The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-05-14
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RINN'.S|'DAY
FOR KID
BY Babe Ruth


NEW YORK, May 1.-THE
greatest friends I've got In
baseball and the ones who make
baseball the real big game that
it Is are the fans. Just the
same, though, ills the thought
lessness Of the fans that do q
lot to hurt the players. Some
times when I hear that gang OF
wolves really open up on some
poor fellow, it makes me sore
as d boil.
1 don't mean so far a. am con-
oerned. personally. I've been stick
1nR around the big leagues q long
time and I've learned to take the
boots along with the cheers-AId
8 like them. But the young 1euoWs
SAINT do that.
over In Washington the other
day We were playing the 4elll-
fnrs and they had young Glllis
nlavinR shortstOp. ellis
nice lid and he's good DaM
player. too. But on this par
ffclsIar day he was having
tovirh tim OF IL. He kicked the
first two balls that were me ~
him and right away al tine cus'
toners were on him.
never heard Of q kid set such
riSfrlg e he Rot--and after while
Il began to get on his nerves. u
aot nervous and the more the taAs
boeed him the worse It wa. Ihe
result was that be iilaaS thrse
mrrefe in that game, struck oug
ieoupIe Of times and ended ~ VIA ~
one Of tNs worst days ne - 80. 49,
since he put on Wasnings0n -.
form. It was. al unfair the Ny
TIE fans raazed him, and It's stu1l
MA fI,af that ruins young ball
nisvera never felt any eCrrier
3cr asev one In my life than ] did
for ellis that day.
The point Of course II tnaI 1AnS
mav 4 lot Of things and &C ".
n things out there In the Dali l "a.
that they wouldn't do Or say ~
oraer places. They seem TO forget
TI,at these young ball players are,
aaffer All. Just kids trying to make
vfnd on 4 Job. There Isn't . Dali
nlaver ia the world who doesn't
kick one occasionally. and there
fknf player III the world who
.dOesn't have an occasional bad DAY.
g Tar as we old timers are con.
icerned q little razzing now anu
then doesn't bother Us any. Were
used to It.
we've learned to. take il -
a comes and most veterans
don't even know that they're
hainr raz1ed or cheered. But
RI lie 20 leave Just this one
fl1onalat With the fans BA
charftAble and kind TO the
y0une fellows. Remember that
fheY'ro out there trying TO
make good and that the thought.
les razEing that they ret from
the stands may be the very
thing which ruins good player
Of the game.
Breaking into the big leagues is
tough enough, anyhow. Take a
Fellow like Andy Cohen, for instance.
Andy came along and was assigned
to ill Hornsby's shoes. He didn't
ask for the job. 1t wasn't his fault
that Hornsby was traded or that he
was called on to take his place. AL
he had to do was go out there when
he was .ordered--and do the best he
could.
Fortunately, Andy got away good.
The fans saw him hit and field per-
fectly and right away they were for
him. But 1t might have happened
the other way. Suppose he had hap.
pcned to have a bad day in that
opener. Suppose he had booted 4
1n n AaNk
bases full. Right away he would
have been In for the worst razzing
anybody ever got. and q good young
bali player might have been ruined
right there.
Fans in some towns are worse
than others. In New York they're
pretty fair. There's mighty little
ra1zing there, and most OF the " w
York fans are willing 30 give q
fellow all the breaks. But all towns
are not that way.
I'm not a sermonizer and I DON Z
want to preach. So far as myself
an concerned. can take tn razzing
and stand It. have lot Of times
and probably will a lot more. But
IL could talk personally to every
fan in the land there's just one
thing I'd ask:
Give these young fellows break.
Help them make good-and renenl,
Der that a little RAGING when
they're breaking in hurts them more
than all the raZzing in the world
after they won their spurs and
got their job safe.
tcopyright. 1928 by the christy Walsh
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