The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-07-07
CAN WIN; MUST WIN.
Sporting Editor Suggests More Inter.
terest Be Taken By Players.

any intention of criticising without
first having a good motive behind it
and the interests of the boys and the
city of Bamterg at heart. The writer
has never 0een classed as knocker,
and on tie contrary he was one of
the few, yes, very few, boosters for
our boys towards the latter part of
| last season when everybody else had
| out their hammers and worked them
over time. He has seen too much
base ball to expect any team under
the canopy Of heaven to win every
game it plays. He believes that al
most every man who wears a Bam-
| berg uniform is his personal friend,
and he 1T least cherishes the friend
ship of them all and needs it. In
| deed, if he did not have warm per-
sonal feeling for them, and did not
know they had the stuff in them to
cop that old rag this article would
| not be written.
The writer can sympathize with
any ball player who is out there in
| the broiling hot sun toiling away for
his health's sake and little honor
and glory for his home town with no
cash for himself. But this league is
not operated for money or profess
sionalism, but purely for good sports
manship and the good of the six
towns involved, and so our boys
should also stop to think that what's
! worth doing at all is worth doing
we'll. that they are performing a
public service and a public duty, and
that while they may not get rich at
it, nevertheless, they are perform
ing before hundreds of people who
paw the regular admission charges
from their own breeches pockets, and
that they don't get satisfaction when
they put out their cash to see farce
REGARDLESS of who wins. They should
SOP to remember that they are wear
ing the uniform of a mighty chesty
little city, proud of its past base ball
record of never putting out a losing
club, and a bunch of fans who are
the hardest losers in the world, for
the simple reason that we have al
ways won, and are full of town
pride. They should stop to think
that almost every town in this Sec
ton of the state is envious and jeal-
Gus of Bamberg's base ball prowess
for years and years, and for that very
reason we hardly have a friend or
supporter two miles out. They
should take to heart, grit their teeth,
20 after the pennant with grim de-
termination and say we will do or de-
and with the old poilu's resoluteness
at the famous German seige OF
Paris, "They shall not pass, they
shall not pass" Bamberg has more
good ball players than any town OF
similar size in the state; they have
the goods to deliver if they will do
it.. and the players are here to win
the championship of the second hall
and finally the pennant. But we
haven't enough of them to win If
each man at some time or other feels
il his sacred duty to trot OF when
we have a game and leave the team IN
a hole: neither will frolicking and
carousing win ball games. Such in
different tactics not only break into
the lineup by taking that particular
man out, but they take the ginger
out of the balance of the players, de-
moralize the club and kill the morale
of the team, and with these all pros
meets go glimmering. 1t does seem
that the boys should at least display
an equal amount Of interest with the
fans. The Bamberg players who are
home boys are representative citizens
of the social, commercial and polltl-
cal life of the town and community,
and if such men as these haven't suffl-
cient public spirit and civic pride to
use their best efforts and forego
little racing around for just short
while until the brief season is over
when they will have loads of time to
make merry before fall, then how on
top side of mother earth can they
expect the hired players to care rap
about it? So come on, boys, let's all
pull together and bring home the ba-
con; the fans are with you; are you
with the fans and for your town?
We can win; we must win; and we
| will. And just as an inspiration,
| here's fifteen rahs for the 1920 Tri-
County league champions.