Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-30

.-HE base ball fan is a multiform crea-
ture. One kind is the man who at
tends the games with regularity,
takes the keenest interest in seeing
the home team win, praises IL when
does and refrains from roasting It when
l 30 does not; applauds a good play by the
visitors just as he would one by the home
team and keeps well up on the dope. An
other is the fellow who goes TO the game,
shuts one eye and watches It through the
other. yelis rotten" at the umpire every
time he makes a decision that works to
the disadvantage of the home team, cheers
his own players and Kisses the visitors.
Then there's the chap who goes out to the
gaine absolutely certain the home team. is
going to win. eager TO bet all the money he
!. has or can borrow and keeps up a running
fire of Information on all the players and
the fine arts of the game as he goes out
10 the park in the street car. This fellow
may be found at vinton street park very
day. He perches himself on one Of the
l randstand seats back of the home plate
I Cnd yaps from the time the gong sounds
until the last play Is made. He umpires
the game and roasts the man employed for
that purpose if he attempts to make a de-
A cision on his own hook. As long as the
oIome team is winning he yells for the
home team and jeers the visitors. "Oh,
'ou rube," Go back to your old town."
und a lot OF other devil he hurls at the
Visitors. But suddenly the tide turns and
/ Tue visitors take the lead. Then he cuts
1 toose on the home players. The pitcher
fails TO stop a ball on his meat hand that
y going at a rate of speed so fast he can
scarcely see IL. Dub Take him out"
Throw the game away and a running
stream Of such nonsense flows out from
this upper seat In the stands behind the
catcher. phis insane man turns all his
admiration upon the enemy he roasted but
few minutes before. applauds everything
~ ny Of the visitors do and demands that
very visitor who steps to the plate knock
the ball over the fence and SHOW up this
rang of dubs." In short, he acts like a
rick bear. or a peevish child-or a sore
! eaded man who has bet a dollar or two
IN the game. Another species of the fan
D. the wise boy who is unable to get TO the
zane except on Sunday. He seats himself
aside you and anticipates every play. He
yes YOU a line on every man, his strong
lnts and weak ones; he tells you just
yhat to expect from this one or that that
you have seen play every day in the week.
And there's the fan who never goes to a
game because he knows the home team
will lose. He sits curled up behind the
stove in the winter and squats in front of
some downtown score board in the sum
mer. handing out wise talk to the simple
Simons. condescending now and then to
sneak briefly of the days when he was a
star on the greatest team that ever played
hall. Yet every one of these creatures Is
crazy over base ball; he eats IT, drinks 1t,
lives 1t. And why not? What else nave
you, YOU esthetIc knocker, that will grip
the interest OF as many people and as
many different classes of people and hold
H.. a. 49,. 80, VananiOn9 mower that base
fball holds the American people2
\ The sale Of Bill Belden during the week
completed President Rourke's weeding-out
process that began with the beginning or
the season. Belden went, when Pendry, not
up TO the requirements Of third base
showed he could cover center. Belden once
promised much, but his chief fault, that of
indifference, was too great to be overcome
by his virtues. He was never a strong
batter, nor a star fielder, but he was fast
on his feet and could get a ball away from
him in a hurry. In fact, he had enough
to tsm to make a first class ball player, II
pnly he would take his work seriously and
apply himself to it. But he wouldn't do
this. Ball playing is a serious business and
the man who fails to see this will fail in
eyitably to become much of a ball player.
The hap-hazard habit has no part in the
stheme OF a great game like this and it
pays big for a young man entering the
business to discover this point at the out
set.
y Omaha has sent out some fast men, but
= hprobably never contributed to the big
n leagues a player who has surpassed the
record Austin will yet achieve. Already
Austin is referred 10 by the big league
managers and papers as a star. He is doing
I precisely what he and his friends knew
he would do-making good. III they will
only give me a chance to play l will make
good" wrote Jimmy to Pa Rourke in a
letter some weeks ago. He was not boast
p ing vainly. Now they are fighting TO settle
the question. who discovered Austin? %
Joe villa steps in as arbiter and says II
was none other than President Farrell OF
the HighIanders himself. And then he re-
fers to the discovery. not as the find OF
the year. but the find of the age"
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Denver is happy. it's team is loslng. II
IL wasn't for that perennial habit of
knocking and that yellow streak as wide
as the foul lines out there, perhaps the
team could do better. One OF those yell
lowhammers calling himself Rich in big,
black type lays Denver's defeat in Omaha
10 the ennul OF this city. That's good.
coming from a town that derives its sus-
tenance from the pockets of the sick who
are forced to 90 there, But ennui or not.
w have those four straights neatly tucked
away and that's what we were after. Was
II also the ennui that skinned the Teddies
over at Des Moines?
Danny Dreamer Durbin Is making a
| record at trading stock anyway. He is the
4most traded man in the business. Cincin-
natl, which got him from the Cubs, has
snapped him to Pittsburg for outfie.ssE
Miller.
Pa viii have 20 make stdl greater sE-
tensions to his grandstand, also bleaehers,
NneXt year, to meet the demands of that
American association proposition.
some folks are betting that Mistah john
son will never get in the ring with Jeff
ries. May not be a bad bet