| Show WRONG TO WATCH BASEBALL Harvard Expert Says Spectators G Gt t Too Wrought Up Cambridge Muss Mass Beware 0 O ye je y baseball fans tans for you are ure the product of ot a radically wrong attitude toward i i r athletics Witnessing J professional rot baseball base t. t ball contests tends to harmful exand excesses ex ex- ex- ex ces es and Immorality Thus Thull spoke spoke- Harvard's world famous strength ext exY ex ex- Y t pert pen Dr Dudley A. A Sargent recently vs He said In part The excitement attending ban ball banti ti games as they are played at present Is harmful Our baseball fans nowadays t are arc devotees of a game in exactly the same sense as are those fascinated by i. i 5 5 Si watching a roulette game or other games of chance S Attendance at these games means If that thousands of men and boys and even women become unduly excited over the athletic prow prowess c of professional professional players They leave the ball grounds with nerves tingling and spirits exalted If it the game goes well r and the qu question is What outlet do those men and women find for their i emotions thus aroused I 1 am tempted r to leave the subject with an Interrogation InterrogatIon gation point p There Is s nothing wrong with a ball bail game as such ucb any more than there Is la with a theatrical performance as aa u such but such games frames arouse amuse emotion emotion emotion emo emo- tion without furnishing famishing a motor outlet F This would not be bp the case calle if it the 41 1 game were actually played Im Instead tead of ot watched We are overdoing on one phase of ot the so called love lote of sport spon There is nothing in this hothouse form of ot athleticism and the less wo we have of ot It the better b S ti L. L i |
