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• •5 ft ifi'|Sll- S - I ' A r N i ' ^ |** Motto: May the best team win; But our* it the tel^::j| - % *L.. .v' - &V*-' >£>>.#• '.i .r< TT By & FuBerton f*-&' r:.w# v;"" • $ ;;.-•!. V-': IS#: "Wow! Wow!! Great eye, Eddie! $ *"" Make him put it aero us! Bust a fence! You can do it! Wow! Wow!! „ , Wow!!! ROBBER! All right Tough / •:%>' flick, Bddie. Two and two. Make ' feer be over. Home run, Eddie, oltf fc»bout. Break the gate. Wow! Wow!! Tjtfo ." The red-faced, apoplectlo yotihg -• man in the front row made a trumpet «f his hands and yelled until the Vjelns in his »neck turned purple. In tjie middle of the final "Wow" he col- tlpsed, looked disgusted and turning 4j> me said : "What do they keep that hunk of •<jheese for? H» can't Slit. Never /. «k>u!d, Striking oat in a pinch like . that!" The fan, howling encouragement or B :V Iniwling abuse at the ball players is f%.f, -.'•it the spirit of the town. Just how ; great an influence this spirit exerts ^' Upon the playing strength of the team tlepresenting the town or city is iifc- K ^possible of calculation, but it is cer- jp| tain that It is part of the national |% Same. He and his fellows exert al- gjfF , most as much infli^ence upon the team ||r i fcs does luck, and this spirit is so In­ extricably mixed with the element of luck that it is impossible to deter­ mine cause and effect. There are Cities in which the loyalty of the fans lias waned and turned to gibes, and in £hese cities no player does well'. There are crowds that remain loyal in victory and in defeat. These in- jspire the players to give their best leffort8 to win. Bail players will tell 5pou that teams invariably play bet­ ter with friendly crowds applauding. The fan invariably will respond that lie would be loyal provided the-club twould win games enough to justify loyalty. The players accuse the fans, (the fans accuse the players, and both are in A measure right. The major­ ity of patrons will "root" when the borne team is winning. Any team will •play better ball and win oftener if the patrons are loyal. The fan, voic­ ing the spirit of the town, is m pow- <*r for victory or defeat Conditions In different cities com­ prising the circuits of the major leagues assert a powerful influence over their teams. Players will tell you they would- rather play for the Chicago White Sox or for the New York Giants than for any other teams. They will assert that twenty Cobbs •ooulfl not win a pennant for Cincin­ nati under conditions which the man­ agement is now striving to change. The fanatical loyalty of the White *8ox rooter and the Giant patron, the angry abuse of players by the an­ nually disappointed Cincinnati pub­ lic, the sarcasm and raillery of Wash­ ington crowds, trained for years to Expect nothing but defeat, have an Hmmense effect upon the players and teams. They make or mar players, 4fnd weak men win for one type while brilliant ones fail and lose for the «ther. V-,. The baseball fan is an unique Amer- lean species and the most rabid of all 41 ;; Enthusiasts. Compared with him the | . jgolf fan, the bridge fan, even the j*; " fowling fan are mild. Baseball is : f , ;lhe most serious pleasure ever in- • Rented. ' > ' ' • Probably the moat blindly loyal wd jn the world is that which fol- lows* the fortunes of the Chicago , American league team, and to one ; v>irho is disinterested the Chicago sit- •f; nation is' acutely funny. The White *ox park islocated on the south side i: ti (Qppyitoht. BU, by W. ft (ii»l»Hl) song of the Sox footers when tluqr scent victory. * ; One of the most dramatic displays of loyalty I ever saw was In 1907, when the team, beaten and displaced from the championship, came home to close the season. They had gone away in high hopes, and failed. It was Sunday, and as the defeated team marched down the field 17,000 men and women stood silent and un­ covered for a moment, then broke into applause that swept the stands. It is small wonder that a team back­ ed always by such loyalty won even during years when it seemed much weaker than Its opponents. I have heard opposing players de­ clare they would rather face anything; in the game than the grinding "root­ ing" of the Chicago south side fans. The only duplicate I know is the rasping, nerve-racking, long Yale yell. Not sill players are frank enough to admit that the rooting has any effect Indeed It is a common pose to pre-j tend that they, do not even hear. Butt they do. Even among themselves they pretend they do not care; but once In a while they tell their inner feelingsf They know that half the men who Quit the major leagues are driven out by the voice of the fan. I have seen men break and go all to pieces, rave and swear and abuse everyone after suffering a cruel grill­ ing by a crowd. Walter Wilmot, one of Anson's .ft* mous old Chicago players, came to a game on the old grounds fifteen years after retiring. He looked across to­ ward the left field and said: "There's some of them out there now I'd like to choke." Yet the roar of the crowd does not break them as quickly as does some sharp thrust of sarcasm or biting wit from an individual. Perhaps that shaft is only the last straw, but when a player is in a nervous collapse he usually rages at so,me Individual who said something to him. Josh Reilly, one of the merriest, happiest players I ever knew, "blew up" one day and had to be restrained from assaulting three or four thousand men in the bleachers. 