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Show ST. LOUIS TEAMS ARE ALWAYS ON 'PAN" ue j jft 4t ut "SHOW US" FANS CARRY BIG HAMMERS NEW TORJC, Jan 27. That baseball base-ball players are human and have human Instincts can be accepted as an ajclom. They have their llkeb and dislikes. Just as have all other mortals, but t lie ways in whir;h they exhibit them are sometimes some-times most sinjrular. It has been said that when a ball player acquires an aversion for anything or for any place, not'nlnsr can erase It. That mav be true, and acaln it may not. but the fat remains that there Is one city In the bier league circuits which players seem to try to steer clear of If already there they strain to kcL away and, once none, never return if thee can help it That town Is St. Tonls. The reason is not that St. Tamils Is not a irood baseball city, It a Knod one. Tn fact, it 1b too coed, and that Is where the answer He?. After comparlnc the rrowd:, both In Mze and kind. Lha.t turn out at the different, blje ler.Rue parks, through several years, no other conclusion can he drawn than that the Mound City has the most raMd bunch of la?eball fanatics In the country They are a boon to the magnate, hut n bane to the player. They study baseball, and. as a rule, know baseball much better tiien th- brother fan in. say, for nj By Monty stance Chicago or Philadelphia, with all their champion teams. THESE "buffs" ko Into spasms of enthusiasm and delight over a plaver's work when it is good, but they employ equally extreme methods In evincing their displeasure when his efforts are unproductive of results They have an efficient "booster band." but the "knockers' club': can play dries around the other pans:- And they do so hae been do-lnff do-lnff so for the past decade. The un-porularlty un-porularlty of a player is so raainil-fied raainil-fied by the fans that the manager has to jret rid of hJni whether he wants to or not. Result Fa ery club cxceptlnK one--"Washington Americans In hoth National Na-tional and American leauen has at least one former St. Touisan on Its roster, and. in practically every case, the St. Louis turndown Is making poo.l with a vengeance, some q .play ere som as managers ani some as club presidents. Kver - position on the diamond Is represented by them. Those in the National leasme are. New York. Manager McQraw and Outfielder Ta-k Murray; Boston. Outfielder Out-fielder Mike lmlln and PltcJ BT Gy Tounr; Brooklyn, Outfielder Hub Northen; Pittsburg, Outfielder Vincent Vin-cent Campbell, Third Baseman Bobby Byrne and Pitcher Lefty Lelfleld; Chicago. Outfielder Artie ITofmann and Pitcher Ed Reulbach; Cincinnati. Pitcher Arthur Fromme; Philadelphia, Pitcher Earl Moore Those in the American league are: Athletles, Pitcher Cy Moran; Detroit. De-troit. Second Baseman Delahunty; Clecland, Catcher Sid Smith and Outfielder Arthur Griggs; Boston. President McAIeer; Cnicaco. President Presi-dent Comiskey; New York, Outfielder TTHrry Wolter and Third Baseman Roy Harlzel. Out. of that array could he selected se-lected a pickup team able to bat either of the aggregation! that will represent St. Louis In the two big leagues this year. IMPATli'.NCE of the fans has taken the scalp of many a bic 1'asrue manager. Ihe-y arc not wining to wait and cive him a chance to develop de-velop the talent on hand, That Is the root of the trouble, with 5. Louis. If Vat fans there would lei 'he manager man-ager have a chancr to iry out the men and not force him to snap Judgment, Judg-ment, the tovn inigni ila e another (Coutinued. on follovrirc; page.) "SHOWME'ISCHYDF EVERY ST. L0UISJ1 (Continued from preceding page.) Dcnnint some time before the twentieth twen-tieth cgntury ends, it la their vary oran:;ietv to have' a winner that provff a boostteraiut and keeD.' a nen-nant nen-nant away. while t. Iouis is an eztreme example ex-ample of thiv Ivpe of tevemh. hastv bateball populace, there arc manv other twn8 In many othr leagues Wnose baseball inhabitants are afflicted af-flicted with the -am disease. L'ntil it is cured they will be working oxalnst the very championship that thev think thev are working for. And they are the doctors. But there Is no uae giving advice to baseball fans the- don t lif ten to It. WHILE Bt Louis hold; the ad In setting rid of promising btrebaii material before it has had a chance to develop to the utmost, ut-most, the ChietMtt '"up? hold the record rec-ord for bringing ottyfera to the height of their possibilities, so that when their plavir.g dav. are over thev are capable of taking the managerial reins of oth'r big league club. The coming season wiU witness si ! men leading major teams who had almst all their schoolins with 'na Catenae National las:u? machine. They are Jlmmv Callahan of the While So. C'ark GflfflUl of the Washington fenator. Bill Pahln of Brooklyn, llarrv Wolvcrton of the New York Vanls-er, Johnny Kling of the Boston Nationals, and Frank Chance himself, who is still on t'r.e job with the Cubs. All of these ev- epting "hance and Dahlen ar filling the executive position posi-tion of their prsnt teems for the, flm time. Caliahan last yar was merely an outfielder for the White Sot. Griffith gos to Washington from the Cincinnati neds whom' he managed last year WoTeftOn Is returning re-turning to the big leajrues aa a manager man-ager after having bn In the minora eevorai aeaaon. Kling did the back- topplng for Boston In 1911. but will experience his first managing thla year |
