The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-06-09

there are who believe it and the vic
tim of the slanderer gets disheartened,
and if he does not have a fight with
the Knocker he does the other thing
and quits mis- job.
1t is awful disheartening to a base
pail PLAYER who is trying to play the
game to hear fans knocking him to
others. There is very little difference
between the Knocker and the back
bitter, and you all know what a des-
picable sort OF a fellow the backbiter
it What does a ~bleacherite get by
shouting to a player who has allowed a
ball to get by his legs after trying his
best to get it? What does that fan get
by shouting, you are rotten?" What
does it bring a fellow, l ask? Only
pinheads will do that and only square,
heads will join the chorus of knockers.
A Case in Point.
1 know a case in point where a men,
Der of the Newark team is ready to
quit now because some of these fell
lows whom I can only designate by
calling squareheads. have discour-
aged him by their unjust knocks. And
this same player caused that old scout,
Ted Sullivan, of Texas League fame,
to travel many miles to Baltimore last
Saturday in the hopes of buying this
same player from Manager Stallings
for a major league berth. You might
as we'll know the player I refer to is
one Of the best on the team, Clyde
Engle. I DON like to say a good
word of praise for man when he is
within even telephone distance, for
fattery is the poorest sort of friendship.
But this Is a case of necessity. Some
fellows, only a few, seem to take a de-
light in roasting this player every time
that he makes an error IN third base,
and for the Information of these roast
ers I viii tell them that Engle doesn't
want to play third and never did want
to, but went in to help his team out,
and away from home he is regarded as
one of the best third sackers in the
Eastern League. If you doubt this
just drop a line to any of the sporting
writer's in the Eastern circuit n the
answer you win get will bear me Out
in this contention.
Now l ask every true fan, every
game Newarker, when he hears a know
nothing knocking any player to turr
I W illll anu dSh INN Wldl lie 6ClS lOi
being a Benedict Arnold. Ask him Il
he was playing ball for his bread anc
butter and was making a few error.
now and then how he would like it /
some fellow began making a target on
of him. The fellow whom you heal
shouting "Oh, you LOBSTER would run
away if he met the nan face to fac
who he designated by that name. Re
member you get nothing by being
knocker Be a good, cheerful fan in tn
days of adversely as well as in the day
Of success, and her outsiders will thinl
more of you and more of your city.
One Bad Spot.
Since 1 have beer going to the game:
here l nave noticed thai the few
knockers congregate near the thirt
good fellow, and l know a lot in thi
town, should shun that spot and g,
somewhere else. Then, when tn
squareheads open up their a%rtiller,
of abuse, the good people in tn,
b~leachers and grandstands will be abb
to sec who these fellows are. The bal
players, the victims OF these few fel
lows, will find it easier to pick then
out, and a few lessons after the gam
may teach some of these roasters an,
bulldozers how to watch a game o
professional baseball. To my mind tn
handful of knockers are sore becaus
they have to pay to see the game. /
might be a good thing to spring tn
camera ma on this bunch sometim
and then show the good fans who tn
knockers are.