'Did you hear what he said?" d«f- manded Reilly as the other players tried to restrain him.. 1 "What did he say?" inquired some­ one. , i "He said: 'Reilly, .you're a dJsgfeee to the Irish'." and then , he raged again. One of. the quickest things I ever heard was a remark from a Wash­ ington fan which upset Frank Isbell, the veteran, completely, tsbell's head is as bald as a concrete pavement, and usually he kept his cap plastered tightly on his head to shield himself from the gibes of crowds. This time he tried to steal second and made a desperate, diving slide around and un­ der the baseman only to be called out He was so enraged that he fan at the umpire, grasped his arm, ar­ gued and raved and finally in sheer anger, jerked off his cap, hurled it onto the ground and jumped upon it. His bald head glistened in the sun­ light and the crowd roared. Then, above the roar came a voice: "Put on that cap. They pinched Mary garden here for less than that." Possibly more trying'than any con­ certed rooting is the incessant nag­ ging to which players on the Polo grounds. New York, are subjected. The one great bit of rejoicing among • v « i <?*<•>: Fans*" §• >&?• of tfce 'fltty;, the Cmbs' on, the west, and the city Is divided into two great armed camps. In 1896 when these two teams, winners of the champion­ ships in their ow» leagues, met to contest for the world's championship, It was the loyalty of the south side crowd beyond doubt that won for the team. That fall the Chicago Tribune's composing room was about equally divided between the followers of the two teams and so bitter was the feel­ ing that the foreman Was compelled m, to seParate them and send them to different sides of the building to main- W tain peace. It wis civil war all oVer Chicago. It is a magnificent crowd, wonderful 4n Its spirit and in its intense loyalty. There are few thingB that shake an ^opponent like the Incessant: "Get a jbit," "Get a hit," which is the war SOMETHING TO CAUSE LAUGH || J ^Typographical Errors, Not Infrequent, Seldom Give Rise to Feeling of •' ?' Maliciousness. ^. Sppegvaphlcal errors oome only too [%"" >./ , frequently from even the best jregu- newspaper presses. They a*e ifl' eSK-Viaiways humiliating, often a cause of and occasionally dangerous, but then th®y are distinctly amusing. This latter quality th«y are Jlf S»ost apt to have when tbey are made the National leegtfe players last year when they saw the wonderful Brush "stadium was that the crowd could not make itself heard on the field as it did in the old stands. The Polo grounds crowd is odd. Somehow fans who occupy box Beats either are not as rabid as those in the cheaper seats or they are on their good be­ havior, and a fringe of box seats is an effective shield for players. Strangely enough the crowds on the New York American league park, al­ though quite as noisy, are much fair­ er, than the crowds vat the Polo grounds.' One would think that visiting play­ ers would like to play on grounds where the home team is unpopular through defeat or other causes, but they do not. They rather resent the home crowd abusing the home men. In the olfiee of a journalistic neighbor, a fact that probably explains why we can read with smiling composure an elaborate editorial apology which • ap­ pears in the Hartford Courant. Its able political commentator tried the other day to say that "unfortun­ ately -for Connecticut," Ebenezer J. Hill is no longer a member of con­ gress. Printer and proofreader com­ bined to deprixa the adverb or its negative particle! At least the able political commentator so declares, and we wouldn't question his veracity for In Cincinnati, Brooklyn and Washing­ ton, during most of the season, the crowds are bitterly sarcastic toward the home twms, although the Brook­ lyn crowds are decent except on Sat­ urdays. St. Louis affords a queer study of the crowds. When the Browne are at home the crowds are ugly and vent their temper upon the players, yet half a dozen blocks away, on the rival park, there assembles a crowd wilder and more frantically in flavor