Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-02
ton have been doing good work In the
south with the Southern League clubs.
Belligerent BleacheriteS.

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With the opening of the American League
season but two weeks away, it would be
good thing If the papers ali over the cir
cult would take up the cudgel against the
treatment received in seasons past at Chi
cago by the players at the hands of the
spectators in the right and left field seats.
Every visiting club to the Chicago park is
handed out the same abuse, and Magnate
Comiskey owes it to the good of the game
to stop the high-handed proceedings. Many
players have preached the subject to The
Star reporter while visiting this city with
the different clubs, and the tales told are
something appalling in their similarity. The
verbal abuse is the limit, but the players
turn this off with a smile or a shrug of
the shoulders. 1t is the throwing of mis-
siles, in the shape of bottles, that makes
the men on the field wild with rage, and
only the respect they have for their call
ing keeps them from rushing into the
stands after the offenders. With the
White Sox in the lead and victory as
sured everything is lovely a Sun
day school picnic, but let the visiting team
go TO the front or victory depend on a
hard play and the bleacherites work them
selves into the game like band of saw
ages. Early last season the Washingtons
had a good show of scoring a victory, rs
the game close and Patten performing
at his best A ball was knocked down TO
Coughlin in the eighth inning, and as
Scranton Bill" set himself for the play a
bottle sailed out from the stand and struck
him on the shoulder. The missile stag
gered Bill for the fraction of a second
but ne was game all through, and, after
making a magnificent stop, nailed the run
ner at first. Coughlin's blood was at a
boiling point and he saw his
play so through successfully he rushed
over to the stand and il required the com
bined efforts of couple of the Chicago
players to keep him from going into the
stand after his cowardly assailant. The
bleacherites thought the act great
sport, and jeered and laughed heartily a
Coughlins rage, while the latter handed
out choice collection of epithets that
should have made the rankest coward turn
about and show fight.
somewhat similar experience befell
Patsy Donovan toward the close of the
season, and q home-run resulted where an
easy out should have been scored. Town
send was pitching and holding the White
Sox down 10 few hits In the ninth in
ming, with two out and a runner on sec
| ond a fly was hit into right directly at
Donovan. He set himself for the ball, and
| when it was about fifty feet away bottle
went by his nose with whir, missing his
| face by about three inches. Patsy natur-
| ally ducked, and be fore he could again To-
| cate the sphere 1t was by him and rolling
| 10 the fence. The bottle thrower won the
| game for the CnicaEos, not the players
couple of policemen placed In the
stands with positive directions to arrest the
| offenders, with prosecutions in the criminal
courts afterward, would stop the nuisance
Il
, Comiskey should be true sportsman enough
| to have such steps taken
When Garland Hit the Ball.
Manager Stahl struck his true gait in st.
Louis the middle of last season in a series
of games with the Browns and the news
papers of that city frequently tell tales
of his prowess with the bat on that occa-
sion. Before going south for this springs
J practice Stahl spoke of the games to a
group of newspaper men at the Riggs. He
said:
'"rhere were several Illinois University
boys In St Louis attending the fair at the
time, and they went out to the park to see
us play There were about a dozen of
them. and they gathered in one spot in the
grand stand, unknown to me. As / went
10 the bat for the FIRST time and was MAX
ing ready to strike at the ball they let out
the college yell with such hearty will as to
be heard all over the ground. The novelty
of the thing woke up the Mssourians and
also ratified me SO that struck out. Yells
of 6erision from all sides answered back
the boys, and ! felt sorry for my college
chums.
Nothing daun;ed. the boys came back at
me with the yell as l walked to the bat