Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-26

nothing Of the sort seen at New Eng
land colleges outside Of Maine In
games at Yale, Harvard, Brown, Dart
mouth, Amherst and elsewhere there Is
of course cheering on both sides, and
the giving Of college yells. but there is
no pre- determined and persistent eff
fort to win games by breaking up the
pitchers Of the opposing team. The
Mail does not wish to be understood as
blaming the Colby boys especially in
this business. The writer has followed
college baseball in Maine for the last
ten years and every college in the
state has been guilty of the same Of
Tense pretty nearly every season. AT
Brunswick at Lewiston and at Oronn
the nuisance is quite as serious as at
Waterylle. What profits it all? Ger
tainly the treasury Of the athletic de-
partment is not a gamer thereby, for
spectators that are not especially in
tcrested in the home team become dis
gusted and allow themselves to be
satisfied with seeing one game instead
of all on the schedule. No single team
gains any advantage over the others
in the long run, for every team plays
the same number Of games at home
and abroad However IL some teams
were favored by this sort Of thing. who
would care to acknowledge satisfaction
over it? College athelctic contests are
supposed to be, eminently, events
in which the true spirit of sportman-
ship is shown, but there is certainly
nothing spoitsman!ike about game
won not on it's merits but through the
confusion produced by bowling andI
yelling. 1t is time the colleges Of Maine
undertook something better. Baseball
is noble game and the more interest
ing the more it is divorced from every
thing tending to give one side an IN
due advantage over the other. Let's
have contests Of baseball Skill not Of
lung power.
Cheering is one thing. while "yag-
ging" is quite another. 4 baseball
team that is megaphoncd to a so-called
victory has mucn 10 regret and nosh-
ing - boast Of. In the game which |
called forth the above just criticism |
from the Mail, the utter absence Of the |
true spirit Of craftsmanship, was shown |
by the way the rooters jeered ana com |
mented when an opposing player with |
a srrained ankle pluckily craWled from /
one base to another, ana the manner
in which they hoWled with delight when |
a treacherously bounding bah struck
th@ visiting catcher in the face.
The many Maine friends Of Herbert
NJ, Lord " Kockland. are glad to hear
% has appointment as a paymaster in
the army. or late he has been tn"
secretary Of the Ways and Means
committee where H. has rendered in
valuable service % Chairman DinEley.
NJ ainc has furnished congressional com
mittecs with many efficient clerks in
the past, among whom may be men
TONED a well known kennebec man,
Mr. Wills II. Wing Of Manchester, late
clerk to the House committee on public
buildings and grounds. The death OF
Mr.. Minken and the subsequent change
In chairman, caused the retirement Of
Mr.. Wing. and he * now at his home
in Manchester His name has recently
been suggested in connection with the
nomination for sheriff III this county
but as announced in the Journal. a
few days ago. he is not in the field and
refuses to be considered a candidate.