| Show WHAT IS I JT IT HOLDS LOYAl TV OF FANS The They sa say baseball fans are arc fans alike the he country over But zye re re they In Philadelphia Connie Mack broke up the grea greatest test ball team ever because the fans tans wouldn't support it it They tired of seeing it t win and even showed m more re interest in int It t apparently when it was a wrecked organization organization organization or or- being rebuilt than they did dill when It was a perfect machine Even with a pennant winner I could not make ak aka a any real money says Connie on Mack Jack I I n r ero the fans d did not care for a w winner sw gurn fans s wont won't turn out for a second rate attraction So I shall give them a winner Ra says s 's Harry Frazee a new man mano manto to o baseball but one skilled in giving the public what it wants in iii the way of ot amusement There you ha e two exactly opposite views of the same situation Furthermore there here is no way of proving which is right Indeed each is right For four years ears the old St. St Louis Browns Browns in the days of Comiskey's activIty activity Ity ty at first base won championships The fans ans became so tired of witnessing victories vie vic tories orles day after atter day l that they quit goIng going go go- Ing to the park parle Connie onnie Macks Mack's experience experience ence In Philadelphia has been that of ot the theold theold theold old St. St Louis club The fans grew tired of victories And yet et all aU we heir in St. St Louis now is s Give us a winner and antI St. St Louis willbe will willbe willbe be the best ball town own in the country In Chicago the White Sox Sex have been neen supported in fair fall weather and anel roul foul It mattered not to the stockyards ards fans that ho tho team was at the bottom the they turned out Just the same I It is the same oday l at te seo ly Comiskey's strong t g. g vibrant I personality e l i keepIng his supporters alwa always s 's with him cheering on ll hs s winning teams tennis and sympathizing sympathizing sympathizing sym sym- with his weak ones In 1903 1905 O when the Boston Americans 1 h at t th the bottom they averaged fans ans a day dav through h a period that saw them lose hose twenty twenty- twenty one ne co consecutive games Those lo loyal al Boston fans cared nothing I about the defeats They went out just the same and rooted for the team winning winning win win- ning lung or losing On the other oilier hand New York drops away from the Yankees the moment they begin shooting the chutes but sticks with the Giants through thick and thin There is no hard and fast rule about this question It doesn't even depend I upon the particular city But doesn't sentiment have po a t lot to do with It Or OrI Orare Orare are the fans tans of different cities different I In ha temperament |
