, 1923-08-19

: the New York Yanks, a
quarsas In tho Clark ca verns urGr.
Tic concrete r.rnds n. the Polo
Grounds n he smerges. hatless. eel
iarless and pcrspiring %protuse"y, only
when the big =, element Is on.
He has too much to dc to sit
through the n,oI.etony OF a one-siced
game hat ...1E Col. RI vert. ana
he has SO thoroughly ies-1sd the
meaning OF various yeiis and shouts
from tho crowd hat he knows Just
what ia going at. and VIII m to come
out Just In Tine fcr the BIS doings.
Another good type OF the fan un-
usua is Perry Grogan, the genial
wire chief in the two New York
parks, who has been watching base
ball every day for more than twenty
years. Millions of words about thous-
ands Of games have passed over the
wires hat Grogsn sets up every day
for the writer's. Perhaps because he
HIS seen SO much OF It. read SO mica
OF 1t and beard SO much, Grogan has
long ceased to be a fan.
He can't name the cleanup man in
two Of the sixteen batting orders, he
doesn't keep track of Babe Ruth's
home-run record. the noise Of the
crowd bounces off his ears and the
only time he shakes an air OF bored
Ut the line:
My wires open to the Star"
Sport writer's II supposed to be
the most c~oid-hearted, calloused reac.
tionaires of all games. Yet some of
them-a few. It is true-are the wild.
est of fans.
One Cincinnati writer who has beer
following the Reds for years and
years. is SO wild a rooter that he is
known all over the National League
circuit as "wild Bill" He becomes
&C enraged when tho breaks are going
against his team hat his shouts arise
in a high, ~Hcreeching crescendo over
the noise of the crowd. Once. not so
long ago, Bill KLEIN, diynified umpire,
stopped the game and threatened to
huve him elected from the press box,
in New York, II he didn't cease to diff.
cer SO loudly with tho jumps en- his
iud"rHent OF balls and strikes
Another former sports editor in
New York. now one of the most fam
GUS n widely read of columnists.
gets SO worked up over the Yankees
that he occasionally shouts, Rob
ber." at the umpire like a regular
b~leacherite.
Then there is one of the country's,
lest-knowu cartoonists. a baseball
and boxing expert for years. whose
heart has gone back on him. His
doctors have forbidden him to watch a
baseball. game or a fight. through the
fear that excitement would prove
fatal.
On the ether hand. there arc many
competent baseball writer's who could
not tell stu the score an hour after
the game without hesi.ating to make
sure.
Fight managers. as a rune, are the
most flighty and excitable persons
in all sports when they are holding q
corner in an important fight.
When Benny Leonard was Topped
for the count OF nine in a fight several
years ago with Richie Mitchell. his
manager. Billy Gibson. became so
panlc-stricken IN his corner that he
couldn't speak. His mouth went
through all the motions. but not a
sound came from his helpless vocal
organs.
Jack Kearns. manager of the heavy.
weight champion. becomes SO excited
dlriaR a fight that he WORKS almost
IN a daze. After Denossv, fight with
ca',,ntier. Kea-ns sware and wanted
to bet hat no ditn't offer smelling
salts &c tho champion after :he
Frenchman had given him that ia.
nous right hand in the third round
Kearns himself in the act when the
pictures were shown.
Dan McKetrick, n of the best
known OF the fight managers, loses
control of himself so much in the
corner hat he drinks tho water him.
self out OF the bottle instead OF offer.
ing It TO his fighter.
There is the opposite temperament
in Dan Morgan. manager of Jack
Britton. the former weiterwelght
champion. Dan never shows a sign Of
excitement. and II IS good that he was
so constituted when Bri ION was in
his prime. for the f~iery.neaded Jack
would have been In many n jam II he
had q handler back of him who was
ready to TO on any kind OF provoca.
ton.