Bisbee daily review., 1912-04-23
TEAMS RUINED
 BY RAB|O FANS
St. Louis Cranks Drive Away Splendid Players and with Them Chance
 of Winning
OTHER CLUBS PROFIT

WASHINGTON, April 22-That baseball players are human and have human instincts can be accepted as an axiom. They have their likes and dislikes just as have all other nor tals but the ways in which they ex. hiblt them are sometimes most sin gular
 It has been said that when a ball player acquires an aversion for any thing or for any place. nothing can erase it. That may be true and again it may not. But the fact remains that there is one city in the big leag. ue circuits which ball players seem to try to steer clear off already there they strive to get away, and, once gone, they never return if they can help it. That town is St. Louis
 The reason is not that St Louis is not q good baseball city. IL is a good one. In fact it Is too good, and that is where the answer lies.
 After comparing the crowds, both in size and kind that turn out at the different big league parks, throughout several years, no conclusions can be drawn than that the Mound city has the most rabid bunch of baseball fan atics in the country. They are a boon to the magnate but a bane t1 the player. They study baseball and as a ruie know baseball much better than the brother fan in say. for in- stance, Chicago or Philadelphia. with all of their champion teams.
 These bugs go into spasms of en- thusiasm and delight over player s work when it is good, but they em ploy equally extreme methods in ev inclng their displeasure when his ef- iorts are unploductive of results. They have an efficient booster band but the "knocker club can play rings around the other gang. And they do so, have been doing so, for the past decade. The unpopularity of the player is so magnihed by the fans that the manager has to get rld oI him whether he wants to or not. Results-every club excepting one -Washington-in both National and American leagues, has at least one former St Louisian on its roster and in practically every case the St. : Louis turndown is making good with a vengeance some as players, some ! as managers and some as club pTesl- dents. Every position on the diamond l is represented by them
 | Those in the National league are: ! New York, Manager McGraw aud | Outfelder Jack Murray; Boston, Out fielder Mike DOnlOn, and Pitcher Cy Young; Brooklyn, Ouuhelder Hub 1 Norten; Pitsburg, Third Baseman Bob | by Bryan, Pitcher Babe Adams and | Catcher Billy Kelly; Chicago, Out | fielder Artie Hoffman and Pitcher | Mordecia Brown; Cincinnati, Pitcher ] Arthur Fromme; Philadelphia, Pitcher | Earl Moore.
 ] Those in the American league are ! Athletics, Pitcher Cy Morgan: Detroit 1 Second Baseman Delehanty; Cleveland l Catcher Sid smith and Outhelder 1 Arthur Griggs; Boston, President Nc ! Aleer: Chicago, President Comiskey 1; New York, Outhelder Harry WolteI and Third Baseman Roy HartzeH.
 Out of that array could be select cd a pick-up team that could beat | either of the aggregations that VIII represent St. Louis in the two pts leagues this year.
 Impatience of the fans has taken the scalp of many big league manas. er They are not willing 10 wait ana give him a chance to develop the talent on hand. That is the root oi the trouble with St Louis. If the fans there would let the manager have
 a chance 10 try out the men and not force him to snap judgment. the town | might have another pennant some
 time before the twentieth century
 ends. 1t is their very over-anXieA
 to have a winner that proves a
 boomerang and keeps the pennan'
 away.
 While St. Louis is an extreme exam
 ple of this type of feverishs hasty
 baseball populace, ! there are many other towns in many other ledsue' whose baseball inhabitants are affiice
 ed with the same disease. Until IS i'
 cured they will be working agalnsl
 the very championship that they are
 working for. And they are the doct
 ors. But there Is no use giving advice
 to baseball fans: they don't listen tS