The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1895-07-24

seems to be ''chewing the rag" and it is
always after any event comes off. They
do not have or do not express any opin-
ion beforehand and appear not to have
any
Take base ball for instance, as that is
most popular just now. As soon as the
game is over, no matter whether the
home-team wins or loses, then the
s'chewers" commence, and the manager,
aud all connected, except general favor
ties, come in for ventilation. What a
mistake is made that these men who play
ball on the street corners, or in front of
cigar stores, are not appointed managers
by the stockholders at the commencement
of the season. Managers are charged
with dishonesty and players with selling
fair, and is only in it for himself. The
side that can put up the most money is
sure to win. II there is taken in at the
gate $3.50, there ought to have been 5000
at least, and "dead heads is the cry.
When an audience of 800 is present, by
actual count, there must have been at least
thirteen hundred present. II the expenses
of the team were 800, it ought not to have
been more than $50; and thus it is con-
tinual game of growl the whole time from
beginning to finish OF the season, chew,
chew, chew.
They will never do anything as long as
such player stays with The nine; ga man
who has to undress before he throws a
ball up after catching it, is too slow for a
fielder - ale might have been good some
years ago, but he can't get down to pick
up ball anymore"
A new man is hired, and at first hap
pens TO give good exhibition OF himself.
Stock goes up and he is one of the best
players on base that the club has ever
had. The second game he makes miss,
and then, the manager sought to have
had better sense than TO have hired such
a chump ="
Each person who looks at game has
an idea that he or she Just understands
the whole business, and the player who
does not stand in with them and their
ideas about base ball is not in it. Critics
and criticisms there must and will be, and
when fair often accomplish good. To be
critic, however, implies more than a
passing view OF base ball game. A critic
must know and understand base ball or
ANY other subject that he may criticise,
know it If possible, even better than those
who play. On the other hand, those who
play must expect 10 be butchered once in
while.
The men who are hurt mostly are those
who put their money on the home club
and it gets left. This is what gives rise
to murmurs about mismanagement. In
base ball it is not very much different
from horse racing or any other excite
ment, where money is staked on the re-
suit. Managers cannot 60 round and ex-
plain to every looker-on just what is OK
pected to be done. lie lays his plans and
works for certain results, but they do not
always come. If lucky, and his club
WINS, che is a trump" but II unlucky,
and it Is beaten, then, well you have
heard the judgments over and over again.
1t is there the ''chewers" get in their
work and the air is blue with remarks not
of flattering nature to the manager or
those who by accident made a mistake.
The lookers.on have demanded hired
players, and they are not satisfied with.
out the best. The idea is that Lambert
ville's nine must be as good as the Phllics
or New Workers, aud that few dollars
in the hands of the management ought TO
bring about such results. True, there is
difference between managers. All are
not of the same gauge Some are sharp,
quick, active and up to date others dull,
slow, behind the times; some who resort
who think they are managers, while
everybody else is Of the opposite opinion.
A successful manager does not always
win; only one club in the country carries
the pcnnant. But successful manager
does win once in n while, especially when
money and men are placed at his disposal
and he is not tricked out OF a game by
dishonest players, who make living out
of ball playing, from one club to another.
Fifty or one hundred dollars is as tempt
ing to an INSCRIPTIONS ball player as it is
to the INSCRIPTIONS legislature man. One
man can very often throw n game and
very often does, the way he wants it TO
60. What is hundred or five hundred
for that matter when thousands are at
stake on the gamea Those who offer
brides generally know their men and IL
does not generally take hundreds to buy
them.
In the days of local base ball club
against local base ball club, there was
honesty of purpose and ii was an honor
for the home team to win. Now the home
team is made up of strangers, hired for
purpose, and the honor has dropped
out. There will be a change in conduct
ing base ball soon, or there will be no
club 10 Lambertvllle. ~
The Shakers have made a discovery
which is destined to accomplish much
good. Realizing that three-fourths of all
our sufferings arise from stomach trou-
bles, that the country is literally filled
with people who cannot eat and digest
food without subsequently suffering pain
and distress, and that many are starving,
wasting to mere skeletons, because their
food does them no good. they have de-
voted much study and thought to the sub
ject, and the result IL this discovery, of
their Digestive Cordial.
A little book can be obtained from your
druggist that will point out the way Of re-
lief at once. An Investigation will cost