Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-29


BANTY LEWIS
Lewls's followers were out strong, and
they were in good voice, and their
little lad was in evidence. Banty, the
winner, was carried on the shoulders
of his friends from the ring to his
| dressing room. and when the party
arrived in Newark Banty was treated
to a similar experience.
C
The baseball fans of Newark are
on their bad behavior and they need
little lacking up. Here we have a
champion ball team which has won
four games. lost none and tied one
so far this season, and yet the attend
ance has been so small that outside
of the opening day not sufficient
money was taken in at the gate to
pay the visiting club its 5000 guaran-
tee Why such poor patronage no one
seems to know. The team looks good
and is playing fine ball. yet the fans
are not supporting the game as they
should. The opening-day crowd was
not as large as in previous years and
the five games since then have been
very poorly attended. The fans that
are going down to Wiedenmayer's
Park to see the contests are loyal and
all that, but it seems a shame that
there are so few of them.
o
And while on the subject of small
crowds John Camel, manager of our
hated rival, Rochester, didn't forget
to tell the fans at one of the games
last week that Newark ought to be
ashamed of herself. The Camel re-
mark came about while the fans were
roasting John. He had stood a lot
days, but when he observed the
meagre crowd he couldn't help going
back at his tormentors. He told them
in plain language that we didn't de-
| SGlNO tNohi - ei'S
crowds his team had played to was an
evidence OF the full appreciation of
Manager Harry Smith and the men
who had played so well to capture the
pennant. Cancels words had their
effect and there was more than the
usual peace for the Rochester leader
after that.
| While the opinion is general that the
present year is going to be a strenu-
the Newark games Is impossible to
explain. With Newark the champion,
and Rochester the runner-up, as con-
| tenders, fair crowds at least should
especially as Rochester is about the
best attraction in the league in this
! city; but the fans are not going to
the games and with four straight vic
tories and no defeats this seems en-
tirely out of order. OF course. il
isn't up to me to take the fans to
task because they won't support the
team, but I really believe more of an
interest should be taken in the Tigers
than has been up to date. winner
has right to demand attention and
the Newark team is winner.
C
Strange to relate, the owners are
not complaining about the poor sup
port the team is getting. That makes
one feel all the more why the fans
should wake up and go down to the
games. Charles H. Ebbets, ir., the
president of the club, is taking things
as they come and is saying nothing,
yet nine men out OF ten would be
yelling their heads off. as the saving
goes over such treatment-no matter
what is said, the Brooklyn men have
given us a championship ball team
and they have given us a winner UP
to date this year. In appreciation of
their efforts in our interest we should
meet them half way. Yet really the
men who own the Newark Club are
not making a sign of complaint.
g
Harry Smith is showing himself q
be great leader, and his judgment OF
what to do and when to do 1t seems
to be of the best. He appears to get
along well with his men and they are
giving him loyal support. He has the
players, apparently, to via, but he
| hasn't received much encouragement
from the fans. His Judgment in
selecting the pitchers has psen very
superior, and he has coached Arlit
Britton into being a pretty good
pitcher. jeff Holmqu,sS also gives
promise of being one of the Tigers
best twirlers this year, and tae othel
men on the pitching starr are doing
all that is asked of them. The seam
on the whole, is a good one. and Man,
ager Smith believes that Bert Tooley
ct first base, is going to more thai
make good. With the outlook for an
other pennant so prop,tious, the goot
citizens Of Newark ought to wake III