New Britain herald., 1916-07-18
OWDY SPECTATORS
 HURTING BASEBALL
Says Manager of Tigers
 Suggests Remedy

New York, July 1S.-Hugh Jen- @gs, sometimes lawyer and now Mnewhat engrossed in managing the #troit club of the American League,
 s 2 bone to pick with the fan of M circuit. Hugh Ambrose believes
 the fan has not kept pace with Nngress in baseball. He declares
 1t while the player has made mar # lous strides as far as personality #d conduct are concerned, the on- #bker has changed little from the Flood old days" of epithets and more @i1 missiles. Jennings unltm bered @ verbal artillery before the doings M the Polo Grounds yesterday.
 #Hughey was answering a question; M1uestion as to why magnates in the Md of organized baseball allowed Mld mouthed. boisterous fans to in- Mt ball players by allowing them to @Cther their profane comments Trough the grand stand and two bit Mction without taking adequate Neans to guard it.
 MNot that Hughey objects to having Afan ride a contract slave. Not at M "Stop a fan from yelling and mak- #g noise and you take the color from Ne game" quoth he, his blue eyes M Minkling. Often after the opposing Fam makes a rally somebody will @ Il from the stand How do you like Mat, eh?' and all I can do it to try M come back.
 Must Curb Loudmouths. M What I object to Is this: A fan Ell get up and deliberately shout an #sulting epithet at a ball player-a Nersonal epithet that has nothing to # with his playing ability or any act M his on the ball field. This can and Rust be stopped. Ban Johnson prob Mbly has done more to put the game Nh the basis where you can take your Fife, sister or sweetheart to the game, Mnowing that she will be perfectly @fe there, than anybody else. The # layers have done their share. But #bme of the patrons haven't done #heir part.
 "They use language directed at the Players, that is not fit for any per- Sbn to hear"
 Whereupon Mister Hugh Jennings NJ Detroit and Scranton unfolded his Elan by which baseball can be purged Sf rowdies in the stand just as it is Icing cleansed gradually of rowdy Hlayers.
 ''The evil could be checked readily the owners wanted to do 1t. I do lot know the pay the policemen get Rho are stationed there, but I feel Eure that 1t would not cost much more b have several plain clothes men in he grand stand and bleachers. '"Then," continued the old co-star If Willie Keeler, John McGraw and Vilbert Robertson and the man who biloted the Bengals to three pen hants, when man said something he would be spotted inn nedfately by the detective and es eorted to the street, with a return of his admission money. Let the papers give publicity to such an Election, if it should be put into ef- 'ect and the fans soon would come 70 realize that there is difference between riding a man and openly in- ;ulting him.
 "Profane language drives away women from the game as well as many men, and it would be to the interest of the public as well as the player to have the thing stopped for once and all."
 Incidentally Hughey placed the blame of the Tigers present position on the crumbling of the offensive the famous offensive that put the Ti- gers in the same class with the pic turesque Giants and the old Cub ma chine as one of the greatest road teams in drawing the fans to the parks. Although the pitching staff of Jennings club was the thing that worried him when the season opened, Hughey said that now it was lack of punch with the war clubs and not poor pitching that caused the Tigers to fall back into the second division aft CT repeated recent losses with the on- rushing White Sox and tho humble Browns.
 Crawford Still There.
 "Bobby veach Is due to sweep up beyond the 300 mark soon," con- hnued the diamond tanned veteran.
 "SIumps worry him more than they
 ynould Sam Crawford through
 Not or your life. The old boy is
 good for three or four years yet and
 then some in this way: George Burns Is a good hitter, but when he doesn't
 get a hit for several days he worries
 about it too, just like Veach. Now
 when this happens I can put Sam
 m first, and he's a rattling good first
 baseman, and keep Burns on the
 bench for a couple of days. It sc
 haDpens that George is the kind of a
 fellow I can keep on the bench when
 he slumps, and then when he does get
 A.o1y in +he fray ha can slam the pill