Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-24
Mallet Out for Cantillon.

tea, to exude VIXEN Re steps INTO the
coaching box.
Mallet Out for Cantillon.
Now. when Joe Cantillon first took
hold OF the Washington ball club he had
the same sort of thing to contend with
over here Cantillon actually had the
unm:tigated gall. the colossal nerve to go
right into the coaching box. just like
that. yknow. and coach his ball club
Monstrous, What did he mean by such
conduct He clappod his hands. honest
he dd-would you believe it?-and he called
out to the Washington players TO do GER
tain things and he sort o plugged EN-
along. ysee. and all this right mere on
tho Highanders' grounds the murderer
Well they got their little coal mauls
right out for Joseph. becaus, he coached.
Just that. and nothing more Merely be
cause he coached his nine. His coaching
was eighteen million geographical leagues
from being anything even remotely re-
SemblinG offensive coaching Ih"re We're
no. personalities in his coaching. Ii
wasn't even loud coaching. 1t was SIM
ply the earnest talk of ball club man
ager with a team he was trying to make
over into winner. And so they handed
it out to Joseph. They called him ruff
fan and rowdy and all like that. and
they picked and picked and picked on nm
because he coached-and they're picking
on him yet every time he comes TO New
York I challenge anybody ever to hnd
decent word for Joe Cantillon in any
base ball column in New York when the
Washington team visits this town.
Everybody who knows Cantlllon al all
knows that he is an unusually taclturn.
inoffensive man. who wastes lew or no
words who has a genius for keeping his
business to himself, and who not only
doesn't possess a symptom OF loud
mouthedness himself hut hasn't a par
ticle of use for a loud-moufhed ball eiup
manager or player. And yet over here ne
is invariably pictured as p having. loud
mouthed ruffian and rCwdy. and not one
of the inky gang over here ever seems to
even think of hapding Cantillon anything
remotely resembling square deal
Everybody who knows Hughey Jen-
nngs knows perfectly we'll that he. too,
is one of the decentest men in base ball
This man is actually incapable of using
foul or even rough language It's lot IN
him. Never a goody-goodN IN the COM
mon accaptation of the term. he never
theless ahhors profanity. and he never
uses it in private life. much less on ball
lot Ard yet over here they write of Jen-
nngs as a ruffian of the diamond
I have been watching this thing for
long time around here. not only as applied
to Jennings and Cantilon. but to a lot OF
others. and / know that I am thoroughly
within the mark in declaring that no.
where in the United States is base pail
criticism so thoroughly unjust, Hi1<iH anu
contemptib!e as it is right here n the
place they fondly advert to as III oil
Noo Yawk.
bi;ind to Faults at Home.
The small and cheap part of it all is
that they seem wholly to forget the sins
in the line of ruffianism of their own
managers and players in this town.
But you'll never find the critics over
here tackling their own managers on the
score of rowdyism. Sothng whatever
like it. In other cities of the big circuit
if a home manager loses his temper and
makes a sure-enough exhibition of him.
self on the bal lot tue local wallopers
will get right after him with the big
stick and put the thing along to him In a
manner calculated to make him sit up
and feel ashamed of himself Not. how
ever in liz OF MOO Yawk.
There'd never he any adverslon to
these things if the New York critics didn't
exhibit themselves as so grossly unfair
to visiting managers. particularly Jen-
nings and Cantilion. But they are gross
ly unfair and it's jus: as we'll to tell such
of the out-of-toUn fans as are not ia
miliar with the facts on this phase of
the game as it is played in New York.