The sun., 1909-06-06

should not be helped out by q college body
making organized efforts at rowdyism
Often enough at the professional baseball
games there Is q lot Of stamping and
whistling and bowling at critical junotnres,
but most Of the men who play prof
ball are apt to be steady and cool enough
to disregard these things. II they did
pay any attention to them they would
be irretrievably lost.
College ball games as rule are Tree
from the nuisances who howl at each play
and who exhort their favorite players
with words OF advice and congratulation
from the stands. BY eliminating organ
lied cheering. which can be done ever
80 much better and moro effectively
by college mon who have leaders out on
the field to direct thetn. resemblance to
certain crowds which follow professional
baseball can be eliminated entirely. This
ought TO be good thing for the collie
gian. because, although there Is always
at every baseball game played by the
league teams a large percentage OF men
who 60 to the games because theyf like
to see good baseball. there Is always also
a number OF persons whose enthusiasm
is expressed in uncouth terms.
Furthermore the average college base
ball player Is more easily upset by the
very nature OF things than Is the pro-
fessional. This Ia not to say that the pro-
fessional does not desire as eagerly to
play his best at all times. because with
every man 1t is a matter OF personal
pride. aside from the money he gets.
that he should do his best. II a profess
sional catcher lets a ball go by and q
couple OF runs are scored as result OF
his misplay he feels it just as keenly as
does the college player who makes an
error. but he has the advantage Of know
ing that II he has one of day at least he
is going TO play lot OF other games In
the season in which he can redeem him
self, and he will have so many more games
to play that his general average proba-
blv will be very good,
not to try too hard to make up for
all in the very next game. which is
the mistake that the average college
player will make. and two or three
succeeding bad days for college player
are likely to put him up in the
air. 1t is the whole difference In schedules
s5 and number "s Of games S. played "s
OF the persons who have considered
the matter at all are strongly in favor Of
doing awav with the concerted efforts
to rattle the opposition, and it is likely
that before many more seasons the cheer
ing at college baseball games will be as
1t Is at professional games now in many
ca ses, impartial enough to be turned loose
when the opponents make a good play
as when the home team has done some
thing worthy.
That is chara cteristic of profession
followers that Is by no means
as strongly marked with the college
crowd. Every one who ever has seen
major league or other league baseball
has noted how quick the crowds are to
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either side rather than to devote it's
alone to greeting something
that has been we'll done by the home
team: but with the collegians hearty
and spontaneous cheer for a good play
OF the other side is something that seems
to call for extraordinary notice. That
is something that the college baseball
fan can learn from the man who follows
baseball solely because he likes to see
the game we'll played.
This thing about talking too much to
athletes Of their forthcoming competi-
tions has almost attained what might
be considered the dignity OF movement.
As has been said before, II was at Harvard
that it was first called to public consid-
worried in the course Of their training
bv having noises made about the place
where they were irving to sleep. Then
later on at the University OF California
il was suggested that IL was a good
thing not to annoy the men by talking
TO them about their competitions when
they were close at hand. Now il is at |
Cornell that this matter has been brought |
to the notice OF the college.
In the Cornell Daily Sun recently there |
was an editorial devoted TO this subject |
calling to the attention OF the average
college student that when he met a man !
On an athletic team and talked to him |
about some games that we're near at
nand he probably was doing nothing |
out annoying the athlete. 1t was pointed
cut that the average non-athlete. who |
hoes not follow the statistics Of the sport !
,s the man on a team would be likely to |
10. would say something bromidiotic. or |
1t any event something that would tend |
20 annoy the athlete rather than eoothe |
lim. II was called to the attention also |
IF the students that probably the athlete |
rad been feeding for some time on Just |
his line OF conversation and that as a |
general proposition il would be a much |
BET ter thing IL the athlete were let alone |
and not made to talk or to think 100 m uch |
about the contest in which he intended |
II it keeps up and spreads little further
here will be strong tendency to form a |
society for the study OF topics on which |
,ou may safely address member OF an
athletic team. Conversation with an
'thlete may become rather difficult !
hing IL one has to avoid all references to |
lthletics or sports Of any eort. u may De
hat eventually the athlete will be let
severely alone. and that probably will
lot be good thing because then he will
% forced to fall back for conversstio
lpon members Of the team of which he
90 Ia a member and then his conversatio
will be devoted to athletics almost en-
irely. Possibly separate sections will
,e reserved in the clsssrooms for athletes
o that tbev can herd together and there
will be no danger Of any one approaching
hem to talk about nything.
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