of the home team and more un­ reasoning in partisanship than almost any in the country. Just where this feelin* bHccc I« £isccT£r. Tbv crowd Is violent in temper when the team is winning, worse when It is los­ ing. Perhaps lone years at bitter de­ feat have caused it In Boston and Philadelphia, on both major league parks, the home players and visitors are almost upon equal terms, and the spectators applaud good plays Irrespective of the players. They see baseball under the best con­ ditions, .with both teams encouraged and giving their best efforts to the work. Pittsburgh is bad because of the gambling that has become almost part of the game in the Smoky City. The temper of the crowd is ugly and the losing element Is In evidence no matter whether the home club wins or loses. Detroit is a loyal, rather violent crowd, tamed now because the fans have learned to endure victory as well as defeat. The crowds were inad with enthusiasm the first year De­ troit won and have since tamed down the cheer masters fell flat--in Chi­ cago at least The harder the leaders of the rooters worked the more apa­ thetic the crowds became. It was an interesting phenomenon and I set out to discover the reason.. The first bleacherite I met solved the problem. "Dem guys ain't on de square," lie said. "Usuns out In de bleachers don't want to rob nobody." There was the solution. * No matter how partisan a baseball fan may'/be­ come, or how wild in his desire to tea the home team win, deep down he wants fair play, and, after a time, he will insist upon it The rooters' clubs died. t v There are few of the noted fans now, chiefly because the papers sel­ dom mention them. Perhaps they ex­ ist. In the old days almost every club had one or two such followers. Probably the best known was "Hi HI." This was General Dixwell, of Boston, who for many years followed the fortunes of the famous old Boston olub. He is wealthy, intellectual and a cultured gentleman who became completely absorbed In baseball. He followed the team wherever it went and became a familiar figure all over the country. He occupied a front seat in the stands, kept a careful score and studied the game, with a seriousness that was appalling, He maintained a deep silence during al­ most all the game, but when a really great play was made he emitted two sharp staccato barks: "Hi! Hi!" and then dropped to silence again. Hia ONLY SAFE RULE IF ACCtOENTS ARE TO BE AVOIDED. They Pinched Mary Garden for Less Than That." Qne of the qu^er things in that city is the baiting of George Mullln, the veteran pitcher. Mullln is a jolly, quick-witted joker and years ago he began talking back to the bleachers. He was warned that the bleacherltes would put him out of the business, but persisted. Every afternoon he would walk down in front of , the bleachers and engage in a verbal skirmish with the crowd, trying to hold his own at rough repartee with hundreds. He abused the crowd, laughed at them, accused them of "quitting," and enjoyed It. If he had taken it seriously the result might have been different, but after a time it became part of the game and now the spectators in the bleachers would not be satisfied If -Mullln forgot to start a skirmish. Last summer, go­ ing out on a car in Detroit, three young fellpws were talking. "Oh, I've got a peach of a get-back at him today," said one, and, at the urgent request of the others he drew out a card and read what he was go­ ing to say to MuTln if he catne near their seats. It is not the great crowds that at­ tend the crucial garnets that exert the strongest .influence over players. True there is a natural nervousness among all the players when a tremendous throng gathers to see them, as In world's series games; but the ones that help the home team, or damage it, are the.crowd of from six to ten thousand, stirred up by the "regulars" who, day after day and season after season, Incite those around them. There are thousands of these regulars, self-appointed claques or cheer mas­ ters, and some of them feel as if they are doing as much to help the team to victory as- if they were out there on the mound pitching. The large crowds usually are the fairest and most sportsmanlike, for In -these great gath­ erings the rabid and partisan fan is lost and his utterances are smothered. These crowds police themselves and the players feel safe and assured of fair play, and, after the first nervous­ ness passes, they play their best. A baseball crowd is much like a mob. Without a leader it is Just noise and turmoil, but with one recognized leader it can do much. A few years ago a number of Chicago men at­ tempted to carry out a theory that the crowd needed leaders and the result was one of the most dangerous ex­ periments ever attempted. The White Sox rooters