The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-07-14
CAYLOR'S BALL GOSSIP.
BellicOsc Baseballists Learn Lesson.
A Bitter Pill for Tebeau.
Efforts for an Opposition Circuit--Tho
Essence OF Managerial Success.

PuRnacity mas peen Ior Some tiflo phso
growing and spreading in the baseball
field. Lately 10 became almost an epidem-
&c. Aswe have seen, the "noble rage" even
swept the level headed veteran Captain
Arson from his feet, and be wanted to
whip the Cincinnati catcher In the presence
Of 10, 900 worshipful and rererent Sunday
rooters Then oame the news that Umpire
Lynch and Captain Tebeau agreed, in the
midst OF game at Cleveland, to go out
side the ground and settle Il dispute over a
decision after tho manner Of the prize ring
and were only prevented by the interfer-
ence Of more conservative players.
But the fighting mania didn't end there.
Those aggressive Cleveland Spiders went
to Louisville, and the state Of belhgerency
was recognized Mr.. Tebeau and some OF
his warriors had skirInish with Umpire
Weidman because he called game on ac-
count of darkness just when they had vic
tory In their clasp. The president of the
Louisville club entered the controversy at
this stage by causing the arrest Of Tebeau
and some Of his players and arraigning
them ON a charge of disturbing the peace
and melting to riot. The Louisville magis-
trato who is probably a baseball crank,
recollecting that his favorite club hes had
few chances this season TO humiliate visit
ing teams and uphold the pride and dig
nifty of the commonwealth came to its res
cue and assessed fines upon the Ohio In
vaders, graded downward from 500 TO 500
In order 10 fit the specific crime in each
case.
Still, the end was not reached When
was boy and went TO school I'm the coun-
try, II was the custom among the Spartan
like fathers Of that day when boy got
whipping at school TO administer TO tho
victim Of pedagogic wrath "A second chas-
tisement as soon as the unhappy youth re-
turned 10 tho sacred precincts Of his home,
and the second bastinado did not result
from an investigation of the merits OF the
first, but as q matter Of course sequence
The National league seems TO have adopted
that old fashioned way of dealing with its
crTfng sons, for right on top of the judi
cial fines imposed at Louisville comes an
edict from the National league board Of d.
rectors adding 5000 TO the sum Of Captain
Tebeau's financial punishment, with the
provision that unless 10 be paid into the
League treasury within ten days after noti-
fication he shall be ineligible 10 play until
the fine is liquidated.
There can be no doubt that Tebeau 10
too extensively aggressive upon the ball
field. Ho has gone just a bit too far In urg-
ing his men to ocrap and claim all in
sight. Perhaps 1t is the manner in which
no does this moro than the persistency
with which he keeps 1t up which has final
ly called down his luckless head the
punishment Of kentucky courts and the
League directors Once before / compared
Tebeau to DR. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
His private and baseball natures are an
tithetical twins In everyday life Tebeau
Is mild hammered, sociable, agreeable
young man, who wins friends wherever he
goes. But the ballfield transforms him
into an entirely different person. He
knows no friends there. The world Is his
foe, and mis- hand is raised against the uni.
verso. No close decision by an umpire is in
his mind fair, honest or right unless 1t fa.
vors his club. And his policy is to de-
aounce the official Tn words which -eethe as
well as 10 heap opprobrium upon the
players of the opposing side.
What result this official recognition by
the League of Mr.. Tebeau's peculiar meth.
ods will have cannot be definitely foretold
IL Is likely, however, 10 be efIicacious, not
only In its direct application, but as eau
tion to many others who were studying the
Tebeaunian methods and following most
dangerously close to his lines. True, Mr..
Robinson, who owns the Cleveland club
hurled defiance at the League directors
and in the first moments of his resentment
declared that the flno would not be paid
and that Mr. Tebeau would play right
along AS usual. 1t is we'll that no had ten
days in which TO cool Off and simmer down
TO proper appreciation of the situation.
The decision of the National league di-
rectors In the Rusie case as made at Pitts
burg is consistent with all tho past policy
OF that body, which has invariably stood
solidly with its clubs for the maintenance
of discipline without the strongest kind
Of discipline in the teams baseball would
lose public confidence and as a conse-