Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-10-27

| braves band marched onto the field
with customary display few minutes
before game time they found their
places already usurped. They made q
demonstration to stand on lie playing
field but were herded like SO many
cattle within the temporary enclosure
Here they had to stand or rather squat.
! for those in their places insisted that
the rooters keep down lower than the
| first row of seats--ihroughout the
dready afternoon. Naturally enough
those men who had so cheerily gone
to great expense for the glory Of Bos-
ton felt a great revulsion of spirit. not
once did the band play "Tessie" the
battle slogan, and what cheering they
did was done for tho Giants After the
game the Royal Rooters" marched to
the club officers and "booed" the Red
Sox management.
But they did more. they circulated
among friends and created such a
feeling of antagonism that the eighth
game drew scarcely half the ordinary
patronage. Why the Boston manage
ment ever could have been so near
sighted is beyond all conjecture. It
may have been simply an oversight, but
it looked and was bad; very. very bad.
1t had every appearance of ingratitude.
AS If the Boston club said to itself:
THE series will end today. The root
ers will come anyhow. What II they
are inconvenienced some? They will
forget 1t before next spring. Let us
sell their seats and make so much more
money
With Mayor at the Head.
| Mayor Fitzgerald of Boston has es-
poused the cause Of the rooters. and
demands the dismissal OF Secretary
Treasurer Robert Mercy. So another
and apparently serious scandal has de-
veioped from baseball's autumn classic
The rough treatment Of the clubs
staunchest allies has started tongues
to wagging In other ways. In Boston
public confidence in the national pas
time has been soundly shaken. On
every hand one could hear in the city
OF culture murmurs of doubt as to the
integrity Of baseball
This series is fixed" was the univer-
sal Cry. "McAleer is trying to pay for
his new park at the price OF u.s." Such
is no new cry in baseball. It was
sprung in Pittsburg and Detroit in the
series of 1910. 1t has often been re-
peated since. No one, at all posted in
baseball. could doubt the integrity Of
the national pastime. Yet such a
| trend of public opinion is bound to
shake the organization to its very
foundations If the promoters insist on
giving leeway for such Instructions
Boston surely pulled the prize bone
of worlds series history. That town
t., n,
! Stallings can put the Boston Nationals
in the first division in 1913 the Ameri-
can league is very likely to lose out in
one OF its strongest vantage points.
No mere sensational worlds series
was ever seen than that between the
Red Sox and the Giants. But for a
nun by Duffy Lewis. Boston would
have won four straight. But for a muff
by Snodgrass, New York. after being
apparently hopelessly outclassed, would
have duplicated Boston's great feat of
1903 against Pittsburg, come from be-
hind for the straight victories and
worlds pennant. Mathewson. still the
greatest pitcher in the country, failed
to win game in three starts, though
he should have won each hands down.
Bedient. raw boy. developed into the
pitching hero of the great series as a
stable mate Of the renowned Joe Wood.
Tesreau. though winning but one game
Of two. proved one Of the finest pitchers
Vanguard. universally regarded as the
weak link of McGraw's pitching chain,
proved the strongest by winning two
games. The men who should have
proved the great heroes Of the battle
all fell down. Those not counted upon
shone brightly. And above II all Meth
er team played it's game within so per
cent. It was not a cate Of beating q
rival but simply case OF which side
would first boot away four games to
the enemy.
The players for a time threatened to
cause some trouble. They thought
themselves entitled to q share Of the
gate receipts Of that tie game in addi-
ton to the first four contests decided
definitely one way or tho other. For
a time II looked as II they might.
through avarice, crab" this source Of
great revenue. No one begrudges
player all he can get. But 1t seems
in the light Of cold reason that the
national commission and the club own
ers do very we'll for the participa nts
Each Red Sox player received approx
mately $4,000 and each Giant $4,000 as
his share Of weeks work. In view OF
the fact that the club owner under
present contract conditions. might force
these men to play the series for moth
ing. It does not seemsthat the player is
greatly abused.
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