organized, a band of men far above average Intelligence, who laid daily plans for inciting crowds and stirring up enthusiasm. The Board of Trade Rooters operated at both Chicago parks, being organized primarily to attack McGraw and the Giants. They wrote and circulated songs, invented ingenious methods of harassing a worthy foe, and to force undeserved victory upon the home teams. The idea spread rapidly. "Rooters' clubs" were organized in many cities and towns to help the home teams. For a few weeks it looked as if the new movement would seriously endanger the national game. The crowds grew more and more vio­ lent. Then, suddenly and without warning almost, the wildest efforts of the world, but sorrowful experience! has taught most of us that it's safer | to get that sort of editorial disclaimer | of responsibility into print before I looking up the copy, and perhaps-- the world-enlightener who "knows" that he wrote "unfortunate," because that is what he intended to write, didn't rashly chance the discovery of his own guilt before he convicted the composing room of it Be that as It may, the meaning of the sentence was eruelly changed, and i a ftlend was grieved or offended. Not , a. psw- • sai •••• M?';:.* . 1 war cry gave him hi* name. He quit attending baseball games years ago, but still continues his deep interest in the sport, and in his apartments he keeps a wonderful set of books show­ ing the averages and performances of players for many baseball genera­ tions. "Well, Well, Well/* was another character who was named because of his cry, which followed just after a big outburst of applause on the part of the crowd. The moment the ap­ plause subsided his "Well, well, well," would boom over the field and never failed to start the cheering again. The average crowd Is cruel, because It is thoughtless. Few of the fans who hurl abuse and criticism at the players stop to think that the men they are addressing have the capacity to feel and to suffer. Many "a thought­ less, barbed Jest has wrecked the ca­ reer of some ball player. It took the players a long time to discover the fact that their popularity and their safety from abuse lies in presenting a good-natured appearance, no matter what happens, and in answering ques­ tions when possible. If you go through league after league, team by team, you will find that the most popular player, in nine cases out of ten, is some outfielder. He probably is not the best player, but he has the most devoted follow­ ing, because he keeps on friendly termB with the men and boys who sit The Baseball Fan Is a Unique Amer­ ican Species. behind him. In fact, almost ' every outfielder has his own regular pat­ rons, who attend games and seek seats as near to him as possible, and who defend him against all comers. To them he id the best in the world, a "Greater than Cobb," nor do they forget him; the player who finally dis­ places an idol has a hard time. I have known them to follow a player around the field when he was shifted from one to another position and to battle for him with the retainers of the other fielder who dared criticise him. " Biased, prejudiced and distorted in their views as most of them are, they are very human and very lovable in their blind devotion to the game, and in their unreasoning hatred.- And a word of warning; Never try to ar gue with a real, dyed-in-the-wool, thirty-second-degree fan. In the first place the chances are he is right, but even if he is wrong there isn't a chance to win the argument so long ago a more astonishing error than this one crept into a book revluw of ours--a very solemn and scientific book. It consisted of the substitution of the word "caribou" for the word "carbon," in a paragraph dealing with the chemical composition of the stars. In that case the writer's fierce self- explanation is at least highly plausl> ble. u it seems hardly possible thai he wrote "caribou" when he Intended to write "carbon," but even he was cautious enough to make no deep in­ quiry into the matter. VsrHwe Rewtorrt Why aft iif Train Cannot Alwfya^Be Heard-- and Gerafisnr «sd sftme otter countries, no one thinks of walk ing on the rail­ road tracks. They would no more do that than they would walk into a man's private gar­ den or bathe in his fountains. Any one caught walking on the tracks in those c o u n t r i e s i s promptly arrested and fined heavily for the offense. ' Do not believe that a train can al­ ways be heard. It cannot. For this reason people are killed. People think they can hear the noise of a train when it is far away. A lot of these people have been struck by locomo­ tives when an instant before they would have taken their oath there was not a train within half a mils of them. The noise made by a fast railway train is chiefly