Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-27
FANS ENJOY SEEING
SCRAPPY BALL TEAMS
Crowds Always Attend When Their,
Is Chance of an Argument
With the Umpire.
DETROIT is AN EXAMPLE
When Jennings Leads the Tigers Into
y New York He Is Assured Of an At
tendance Of Over 5000 mt Each
Gnme-Giants Also Popular.

baseball club tim, drsMs the 2S Crowds
;.nd brings home the cash for the mag
s Mnne ~ me mr Tiun That Is composed OF
club tha; has color. even If II lacks I'm
baseball skill. And the club that falls
a al oi,a as IN card Is one that proceeds
roEuiarity and whose tactics on the
bnil held are of the Sunday school pu-
The Athletics in 1914 furnished an
excellent example OF the latter Instance.
and ana the Detroit Tigers and Chicago
! instance.
Athletics Smooth Machine.
There never was smoother working
Ennn,n Mass nssemhied than that. which
u vas as near perfect rs a ball team
can be. AT nearly every position il
n ma a, o piaEsr who who either stood head
III lhc game, or. ut the worst. was the
equal OF the best man at those posi
WIZ, SUI; such club, ana with the added
GistinCtion or being the chamDionshIn
baseball team OF the world, II vas oniv
mnfd n,ta TO expect that the Athletics
american League but they didn't
they drew less than some OF the clubs
And ih miAh reason IN te tsegona division
A:hletics were colorless team. They
were out on the diamond TO pIay baj
~ airS pGaSsca pnil: they did moth
pire. They accepted the rulings ,of,the
, nrhltI"tors In silence They, never
never soaked him on tile knob viii y
I baseball nn d"s bat nor did they ever swat
because he happened to be in their
way. H. '"eii
And the fans turned away from tho
n; ~. When Connie Mack brought
II,
the crowds used to average aroun,l .
900 The Athletics were i'm flrst Mace
ana they were headed for the pennant.
In the view Of this it would have been
SAFE to assume that they womb ont
draw any other club two to one. hut
J they didn't.
Went to Sec the Tigers.
Whenever iughey Jennings ,ed Ut.
second division Tigers into New VIE nis
feey TIal' W HTnw frS %m 1000 to
cause it had Ty Cobb on its roster T 20,
Is no greater star than Eddie ColiinS
b bun ny Is hmmnn--and sometimes in.
rhere never was any monotony about
t thf game nmt "" Whepp Ty was in It. some
sure to oI hnppen me S %pddI iIsy always was
see what it was going to he. went 10
~ T " nc old Id rG GhicaEo Cubs were great
ms good as the Athletics But as ROAD
team. they ontdrew the Athletics three
ana four TO one. They did IT. mereIv
because they had on their rosters son,e
men who were liable to start soma
thing AT any minute. Tinker. Evera
chance. Steinfeldt. Schultz and some ~
the other old Cubs were full OF life ana
pep and when one Wasn't pulling nfr
some scrappy stunt the other was
The 1914 fourth place Cubs were Z,
better drawing card than the frst nlocn
Athletics why? Simply because fhs
! CUBS had In their line-up q fellow named
teinie Zimmerman, who could ne
counted upon to start little some
thing each day, whether the some
thing" involved cussing the umpire or
soaking an opposing player Or one or
Giants Hest Road Team.
The Giants are rated as the hoo,
r rp on sc team In the country The Giants
led by II man who has n world.w ido
reputation for being an umpire ho;ter
fhey have In their line up q ha IL -dozcn
players who are eager to shift fron,
baseball to prime-ring methods az -
moments notice.
And So. when the Giants arc tb. q,
traction tho crowds hustle to the nart
Ihey want to be sure to ee, ihnr ~,
early 80 as not to miss anythinu Az
happens They go to the ball mark en
pecting the Giants to pull sonethfn.r
cut or the ordinary. They seldom ars
disappointed. are