| Show NO ROOM FOR SENTIMENT IN BASEBALL OF TO DAY kindly spir t among players of W n ning teams Is consa absent sentiment and good baseball can not jibe what you did yesterday on the ball field matters nothing its ahat w hat you do to day the star who won von a flag tor for his team one year may find and that the next season brings a faster and younger man to take his place it if the team Is properly run and this spirit Is carried out to the players there is no sentiment during the game the player who is hurt Is seldom given a cheering word they teel feel sorry of chirse arse but they haven t time to offer regrets this getting hurt Js all in the game in the recent 17 inning game in philadelphia when freddie payne made his famous throw to second which caught topsy hartsel off the bag tag and saved the day the athletic left fielder vaa inas heartbroken but little cared the tigers As 0 leary tagged him out he didn dian t say I 1 got you that time old boy or anything like that my no here s what he said now sneak back to the bench and get alongside of connie mack tell him all about it how you threw the game away you big bonehead get under the bench with rube waddell and cry yourself to sleep let men play the game kindly spirit no but it impressed upon hartsel s mind the tact fact that he had bad lost the game that his sleepiness tad brought on the turning point of the struggle that it if anybody was to win it would be the tigers that mental suggestion made him a bad ball player the rest of the day when george Mor larity tossed away a two hit game at cleveland for jack chesbro by throwing the ball into the bleachers on a grounder from crawford Craw tord did sam say anything about tough luck as he passed third nope sam said the yellow had to show heya I 1 un on der stand you ve thrown the game Mor larity was so blazing mad that during the rest of ol the game he co ild not have thrown to first on a bt with out taking plenty of time to steady himself there is no sentiment in baseball with ith a winning vinning team when there is the fight the dash the fire that makes the game what it is is gone senti send ment and good baseball are like oil and water |