directed away from the train at the side. Comparatively a Bmall portion of the noise is projected along the track in front of the train. Any other unusual noise at the same time may divert a person's attention from the noise made by an approach­ ing train. Another reason why trhlns may come upon a person walking on the track before he realizes their approach is a quality that sound possesses in com- jxvon with other wave phenomena, al­ though to a less degree, of traveling In straight lines. Thus a fast train approaching a sharp curve on the con­ cave side of which there is high ground and on the convex side a broad plain Vill give a person on the curve almost no warning of its Approach until it swing* into view,' a short distance away. Walking on a road with two or more tracks is particularly dangerous. A large portion of accidents to trespass­ ers occur on double-track roads where a man in getting out of the way of one train steps onto the other track in front of another train which he has not sden or heard. "- It seems worth while, therefore, to set down the following rules which should be observed by every one who walks on the railway track, as follows: (1) Keep constant watch of the track, both in front and behind; (2) watch and listen with particular care when approaching a curve, while on the curve, and after passing the curve; (3) when walking on a double-track road, keep on the left-hand track and do not fall to keep watch also in the rear, since reverse movements are sometimes made on this track; (4) It is better to walk beside the track than to walk the ties; (5) when tempted to walk on the track, remember that you are placing yourself in greater danger than exists in the most hazardous class of railway employment, and choose some other path! t Above all, remember it is much bet­ ter to take a little more time -and walk around by the road, rather than walk on the track and have your friends says (as they attend the services): "I wonder what he was thinking about that occupied his minds to such an 67 tent he couldn't hear the train!" - Railroad Progress in United 8tates. In 1912 there wan built 2,997 miles Of railroad in 41 states out of 46, and none in Alaska. The longest mileage was constructed in North Dakota, where 347 miles of track were laid, while Texas ranks second with 336 miles. The new equipment ordered during 1912 inclndes 229,195 freight cars, 3,623 passenger cars and 4,424 locomotives. v-' , . 8tope Formation of Sealifei ^ Three English railroads are prevent­ ing the formation of scale in their lo­ comotive boilers by passing the water over aluminum plates, which disinte­ grate the calcium and magnesium con­ tents, which deposit in the farm of easily removed mud. Flnanoisl Gain Little Considered in • iV Mm Construction of Railroads 4 ln Asl|t- t Tfibe question that a railway oom- pany in Europe or the Americas ask* Itself when considering the construc­ tion of a new line is, "WMl It pay? Will the ultimate returns from freight and passenger traffic be equal to a fair Interest on the mnp^y Invested?" If this question is answered in the nega­ tive, unless there is a bosjis or •rn»f- anty of some sort forthcoming, the line will not be built If this same test had been applied In Asia, 50 per cent, of the great conti­ nent's present railway mileage would be non-existent, Lewis R. Freeman writes in the American Review of Re­ views. Asia is--and will be for many years--ln a formative state politically. Frontiers and spheres of influence are being advanced, and pushed back, and the ability or inability of a power to speedily place an army at some re­ mote point of vantage may mean the differing between winning or losing a province, or even a kingdom. Rail­ ways have been huilt, therefore, re­ gardless of their promise, remotely ^r eten, to pay adequate financial re» turns. It Is these strategic and semi- strategic considerations which princi­ pally differentiate Asiatic--and to a lesser degree Africa;.--railway devel­ opment from that of the more set­ tled occidental continents. Russia had more in mind the win­ ning of Manchuria, Port Arthur and the long striven for ice free port at Dalney than the development of the thousands of miles of intervening steppes when she embarked on the titanic task of constructing the Trans- Siberian railway. The branches of that line toward the borders of Chi' neoe Turkestan, and the line from the Caspian to the Oxus and the Per­ sian borders, were only stepping Btones to the realization of Russia's supreme ambition, the conquest of In­ dia. That all these schemes were given an indefinite setback in the de­ feat of Russia by Japan was no fault of the railways. Japan Is constantly strengthening her position in Korea and Manchuria by the construction