Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-24
ABUSE OF BALL PLAYERS BY
THE NEW YORK WRITERS MUST
BE TAKEN WITH LOTS OF SALT
By Clarence L. Cullen.
pecial Correspondence of The star.

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
NEW YORK. May %. 1908.
BY this time. think. Washington base
ball fans have learned to take with a
grain of salt a good deal of the stuff
that is written by certain prejudiced
class of New York base ball scrbes.
In masticating the yarns printed in the
New York papers early this week about
the behavior of the Detroit ball club
during the recent series In this town a
whole heap of salt should be taken.
can't remember seeing. anywhere
even in the most provincial community
such mass of utterly unfair. unreliable
and generally onery balderdash printed
about a ball club as has been unloaded
by lot Of the biased base ball writer's
around here with reference to the De-
troit ball team on its first visit to New
York this year.
Yes. there was some kicking on the
part of members of the Detroit club
against the decisions of Empires Hurst
of the Detroit team kicked quite hard
and strenucusy. Yes. the Detroit play
ers seemed to be a heap in earnest in
their kicking. And here the yeses end.
Did the Detroit players. during any
game here. conduct themselves in
rowdy manner? Emphatically no. They
did not. I saw every one of the games:
was in a position to hear nearly every
thing that passed between the PLAYERS
and the umpires. and / affirm that all of
these hasheesh narratives in the New
York papers about the rowdy' behavior
of the Detroit players on the field We're
for o1 md oh l1ffo
and manufactured out of the whole cloth.
The truth of the matter is that the
New York base ball writer's decidedly
have it in for two managers CT the
nings of the Detroit club and to Joseph
Cantillon Of the Washington club.
Bias Against Jennings.
The animus of the bias against Jennings
is clear enough. even If it is small and
cheap and based upon boyish grounds.
Jennings and his outfit took the prize
away from the Yankees last year. and in
other years the Detroit club has. through
superior playing. handed the New York
club the goad at critical stages Of the
pennant race. Wherefore the base ball
writer's. actuated by SO p.ffling and mean
consideration. have got the mallet out
for Jennings and his tribe every time
they pop around here.
They wallop Jennings numerically be-
cause cut On the coaching lines during
the progress of games he says "E-yah"
To lend ear to the knockers over here
one would presume that Mr. Jennings
hasn't got the natural and legal and base
ball right to go out on the coaching lines
while games are going on and say
"E-yah" if he wants to say ii. That's
about the only deduction possible from
the toasting that Jennings Invariably
gets az the pen points of the bunch over
here whenever he INDUCES in his inalien-
able right to coach his team. Perhaps
they'd like to have Jennings step into the
coaching box and sing out to his men
little polite observations like this: Mr..
Schaefer I should be greatly gratified.
indeed. If YOU would be kind enough. at
this critical juncture Of the game. TO de-
post the ball about one and a half fur
longs on the other side OF the right field
fence" or Mr.. O'Leary. far be it from
me to venture to make a suggestion TO
you. but I should be delighted If you
would now lather the pellet with suf-
ficient ferccity to send it careering into
the left-feld bleachers.' or stuff OF this
general sort. Perhaps this is the charac-
ter OF junk that they expect Jennings.
who's a ball club manager and not a
member OF the Hungarian house of dele
gates nor yet a pourer of ) O'Clock pink