Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-23
Baseball Boxing HERALD SPORTING PAGE [4@4s@s2n1 A1ss
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BASEBALL fans are curious beings
* in spots. They are loyal to the
~ home team and opposed to the
visiting team just as long as the nome
team is doing we'll and winning games
But if the home team strikes rough
place and gets to going badly for a
time the fans quickly change thelI
feelings of loyalty and friendship; ana
some of them, the thoughtless ones
begin to roast the home team and the
Individual players and pun for their
opponents to beat them. When a
team gets in the ruck of hard luck
and the fans begin this sort of thing
the team becomes demoralized to a
certain extent and cannot play its real
game. Never was this given better
proof than during the at-home period
of the Angels, just ended. The Angels
came home after a remarkably sue
cessful trip up north and played Yer
non one series. The fans had warmed
up to Happy's bunch and naturally
were pulling for them to win. They
forgot that the Angels, too, is home
team and treated them like they we're
visitors. This sort OF thing was kept
up all through the last home season
and the Angels showed the effects OF
this roasting and antagonism by fall
team lost many games that it should
have won, and had the fans loyalty
stuck to them and pulled for them and
encouraged them like home fans
should do it would have put ginger
and life into the team and they might
have been right up next to Vernon in
the rag chase. They leave today for
four weeks trip in the north and
probably will play their game there.
The class is there and it is bound to
tell. One of the old-timers on the
lineup said few days ago in the
club house at the Chutes that the
team would play better ball on the
road than here because the fans here
are against them and it grinds on the
nerves of the home players. but that
they expect to be roasted and panned
by the home fans in other cities and
it does not affect them in the least.
They expected encouragement here
and failed to get it and the team fell
off in its playing because the players
were roasted into an acute case of
crouch that seriously handicapped
their work.
Vernon will be the home team for
the next four weeks and inasmuch as
the bunch is out in front of the PEN
nant procession and playing the fast
est ball in the league it behooVes the
fans to give the boys the glad hand
and encourage them in every way
by attending in large numbers and
pulling for them to win. Like every
other baseball club, the Villagers
sometimes have an off day and play
like amateurs, but this is no offense
of a serious nature and the fans should
be loyal all the time Oakland opens
a series here tomorrow afternoon and
the way they trimmed the Beavers in
both games yesterday it looks like the
cellar aggregations might be danger
Gus. Vernon came home in front; let's
send them away month hence in the
same position.
Scrappy Hogan makes an impression
on the fans every time he gets on the
diamond. He is so scrappy that he
makes a big hit as soon as he opens
his mouth and it is his bulldog spirit
of fighting to the last ditch that has
been drilled into his men, so that they
out in the last inning. 1t seemed for
a time during the first home period
this season that the umpires were try
ing to make themselves popular by
running Hogan to the bench or out of
the grounds every time he started to
make a kick or do any coaching.
Happiness took it up with President
Graham and the jumps got Instructions
to be less arbitrary and czarlike in
their exercise of the almost kingly au-
thority given them by the rules. Now,
Scrappy, old boy. is allowed to win a
game or two occasionally without get
ting shanghaied.
Rurrel probably will get back on
third tomorrow, as his injuries are
about healed and he is ready for duty.
But if he does not the knockers should
let up on Kitty Brashear and give him
a chance to play his game. While on
the northern trip he played almost
perfect ball and won several games