of lines not war­ ranted commercially, and India has gridlroned with rails the bleak deserts of her vulnefable northwest frontier. Strategic considerations, too, will out­ weigh all others in determining by what route, and by what powers, the long talked of Europe to India railway will be built. It should be borne in mind, however, that many- lines or sections of lines built primarily for strategic purposes have, later, yielded considerable returns through the chan­ nels of regular business, thus quicken­ ing into life great sections which must otherwise haye lain dormant In the long run, therefore, there has been real economic benefit from this con­ struction apparently abnormal from an economic point of view. Important Railroad Decision* A brakeman on a freight train has no right to remove a trespasser, under a decision by the supreme judicial court of Massachusetts ln Harrington vs. , Boston. The court said it has never been decided before that such is* the law of the commonwealth, and there is a conflict of authority in deci­ sions from other states. Those favor­ ing the rule do so on the theory that a brakeman In charge of a car is a serv­ ant of the railroad charged with au­ thority to remove trespassers there- from. Those opposed maintain that ^he doctrine is not applicable to the case of a freight train where there is a conductor, who is the person pre­ sumably in charge of the train, and for this reason giving the brakeman no authority over the passengers or the collection of fares. The Massachusetts court concludes: "On the whole, we think that on principle and the weight of authority the proposition that in a case like the present there is a pre­ sumption that the brakeman as such Is vested with authority to remove passengers is not sound." Base Suspicion. Guest (ln cheap restaurant)-- That's queer. I ordered throe dishes, and you are out of all. .Waiter--It's late, sah. Guest (suspiciou$ly)--Not saving 'em for yourself, eh? - Waiter (haughtily)--I £bn't eat here, sah. r , MOVING LOCOMOTIVE IN THE Alii In the locomotive repair shop of the Grand Trunk Pacific railway at Transcona, which is just across the Red river from Winnipeg, is a 120-ton overhead crane which is used to lift locomotives into the air from one Of Course He Yielded. John Drew, of course, rarely rides in the su?Way; but one afternoon cir­ cumstances compelled him to go up­ town by the underground route, and his car was overcrowdefd. Always gallant, Mr. Drew rose and surrendered his seat to a pretty girl. She thanked him very prettily- and that evening at the theater he found this note awaiting him: "Dear Mr. Drew--You gave me your seat in the ear today. Will you give me two your thaler tonight?" .tracb, carry them over other locomo­ tives and lower them to another track. The locomotive shown lifted into the air weighs 80 tonB, and the crane ac­ complished its task with the utmost care.--Popular Mechanics^-> i < Under the Critic's Lash. Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett hab In Bermuda a. white villa, Clifton Heights, which overlooks the blue sea. and here, every Sunday after­ noon during the season, she enter­ tains the elect of Bermudan society. Mrs. Burnett's Sunday afternoon epi­ grams are retailed all over Bermuda. Her latest epigram is one concerning the author and his critics. "Authors," she said, "may be divided into, two classes--those who resent criticism, and thoso who Igapxa it." Is batklBg &s af fected. parts ia>K •olrtfcm of two to*' spoonfttk of Tyree's Afitieeptie der to a pint of water. 25c. at druggists or sample sent free by J. Tyree, Washington, D. C.--Adv.,, , . : , -v Plenty of FueL announced -Coal's boy. "Urn." "Shall more?" 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Following' right upon this comes the nervous strain,, of caring for the child, and a distinct change in the mother results. There is nothing more charming tfcmr T ahappy and healthy mother of children/*: and indeed child-birth under the rig " conditions need be no hazard to health wis,v leauty. The unexplainable thing ^ that, with all the evidence of shattered . nerves and broken health resulting from' t an unprepared condition, and with anK pie time in which to prepare, women Kill persist in going blindly to the trial, Every woman at this time should rely * upon Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable^; £impound, a most valuable tonic andf'* vigorator of the female organism. In many homes ̂ ^ >•' % eoce childless there are now children be­ cause of the fact that Lydia E. Pink- ham ' s Vegetable m Compound makes women normal, healthy and strong. If jm want ipedil advice write t*: Ijfdii Kflthlaa JMIelneGo. (<nfl*i/ deatlal) Lynn, Bass. 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