguna twins don't hunt and fish all the time. They lay ce ment sidewalks, plant rosebushes, doctor "Lizzie" (the auto) and per form many household duties. At night there are card parties, not poker games, just cards; sometimes at Cravath's, sometimes at John son's, sometimes at a neighbor's. "It's the life," say the big leaguers, "believe us, it's the life."