The morning times., 1896-10-09
FANS OF VARIOUS SPORTS
Baseball Cranks Compared
With Foo ball FiendS.
THEREsAvAsT DIFFERENCE
The Former Watches the Play Close
ly, Eats Peanuts and Keeps His Seat
Except to Get Upand stretch, While
the Long Haired Individual IsNcver
Quiet and is Always Moving About.

The football crank, as species anu az
an individual, is the whole thing AT 'ii's
time OF year He is the same wherever he
Is fuund-always identical in color; SIZE
length OF hair, and capacity OF lung nc
5 well worthy OF study aud classiicatioi''
and lie can Justly claim first RANK US tpc
oldest animal OF the autumn seasoh
The football and baseball crank are Oh
two separate races, and the disthc'iohs De
tween them are enough to MAKE up ioio
volume. The personnel OF the Two pfeeus
is different, 10 begin with. The footbaii
crank is a collegian, ex-collegian, OF pros
pective collegian. The baseball crank is
anytbing-a merchant an actor, mechanic.
TIE football ficnd is always in motion.
H., reyolves from end to end of the field,
following the plays, and rusbes back and
forth with the surging lines. The base
ball crank is stationary. He has n seatand
lie has to stay there. lie can get up and
stretch at the end of the inning, but he
cant run down to third and look over
to see if the baseman really touched the
runner.
The baseball fan watches the play closely,
eats peanuts, drinks pop, and gives vent To
brief yelps ut each hit or fancy catch, while
"a SptNAst itthh va Sipt 'iibS, ipht siui'DihS
OF the hands. The football crank, from
the nature OF his motions, cannot eag and
cannot clap bis hands.
CAN'TPOuNDH HIS FEET ToNTHEFLOoR
A man can only applaud with the hands
when he is sitting down. The football
cranh has 10 make mp in volume OF noise
by The strength of his lungs. He can't
pound his feet on the floor. either, for the
only floor beneath him is the sod. So he
yells. and yells some more.
THERE'S rs distinct and radical difference
In the yelling for fans and football fiends
as there is in any other particular. The
baseball crank is never melodious. never
gives tongue is chorus. and his remarks are
Drici, pungent and personal. The footballist
seldom directs his remarks at any individual.
auI most of his yells are the united vocal
efforts of his class or gang. Once in while.
of course, some player viii receive special
attention from the cranks.
There WIS youth pla yinG on local team
last fall who had head Of red hair that
looked like cayenued chrysanthemunl, and
the gang used 10 cheer him on by yelling:
"Rah! rah! rah! redhead!" at the topsof its
lungs. Half OF the football cEanks' re-
marks, however, are announcements, in
chorus, TO the effect that his team the real
thing, and that the other side is already in
the soup, while the response of the mob
across the field is n practical declaration
that the first speakers are liars.
How utterly absurd and sickenly childish
II would seem to the baseball fan to hear
the crowd on the right field bleachers sing
outin chorus say at a game between Wash
ington and Cincinnati: go 1t, Senators. 90,
go, go! Rah, rah, whoop! Cincinnati in the
soup!" and TO hear the left field blea chcrs
spond: Who, who, who are you? We are
the Cincinnati crew! We Will do you, YOU,
you, you, you!"
ONLY a TEMPORARY CRANK.
Again the football crank is temporary
and he lays his football aside when the
season euds. He doesn't sit around al sum-
mer and talk football to everybody who
comes into the office and he has no tables
OF averages TO spring on the suffering pub
lie for comparisons. The baseball ran is
perpetual. Winter or summer he never
ceases to dream and pirate about the game
and he always has statistics and caIcula
tions ready.
Each game has its time and place No
DpiiS wants 10 see football in Summcr-ba Sc
ban cannot be played in winter. Each
game furnishes about equal quantity of
excitement. To the man who has no FER
sofal interests involved baseball is the
game-he can sit as an impartial judge and
guy or cheer as he desires.
1t is different with the football crank
He has some friend on. the eleven and the
glory of his college hangs in the bala nee.
No wonder lie yells aud jabbcrs and runs
up and down and nearly goes insane.
There is Il world Of joyous pleasure in
seeing great home-run drive go whizzing
over the fielders heads with the bases full
and three needed to tie and four to win
There is a frantic glce in seeing n fielder
spring high in the air ana pull down "A ball
when miss would mean victory for tI;.
other side, Yet there is as much thriIlin,.
pleasure when n buriy fellow, with the
col"rs "f your college showing family in
his muddy stockings, bursting headlong
through the other line-seven fellows. cling.
ing TO him, hut still writhiug on, and the
white inc Just three feet away,